Year 8

Topic 6 - ww1

meanwhile elsewhere - Artic exploration click here

Shackleton - Episode 1Kenneth Branagh stars as Sir Ernest Shackleton in this epic two-part drama.

Sir Ernest ShackletonDiscover the remarkable journey Shackleton undertook to save his crew from death.

Topic 5 - Power and Protest

meanwhile elsewhere - irish home rule click here

Ireland - Social, economic, and cultural life in the 17th and 18th centuries

Topic 4 - The industrial revolution

meanwhile elsewhere - opium war click here

www.nam.ac.uk/explore/opium-war-1839-1842

Topic 3 - Empire and slavery

Meanwhile elsewhere - james cook click here

European discovery of New ZealandIn their search for the vast ‘terra australis incognita’ (the unknown southern land) thought to lie in the Pacific, explorers made daring journeys across uncharted waters. They did not find the fabled continent, but they did find New Zealand. First sighted by the Dutch ...

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Series 2, Captain James CookMedia executive and broadcaster Greg Dyke chooses explorer Captain James Cook.

Topic 2 - From puritan to party king

meanwhile elsewhere - pendle witches click here

The Pendle Witches | Lancashire Witch Trials | English WitchcraftThe true story of England's most famous Witch Trial, the confessions of the alleged Witches & how fear of Witchcraft survived into the 19th Century.

Topic 1 - Here come the Stuarts

Meanwhile elsewhere - Tokugawa japan click here

The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa Opened Japan to Trade With AmericansThe 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan to trade with the United States.

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