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Year 9 History
Key Stage 3 History Year 9: covering the making of the modern world from the Industrial Revolution through the twentieth century, aligned with UK National Curriculum attainment targets.
The Industrial Revolution & Victorian Britain
Britain as the workshop of the world: technological innovation, urbanisation, and the birth of the modern working class.
Coal, iron, empire, and ingenuity: the unique combination of factors that made Britain the first industrial nation.
Overcrowded slums, cholera, and child labour: the human cost of progress in Manchester and London.
Chartists, trade unions, and the Factory Acts: how ordinary people fought for change.
Canals, railways, and steamships: how moving goods and people faster changed the British landscape.
A showcase of Victorian confidence, technology, and imperial reach held in the Crystal Palace.
The struggle to clean up British cities and the birth of modern public health legislation.
The British Empire and Slavery
The rise and reach of the largest empire in history, encompassing trade, conquest, resistance, and the legacy of the slave trade.
How Britain built an empire spanning a quarter of the globe through trade and military force.
Britain's central role in the triangular trade, the Middle Passage, and the plantation system.
The campaign to end slavery, featuring both British reformers and the resistance of enslaved people.
From the 1857 Rebellion to the jewel in the crown of the British Empire.
The late 19th-century rush by European powers to colonise the African continent.
How the Empire was sold to the British public through education, advertising, and literature.
The First World War
The war that shattered empires and a generation, tracing events from the trenches to the reshaping of the world order.
Alliances, imperialism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The brutal reality of trench warfare on the Western Front and its impact on soldiers.
How total war transformed British society and accelerated the fight for the vote.
A case study of the bloodiest battle in British military history and its changing interpretations.
Exploring the conflict in Gallipoli, the Middle East, and the contribution of Empire troops.
The Inter-War Years and the Rise of Dictators
The fragile peace of the 1920s and the economic collapse that led to the rise of extremism.
The peace settlement that ended WWI and its controversial impact on Germany.
Economic boom and bust, and how the 1929 Wall Street Crash hit Britain and the world.
How Hitler turned a fringe party into a totalitarian regime through propaganda and terror.
The impact of Nazi rule on ordinary Germans, children, and minority groups.
The policy of avoiding war with Hitler and the debate over Neville Chamberlain's actions.
The Second World War and the Holocaust
The deadliest conflict in human history and the systematic genocide of the Jewish people.
Britain's "darkest hour" and the air war that prevented a Nazi invasion.
The systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime.
How civilians in Britain lived through bombing raids and extreme shortages.
The key military battles that shifted the momentum of the war against the Axis powers.
The conflict between the US and Japan, ending with the use of nuclear weapons.
How the "Big Three" leaders divided Europe and the seeds of the Cold War.
Post-War Britain: Welfare and Windrush
The creation of the NHS, the end of Empire, and the arrival of the Windrush generation.
The 1945 Labour landslide and the implementation of the Beveridge Report.
The arrival of Caribbean migrants and their contribution to rebuilding post-war Britain.
The process of British withdrawal from India, Africa, and the Caribbean.
The Iron Curtain, the Berlin Airlift, and the formation of NATO.
A 1956 conflict that signaled the end of Britain as a global superpower.
The rise of the teenager, pop music, and the liberalisation of British laws.
Modern Britain and the Global World
From the economic struggles of the 1970s to the challenges of the new millennium.
The conflict over the status of Northern Ireland and the long road to the Good Friday Agreement.
The impact of Britain's first female Prime Minister on the economy and society.
The history of Britain's relationship with Europe, from joining the EEC to the lead-up to Brexit.
The 1982 conflict between Britain and Argentina and its impact on British politics.
The impact of the personal computer and the internet on British life and work.
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.