The British Empire & Slavery KS3 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS3 (Year 8), covering the development and abolition of the British Empire and its role in the transatlantic slave trade. Students learn what an empire is and how the British Empire became ‘the empire on which the sun never sets’; the facts of the slave trade, including the triangular trade, the Middle Passage and forced plantation labour; the resistance of enslaved people, including the Haitian Revolution and Toussaint Louverture; and the campaign for abolition, from Olaudah Equiano’s testimony and William Wilberforce’s campaign to the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Reflective tasks ask why this history still matters today. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. This sensitive content is handled factually and age-appropriately, with no graphic detail, and centres the humanity and resistance of enslaved people. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Understanding the Holocaust KS3 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS3 (Year 9), which requires the study of the Holocaust. It follows UK Holocaust-education best practice: it is factual, respectful and age-appropriate, with no graphic or distressing detail. Students learn who was persecuted by the Nazi regime under Adolf Hitler — Jewish people above all, and also Roma people, disabled people and others — and the meaning of genocide; how antisemitism, prejudice and propaganda were allowed to escalate through the Nuremberg Laws (1935) and Kristallnacht (1938); the scale, with approximately six million Jewish people murdered; individual stories such as Anne Frank and her diary, the Kindertransport and rescuers like Sir Nicholas Winton; the liberation of the camps in 1945; and Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) and why we remember. Reflection tasks invite students to think about remembrance, human dignity and standing up to hatred today. Knowledge questions are gently auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. The book is framed as careful learning and reflection, never a pass/fail test, and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Events Beyond Living Memory KS1 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS1: events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally. Children learn what beyond living memory means, discover the Great Fire of London in 1666 (the bakery on Pudding Lane, the wooden houses, Samuel Pepys’s diary and the rebuilding of London), meet the Wright Brothers and the first aeroplane flight of 1903 and the first Moon landing of 1969 with Neil Armstrong, and find out how diaries, paintings and old photographs help us learn about the past. Every knowledge question is auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Local History Detective KS1 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS1 local history. Children learn that local history is the story of the place where they live, notice how buildings, transport and shops change over time, and use sources such as old photographs, maps, museums and older people (oral history) to find out about the past. They practise chronology words — past, present, long ago, older and newer — and explore significant local places such as a church, castle, statue or park. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Norman Conquest & Medieval Britain KS3 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 (Year 7), covering the development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066–1509. Students test their knowledge of the Battle of Hastings and William the Conqueror, order the feudal pyramid, explain Norman control through the Domesday Book and castles, and recall the key facts about Magna Carta (1215) and the Black Death (1348). Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key, and open design tasks let students build their own castle and feudal pyramid. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Tudors & Stuarts KS3 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for Key Stage 3 (Year 8): the development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509–1745. Pupils investigate Henry VIII, his six wives and the Reformation that formed the Church of England; the Golden Age of Elizabeth I and the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588; the Gunpowder Plot of 1605; the English Civil War and the execution of Charles I in 1649; and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, while historian-style reflection and a home evidence hunt build reasoning and extended writing. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
20th Century Conflicts KS3 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS3 (Year 9), covering “challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day”. Students secure the key dates of the First World War (1914–1918), trench warfare on the Western Front and the Armistice at 11am on 11 November 1918; track the Second World War (1939–1945) from the invasion of Poland through the Blitz, D-Day (6 June 1944) and VE Day (8 May 1945); learn the facts of the Holocaust with care and respect; and reflect on Remembrance and the poppy. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Sensitive content is handled factually and age-appropriately, with no graphic detail. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Ancient Egypt Detective KS2 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS2 (ages 8–10): the achievements of the earliest civilisations, with a depth study of Ancient Egypt. Children discover why the flooding River Nile gave fertile farmland in the desert, learn that pharaohs such as Tutankhamun and Cleopatra ruled Egypt and that pyramids and tombs were built for them, explore mummification and the afterlife, the gods Ra and Anubis, and hieroglyph picture writing, and find out how we know about the past through artefacts and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter in 1922. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, with reflective and creative print tasks such as designing a cartouche, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Ancient Greece Detective KS2 is a five-mission history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum for KS2 History: Ancient Greece and its influence on the western world. Children compare the city-states of Athens and Sparta, discover how democracy began in Athens, meet the Greek gods and goddesses (Zeus, Athena and Poseidon) and the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, design their own Greek shield, and explore the first Olympic Games, the great thinkers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the lasting legacy of Ancient Greece. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, alongside creative print tasks, or the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
Vikings Detective KS2 is a five-mission KS2 history activity book mapped to the DfE National Curriculum unit on the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England. Children discover that the Vikings came from Scandinavia and sailed in longships, investigate the first great raid on the monastery at Lindisfarne in AD 793, learn how raiders became settlers in the Danelaw with their capital at Jorvik (York), meet the Norse gods Odin, Thor and Freya, and find out how King Alfred the Great of Wessex defended England and made peace — all through the evidence of sagas, archaeology and artefacts. Knowledge questions are auto-marked on screen, and the whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and pupil notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.
