This lesson examines the issue of child labor during the Industrial Revolution in terms of working conditions, safety, and health.

This lesson engages students with original documents related to prison hulks to discover how the criminal justice system worked in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, especially with respect to "mercy".

This resource examines Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade using records from the National Archives.

In this unit, students will gain knowledge of the Ottoman Empire and will work together to demonstrate that knowledge in a presentation and simulation of the culture and time period.

This lesson plan explores the geography of Ancient Palestine and modern day Israel, and provides students with background information on Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the divided Kingdoms, and the eventual Jewish Diaspora following the captivity in Babylon.

Students examine current disputes between nations, and then, after learning about current tensions among Japan, China and South Korea, research and create timelines outlining the development of relationships among these nations. They then write letters from the perspective of a leader of one nation to a leader of another nation studied in class.

People of African and Asian origin have lived in Britain for at least two thousand years, but this aspect of heritage has been largely forgotten. By presenting a selection of relevant records held by The National Archives and other sources, this resource aims to reclaim some of this history and make it more widely known.

This lesson is designed to give students a brief overview of the Berlin Wall from its construction in 1961 to its demise in 1989.

In this lesson, students will learn about British control over Palestine after World War I and how it influenced the Israel-Palestine situation in the modern Middle East. The material will be introduced through a timeline activity and followed by a PowerPoint that covers many of the post-WWI British policies. The lesson culminates in a letter-writing project where students have to support a position based upon information learned.

This exhibition selects four British battles from a period of almost 100 years and, using documents, pictures, and text, describes how and why Britain was at war.

The British empire was one of the most important developments in world history. The empire was huge, it lasted a long time, and it brought tremendous changes to many parts of the world. This resource examines how and why the British empire made Britain so important.

This lesson examines resistance among enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, including in Haiti and Barbados.

This resource explores the history of the British Caribbean through government documents, photographs, and maps dating from the 17th century to the 1920s.

In August 1966, Mao Tse-Tung launched the Cultural Revolution. He encouraged the creation of ?Red Guards? to punish party members and others who were harboring counter-revolutionary tendencies. In the decade that followed, China was turned upside down as millions of Chinese youth attacked traditional standard bearers of power and authority ? among them party leaders, teachers, and family members. This lesson explores the motivations of Chinese youth in participating in the Cultural Revolution. Through a series of primary documents, students consider what it may have been like to experience this tumultuous period of Chinese history.

This lesson discusses Oliver Cromwell's main political and religious aims for the Commonwealth of England in the mid-1600s, as well as the events before and after his rule.

This exhibition explores what it has meant to be a citizen throughout a millennium of British history. Click through to find full documents from each time period, as well as a quiz page.

The seventeenth century was an extraordinary time for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Click through to find sources and activities on varying topics related to their wars and rulers.

In this lesson, students will be able to define a "cold war" and understand the circumstances of its formation and early development as a conflict driven by competing interests and goals for the postwar world. Students will be able to understand how the Cold War endured until 1991 by examining issues such as the proliferation of nuclear armaments, mutually assured destruction, the balance of power, and the role of alliance systems such as NATO and the Warsaw Pact; and study particular Cold War events to apply general ideas and observe the Cold War's effects on Russian, European, and American society.

This lesson offers a comparative analysis of both the Golden Age of Islam and the Age of Enlightenment and their significant contributions.