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HISTORY 2006-2007FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

TV PROGRAMMES AND ONLINEbbc.co.uk/schoolsguide

HISTORY 2006-2007Television programmes for Secondary Schools on BBC Learning Zone

Timewatch is the BBC's flagship history programme broadcast onBBC TWO on Fridays. A new newsletter from the Timewatch team,offers a range of resources for History teachers such as clips offorthcoming programmes, suggestions for further research, andopportunities to purchase DVDs of former programmes not availableanywhere else.

The newsletter also offers behind the scenes video diaries on howthe films were made with invitations to free, exclusive screeningsand talks such as a recent opportunity to meet British agents whooperated in Nazi-Occupied France.

While Timewatch is not specifically made for school students, many of the programmes deal with core curriculum subjects, and the teamare always looking for feedback from younger viewers.

Visit the Timewatch website at bbc.co.uk/timewatch where you can download video clips and sign up for the newsletter.

YEAR AT A GLANCE Timewatch for Teachers

AUTUMN 2006

Britain 1500-1750

Britain 1750-1900

Britain 1906-1918

Curriculum Bites History 11-14

The French Revolution

The First World War

20th Century Wrap (Autumn and Summer)

20th Century History

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Black Peoples of the Americas

The Cold War


The Collapse of the USSR International Relations 1919-1939

Nazi Germany

Seven Journeys in the American West

The Soviets

A State Apart

The World since 1945 (Autumn and Summer)

Modern Studies

Higher/Intermediate 2: Equality in Society – Health and Wealth

Higher/Intermediate 2: Social Issues in the United Kingdom (NEW)

AS Guru: Study Skills

AS Guru:General Studies

Bitesize: Standard Grade History

Bitesize: Standard Grade Modern Studies

SPRING 2007

Bitesize: Modern Studies

Curriculum Bites History 11-14:Timelines

A History of Britain Selected Chapters

Class Clips: History

The First Black Britons

Hidden History: Mary Seacole

Intermediate 2: Campaigning for Change: Social Change in Scotland 1900s -1979

Higher/Intermediate 2 History:The Large-Scale State – The USA / Free at Last? Race Relations in the USA 1918-1968 (NEW)

Intermediate 2 History: Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation

Bitesize: GCSE History

Bitesize: Standard Grade History

Standard Grade Modern Studies

SUMMER 2007

Modern Studies Bitesize

American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941


Medicine through Time

The World since 1945

20th Century World

AUTUMN 2006 Television programmes for Secondary Schools on BBC Learning Zone

Seven Journeys in the American West

Looks at the first pioneers and the settlers who headed west in search of gold, land or religiousfreedom. It includes the story ofthe Native Americans, whichreached its tragic resolution atLittle Bighorn and Wounded Knee.1 x 60 mins 25 Oct

The Soviets

The dramatic programmesexplore the rise and fall of theSoviet Union, with a blend ofreconstructions, archive footageand documentary evidence.5 x 25 mins 15 Sep1 The fall of Tsarism2 Bolshevik Russia3 Stalin takes control4 Life in Stalin’s Russia5 Stalin and the bomb

A State Apart

Deals with the history of NorthernIreland 1920-94 and examines the reasons for two separategovernments in Belfast and Dublinand the political, social andeconomic problems confrontingthem.To be accompanied by a newDVD-Rom.5 x 30 mins Mondays 6 Nov-4 Dec, 1030am-11am(Northern Ireland only)1 Separate government2 The civil rights movement3 Ulster workers’ council strike4 Hunger strike5 Agreementbbc.co.uk/ni/schools/stateapart


1 x 20 mins 25 Oct, 28 JunSouth Africa – apartheid

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The French RevolutionThe key events that transformedmodern Europe, with locationfootage, images and contemporarytexts to clarify the issues,personalities and repercussions of that turbulent period.2 x 60 mins 27 Oct

The First World War

Archive footage and detaileddocumentary evidence bringhome the real effects of the war,from the battlefields to the newsocieties and countries that wereborn in its wake.The series alsocontains work by wartime artistsand poets.5 x 20 mins 14 Sep1The approach of war2Stalemate3The home front4Living and dying5Making peace

20th Century Wrap

2 x 20 mins 26 Oct, 27 Jun11900-1909: Britain at its peak?2The 1950s

20th Century History

A look at the traumatic years of the Weimar Republic and theyears 1918 to 1929.1 x 20 mins 14 SepMake Germany pay

AGE 14-16

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Tracks the historical processes that have led to the currentsituation in Israel, tracing the issues and examining the keyevents and personalities on bothsides of the conflict.1 x 60 mins 25 Oct


For description, see Summer.5 x 20 mins 25 Oct

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AGE 11-14

Britain 1500-1750

The programmes concentrate onfour key themes: religion, politicalconflict, social change, and theRestoration and GloriousRevolution. By visiting significantsites, they aim to help studentspicture events that occurred thereand to consider their relevance to the present day.4 x 15 mins 26 Oct1 The Pilgrim Fathers2 Cromwell and the Levellers3 The Pitchfork Rebellion4 Change in the monarchy

Britain 1750-1900

The response to industrialisationand how the day-to-day lives ofthe population changed as Britainwas transformed into an industrialnation.The programmes alsohighlights aspects relevant tocitizenship, including the rise oftrade unionism and employmentlegislation, the influence ofpressure groups and publicopinion, and developments in local government.5 x 20 mins 26 Oct1 Migration and emigration2 Crime and punishment3 Health and housing4 Work and wages5 Reform and recreation

Britain 1906-1918

A look at the work of the pioneersof photo-journalism who recordedthe transformation of British societyin the early 20th century.Theprogramme focuses on welfare,women and war, using evidenceand reconstruction to discusschanging social patterns.1 x 60 mins 26 Oct


InterpretationsInvestigates historical questions,visiting re-enactment societies,museums and theme parks andshowing how the answers varyaccording to how we interpret

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The Cold War

Focuses on the crises of the ColdWar between 1945 and the late1980s, emphasising the Sovietperspective throughout.5 x 25 mins 15 Sep1Berlin (1945-1948)2Hungary (1956)3U2 and the arms race

(1956-1960)4Cuban missile crisis5 ‘Evil Empire’ (1980s)


The Collapse of the USSRThe key historical events,personalities, issues and processesthat gave rise to the collapse ofthe USSR and its wider spherewithin Eastern Europe.Topicsinclude Gorbachev’s inheritance,his aims and methods, Gorbachevand Reagan, the end ofCommunist regimes in EasternEurope, Gorbachev and thecollapse of the USSR, andGorbachev’s legacy.

International Relations 1919-1939Describes some of the mainevents between 1919 and 1939,using archive film, animated maps,stills, original source material anddramatic reconstructions.The maintheme is why the Second WorldWar began only 20 years after theend of the First.2 x 60 mins 27 Oct

Nazi Germany

Using first-hand evidence from five people who lived through the rise of National Socialism,this investigation helps students to evaluate how and why Germany fell into the hands of Hitler.The programmes putimportant 20th-century events,such as the Holocaust and thedropping of atomic bombs, into a wider context.5 x 25 mins 14 Sep1 The rise of Hitler2 Life in Hitler’s Germany3 The Master Race4 Youth in Hitler’s Germany5 Opposition to Hitler

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660105 AS Guru General Studies 1

660108 AS Guru General Studies 2

140109 Black Peoples of the Americas

410103 Standard Grade Bitesize History

410110 Standard Grade Bitesize Modern Studies

640144 The Arab –Israeli Conflict

140005 Britain 1500-1750

140103 Britain 1750-1900

140107 Britain 1906-1918

140102 The Cold War

140111 Curriculum Bites History11-14: Interpretations /The French Revolution

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140112 Curriculum Bites History14-16:The Fall of the USSR /International Relations 1919-1939

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140204 Higher/Intermediate 2Modern Studies: Equality inSociety – Health and Wealth

07SSIWD Higher/Intermediate 2Modern Studies: Social Issues in the United Kingdom

640145 Seven Journeys in theAmerican West

140104 The Soviets

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TRANSMISSIONTIMES

AUTUMN 2006

SEPTEMBER

Wed 13 Sep

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Thu 14 Sep

0200-0400 >98085The First World War20th Century History

0400-0600 >12530Nazi Germany

Fri 15 Sep

0200-0400 >58738The Cold War

0400-0600 >96318The Soviets

OCTOBER

Wed 25 Oct

0200-0400 >55699Seven Journeys in theAmerican WestThe Arab – Israeli Conflict

0400-0600 >53651Black Peoples of the AmericasThe World since 1945

Thu 26 Oct

0200-0400 >41713Britain 1906-1918Britain 1500-1750

0400-0600 >49220Britain 1750-190020th Century Wrap 1

Fri 27 Oct

0200-0400 >93447Curriculum Bites History 11-14: Interpretations/The French Revolution

0400-0600 >24282Curriculum Bites History 14-16:The Collapse of the USSR /International Relations 1919-1939

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AGE 16+ SCOTLAND

Modern StudiesHigher/Intermediate 2:Equality in Society – Health and Wealth

Two programmes on health needsin the UK and on poverty,examining the role of governmentand other agencies in tacklingthese issues and their impact.2 x 20 mins 3 Novbbc.co.uk/scotland/education

Higher/Intermediate 2:Social Issues in the United Kingdom

Two programmes highlight socialand economic inequalities inScotland today, assess their impacton people’s lifestyle, behaviour andoutlook, and look at the changingrole of welfare state in addressingthese inequalities. Accompanied byrevised Health and Wealth website.2 x 20 mins 3 Novbbc.co.uk/scotland/education

Study Skills

1 x 60 mins 13 Sep, 22 Nov

General Studies

1 x 60 mins, 1 x 120 mins13 Sep, 22 Nov

Standard Grade History

1 x 120 mins 24 Nov(Scotland only)bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Modern StudiesStandard Grade Modern Studies

1 x 120 mins 8 Dec(Scotland only)bbc.co.uk/bitesize

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NOVEMBER

Fri 3 Nov

0200-0400 >45628Higher/Intermediate 2: NEWScottish Poetry (see English)

Higher/Intermediate 2: ScottishShort Stories (see English)

Higher/Intermediate 2 NEWModern Studies: Social Issues in the United Kingdom

0400-0600 >43135Higher/Intermediate 2 ModernStudies: Equality in Society –Health and Wealth

Higher/Intermediate 2: NEWPhysical Environments – River Landscapes (see Geography)

Intermediate 2: HumanEnvironments (see Geography)

Wed 22 Nov

0200-0400 >38321AS Guru: Study SkillsAS Guru: General Studies 1

0400-0600 >38938AS Guru: General Studies 2

Fri 24 Nov

0200-0400 >56057Standard Grade Bitesize History(Scotland only)

DECEMBER

Fri 8 Dec

0400-0600 >63446Standard Grade Bitesize ModernStudies (Scotland only)

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050602 Class Clips: History

040501 Curriculum Bites History 11-14 Timelines 1:WhoRules? 1066-1660

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050605 Curriculum Bites History 11-14 Timelines 2: Powerto the People 1689-1928 andTimelines 3: England’s Empires1066-1921

07TLFOD Curriculum BitesHistory 11-14 Timelines 4:Changing Lives 1066-1918

07TLIVD Curriculum BitesHistory 11-14 Timelines 5:Changing Lives 1066-1918

050606The First Black Britons

540108 GCSE Bitesize History 1:Modern British history

540109 GCSE Bitesize History 2:Schools History Project

540110 GCSE Bitesize History 3:Modern European and world history

040508 Intermediate 2 History:Campaigning for Change:Social Change in Scotland 1900s-1979

640139 Intermediate 2 History:Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation

07SHUSD Higher/Intermediate2 History:The Large-Scale State – The USA / Free at Last?Race Relations in the USA 1918-1968

410103 Standard Grade Bitesize History

410110 Standard Grade Bitesize Modern Studies

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TRANSMISSIONTIMES

SPRING 2007

JANUARY

Fri 12 Jan

0400-0600 >67744The First Black BritonsHidden History: Mary SeacoleSpit Gang (see PSHE)

Wed 24 Jan

0200-0400 >72637Higher/Intermediate 2 NEWHistory:The Large-Scale State – The USA/ Free at Last?Race Relations in the USA 1918-1968

Intermediate 2 History:Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation

Intermediate 2 History:Campaigning for Change: SocialChange in Scotland 1900-1979

0400-0600 >67182Class Clips: History

Thu 25 Jan

0200-0400 >43201Selected Chapters from A Historyof Britain 1-6

0400-0600 >94458Selected Chapters from A Historyof Britain 7-9Curriculum Bites History 11-14:Timelines 1:Who Rules? 1066-1660

Fri 26 Jan

0200-0400 >96305Curriculum Bites History 11-14:Timelines 2: Power to the People 1689-1928Curriculum Bites History 11-14:Timelines 3: England’s Empires 1066-1921

0400-0600 >74862Curriculum Bites History NEW11-14:Timelines 4: Changing Lives 1066-1918Curriculum Bites History NEW11-14:Timelines 5: Changing Lives 1066-1918

NORTHERN IRELANDHISTORY1916 Easter Rising

Documents the Easter Rising andthe War of Independence thatfollowed in 1919-21.bbc.co.uk/history/war/easterrising

The Good Friday Agreement

Analyses the historic documentagreed between eight NorthernIreland political parties and theBritish and Irish governments atEaster 1998.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/agreement

The Plantation of Ulster

A detailed look at the 17th-century Plantation when Englishand Scottish Protestants settled on land confiscated from theGaelic Irish, sowing the seeds ofNorthern Ireland’s religious andpolitical conflict.bbc.co.uk/history/war/plantation

The Troubles

Covers the period of violentconflict from the civil rightsmarches in the late 1960s to the1998 Good Friday Agreement.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles

William III

A newspaper-style site looking at the life and times of one ofBritain’s least loved and leastunderstood kings and aiming to debunk the myths surrounding him.bbc.co.uk/ni/william

MARCH

Fri 16 Mar

0200-0400 >14055Standard Grade Bitesize History(Scotland only)

Thu 22 Mar

0400-0600 >34464Standard Grade Bitesize ModernStudies (Scotland only)

APRIL

Tue 3 Apr

0200-0400 >35932GCSE Bitesize History 1

0400–0600 >44067GCSE Bitesize History 3

Wed 4 Apr


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GCSE History

3 x 120 mins 3, 4 Apr1Modern British history2Schools History Project:

Medicine through Time andThe American West

3 Modern European and world history

Standard Grade History

1 x 120 mins 16 Mar(Scotland only)bbc.co.uk/bitesize

Modern StudiesStandard Grade Modern Studies

1 x 120 mins 22 Mar(Scotland only)bbc.co.uk/bitesize

ONLINE

WW2 People’s War

Filled with vibrant first-handaccounts, the site includesmemories and stories on themessuch as childhood during the war,the Blitz and evacuation, and isa rich resource for teachers.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar

On this day

Articles, video and audio from theBBC news archive.bbc.co.uk/onthisday

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SPRING 2007Television programmes for Secondary Schools on BBC Learning Zone

Selected Chaptersfrom A History of Britain

Extracts from the acclaimedSimon Schama series dealing with central themes of the 11-14curriculum, customised for usein schools. Each programmeconcentrates on one story ortheme, with specially recordedscene-setting introductions.9 x 20 25 Jan1Conquest (the Battle of Hastings)2Dynasty (Henry II and Thomas

Beckett)3King Death (the Black Death)4The Body of the Queen

(Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots)

5Revolutions (Oliver Cromwell)6Britannia Incorporated

(the Jacobite Rebellion7 The Wrong Empire (the Empire

in the west)8 Forces of Nature (the French

Revolution)9 Victoria and Her Sisters

(Victorian women)

AGE 11-16

Class Clips: History

Clips from the BBC archiveillustrating key events in thehistory curriculum with realfootage, reconstructions andgraphics.The programme includestips on using the sequences toproduce an inspiring presentation.1 x 120 mins 24 Jan

The First Black Britons

The story of the West IndiaRegiment from the Napoleonicwars through to 1927, withhistorical archive, documentaryand dramatic pieces to show howthe Regiment shaped Britishattitudes to race and citizenship.1 x 60 mins 12 Jan

Hidden History:Mary Seacole

A documentary which aims toshow how Mary Seacole,Jamaican-born nurse and heroineof the Crimean War, has beenunfairly excluded from its history.1 x 30 mins 12 Jan

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AGE 11-14

Curriculum Bites History 11-14:Timelines

A resource for Key Stage 3History that aims to help studentsunderstand the broad sweep ofBritish history, placing key eventsinto overarching chronologicalframeworks.5 x 60 mins 25, 26 Jan

1 Who Rules? 1066-1660Shows how the personal rule of early medieval kings wastransformed into what we call‘constitutional monarchy’ – theCrown controlled by Parliament.

2 Power to the People 1689-1928The story of the struggles forpopular democracy in the UK,from the Bill of Rights to theGreat Reform Act, from theChartists to the Suffragettes.

3 England’s Empires 1066-1921Looks at English imperialambitions, from the medievallegacy of the Norman conquest,through the uniting of England andScotland, to Britain’s colonisationof a third of the globe and thepartition of Ireland.

4 & 5 Changing Lives 1066-1918This ambitious two hour resourcecovers a thousand years of socialhistory, tracing changes in our livesover the past millennium. Beginningwith an exploration of medievalvillage life, it shows how ordinarylives were transformed by the BlackDeath, by the Reformation, byurbanisation and industrialisation. Itcontrasts the rural existence of ourancestors with our cosmopolitanpresent – and asks students toreflect on what has been gained,and what has been lost.

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AGE 16+ SCOTLAND

Intermediate 2:Campaigning for Change:Social Change in Scotland 1900s-1979

Two programmes on changingpatterns of employment and theimpact on communities.The firstlooks at the post-war decline inkey industries such as shipbuildingand coalmining, and the second at the continued contraction anddecline in the 1960s and 1970s,and how some areas have survivedby diversifying.The website guidesstudents in examining sources andinterpreting information.2 x 20 mins 24 Janbbc.co.uk/scotland/education

Higher/Intermediate 2History:The Large-ScaleState – The USA / Free at Last? Race Relations in the USA 1918-1968

The programmes look at twoevents from the period 1918-1968that epitomise key elements in thedebate on human rights, revealinghow circumstances and opinionschanged over 50 years.They alsoshow how a story may be reportedin different ways.The website looksat migration and race relations inthe early 20th century.2 x 20 mins 24 Janbbc.co.uk/scotland/education

Intermediate 2 History: MaryQueen of Scots and theScottish Reformation

Two documentaries look at whyScotland became a Protestantcountry, examining sources,dramatising key moments andreconstructing daily life of theperiod.2 x 20 mins 24 Janbbc.co.uk/scotland/education

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SUMMER 2007

Medicine through Time

How factors such as religion, politicsand war have affected the pace and nature of developments inmedicine.The programmescelebrate key figures such as Galen,Harvey and Vesalius, and will helpstudents gain a fuller understandingof societies from Ancient Greeceand Rome to the present day.5 x 24 mins 27 Jun1 Medicine and religion2 Medicine and science3 Medicine and government4 Medicine and war5 Medicine and surgery


1 x 20 mins 28 JunSouth Africa – apartheid

20th Century World

Explores the social, economic andpolitical events that affected thelives of British people during the20th century.5 x 20 mins 27 Jun1How did the Great War change

Britain?2How did the British Empire work?3How has technology changed our

daily lives?4How have women been

portrayed in advertising in the 20th century?

5 Why has the problem of povertyin the 20th century been hard?

GCSE History

3 x 120 mins 3, 4 May1Modern British history2Schools History Project:

Medicine through Time and The American West

3Modern European and world history

bbc.co.uk/bitesize

GCSE Bitesize Irish History

Revision website for ChangingRelationships: Britain, Ireland andNorthern Ireland 1965-1985.bbc.co.uk/ni/schools/gcsebitesize/history

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AGE 11-14

American Voices:A History of America 1917-1941

This series explores the periodchronologically, from the experienceof immigrants during the FirstWorld War to the New Deal era,and deals with issues of race andpersecution along the way.Theprogrammes aim to grab theattention of students throughstrong storylines and powerfulhuman narrative.They alsosupport the teaching of historythrough the use of other evidencesuch as newsreels, film andphotographs.5 x 25 mins 28 Jun1 Immigration America2 Boom and bust3 Hard times4 New deal5 Black America


A young Briton explores thehistory of the British slave tradeand its aftermath in his search forhis roots.The programmes usereconstructions, documents, stillsand artefacts, with archive footageand descendants of enslavedpeople talking about life afteremancipation.The story of the rise of the civil rights movementincludes a rare interview withRosa Parkes.5 x 20 mins 28 Jun1 The Atlantic slave trade2 Everyday life under slavery3 Resistance, rebellion and abolition4 After emancipation5 Civil rights in the USA

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JUNE

Wed 27 Jun

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Thu 28 Jun

0200-0400 >89751Black Peoples of the AmericasThe World since 1945

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140109 Black Peoples of theAmericas

540108 GCSE Bitesize History 1: ModernBritish history

540109 GCSE Bitesize History 2: Schools History Project

540110 GCSE Bitesize History 3: Modern European and world history

149001 20th Century World

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