Free teacher web sites for History topic ‘Britain since 1948’

Click through to these sections to discover some unusual and interesting artefacts including photos of architecture and cultural artefacts ie. notes from the Windrush.

External link: 1950s and the Cold War

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A very chilling insight into the plans being made by the UK government in fear of nuclear attack - interesting reading for those studying the 1960s and 1970s.

External link: BBC TRANSCIPT TO BE USED IN WAKE OF NUCLEAR ATTACK

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A collection of images including a 1960s kitchen. Suitable for teacher lesson preparation only.

External link: British buying habitats in the 20th century

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This fantastic site allows you to search through archived newsreels from the past. Suitable to use when studying topics such as fashion, popular culture and transportation changes. There is also information about New Towns which may support discussions on population changes after world war 2. Please note that resident UK citizens are allowed to download "preview" versions of the material for free. These are not of the highest quality - but are certainly acceptable for use in the classroom.

External link: British Pathe newsreel

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A wonderful collection of images related to cars through the ages.

External link: Cars adverts and images

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A visual timeline of cars through the twentieth century.

External link: Cars through the 20th c

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This delightful site includes information on Changes in Fashion, Changes in Entertainment, Changes in Homes, Changes in Shopping and Money, Changes in Music, Changes in Science, Changes for People, By Year 6 at Princess May School. It contains video interviews made by the pupils as well as plenty of little pictures (their own and photos).

External link: Changes in Britain since 1948

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Here's an example of the form sent to all UK households every ten years. This would be well used in Victorian lessons to add a sense of time and place to census from the past.

External link: Example of a Census

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This National Archive site will support lessons on the 1966 Football World Cup which was hosted and won by England. How can we ever forget?

External link: Hosting the world cup in 1966

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This provides examples of adverts and images about cars from the 30s, 60s and 90s.

External link: How cars have changed since 1930.

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Super lesson from Oxford LEA which supports a lesson on transportation changes - highlighting cars.

External link: How cars have changed since 1948

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Some super images to use with basic notes to accompany them.

External link: How clothing fashion changed since 1920

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We rate the worksheets - not entirely sure about the images - but a good site overall.

External link: How jobs have changed since 1948.

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Focus on immigration and population change, a great resource from the National Archives.

External link: How the population has changed since 1948

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Fly around the angel of the North, watch a Punch and Judy show, explore Stonehenge and more on this interactive website. Perfect for KS2 history lessons.

External link: Icons of England audio visual gallery

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These are beautiful free images which will suit a range of topics for many ages. Yes, they are totally biased in terms of gender stereotyping, but skilled teachers will make informed decisions about when and where to use them. Includes images of..... country, mealtime, port, school, railwaystation, seaside, street, Country, Mealtime, Port, School, Railwaystation, Seaside, Street 1, map_london, map_london2, picnic, postbox, sewing, seaside2., street2, London-map 1, London-map 2, Picnic, Postbox, Sewing, Seaside, Street 2, baking, carpenting, dressing, farm, gardenwork, grocery2, Baking, Carpenting, Clothing, Farm, Gardenwork, Grocery, baker, bicycle, at_home, playing_dog, painting, milkman, clothes washing, Baker, Bicycle, At home, Playing, Painting, Milkman, Washing, christmas, carwash, toys, grocery, butcher, Christmas, Washing car, Toys, Grocery, Butcher.

External link: Images for children

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We don't normally link to PDF documents. But this gets our vote. Mainly suitable for teacher support. Includes; Decade summaries to use as the basis for your timeline, Summaries of changes across the five main areas of change: Working life, Home life, Popular culture, Population and Technology, Suggestions for more detailed questions to include in the enquiry, Transcripts of the two Voices from history, together with suggested discussion topics, Web quest time detective activity exploring how the world of popular culture has changed since 1948, Support sheet for an older person who you invite to talk to your class about changes in life since 1948, 1948 - 2006 news events timeline summary. Don't forget it's a PDF file - you will need the Adobe Reader software.

External link: Information for teachers on how Britain has changed since 1948

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Culture, movies and television and film are all here. Easy to navigate. Great for teachers wanting to research these periods. Are teachers really as young as this that they don't remember the 80s? Perhaps. Good for upper Ks2. But please check the site thoroughly before you use it.

External link: Information on the 50s,60s,70s and 80s

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Clippings galore can be found here. A super resource if you are trying to develop study skills and projects.

External link: Newspaper reports from the past

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Youth culture and popular music and summarised in the page - along with images to use.

External link: Popular culture and music

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Great animated map which shows how the population has changed since the iron age. It would certainly be useful in the "Britain since 1948" unit.

External link: Population changes in the UK

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Posters created by the Red Cross to encourage support. A range of these are provided from 1915 to 2004. Great for thinking about the focus of charity giving in the UK.

External link: Red Cross

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Beautiful images to support lessons on immigration to Britain. A super resource with lots of real life accounts and well organised list of topics to help guide you through.

External link: Resources for population changes in Britain

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Click on the walkman and video player etc... to send them back into the time tunnel.

External link: Which items are out of place in this 1950s living room?

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A wonderful collection of stories and primary evidence to support a study on population changes and immigration to the UK.

External link: Windrush stories

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