1 Investigating 1745 – 1901
2 How did the early industrialists embody the spirit of the age?
3 What can Olaudah Equiano tell us about the slave trade?
4 How far did people abandon religion in the nineteenth century?
5 How democratic was the United Kingdom by 1901?
6 How important was the Great Hunger in the breakdown of
England’s relationship with Ireland?
7 Should the British Empire be a source of national pride?
8 How significant was the French Revolution?
9 Slums, smog and sewers? What was the big story of change,
1745–1901?
10 Summing it all up, 1745–1901
John D Clare is Deputy Headteacher at Greenfields Comprehensive School, Newton Aycliffe and a well-known author of educational textbooks.
Ian Dawson is Publications Director of the Schools History Project and creator of the website thinkinghistory.co.uk which is pioneering work on active learning in History. He has been adviser to QCA on a wide range of issues in History teaching including the teaching of
chronology.
Richard McFahn is Humanities Adviser in West Sussex and was formerly a Head of History in Hampshire.
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