| Teaching the 20th-century world to Key Stage 3 | Overview and planning |
| How well did Chamberlain play his cards at Munich? | Appeasement and historical judgement |
| Rotten apple or…? How should we portray Dyer’s motivation in the Amritsar massacre? | Motivation, empire and interpretations |
| How should Germany be treated at the Paris peace conference? | Peacemaking after World War One |
| Why did President Truman drop the atomic bombs in August 1945? | Causation and interpretations |
| Something about an ostrich – the assassination of Franz Ferdinand as a mystery to be solved | Investigating the assassination of Franz Ferdinand |
| Did the number of deaths on the Western Front in World War One have any effect on the numbers joining up? | Recruitment, casualties and using data |
| What’s the truth behind the Suffragette derby of 1913? | Evaluating evidence about Emily Wilding Davison |
| How well do these cartoons cover the causes of World War One? | Cartoon analysis and causation |
| Hitler’s propaganda: the cult of leader – reading internal clues | Analysing Nazi propaganda |
| Why did Germany lose the Battle of Britain? | Explaining Germany’s defeat |
| Was there really a Blitz spirit? Killer evidence | Evidence and interpretations of the Home Front |
| Market place: Why I didn’t oppose Hitler | Explaining the lack of opposition to Hitler |
| Which modern Olympic Games am I? | Chronology and the modern Olympic Games |
| The causes of World War One: The Blame Game | Causation and responsibility for war |
| Explaining why there were so many casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme | Explaining the heavy losses on 1 July 1916 |
| Why are these accounts of the Battle of the Somme, written by the same person, so different? | Source evaluation and contrasting accounts |
| Battalion 101. Why did they shoot? A history mystery | Investigating perpetrators’ actions in the Holocaust |
| Evacuation: was it worth it? | Evaluating wartime evacuation |
| How close to World War Three did the world come in the 65 years after World War Two? | Post-war conflict and international tensions |
| Was the bombing of Dresden justified? | Evaluating arguments about wartime bombing |
| Teaching Dunkirk at KS3 – Spinning Dunkirk | Propaganda and interpretations of Dunkirk |
| Why did 15-year-old boys want to join up in 1914? | Motivation and recruitment in World War One |
