Absolutism (Secondary 2 / 3)

A project of the Center for History & New Media, George Mason University and the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles (2009)

Das bilinguale Modul geht chronologisch vor und deckt den Zeitraum des Ancien Régime bis zum Wiener Kongress ab (Jan Kulok, Landesbildungsserver Baden-Württemberg 2016-17).

Learners start by thinking about child labour in the present and then move on to consider child labour before and during the Industrial Revolution, in the UK, Germany and the USA (Historiana 2023).

Students explore the development of the textile industry in Great Britain. They link the rapid growth in both the textile industry and in coal mining in Great Britain to the development of social ills and the political push to alleviate some of the atrocious conditions under which people worked (History Teaching Institute, Columbus, Ohio 2014).

Die zweisprachige DVD veranschaulicht die technischen und sozialen Folgen der Industrialisierung in Großbritannien und eignet sich gut für den Einsatz im Unterricht ab Klasse 8 (Rezension bei lehrer-online 2005/2009)

What rights do people have, and where do they come from? Who gets to make decisions for others, and on what authority? And how can we organize society to meet people’s needs? (TED-Ed lesson 2021)

By the early 19th century a return-to-nature movement was sweeping England. The Romantic poets wanted to tap into nature's wild forces (NPR USA 2005-2014).

The basic political events of the French Revolution, broken down into four stages, and the shifts of power during each stage (History Teaching Institute, Ohio State University 2014-16).

This lesson examines the British reaction to the events in France during this famous year – were the British government extremely worried or did they see it as merely a few minor disturbances? (UK: The National Archives 2022)