KS3 History curriculum

Read more about the KS3 History curriculum at TLC LIVE Online School below.

Term 1 (Autumn)

The Dark Ages: The End of Roman Britain, arrival of Anglo-Saxons and their society, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, conversion of Anglo-Saxons, the return of towns.

Alfred the Great: The Viking invasion, Alfred the Great, Aethelflaed, Edward the Elder and Athelstan, The Kingdom of Brycheiniog.

The Pope: Charlemagne and Leo III, Peter’s Pence, Constantinople, The Schism of 1054.

How did a Norman become King of England: The Normans, 1066 and the succession crisis, William’s invasion plan, The Battles of 1066 and coronation.

England’s changes during the Norman Conquest: Landowning and the Feudal System, Saxon noblewomen, castles and rebellions, archbishops and Church construction, The Domesday Book, Norman Conquest ‘annihilate one kind of England’.

Medieval peasants: Medieval lives in Domesday Book, medieval lives in the Luttrell Psalter, medieval lives in material culture, medieval peasants.

Term 2 (Spring)

Baghdad’s connection to the wider world: The Rise of Islam, Baghdad and the Silk Road, The Islamic Golden Age, The decline of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Why did Europeans join the Crusades? Byzantium Under Pressure, Urban II and the Council of Clermont, the First Crusade, the capture of Jerusalem, Richard, Saladin and the Third Crusade.

The Fourth Crusade: The crusader states, Muslims under Frankish rule, Christians under Saladin’s rule, other groups within the crusader states.

Eleanor of Aquitaine and who held power in the Middle Ages? Eleanor’s early life, Eleanor and the Angevin Empire, Eleanor and the Great Revolt, Eleanor, Richard and John.

Why did Kings struggle to rule England? King John, the First Barons’ War and Magna Carta, Did Henry III, did the barons reduce royal power under Henry III? Edward restoring royal power, why did Kings struggle to rule England?

Term 3 (Summer)

How did the Mongols create a world Empire? Genghis Khan, Mongol Expansion, Controlling the Mongol Empire, Pax Mongolica.

The Black Death: Black Death and the Silk Road, the survivors and land ownership, the Black Death changes to the Medieval World.

The Peasants’ Revolt: Causes of the Peasants’ Revolt, Watt Tyler, the Peasants’ Revolt a threat to monarchic power.

The book of Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe, the Medieval Village, Medieval Trade, Medieval Religion, the Medieval Church, The Medieval World.

Medieval Mali: Mansa Musa becoming Emperor, Mansa Musa traveling to and returns from Mecca, Musa’s legacy.

Who held power in medieval towns? Living in a medieval town, guilds influence on towns, exclusions from medieval towns, making important decisions in the towns.

Term 1 (Autumn)

Aztecs and control of an Empire: The Aztecs, their empire, beliefs and the Spanish arrival.

1492: Christopher Columbus, The Conquistadors, The Columbian Exchange, The Columbian Exchange.

What was Luther trying to achieve? The European Reformation, Luther in Wittenberg and worms, printing, Pamphlets, and peasants, Luther and Lutheranism.

Henry VIII and Rome: Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon, concerns that Henry VIII had as King of England, the Act of Supremacy, religious changes 1536-1539, the dissolution of the monasteries, Henry VIII making a break with Rome.

The Reformation: Religious Rollercoaster, Morebath church, Edward’s reign, Mary’s reign, Elizabeth’s reign effect on Morebath church, the Reformation effects on Morebath church.

Elizabeth I: Elizabeth I and Spain, Sea Dogs, Sultana Isabel, the Elizabethans trading, violence towards Ireland, the world ‘Opening Up’ to the Elizabeth I and her people?

Term 2 (Spring)

The Civil War in 1642: The Thirty Years War, Charles I’s personal rule, Charles I and Scotland, The return of Parliament, The arrest of five members, why did the Civil War break out in 1642?

Britain in the seventeenth century: Civil War divisions, The Putney Debates, Regicide, Quakers, Ranters and Diggers, Oliver Cromwell, the world turned upside down.

The Glorious Revolution: The Restoration, The ‘Glorious Revolution’, Ireland and Scotland, Banking, Union and Gin.

Term 3 (Summer)

‘British’ America: Pocahontas and the Powhatan Peoples, master’s and servants, sugar barons, enslaved People.

The American Revolution: Enlightenment culture, The 13 Colonies, war between Britain and its colonies, the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independence.

The French Revolution: The Ancient Regime, the 1789 Revolution, the Reign of Terror, the French Revolution.

What the French Revolution meant to Britons: Reactions to the French Revolution, Waterloo and the Napoleonic Wars, Peterloo Massacre, Great Reform Act.

Efforts to abolish slavery in the nineteenth century: Jamaica: Enslaved people and resistance, the abolition movement, the 1807 and 1833 Acts,

Did working conditions improve over the nineteenth century? Child labour during the Industrial Revolution, changing labour laws, popular protest, 1800-1850, and 1850-1900.

Britain’s journey to democracy: The Whig Story, the workers’ story, the suffragette, telling the story of Britain’s journey to democracy.

Term 1 (Autumn)

The 1857 conflict in India: East India Company to Raj, events of 1857, British reactions to 1857, interpretations of 1857.

British colonialism in the nineteenth century: The British Empire (1776-1900), Colonialism in India, settler colonialism in Australia, internal colonialism in Ireland.

Experiences of those ruled by Empire in Africa: The Empire and uncovering the experience of it, The Rubber Coils’, Things Fall Apart’.

Tensions over Africa make a European war more likely: New countries of 1870 and the desire for Empire, The Berlin Conference, Egypt, Morocco.

Did the assassination cause the First World War? Systems of Alliance, The Schlieffen Plan, Germany: A New Nation, imperial rivalries, nationalism and militarism, causes of the outbreak of WWI.

The stories of the ‘often forgotten armies’ reveal about the Western Front: The Western Front, Ganga Singh, Algerian Soldiers, Chinese Labour Corps, Mike Mountain Horse.

Why did WWI end in November 1918? The Eastern Front and the Russian Revolution, 1917, The US enters the war, 1917, The Spring Offensive, 1918, The Armistice, 1918.

Term 2 (Spring)

What kind of peace was made in 1919? What to do with Germany after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles, self-determination, The League of Nations.

The Bolsheviks: The Bolshevik Coup d’Etat, Trotsky and the Civil War, War, Communism and the New Economic Policy, Alexandra Kollontai and social change.

Why did fascists gain support? The Campaign for Democracy, fascist support in the 1920s, the Great Depression, fear of communism.

How were people controlled in totalitarian states? Police state and fear, Economic Policies, Persecution in the Soviet Union and Germany, Propaganda and cults of personality.

The League of Nations: Successes in the 1920s, Failures in the 1930s, Appeasement, The outbreak of the Second World War.

Term 3 (Summer)

The Second World War: Blitzkrieg and Nazi control of Europe, The Battle of Britain and aerial bombardment, invasion of the USSR, Pearl Harbour and the War in the Pacific, Stalingrad and D-Day, VE and VJ Days.

The holocaust: No true witnesses, The Demolition of Man.

How did Jewish people resist during the holocaust? Jewish resistance and Jewish partisans in Vilna.

How did India achieve independence in 1947? The War, the bookshop and the jail, Britain and India after the War, freedom and division.

The Sixties: The Swinging Sixties, youth culture: Music and art, poverty and prosperity, experiences of Britain’s migrant communities.

Who ‘decolonised’ in the twentieth century? What is ‘decolonisation’? How did decolonisation occur in Ghana? How did decolonisation occur in Jamaica? How different was decolonisation?