Russian Revolution - Representation Two

Was the British Empire in India a good thing or a bad thing?

This page links you to the National Archive site on the British Empire where you can look at documents about the time Britain ruled India.
FLO

Your task is to study these documents and any other sources you can find about the British Empire in India, sometimes called the Raj.

Then decide your own answer to the question
'Was British India a good thing or a bad thing?'
Of course the Empire had different effects on different people - Indian peasants, richer Indians, women, British officers, workers in Britain..... On balance, though, was it good or bad?

Your answer can be an essay, a presentation, a display, a film or any format you choose. You must, however, back up the points you make with evidence from the sources.

You will find the links below.

The National Archive site on the British Empire.

A. Living in the Empire.

British views.

Indian views.

B. Rise and fall.

The rise of Empire.

The end of Empire.

Children of the Great War

BBC First World War site
National Archives First World War site
First World War National Archives Exhibition
Indian soldiers
Black soldiers look book - Britain, USA, France, Germany
US black soldiers
American black soldiers in WW1
The war in Eastern Europe
Romanian
Turkish


Horrible Histories:

Empire soldiers
Christmas football match
Winter and food
Battle of the Somme
First day and wee wee

LOCAL HERO: Walter Tull

Walter Tull was the second Black (mixed race) professional footballer in Britain and played for Clapton (which later became Leyton Orient) and Tottenham Hotspur before the First World War. He served as an officer in the war and was killed in action in Flanders just before the war ended in 1918.

To piece together his remarkable story go to

Walter's War (TV dramatisation)

Black footballers

Crossing the white line

National archives

Spartacus

100 Great Black Britons

Channel 4
Football unites, racism divides
Walter Tull, forgotten hero (TV documentary)
The Guardian
Daily Mail


BLACK AND ASIAN SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR - a webquest

(Click on the heading above for the link)

World War One games

Excellent World War One trench fighting game.

BBC trench warfare game

Great War game

Dogfight Aces

Penalty Shootout 1

Penalty Shootout 2


Walk the Plank 1

Walk the Plank 2

Walk the Plank 3

From Leyton to the trenches...

Many boys from Farmer Road School ended up fighting in the Great War from 1914 to 1918.






LOCAL HERO: Jack Cornwell V.C.
Jack Cornwell lived in Leyton and came to this school briefly before his family moved. Later he became very famous as a 16-year-old winner of the Victoria Cross. What was his story? Open the file here and find the answers to the questions. Remember to save your work.
(The links to find the answers are on the question sheet. They can also be found below:

wikipedia

find a grave

royal naval museum

The plaque
Outside room 3.7 in the Top Hall there is a plaque with the names of boys from Farmer Road School who lost their lives. What were their stories? Where did they live? What regiment were they in? Where and how did they die? Where are they buried?

You can find out by going to the Commonwealth War Grave Commission.

Here are the steps to follow:

(a) Choose any name from this list: ALGER George; BEVAN Lawrence Edward; BOLAM Stanley; BULTITUDE William Thomas; BREEDEN H C; CAMPLING Albert;
CORBLE Albert Arthur; CORNWELL John Travers (VC); CROUCHER Alfred Horace; CHILDS William Charles; DODKIN RWG; FITZGERALD Leonard William; ISEARD Harry; LORING S T; MATTHEWS E O J; PERRY G A; PLEASANTS Arthur Joseph; STEVENS R R; STURMAN Stanley Arthur Bertram; PARTINGTON Reginald Charles; PARTINGTON Frederick James

(b) Now enter the details as follows:

Surname: the first name in capitals above
Initials: the first initial
War: World War 1
Year of Death: from 1914 to 1918
Force: unknown
Nationality: United Kingdom

(c) You will probably get several names. Look for clues to decide which is the Farmer Road boy: the first name, the address, whether it is a London or Essex regiment.

(d) Create a PowerPoint slide about the boy and his story.

(e) Look for another story....

Some other things you can do:

Did any of these young men live near where you live now? (perhaps you could remember them when you next walk past their houses, if they still exist….)
Did the information suggest any special stories?
Which family had a double blow in 1918 and why are the bodies not buried?
Try entering your own name or the name of someone you know and see what happens.

How did the Great War affect people in Britain?

Here are links to helpful sites. The easier ones come first.

Consequences of the war.
The Home Front.
The Food Queue.
Civilians at War
The Human Face of War.
The Home Front 1914-18
Women on the Home Front
Women and the Military
British Home Front - scroll down to First World War: British Home Front
Mass Politics

Leyton's Past: Across the Divide - from terraces to towers and back again

How and why has Leyton changed in the last 75 years? How have these changed affected people's lives?

Leyton Green c1846

Early transition from field to city.
Memories of terraced streets.
Living with tower blocks.
Crossing the divide.

Liberties of the Savoy

(If any site asks for a login, the Username is amanprit.sandhu@frieze.com and the password is Ruthewan2012)

The Savoy Hotel

Savoy website
Wikipedia
History of the Savoy
Butler's secrets
The ballroom
Menus
Parties
Logos
'Girl Panic' - Duran Duran 2011 music video filmed at the Savoy

The Peasants' Revolt 1381

Women in the Peasants' Revolt
BBC programme: The Great Rising. (start from 25 minutes in)
Artists' Impressions
History Learning Site
Middle Ages site

Riots and Protest in London

When Communists stormed the Savoy
List of riots in London
Long history of riots in London
London rioting through the ages
The Poplar Rates strike
George Lansbury
Minnie Lansbury
Minnie Lansbury RIP
Minnie's clock
Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

To see the Year 9 Facing History video ('Society- Them and Us') go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8JyHNH5i8c&feature=youtu.be

or  http://www.georgemitchellschool.co.uk/gallery/video-test

LOCAL HEROES

Jack Cornwell and other Farmer Road casualties.

Walter Tull.

The latest FLOs

For a FLO on the abolition of the trade in enslaved Africans click here.
For a FLO on the British Empire in India click here.

Who were the real heroes of abolition?

The trade in enslaved Africans resulted in millions of people being kidnapped from Africa and sent to the Americas. Their children were then born into slavery.
In 1807 the slave trade was banned by the British Parliament but it took many years for it finally to end.
In 1833 slavery was abolished all over the British Empire. The owners received money in compensation but the former slaves received nothing.

FLO - a poster, poem, essay (or any other format) on 'My abolition heroes'

In your opinion, who were the heroes or heroines of abolition?

Were they the former enslaved people who wrote down and told their stories to people in Britain?
People like Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cuguano, Ignatius Sancho and Phyllis Wheatley.

Were they the enslaved people who resisted, rebelled, ran away and fought back against their 'owners'?
People like Samuel Sharpe, Bussa, Quamina, and Nanny of the Maroons and those who rebelled on  the slave ships.

Were they the men and women who led the campaign to change the law and end the slave trade and later slavery itself?
People like Thomas Clarkson, Robert Wedderburn, Elizabeth Heyrick, William Wilberforce, Granville Sharp, Josiah Wedgewood and James Ramsay.

Were they the masses of ordinary British people who took action in solidarity with the struggle of enslaved Africans?
People like the Quakers, the women's groups linked to the Anti-Slavery Society and the thousands of ordinary workers who signed peitions and resfused to buy suagr grown on slave plantations.


Find out about resistance and abolition. Decide who you think were the most important people in the struggle for freedom and dedicate your work to them.

Here are two good sites to start you off:

The Abolition Project - check all their different sections (scroll down for the full list).

National Archives Black Presence

The transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans, how Britain got rich and our world today.

Before 1500 England was a small northern European country most people in the world hadn’t heard of. Cities in China, Turkey, India, South and Central America and Africa were as rich as or richer than London.

By 1900 London was the richest city in the world and Europe was far more powerful than Africa or Asia.

The world we live in was shaped then. It is a very different world from the one people lived in 500 years ago.

Was the trade in enslaved Africans the reason for this? If so, why? If not, why not? Were there other factors, too? You will try to answer this and other questions to look at the link between their past and our present.

WHAT TO DO

You can:

• tell the story of the triangular trade and what happened to enslaved Africans
• explain the link between this trade and Britain’s wealth (the Industrial Revolution)
• describe life on the slave plantations
• find out about slave resistance and rebellion (Amistad, Nanny of the Maroons, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Sam Sharpe, Paul Bogle, Mary Prince etc)
• find out how the slave trade was abolished (got rid of) (Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cuguano, Ignatius Sancho, Granville Sharpe, Robert Wedderbirn, William Wilberforce etc)
• design a memorial to the slave trade

HOW TO DO IT

Some ideas:

• well structured writing, either word processed or handwritten
• your own original artwork
• an electronic presentation (PowerPoint or similar)
• a paper display
• a story in comic form (using ComicLife in the Media Suite)
• music soundtracks linked to slavery, resistance or freedom
• a review of a commercial film about the slave trade (ask your teacher - we have a selection on DVD)

Video clips:

Films made by young people about slavery
Hostages

Websites:
African Empires - the site we used last year
West Africa before the Europeans

1. The slave trade.
Adventurers and slavers

Africa and the Atlantic slave trade
Britain and the Trade
The Caribbean and the Trade

Did U Know

Spartacus

Triangular trade

BBC

2. Abolition.

BBC a

Learning Curve
Abolition
Emancipation

3. The Middle Passage

Juneteenth

Terrible transformation

4. Resistance and rebellion

National archives

Jamaican heroes
The Caribbean and Resistance

Bad Times Just Around the Corner...

The Great War began in August 1914.

In the streets of Britain there was great enthuasism as soldiers set off to fight in France.

The newspapers talked of the war being over by Christmas.

The reality was very different, especially in Western Europe.

By 1916 millions of men were dead and two lines of trenches spread across France and Belgium. Meanwhile there was fighting in many parts of the world: in Turkey and the Middle East, in East and Central Africa, in Central Asia.... and at sea.

In 1916 two great battles took places involving Britain and Germany: on land, the Battle of the Somme. At sea, the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea.
How did these events affect local people?

Coming soon....

Why Hitler?

In 1918 Adolf Hitler was a wounded corporal in the defeated German army.
In 1923 he tried to take power by force in the city of Munich. He failed and was sent to prison.
But by 1933 he was the leader of Germany.
A year later he had total power. He decided the law. Anyone who opposed him was imprisoned or killed. He started building up the armed forces, leading to the Second World War, the most devastating war in world history. Millions - mainly civilians - would die all over the world and the Nazis would try to murder all the Jews and Gypsies in Europe.
But Hitler didn't come to power by force. He was voted in.

Why?

Did Hitler come to power because of his own actions, his own skills?
Or did he just take advantage of outside events that gave him opportunities?

Task 1: go to the The Rise of Hitler Quiz and answer the questions using a copy of Modern Minds. Type your name at the top of the page and print out your finished work.

Task 2: Do every stage of the Rise of Hitler interactive. At the end it takes you to other sites you can explore.

Task 3: Now answer the following question as fully as you can, backing up your argument with evidence. Did Hitler come to power because of his own actions or because of other events?

Sunstones, sacrifice, an eagle and a cactus ....

Exploring the world of the Aztecs.

Explore the Mexicolore site

Mexicolore kids' site

Slide show

Try the sunstone games.

Find out about the sunstone.

Explore the sunstone.

Sliding sunstone game.

Sunstone quiz.



The Early Aztecs.

The Aztec gods.

The Templo Mayor. and also here.

Numbers and writing.

Everyday Life.



More quizzes to do online and test yourself.

Aztecs

Gods and goddesses

Temple

Everyday life

Treachery on the Titanic!

Just when it was thought safe to sail on the sea.....
...it would seem that there could be Treachery on the Titanic!
Will you be one of the lucky survivors on the lifeboat, or will you go down with the ship?
Before you start you need to print out your boarding pass. As you speed towards New York complete the questions by using the information given or by following the links provided.

You will need the answers to complete your quest. This will decide if you live or die.
At the same time you will find out much more about what really happened on that fateful trip…
All links open in a new window so that you do not lose your place in the game.
To start the game go to
Treachery on the Titanic!!!

Where are they now?

Names on the memorial plaque in the top hall.

Here are some of the names of Farmer Road boys who died in the Great War.

ALGER George; BEVAN Lawrence Edward; BOLAM Stanley; BULTITUDE William Thomas; BREEDEN H C; CAMPLING Albert; CORBLE Albert Arthur; CORNWELL John Travers (VC); CROUCHER Alfred Horace; CHILDS William Charles; DODKIN RWG; FITZGERALD Leonard William; ISEARD Harry; LORING S T; MATTHEWS E O J; PERRY G A; PLEASANTS Arthur Joseph; STEVENS R R; STURMAN Stanley Arthur Bertram; PARTINGTON Reginald Charles; PARTINGTON Frederick James

What happened to them? How did they die? Where are they buried?

You can find out about them at

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Choose one name and start searching.

In most cases you will find where they are buried, where in Leyton they lived, where and when they died, their age of death and what regiment of the armed forces they belonged to.
Click on Search Records.

Enter details like this:

Surname: the name in capitals on the list

Initials: the first initial
War: World War 1
Year of Death: from 1914 to 1918
Force: unknown
Nationality: United Kingdom

Post your comments in answer to these and other questions:

• What did you find out about these young men? How and where did they die? Where in the world are they buried?
• Did any of these young men live near where you live now? (perhaps you could remember them when you next walk past their houses, if they still exist….)
• Did the information suggest any special stories? Which family had a double blow in 1918 and why are the bodies not buried?
• There are other names on the plaque. Try JOHNSON A, JACKSON H and SMITH A. Why is it hard to find these three ex-Farmer Road pupils?
• The name CLEVELAND R is on the plaque and there are two entries on the website. The same is true for PORTWAY C. In each case, why can we not be sure which is the Farmer Road pupil?

LOCATIONS OF THE CEMETERIES:

France: VILLERS-BRETONNEUX, BAILLEUL, THIEPVAL (Somme), PONT-DU-HEM, ARRAS, ENGLEBELMER, ETAPLES, LOOS, GROVE TOWN (Somme), CAMBRAI
Belgium: YPRES (MENIN GATE), NIEUWKERKE,
Egypt: ALEXANDRIA, ISMAILIA, GAZA

United Kingdom: MANOR PARK, CHATHAM