Transform your history classroom

ActiveHistory provides educational, award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for the school history classroom. All resources have been designed by full-time history teacher Russel Tarr.

An ActiveHistory subscription provides everything you need to construct and deliver a History course from start to finish for the entire 11-18 age range!

These consist not just of lesson plans, worksheets and teacher notes, but also multimedia lectures and interactive games and historical simulations ideal for remote learning and self-study.

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World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
 

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Sources used in the History Podcast database (please contact me if you spot a good one I'm missing!):

In Our Time: History (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
Witness History (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
American History Hit (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
The Inquiry (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
Throughline (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
HistoryPod (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
Not Just the Tudors (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
The Documentary Podcast (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
The Rest Is History (most recent episode = 13 Mar 2025)
American History Tellers (most recent episode = 12 Mar 2025)
Oh What A Time... (most recent episode = 12 Mar 2025)
Dan Snow's History Hit (most recent episode = 12 Mar 2025)
Gone Medieval (most recent episode = 11 Mar 2025)
HISTORY This Week (most recent episode = 10 Mar 2025)
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs & Dictators (most recent episode = 10 Mar 2025)
Lives Less Ordinary (most recent episode = 10 Mar 2025)
Short History Of... (most recent episode = 10 Mar 2025)
Great Lives (most recent episode = 3 Mar 2025)
15 Minute History (most recent episode = 11 Feb 2025)
Real Dictators (most recent episode = 29 Jan 2025)
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire (most recent episode = 27 Jan 2025)
Winds of Change (most recent episode = 23 Dec 2024)
The History of Witchcraft (most recent episode = 9 Dec 2024)
The Weird History Podcast (most recent episode = 30 Sep 2024)
BackStory (most recent episode = 5 Oct 2023)
The History of the Cold War Podcast (most recent episode = 2 May 2023)
Dictators (most recent episode = 2 Dec 2022)
History Today Podcast (most recent episode = 18 Dec 2020)
The Guardian Long Read (most recent episode = 18 Dec 2020)
Making History (most recent episode = 4 Feb 2020)
Historical Figures (most recent episode = 25 Dec 2019)
Things We Forgot to Remember (most recent episode = 4 Jul 2012)