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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.
World History teaching resources for the high school classroom: lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and simulation games for KS3, IGCSE, IB and A-Level teachers.
This page is updated daily to provide the latest history-related news, podcasts and anniversaries. You can sign up for the weekly email newsletter which provides a list of forthcoming historical anniversaries and recently released podcasts. You can also make use of the Historical Anniversaries Calendar for the current academic year.
Anniversaries [embed into YOUR website!]
Events (250 years ago today): 1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America, is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.[9]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (d. 2010)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Rod Steiger, American soldier and actor (d. 2002)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lita, American wrestler
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli-American composer and academic
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – John Singer Sargent, American painter (b. 1856)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
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