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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 (100 years ago today): 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
Births (450 years ago today): 1575 – Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1601-1900
[edit] Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (d. 2019)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Frank Hahn, British economist (d. 2013)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (d. 2021)[38]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist
Commemorations:
World Intellectual Property Day
History Quote of the Day
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