By integrating the study of history, literature, and human behaviour with ethical decision-making and innovative teaching strategies, our work enables teachers to promote students’ historical understanding, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning. As students explore the complexities of history, and make connections to current events, they reflect on the choices they confront today and consider how they can make a difference.
Take a look at our resources to support History, English, Religious Studies, Citizenship and PSHE education.
Use this Teaching Idea to help students process how they are feeling about the devastating war in Ukraine, develop media literacy in what news they consume and how, and explore the mounting refugee crisis.
Students learn about two millennia of LGBTQ history and reflect on how that history is represented in their textbooks and curricula.
This Teaching Idea provides students with an opportunity to reflect on violence against women and gender inequality in the UK.
This mini-unit is designed to help teachers have conversations about race with their students in a safe, sensitive, and constructive way.
This Teaching Idea prepares young people to be critical consumers of stories they are told about the UK’s past and encourages them to consider how unpicking historical narratives can be an act of justice and a catalyst for action.
Lead your students through a detailed and challenging study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.
Use this unit to transform how you teach J.B. Priestley's play and support your students in becoming effective writers, critical thinkers, and socially responsible citizens, who excel in their GCSEs.
This Teaching Idea provides students with an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between statues and the UK’s colonial past.
This Teaching Idea provides students with an opportunity to reflect on the murder of George Floyd, the anti-racist protests in the UK, and the origins of systemic racism.
These lessons, ideal for use by PSHE and Citizenship teachers, foster the critical thinking mutual respect, and tolerance necessary to bring about a more humane society.
Explore the website of our core resource to get online readings, primary sources, and short documentary films on the challenging history of the Holocaust.
This Teaching Idea explores the reasons why young people are calling for action against climate change and strategies they can use to make a difference on this issue.
Very few of us can now claim to have just one national or ethnic identity. Increasingly, we share some parts of our identity with people who live elsewhere. Globalisation has also changed our perception of who is like us and who is different. This collection explores how people’s sense of belonging and identity are changing.
Help students to examine recent events and statistics about the rise of antisemitism in Europe and to consider how we can respond to hate.
An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
Learn how to incorporate citizenship education, ethical reflection and historical context into a literary exploration of Harper Lee's beloved novel, To Kill A Mockingbird.
In this unit students come to understand the nonviolent social change model practiced throughout the 1950s and 1960s by American civil rights activists.
Discover the debates and the dilemmas that surrounded the creation of the UDHR. Consider the legacies of the declaration, one of the most celebrated milestones in the history of human rights.
Explore South Africa’s tumultuous history from the early interactions between white European settlers and native African tribes to the implementation of apartheid and the long struggle for democracy.
Created in partnership with Girl Rising, this teaching idea invites students to engage with the story of a young refugee and to consider the power of storytelling to spark empathy.
Enable students to use their experiences as fans or members of a team to explore contemporary antisemitism in British football clubs.
Use this Teaching Idea to reflect with your students on what we can do to stop ongoing atrocities and prevent future genocides.
Patience Agbabi, author, poet, and activist, discusses the impact of today’s choices on the future with Facing History UK’s Programme Associate Michelle Perkins. This event was made possible by Renaissance One.
For additional on-demand learning resources, visit the On-Demand Learning Center on our global site.
An introduction to our Standing Up for Democracy unit, which provides resources and strategies to support Citizenship and PSHE education in the classroom.
Watch this brief introduction to our Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour Unit, which provides resources and strategies for you to teach this catastrophic period in human history in an academically rigorous, reflective, and compassionate way.
Gain ideas and inspiration for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in your classroom.
Explore how to have conversations with your students about race and racism in a safe, sensitive and constructive way.
Backed by over 140 research studies worldwide, our approach is teacher-tested, meets national and GCSE curricula and is responsive to the changing and challenging educational landscape.