Year 8 History

In this lesson, we will compare the three stories we have looked at so far about Britain's journey to democracy and consider why different stories have developed around Britain's journey to democracy.

In this lesson, we will learn a story about how a group of women campaigned for the right to vote. These women were known as the 'suffragettes' and used radical methods to get attention.

In this lesson, we will learn a different story about how Britain became a democracy. This story describes how Britain's workers demanded the vote and then had to keep fighting for it when it was denied.

In this lesson, we will learn about how Britain gradually became a democracy. We will learn how British history is a story of progress where our system of government slowly got better. However, we will also discover that this story may be too simple.

In this lesson, we will learn about the Lancashire Cotton Famine and the Matchgirls strike. We will use these examples and knowledge from previous lessons to answer our enquiry question: how far did working conditions improve during the nineteenth century?

In this lesson, we will explore how we can judge 'success' in ending slavery. This will be done by considering who benefited from the 1807 and 1833 Acts.