Mr. Jerrit's History teaching blog

Timeline of Inter-War Years and Dictatorships Inspired, as ever by the work of  @worcesterjonny,  and using one of his files as a template, I knocked this Timeline together to cover the Interwar years and the dictators of the 1920s and 1930s. I think it should be useful for display purposes if you can find a printer which can use A2 pages and also for analysis (give an A3 version to your students!). I hope to use it with my IB History students (Paper 3, Europe Topics 14 & 15), and it should be useful for a variety of GCSE courses too. The PDF can be found here The Editable Publisher file can be found here (if you want to do your own version)

In my head I've got a post to write about using Hexagons in teaching, but in the meanwhile I'll post this here while I see if there is a better place to share it. The image below is timeline of selected events in the Tudor period 1509-88 which students can colour-code using the relevant themes, and make connections between events. It's designed around the Edexcel A Level specification for Paper 1, option B, although could probably be used for any Tudor unit. It works well on A2 or A3, but is a little harder to read on A4, as demonstrated below: It was inspired by some of the excellent work by Jonny Hemphill ( @WorcesterJohnny ), so props to him for his magnificent GCSE timelines I have shamelessly used in class! The file itself is a non-editable PDF (sorry if there any errors and typos!), but was make using the free Scribus publishing software. If anyone wants the original file, I am happy to share that too.