Target audience: Key Stage 3

This resource is a series of seven lessons focusing on the enquiry question: What do broadcasting and the media reveal about the lived experience of the ‘swinging sixties’? The aim is for students to study a different theme or social group within the sixties to map out what the 1960s was like at the time. The other focus of this enquiry is using audio-visual material as a piece of evidence to shape students’ ideas regarding the overall enquiry.

The resource is intended for use with Key Stage 3, particularly Years 8 and 9, due to the sensitive nature of some of the material within this and the important messages that it contains.

Content note: Please review the content of the audio-visual resources before watching with students, as some contain extreme views and language contemporary to the period.

This enquiry was written by Kathryn Elsdon, a teacher of history at Little Heath School, Reading.

Every effort has been made to trace all image copyright holders and permissions in these resources, although occasionally it has not been possible to identify them. Please contact Maheema Chanrai at maheema.chanrai@history.org.uk with any queries.

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