The series consists of four webinars, which can be booked as a four-part series for AQA Power and the People teachers or as standalone sessions for teachers who want to build their knowledge.

We recommend watching live on the dates listed below. Recordings will also be available to booked delegates until the end of the term.

Session 1: Magna Carta: Beyond the Barons
Tuesday 16 June, 4pm–5pm

Session 2: American Revolution: Black Pioneers
Monday 22 June, 4pm–5pm

Session 3: Great Reform Act: Around the Nation, across the Spectrum
Tuesday 30 June, 4pm–5pm 

Session 4: The Brixton Uprising: Organisers and Activists 
Monday 6 July, 4pm–5pm

Session 1: Magna Carta: Beyond the Barons
Tuesday 16 June, 4pm–5pm

In this workshop, we’ll focus on reframing the significance of Magna Carta in your teaching. Pushing beyond the perspectives of King John and the Barons, we’ll share freshly-researched stories and source materials that highlight the roles of other parts of medieval society — like Londoners and Jewish communities — in informing Magna Carta: its causes, effects and aftermath.

We’ll cover how teaching Magna Carta from multiple angles can benefit students’ understanding of the topic, and encourage students to deepen their exam-style answers: significant for who?

Teacher takeaways:

• • Curated, classroom-ready sources from The London Archives to get students closer to key medieval documents
• • Ready-to-teach editable slides recapping the stories in brief
• • Ideas for incorporating stories into your existing schemes of work
• • Access to our Substack and website, apeopleshistory.uk

Session 2: American Revolution: Black Pioneers
Monday 22 June, 4pm–5pm

In the second workshop, we’ll tackle the tricky significance of representation in the American Revolution — what did revolution mean for enslaved African Americans, and how can their histories inform our teaching of a more inclusive, compelling, and representative story of independence?  

Focusing on world-building and narrative, we’ll explore how teaching through individuals’ perspectives can help students understand the context and complexities of this transatlantic conflict: significant for who? 

Teacher takeaways:  

• • Curated, classroom-ready sources from The London Archives and other archive partners to get students closer to crucial 18th century documents
• • Ready-to-teach editable slides recapping the stories in brief
• • Ideas for incorporating stories into your existing schemes of work
• • Access to our Substack and website, apeopleshistory.uk

Session 3: Great Reform Act: Around the Nation, across the Spectrum
Tuesday 30 June, 4pm–5pm 

In the third workshop, we’ll consider how significant but complicated movements and legislation — like radical politics and the Great Reform Act — can be brought back down to earth in the classroom through personal stories and regional scene setting. 

We’ll explore the key second-order concept of change and continuity during the period of early 19^th century electoral reform, comparing political perspectives from across demographics, regions and the political spectrum — including those of women and working-class individuals. We’ll unpack how teaching about setting and identity can help students understand peoples’ motives, actions and responses during times of change: significant for who? 

Teacher takeaways: 

• • Curated, classroom-ready sources from History of Parliament Trust and other archive partners to • get students closer to original 19th century documents
• • Ready-to-teach editable slides recapping the stories in brief
• • Ideas for incorporating stories into your existing schemes of work
• • Access to our Substack and website, apeopleshistory.uk

Session 4: The Brixton Uprising: Organisers and Activists 
Monday 6 July, 4pm–5pm

In the final workshop of our webinar series, we’ll investigate the lasting significance of the 1981 uprisings (including the Brixton ‘Riot’), exploring how a greater focus on the lead up to the uprisings can clarify their causes, events, and aftermath. We’ll consider the creative and determined forms of Black and global majority activism that are at the heart of the uprisings topic, but which seldom find their way into textbooks and resources: significant for who? 

This session will focus on primary sources, asking participants to consider how their choice of sources and provenance can help students to understand discrimination and resistance, and how using varied sources can strengthen source-analysis skills. 

Teacher takeaways: 

• • Curated, classroom-ready sources from Black Cultural Archives, The London Archives, and other archive partners, to get students closer to grassroots collections and records
• • Ready-to-teach editable slides recapping the stories in brief
• • Ideas for incorporating stories into your existing schemes of work
• • Access to our Substack and website, apeopleshistory.uk

The webinars are for anyone who teaches GCSE history or who wants to build their knowledge on the Magna Carta, American Revolution, the Great Reform Act, or the Brixton Uprising. They will be particularly useful for those who teach the AQA Power and the People specification, but the sessions and materials are more broadly relevant. 

• • Increase confidence in diversifying KS4 history curricula through the integration of new archival stories, perspectives and resources.
• • Enhance teaching of significance at GCSE by helping students analyse how historical importance differs across communities, groups and individuals.
• • Plan practical ways to embed inclusive materials into existing GCSE topics without adding extra curriculum time.

This series is run by chief consultant teacher James Ellis (Hastings Academy) and project officer and former teacher Jess Brown from the Inclusive Histories project, of which the HA is a partner organisation. It is an AHRC-funded, Royal Holloway, University of London-based, AQA-partnered project, working to support teachers by creating 200+ inclusive resources into GCSE history classrooms.

Meet our other CPD presenters

These webinars are free for anyone to access and have been funded by the Inclusive Histories project — an AHRC-funded, Royal Holloway, University of London-based, HA- and AQA-partnered project working to support teachers by creating 200+ inclusive resources into GCSE history classrooms.  

The webinars will take place online over Zoom. While we strongly recommend participating live, if you are unable to attend for any reason a recording link will be made available. This will be emailed to all registered participants to access for a limited period until the end of the term.

If you have missed a session, we will be making the recordings available on this page in due course.