Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945

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A five-year project in the History Faculty, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has just released free resource packs for secondary-school teachers to teach the history of social change in postwar Britain through the histories of their own schools. 

'Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945' (Home - Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945 (cam.ac.uk)) has been exploring the experience of secondary education in this country since it became universal and compulsory after the Second World War and has been working with teacher-consultants to develop teaching materials aimed at 11-14 year olds (though more widely applicable) who are studying postwar British history. 

The resource packs include lesson plans, teacher notes, video interviews with historians, a guide to writing your own school's history, and a very wide array of primary sources from school magazines to logbooks to PTA minutes to memorabilia to floor plans. 

They can be downloaded for free from the project's website (SESC Key Stage 3 school resource packs - Secondary Education and Social Change in the United Kingdom since 1945 (cam.ac.uk)) or from the website of their project partner the Historical Association (Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs / Historical Association (history.org.uk)).