History – is it always horrible?
“Twenty-five years of Horrible Histories is something to celebrate”, says Seán, who is a big fan of the books and… Read more
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The Romans – they came; they saw; they conquered TV!
We can’t get enough of the Romans, it seems – and why not? They feature in Key Stage 2 of… Read more
Handling sensitive subject matter in the classroom – The Holocaust
This joint ERA/CLA blog looks at how print and audio/audio-visual resources can assist in the teaching of a sensitive subject…. Read more
Should TV drama reflect the real horrors of British history?
Or was ‘Gunpowder’ too inflammable? The first episode of ‘Gunpowder’ exploded onto our screen last Saturday night – and the… Read more
500 Years since the Reformation
BBC/UFA Fiction & ZDF/Hardy Brackmann 500 years ago on 31st October a young monk named Martin Luther pinned his… Read more
Russian Revolution Centenary
To mark the centenary of the October Revolution, the BBC has commissioned a selection of programmes across television and radio… Read more
Partition of India
The BBC is marking the 70th anniversary of the partition of India with a raft of programmes exploring the historical… Read more
Passchendaele 100 years on
Passchendaele was one of the greatest disasters of the First World War and only the Somme was bloodier and more… Read more
Gay Britannia – 50 years on from the 1967 Sexual Offences Act
‘Glad to be Gay’ by Tom Robinson was in part designed to shock when it was written in 1976 and… Read more
Horrible Histories is back!
A new series of Horrible Histories begins on Monday 24 July, starting with Explorers. The first episode takes a look… Read more
Brexit!
The BBC is marking Brexit – One Year On with a series of programmes this week. Programmes include Brexit Means… Read more
The British Empire #TVforTeachers Pick of the Week
Study of the British Empire or the causes and effects of British imperialism are topics covered by most A-level syllabuses,… Read more
Black History Month
October was Black History Month in the UK and to follow on from this during November, the BBC has launched… Read more
#TVforHE – Pick of the Week – Remembering Aberfan
As a part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make the best use of material available to them, we… Read more
Higher Education – Pick of the Week – Hersey’s Hiroshima
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – The Secret Life of Children’s Book
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Teaching the Somme
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Born on the Same Day
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TV for Teachers – Pick of the Week – The Hollow Crown: the Wars of the Rose – Henry VI Part 1
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TV for Teachers – Pick of the Week – the Vikings Uncovered
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
Marking the Centenary of the Easter Rising 1916
This Easter marks the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the rebellion that eventually led to Irish Independence, and possibly… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Digging for Britain
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforHE– Pick of the Week – Storyville: The Black Panthers
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Calculating Ada: the Countess of Computing
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Holocaust Memorial Day 2016
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Britain’s Bloody Crown
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers and #TVforHE Christmas Round-Up
Whilst teaching resources might be at the last thing on your mind as you tuck into your Christmas lunch, the… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Sofia: Suffragette Princess
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Witch Hunt: a Century of Murder
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforHE & #TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – The Ascent of Woman
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
S4C’s Patagonia Season
This week S4C are airing a great deal of content looking back on 150 years of ‘Y Wladfa’ – the… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Horrible Histories: Bolshy Boudica Special
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforHE – Pick of the Week – Storyville: Last Days of Vietnam
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Hiroshima: the Aftermath
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week – Napoleon
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
History on Radio and Television – Anniversaries
2015 marks a number of important historical anniversaries of events in British and European History covered by the new schools… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week- Perspectives: War Art with Eddie Redmayne
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TV for Teachers – Pick of the Week – The Last Days of… Julius Caesar
As part of ERA’s commitment to helping licence holders make best use of the material available to them, we have… Read more
#TVforTeachers – Pick of the Week- BBC4 Space Evening
For this week’s #TVforTeachers pick of the week, we’ve chosen a whole evening’s worth of programming. This Sunday night on… Read more