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Dorothy Lawrence: A Woman at War
This lesson is about Dorothy Lawrence, a British woman who disguised herself as a man and travelled to the front line...
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In Flanders Fields
This lesson looks at John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields. It provides students with practice of reading and analysing...
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Alfred Leete's Kitchener poster
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Joining the British Army in the First World War
This lesson examines the motives and men who volunteered to fight for the British Army during the First World War, and...
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Letters Home
This lesson looks at letter-writing during the First World War. It gives students practice identifying and using...
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Life in the trenches
This lesson is about daily life in the trenches during the First World War. It provides students with the opportunity...
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Migration and the First World War
This lesson is about migration during the First World War. It provides students with information about where, why and...
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Military exemption
This lesson is about the process men had to go through in order to be excused from military service during World War I...
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Numbers and the First World War
This lesson is based on significant numbers related to the First World War. This lesson can also be used as a number...
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Soldiers from the Caribbean in the First World War
This lesson is about West Indian Soldiers during the First World War. It provides students with information about the...
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The outbreak of war
This lesson uses information gaps to create a speaking activity in which students recount three different eyewitness...
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The Brocklesby brothers
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The soldier and the pacifist
This lesson is about two brothers, one a soldier who fought in the Battle of the Somme, the other a conscientious...
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Wilfred Owen
This lesson is based around the poem Exposure by the First World War poet Wilfred Owen. Exposure vividly depicts the...
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Women in War: Propaganda and Reality
Students will look at some propaganda posters from the First World War portraying women in different roles. This will...
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Zeppelin raids
This lesson is about the first ever air attacks on Britain, which occurred during the First World War. It provides...
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