Classroom activities: GCSE & A level
Our tried-and-tested classroom activities are designed for teachers to help bring the past to life and connect it to students' lives today.
Each one is linked to our Revolutionary collection of objects and artworks from museums and galleries across the UK.
Use these activities with your students, adapt them, or delve into the collection and create your own. For more in-depth classroom ideas, try our Guides, Enquiries and Creative and digital making projects
All of our learning resources are authored by education specialists and historians.
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Age of Revolution Top Trumps
Ideas and activities for using our FREE Age of Revolution Top Trumps in the Classroom
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The Peterloo Graphic Novel – available free to schools now
A vivid, original and historically accurate 'comic book' account of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, published as part of the 200th anniversary commemorations, is now available to schools.
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Fascinating facts
Did you know the first known flight to carry people took place nearly 250 years ago, in Paris, in a balloon? Discovering and presenting fascinating facts about the Age of Revolution.
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Image of the day
Stimulate students’ curiosity and hone their skills of deduction.
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True or false?
Revolutionary facts and figures - can students fool their classmates?
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Twitter campaigns
How might the Chartists or the Abolitionists have used Twitter in their campaigns for political and social revolution?
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Reliable evidence?
How reliable are primary sources? Does their meaning change if we know why they were made? What if an artist never even saw the subject they painted..?
A Revolutionary Collection
Our Revolutionary collection brings together objects, artworks, literature, archive materials and songs from museums and galleries across the UK. Each one is supported by information and fascinating facts to help you explore the different themes, people, events and ideas of the Age of Revolution.
Political revolution
From Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and American Independence, to revolutionary France and Marx and Engels, enduring ideas about equality, rights and freedoms during the Age of Revolution, and some of their key proponents.
Social and cultural revolution
The movements for better working conditions, rights and representation for ordinary people, the campaign against transatlantic slavery, the migration of people within and beyond Britain, and the wave of artists, musicians and authors who reflected the period’s upheavals in works that still resonate and delight today.
Economic and technological revolution
Life-changing discoveries and innovations in scientific thinking, technology and medicine in the Age of Revolution, their impacts on work and society, and relationships with trade and the economy.
War and the international order
The wars precipitated by the struggles for independence and attempts at empire building that characterise the Age of Revolution, and their impact on the changing world map.