Interactive teaching resources: Hull and Littlecote House

Part of the interactive at www.civilwarhull.co.uk

A couple of interactive resources teachers and students may find useful:

www.civilwarhull.co.uk
www.royalarmouries.org/littlecote

More study resources
Courses on the English Civil War (also includes school programmes)

Guest blog: Writing and tutoring an online course (Dr Andrew Lacey, University of Oxford)

Some of the tools and resources available to those studying online.

Universities and colleges have provided online distance learning courses for a numbers of years, though the past 12 months has seen a huge growth in the number of institutions offering them and the range of programmes available. Many of the world's top universities have formed partnerships to offer their teaching via digital channels, and most higher education institutions in the UK are, in one way or another, responding to these developments by offering a greater choice of study pathways.

As demand from students for more flexible study routes has grown, so has the need for academic staff to develop the skills in order to deliver them. In this guest post, Dr Andrew Lacey reflects on his first experience of writing and tutoring an online course about the English Civil War for the University of Oxford ...

Q&A: Teaching the 17th century at A-Level (Stephen Lovell, Central Newcastle High School)

Van Dyck's triptych of Charles I.

History at A-Level is becoming increasingly popular. 51,652* students sat for an A-Level examination in the subject in the summer of 2012, a rise of 10% over the past five years. Each UK examining centre chooses the syllabus it wishes to follow from one of the seven exam boards, and most specifications offer the chance to study at least some aspects of 17th century history.

One school where History is a popular choice at A-Level is Central Newcastle High School. I asked Stephen Lovell, Teacher of History at the independent school for girls, about the challenges his students face when learning about the English Civil War, and how his own Early Modern interests have developed in response to teaching it ...