These lectures are designed for post 16 students and will last 1 hour. Where applicable, each session has been aligned with content delivered on the A Level syllabus but is designed to give students an idea of how the subject would be taught at the university level.
Typical lecture content could include:
1. Understanding the Atlantic Slave Trade.
This session introduces the transatlantic slave trade with interactive individual/group exercises designed to get students to examine recent research on the total numbers involved and what this slave trade data can tell us about the wider histories of Africa, the Americas and Europe in the early modern period. The lecture will enable students to work practically with reliable data to answer big historical questions, such as: Why did slave trade happen? On what scale? Over what time period? Who was primarily involved? How did it change the world?
2. The Magna Carta Through Time.
For students interested in medieval England, civil liberties, and historical interpretations through the ages. This lecture will examine the Magna Carta (Lincoln's copy) and how it has been used and abused over time. In this lecture, the document is put in its proper medieval context, before exploring how it was forgotten and resurrected in the Stuart period before becoming a beacon of liberty in the United States. The session will outline how later interpretations of the contents of the Magna Carta often bear little resemblance to the actual document King John agreed in 1215, offering the opportunity for history students to reflect upon the use and abuse of historical documents through time.
3. Viking Lincolnshire – raiders and traders.
A chance to learn about the Vikings who came to raid, but then stayed and built a life in Lincolnshire in the ninth century. Find out how they changed the landscape and townscape of Lincolnshire. Find out if they mixed with the locals or drove them out. Discover what evidence we have, and the links Viking Lincoln had with trading networks that spread as far as Africa and Asia.
4. 1066 – the year of three battles.
In 1066 there were three large scale battles, which was highly unusual. Any of these three could have gone the other way and radically changed the history of northwest Europe. Find out how the battles were fought, what decided the three battles, the tactics and weapons used, and how we know all of this.
5. Fenner Brockway’s conscientious objection during the First World War.
Fenner Brockway energetically campaigned for peace in a variety of ways during the First World War: through his journalism, political activity, work for the No-Conscription Fellowship, and being imprisoned for 28 months as a conscientious objector. This lecture, based on original archival research, explores these varied experiences along with the socialist and spiritual convictions which underpinned them.
How to book: Please contact outreach@bishopg.ac.uk if you would like to book a session.