Explore British history through the work, homes, choices and challenges of ordinary people across different periods.
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What you’ll be able to do
Connect major changes in modern Britain with the ways ordinary people lived, worked and formed communities.
Course outline
A clear route from first principles to practical confidence
- 01
Home and community
- Reading a neighbourhood
- Housing and family life
- What local records reveal
- 02
Work and opportunity
- Industry changes daily life
- Education and social mobility
- Voices from the workplace
- 03
A changing society
- Migration and belonging
- Rights and representation
- Explore your own local history