Landmarks: Britain Since 1930

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companyBBC
started19th Sep 1994
ended28th Nov 1994
last rpt13th Jun 2002
8 school years
episodes6
duration20 mins
subject 🏛️History
age rangeAge 9-11
languageenIn English


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Britain Since 1930 is a unit of the BBC Schools TV series Landmarks from the 1990s & 2000s, covering history for primary school pupils.

A survey of British political and social history from the 1930s to the 1970s, and linking things that children may experience in their current lives to their investigation of the past.

The unit includes six newly-produced programmes presented by Anna Quayle, plus four repeated episodes from the 1989 Children at War unit, some billed with slightly changed episode titles, which were inserted between the new episodes on the 1930s and 1940s to cover the Second World War.

For its original transmission in 1994 the unit consisted of 10 episodes, starting with an introduction called Life Keeps Changing taking an overview of changes during the 20th Century in different ways and how children could investigate them. It also included four repeated episodes from Children at War including one on War in the Channel Islands.

For all subsequent repeats from 1997 onwards the unit consisted of 8 episodes, omitting the repeat on War in the Channel Islands and also omitting the introductory episode Life Keeps Changing, which was never broadcast again though it was released to schools on video.

In 2003 material from this unit was re-used, with a new presenter inserted, alongside new episodes on the 1980s and 1990s, to make a new unit on Britain Since 1948 for the replacement series Primary History.

Anna Quayle

Episode List

Including repeats from the Children at War unit, with their original dates.

# # Title Broadcast
1. (1) Life Keeps Changing #1994-09-19-00-00-0019 Sep 1994
2. (2) The Hungry Thirties? #1994-09-26-00-00-0026 Sep 1994
_ (3) Evacuation #1989-09-18-00-00-0018 Sep 1989
_ (4) The Blitz #1989-09-25-00-00-0025 Sep 1989
_ (5) Victory #1989-10-09-00-00-009 Oct 1989
_ (6) War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey #1992-03-23-00-00-0023 Mar 1992
3. (7) A Better Britain for All? #1994-11-07-00-00-007 Nov 1994
4. (8) Never Had It So Good? #1994-11-14-00-00-0014 Nov 1994
5. (9) The Swinging Sixties? #1994-11-21-00-00-0021 Nov 1994
6. (10) Trouble and Strife? #1994-11-28-00-00-0028 Nov 1994


Evacuation was originally known as The Evacuees, and Victory was originally known as Victory... for Some.

Broadcasts

Year Term Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Channel Details
1994-95 Autumn 1994 Monday, 1:25pm Thursday, 11:30am BBC2 from 19 Sep
1996-97 Summer 1997 Monday, 1:25pm Thursday, 11:35am BBC2 from 14 Apr
1999-2000 Summer 2000 Wednesday, 12:10pm BBC2 from 3 May
2000-01 Autumn 2000 Monday, 12:10pm BBC2 from 9 Oct
Summer 2001 Tuesday, 11:50am BBC2 from 24 Apr
2001-02 Summer 2002 Thursday, 11:50am BBC2 from 18 Apr


Credits

Presenter Anna Quayle
Music Wayne Unwin
Director Liz Tennent
Executive Producer Frank Flynn
Series Producer Peter M. Evans
Producer David Meldrum

Resources

Teacher's Notes

Teacher's Notes


Video Plus Pack

Video Plus Pack

A 120-minute video containing the 6 new episodes.



Fact Finder Book

Literacy Pack

Software

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Junior PinPoint data files, 'The War Years' Microworld CD-ROM, and 'time-child' simulation software on the Second World War

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