Landmarks: Britain Since 1930
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.
Episode List
Including repeats from the Children at War unit, with their original dates.
# | # | Title | Broadcast |
---|---|---|---|
1. | (1) | Life Keeps Changing | 19 Sep 1994 |
2. | (2) | The Hungry Thirties? | 26 Sep 1994 |
_ | (3) | Evacuation | 18 Sep 1989 |
_ | (4) | The Blitz | 25 Sep 1989 |
_ | (5) | Victory | 9 Oct 1989 |
_ | (6) | War in the Channel Islands: The Story of Guernsey | 23 Mar 1992 |
3. | (7) | A Better Britain for All? | 7 Nov 1994 |
4. | (8) | Never Had It So Good? | 14 Nov 1994 |
5. | (9) | The Swinging Sixties? | 21 Nov 1994 |
6. | (10) | Trouble and Strife? | 28 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
Video Plus Pack
A 120-minute video containing the 6 new episodes.
Fact Finder Book
Literacy Pack
Software
Junior PinPoint data files, 'The War Years' Microworld CD-ROM, and 'time-child' simulation software on the Second World War
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