InThinking Subject Sites
Subscription websites for IB teachers & their classes
Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
IB Approved Workshops
History
IB DP Category 2
Berlin, Germany, 28 February - 2 March 2025
Find out more
History: A focus on internal assessment
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
Find out more
Find all InThinking Workshops at
inthinking.net
Blog
December blog: Site update, anniversaries and history in the news
December, 1994; Russia sends tanks and troops into Chechnya to end the rebel territory's three-year drive for independence - one of the significant anniversaries for this month. This month we have added...
November Blog: Armistice Day
Armistice Day is a significant day in the school calender; it gives us the opportunity to remember the lives lost and sacrifices made in previous wars; as well as remembering the conflicts that are...
October Blog: Black History Month
In the UK, October is Black History Month - an annual celebration of Black history and heritage. The theme for 2024 UK Black History month in the UK is 'Reclaiming narratives' and there are some excellent...
September Blog: Anniversaries, site update, books, programmes and podcasts
Operation Market Garden, September 1944 There are a couple of significant anniversaries this month linked to Second World War and the Cold War that you could discuss with your students: A commemorative...
August Blog: Lessons from history
An image from the BBC programe Atomic People. The books reviewed below, along with this BBC programme, focus on harrowing events in the past which can provide warnings to the present. We hope that...
July Blog: The Olympic Games - historical controversies
This Friday sees the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. As well as being the focus of remarkable sporting achievements, the Olympic Games have often provided a spotlight on key historical...
June blog: D-Day Anniversary
6th June 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history, and the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe in the Second World War. As Historian Max Hastings writes, 'the...
May blog: Thinking about EE's and University applications
Well done to all DP History students who are graduating in June! Many first year history students will now be thinking about applying to university. Students planning to study history might want to...
April blog: Rwandan genocide
This week sees the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide which took started in April 1994 and is estimated to have killed nearly one million Tutsi and thousands of moderate Hutu. Despite advance...
March blog: New history books
This is a very timely book. It is the story of the extraordinary career of Britain’s top wartime counter-propagandist, Sefton Delmer, who worked to counter Nazi propaganda. However Pomerantsev's message...