Filter by
Subjects
Subject categories
- All subject categories (288)
- English (55)
- Literature (55)
- (-) Prose (55)
- Reading (55)
- Modern prose (25)
- Character study (12)
- 19th-century prose (5)
- Understanding a prose text (5)
- Personal response (4)
- Themes (3)
- Context: historical/cultural (2)
- Drama (2)
- Language analysis (2)
- Reading skills (2)
- Understanding the plot (2)
- Independent reading (1)
- Language (1)
- Language analysis (1)
- Poetry (1)
Key stage
Global tag
- (-) All global tags (176)
- Post-1900 (31)
- Fiction (19)
- Fiction (18)
- Modern (12)
- Artemis Fowl (5)
- Benjamin Zephaniah (5)
- Eoin Colfer (5)
- Gangsta Rap (5)
- Heritage (5)
- Philip Pullman (5)
- Philip Pullman (5)
- Charles Dickens (4)
- Gothic (4)
- Northern Lights (4)
- John Steinbeck (3)
- Of Mice and Men (3)
- Pre-1900 (3)
- Charles Dickens (2)
- David Grant (2)
- Frankenstein (2)
- Free! (2)
- Holes (2)
- Mary Shelley (2)
- Robert Swindells (2)
- Unseen (2)
- Charlotte Bronte (1)
- David Almond (1)
- Deborah Ellis (1)
- George Orwell (1)
- Great Expectations (1)
- Hard Times (1)
- James Dashner (1)
- Jane Eyre (1)
- Joseph Delaney (1)
- Louis Sachar (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Roald Dahl (1)
- Skellig (1)
- Stephen Davies (1)
- Susan Hill (1)
- The Breadwinner (1)
- The Maze Runner (1)
- The Spook’s Apprentice (1)
- The Woman in Black (1)
- The Yellowcake Conspiracy (1)
- Thomas Hardy (1)
- Twelfth Night (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
- William Shakespeare (1)
British Empire
Why did Britain build an empire? Why did the British Empire expand, and why did British rule come to an end? What were the impacts of British colonialism on the colonisers and the colonised? Explore these and other key questions with your key stage 3 students, looking at the history of the British Empire in India and Africa and the influence of key historical figures on the beginnings of the British Empire under Elizabeth I through the development of trade via the East India Company to the end of Empire in the 20th century.
For GCSE resources on empires, visit our KS4 Migration page.