Notes for Teachers

Relevant curricula: KS3 and GCSE History (England and Wales) or NQ 4 and 5 (Scotland)

Key Stage 3: Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world, 1901 to the present day

Scotland NQ4: Historical Study: Britain

Scotland NQ4: Historical Study: European and World

GCSE History Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 (Option 31, Key Topic 2)

GCSE History OCR: Germany 1925–1955: The People and the State

GCSE History OCR: International Relations: the changing international order 1918–1975

Scotland NQ5: Section 3, Part 4: Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–39

Scotland NQ5: Section 3, Part 6: Mussolini and Fascist Italy, 1919–1939

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Make links, draw contrasts, and recognize trends in the lived experience of members of fascist movements across Europe.
  2. Gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as ‘fascism’.
  3. Understand how different types of historical sources are used rigorously to make historical claims.
  4. Make connections between local and international social and political history.

These teaching materials are drawn from Roland Clark and Tim Grady eds., European Fascist Movements: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 2023).

Each Classroom Resource includes:

  • Downloadable powerpoint slides
  • Teacher guidance notes
  • Questions for group discussion
  • Primary sources
  • Questions about source analysis
  • Suggested answers
  • Practice PEEL paragraphs
  • Essay questions

Created by Roland Clark, Tim Grady, Ceridwen Gulmohamed and Alice Yardley.

We are currently collecting feedback on these resources in order to improve them. If you have used them, please send a quick note to Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk) letting us know what worked and what didn’t, as well as any suggestions for future resources.