60 Second Histories
Time travel in 60 seconds, exploring the past through bitesize, professional videos. From Ancient Egypt to the First World War, these short clips are bursting with key information, buzz words and a useful summary to engage students and make facts stick.
Videos
A Roman centurion
A Roman legionary's clothing
A Roman legionary's helmet
A Roman slave woman
A Victorian day at the seaside
Ambroise Pare - An Alternative to Boiling Oil
Ambrose Pare - an introduction
An Ancient Greek Marketplace
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek gods
Andreas Vesalius Steals a Body
Andreas Vesalius and The Fabric of the Human Body
Andreas Vesalius dared to say Galen was wrong
Anglo Saxon - Christianity
Anglo Saxon armour & weapons
Anglo Saxon gods
Anglo Saxon place names
Battle of Edge Hill
Battle of Hastings - Norman view part 1
Battle of Hastings - Norman view part 2
Battle of Hastings - Norman view part 3
British Empire - The Jewel in the Crown
British Empire - trading companies
British soldier's equipment 1914-15
British soldier's equipment 1916-18
Builders and engineers in the Roman Empire
Building an Egyptian pyramid - part 1
Building an Egyptian pyramid - part 2
Building an Egyptian pyramid - part 3
Campaign of Arson 1912
Canopic jars
Captain Cook - part 1
Captain Cook - part 2
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon banished from court
Catherine of Aragon stands her ground
Catherine of Aragon; the King wants a divorce
Christmas Truce - 1914
Conciliation and violence
Crime and Punishment in Victorian Times
Cromwell
Death of Richard III - part 2
Democracy in Ancient Greece
Destruction of the monasteries
Disease and epidemic
Dissolution of the Monasteries - part 2
Dissolution of the Monasteries – part 1
Dr John Snow & Rev. Henry Whitehead
Dr John Snow - gathering evidence
Dr John Snow - introduction
Dr John Snow - proving a theory
Dr John Snow - removing the pump handle
Dr John Snow - the investigation continues
Edward Jenner - Smallpox
Edward Jenner’s Vaccination
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Egyptian gods - part 1
Egyptian gods - part 2
Egyptian gods - part 3
Emmeline Pankhurst and Keir Hardie
Emmeline Pankhurst and Winston Churchill
Emmeline Pankhurst – woman registrar
Emmeline Pankhurst; becoming a suffragist
English Civil War: A Parliamentarian
English Civil War: A Royalist Soldier
English Civil War: A cavalry trooper
English Civil War: A musketeer
English Civil War: A pikeman
English Civil War: An artillery master
Family Life for Men in Ancient Greece
Family Life for Women in Ancient Greece
Farming in Ancient Greece
Florence Nightingale - Scutari Hospital part 1
Florence Nightingale - Scutari Hospital part 2
Florence Nightingale - after the Crimea
Florence Nightingale - the Crimea
Florence Nightingale - the early years
Florence Nightingale - training
Galen and Hippocrates
Gladiators
Great Plague 1665 - Samuel Pepys account
Heavyweight crossbow
Henry VII - The King is Dead
Henry VII's children
Henry VIII - part 1
Henry VIII - part 2
Henry VIII breaks with Rome
Henry VIII wants a divorce
Henry VIII, supreme head of the Church of England
Herophilus and Erasistratus
How the Saxons arrived in England
Introduction to the English Civil War
Introduction to the Roman Empire
Joseph Bazalgette; construction of the sewers
Joseph Bazalgette; early career
Joseph Bazalgette; the early years
Joseph Bazalgette; the legacy
King Charles I
King Charles I - the execution
