Transform the history curriculum for Key Stage 3 students with this groundbreaking textbook focused on the period from approximately 1870 to the present day. Designed to reframe familiar topics, uncover forgotten stories, and amplify unheard voices, this resource integrates historical scholarship with an engaging, story-based approach to deliver a diverse, inclusive, and ambitious history education.

• Establishes a strong foundation of British history through a clear, chronological spine, enabling pupils to understand, question, or disrupt national narratives.
• Expands knowledge globally, blending depth and overview by moving between local and worldwide events and the links between them.
• Utilizes vivid, intriguing narratives to enhance pupil engagement, improve literacy through exposure to rich vocabulary in context, and aid retention.
• Teaches a diverse curriculum confidently, treating gender, class, race, and religion with sensitivity and sophistication, woven intrinsically into the content.
• Informed by current historical scholarship, reflecting extensive reading by the authors, including research from historians like Helen Castor, Ruby Lal, and Toby Green.
• Designed to meet Ofsted expectations for scope, coherence, rigour, and sequencing, building skills and knowledge systematically across lesson sequences.

Authored by Christine Counsell, Will Bailey-Watson, Rachel Foster, Teni Gogo, Jonathan Grande, Nicolas Kinloch, Mike Hill, Jacob Olivey, Hugh Richards, and Paula Worth.

• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Print Length: 208 pages
• Reading Age: 11 - 15 years
• Dimensions: 213 x 10 x 276mm (21.3 x 1 x 27.6 cm)
• Weight: 41g
• ISBN-10: 139830705X
• ISBN-13: 978-1398307056
• Publication Date: 14 July 2026

This essential resource provides the history that pupils need for today and tomorrow, ensuring a comprehensive and modern understanding of the world since 1870.