Online learning resources

A look at the life of William Beveridge, Baron Beveridge (1879-1963) who was a social reformer and architect of the Beveridge Report, which led to the National Health Service and welfare state.

Includes a powerpoint, teachers notes with ideas for activities and flashcards and a telegram template.

• Beveridge KS1 Significant People [PPT 8MB]
• Significant People Beveridge KS1 Teachers' Notes [Word Doc]
• Beveridge Report Flash Card [Word Doc]
• GPO Telegram template

Curriculum links for Key Stage One

History: Significant People and Events, aspects of change in national life, events within living memory, World War II and post 1945 to the present.

Literacy: Learning new words and meanings, writing short sentences.

PSHE: healthcare, understanding society, British values

We have produced Teachers' Notes and Lesson Presentations for use in teaching key stage three history that are informed by the content of and LSE archive material.

The resources can be used to support teaching ‘Challenges for Britain and the wider world 1901 to the present day’.

• Social Reform in the 1900s: teachers’ notes [Word Doc], lesson presentation [PPT 5MB]
• The Great Depression and Hungry Thirties: teachers’ notes (Word Doc), lesson presentation [PPT 2MB]
• The Creation of the Welfare State: teachers’ notes [Word Doc], lesson presentation [PPT 19MB]
• At Last! Votes for Women: The campaign journey for women 1908- 1918 [PPT 12MB]
• At Last Teachers' Notes [Word Doc]
• A Timeline of the Changing Role Women 1918 to 29 [PPT 3MB]

Original archive sources and supporting material around the 1942 Beveridge Report and its impact on the 1945 General Election. Transcripts and images of original documents are provided on the PowerPoint slides and the teachers’ notes provide contextual and background information for the Beveridge Report and the Creation of the Welfare State.

• The Beveridge Report: A and AS Level source material [PPT]
• History AS / A Level: lesson ideas and source material - teachers' notes [DOC]

Primary Sources to understand responses in the period to unemployment and the development of broadcast media in Britain for AS / A-Level History.

• Beveridge and Broadcasting presentation [PPT 3MB]
• Teachers' Notes Beveridge Power of Influence [Word Doc]

Eye Witnesses to Peace 1918-20: Forming the League of Nations

An education resource for one or two lessons focusing on individuals who witnessed the aftermath of the First World War in Britain and Europe and tried to improve the fragile peace through documents from LSE Archives, including the Women’s Library Collection. These notes and presentation cover ‘Peace-making’ and the formation of The League of Nations for the early part of the ‘inter-war years 1918-1939’ topic at GCSE level, with extra content that can be adapted for A Level. A Level and / or Citizenship sections are marked in orange.

• Eye Witnesses to Peace 1918-20: Forming the League of Nations [Word Doc]
• Eye Witnesses to Peace 1918-20 [PPT 4MB]