The History Project

This 3-year history project is a School Partnership supported by Comenius 1. It involves representatives from schools and colleges across six European countries: Italy, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Romania and the United Kingdom.

The project had three main aims:

1. To exchange knowledge and experience of teaching practices
2. To enhance the teaching and learning of national history by developing the European context and perspective
3. To develop different teaching materials including a website which can be accessed internationally

As the project is now complete, you can read a summary of the project and find out how all the participants felt about it.

The general themes for the project were:

1. People and power (totalitarianism and democracy)
2. People in movement (from countryside to towns, immigrants and emigrants)
3. Terrorism (historical and current perspectives)

Each partner in the project will contribute material from their national perspective on one or more of these themes. The material for each of the themes will be presented at 3 different levels of complexity:

1. Summary
2. Further development
3. Source materials and document

Particular areas of interest will be catered for through case studies. While it is impossible to specify a particular historical period to focus on, the partners have agreed that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would be the most fruitful areas to look at.