GCSE Passionate Historians

Scholarship and Fiction

Elizabethan England 1568-1603
  • Alison Weir – Elizabeth The Queen
  • Alison Weir – The Marriage Game
  • Miranda Kaufmann – Black Tudors
  • Phillipa Gregory – The Queen’s Fool
  • Nicola Tallis – Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys
Health and the People 1000c
  • Roy Porter – Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
  • Caroline Rance – The History of Medicine in 100 Facts
  • Kevin Brown – Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution
  • Lindsey Fitzharris – The Butchering Art
  • Wendy Moore – The Knife Man
  • Toni Mount – Dragons Blood & Willow Bark
Democracy & Dictatorship Germany 1890-1945
  • Julia Boyd – Travelers in the Third Reich
  • Frank Dikkoter – How to Be a Dictator
  • Judy Batalion – The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
  • Markus Zusak – The Book Thief,  (FICTION)
  • Christopher Clark – Kaiser Wilhelm II Life in Power
  • Robert Gerwarth – November 1918 The German Revolution
Conflict & Tension in Asia 1950-75
  • Eugenia Kim – The Kinship of Secrets
  • Ha Jin – War Trash
  • Max Hastings – The Korean War
  • Viet Thang Nguygen – The Sympathizer
  • Lynda Van Devanter – Home Before Morning
  • Lt HG Moore and JL Galloway – We Were Soldiers Once… and Young

TV & Film

  • The Dictator’s Playbook
  • The Nazis: A Warning from History
  • Valkyrie
  • Hitler: Rise of Evil
  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age
  • Mary Queen of Scots
  • A Bridge of Spies
  • Platoon
  • Forrest Gump
  • 1917
  • Breaking the Mould
  • timelinesTV - YouTube

Podcasts

  • You’re Dead to Me by Greg Jenner
  • Stuff you missed in History class.
  • Homeschool History by Greg
  • HistoryHit
  • HistoryExtra

All these podcast channels have multiple episodes about our four units so it would be impossible to include them all!