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Index to History series and titles from elm publications

 

Senior Factpacks

An established series of primary resource materials for schools.  These mainly-A4 size, loose-leaf packs contain more than 50 pieces in a plastic wallet.  Factpacks use the words and images of people living at the time.  They are ideal for class use in schools, for display, and for project and topic work.  Taken from original materials, they are a useful and versatile resource, designed to be shared around a large class of children. Contain colour posters, black and white photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and facsimile, contemporary documents.  Editor, Mike Ryan  ISSN  0950-3927

 

The Packs are available in two binding styles – GBP £9.95 each display loose-leaf, GBP £10.95 library wirebound.

 

NEW – 2nd edition – SLAVERY – March 2007

G19 -  E. Frostick & S. Ritchie  ISBN  978-1-85450-262-9

Chronology of slavery and abolition, colour plates, black and white photographs – chain gangs, slaves for sale, branding irons – cartoons, accounts & returns, broadsheets & political tracts, songs, music and poems, newspaper articles.  An exceptionally good-value pack with over 90 pages. Updated March 2007.

 

 

G1 - Votes for Women, D. Atkinson ISBN 978-0-946139-91-0

The story of the Suffragettes in the U.K. over 60 years. A collection of 46 looseleaf printed and illustrated materials (taken direct from the originals).  Includes four full colour A4 posters (Cat & Mouse, Convicts & Lunatics, The Modern Inquisition and the WSPU scroll sent to women who had been imprisoned.

 

 

 

Junior Factpacks

An established series of primary resource materials. Loose leaf packs in plastic wallet. The introduction has been rewritten for 9–13 year olds and some of the more complex written sources excluded. Suggested further reading aimed the younger age group if possible. The majority of graphic material from the Senior Factpack is included. For KS2/KS3 students & teachers. ISSN 0956-0491. Series Editor Michael Ryan.

 

 

J1 - Votes for Women, D. Atkinson  ISBN 978-1-85450-200-1, (ISBN-10  1 85450 200 X)

The story of the Suffragettes in the U.K. over 60 years. A collection of 38 looseleaf printed and illustrated materials (taken direct from the originals).  Includes four full colour A4 posters (Cat & Mouse, Convicts & Lunatics, The Modern Inquisition and the WSPU scroll sent to women who had been imprisoned. Junior Factpacks - GBP £8.95 each looseleaf, GBP £9.95 library wirebound. Please tell us which format you require on your order.

 

Wolfpacks

For students and teachers of Key Stages 1, KS2 and KS3. Loose leaf packs containing about thirty A4-equivalent (as A3, A4 & A5) pieces. In plastic wallet. Editor P. Hornsby, ISSN 0965-7444.  Colour and monochrome pictures, notes to pictures, full introduction, things to do/discussion topics, further reading, chronology, illustrated text. Some have documents & printed sources. Each is cross referenced for ease of use. Coloured paper and folded A3 and A4 sheets add interest. GBP £8.95 each loose-leaf. GBP £9.95 library wirebound

 

The Great Plague and the Fire of London, Richard Worsnop, W6. ISBN 978-1-85450-303-9, KS2 GBP £8.95  EXPANDED and UPDATED with latest research

The plague carriers; a ring of roses; bubonic plague; story of the piper; magic and recipes; a strange cure; the village of Eyam, Derbyshire; Samuel Pepys; fire insurance and fire marks; Christopher Wren.

 

The Home Front, Pauline  Hornsby, W5. ISBN 978-1-85450-315-2, KS2/3 GBP £8.95

Lord Haw Haw; Rudolf Hess; the Royal family and their role in public moral; aspects of the home Front; a wartime wedding; civilian services; evacuation and evacuees; rationing; loss of amenities and how shortages were overcome; gas masks and how to use them; shelters; defence; V-1s and V-2s; the Blitz and air raids; the Home Guard; and the role of women.

 

Jack the Ripper & Victorian London, Roy Gregory, W60. ISBN 978-1-85450-367-1, KS2 GBP £8.95

Social conditions and housing; the Poor Laws and the workhouses; child labour; occupations; baby farming; prostitution and associated ‘trades’; Jack the Ripper; the urchins; the victims. Who was Jack the Ripper? approx 50 pieces.

 

Ancient Egypt, Richard Worsnop, W55. ISBN 978-1-85450-356-5, KS2 GBP £8.95

Chronology of the Pharaohs; the river Nile; transport, travel & trade; Pharaohs; Tutankhamun & the discovery of his tomb; the Egyptian army; builders and the men who built Egypt’s glory; Gods and  priests; belief and magic; death and mummification; tomb robbers; everyday life; writing; Abu Simbel; the end.

 

The Suffragettes, Diane Atkinson,  W12. ISBN 978-1-85450-375-6, KS3 GBP £7.95

Introduction and Chronology; pictures and posters, documents and printed sources that include handbills and  postcards illustrating events between 1908 and 1914. The Pankhursts, jobs for women during the First World War, firsts for women.

 
Non-series History title

 

Kings Ripton Church on book cover

Kings Ripton

 

a Huntingdonshire Village in the year 2000

 

editor - Sheila Ritchie,

ISBN 978-1-85450-081-6 (ISBN-10 1 85450 081 3)

approx. 160 pages

 

GBP £11.45 (including p&p UK)

 

 

 

 

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