The free online teaching materials are aimed at primary and secondary schools and colleges and are intended to be relevant to a range of subjects, in particular: history; religious education; citizenship; the humanities more generally; and may provide the basis of project work.
The resources include primary material, links to secondary sources, sample lessons, ideas and information cards. Resources will be added to over the course of the project, including more lesson ideas and examples of pupils’ work. Talks by the historians who conducted the research will also be offered, either online or in person.
The first content area, Refusing to Kill, focuses on research undertaken locally into Bristol’s First World War Conscientious Objectors. It is based on the 2017-18 exhibition which first opened in Bristol Cathedral in 2017. A local history booklet of the same title is also available.
Future collections of free online teaching resources are planned, including historical studies of workhouses and slavery in Bristol.
Alongside this Bristol research, Professor Bibbings has published an article taking a fresh approach to war resistance and conscientious objection in the UK during the First World War, focusing on lesser-known or hidden histories of the time period and drawing academic work alongside community collaborations and research. The article is available for free online: ‘Social Conflict and Control, Protest and Repression (Great Britain and Ireland)’.