GCSE Passionate Historians

Scholarship and Fiction

Early Elizabethan England 1558-88
  • 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
Medicine in Britain, c1250 to present and The British sector of the Western Front: injuries, treatment, and the trenches
  • 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
Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39
  • Julia Boyd – Travellers 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
Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
  • Odd Arne Westad – The Cold War: A World History
  • Tony Judt – Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
  • Taylor Downing – 1983
  • Michael Dobbs – One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
  • Anne Applebaum – Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
  • Mary Elise Sarotte – Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of the Post–Cold War Stalemate

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!