Weblinks and videos for use with 9437 – Conflict: Poetry Anthology Activity Pack for GCSE Edexcel

‘A Poison Tree’ by William Blake

After Reading Activity 3: The South Bank Show on Blake

‘The Destruction Of Sennacherib’ by Lord Bryon

After Reading Activity 3: Ted Ed – The rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire

Activity Reading Activity 3: History channel biography of Byron

‘Extract from the Prelude’ by William Wordsworth

After Reading Activity 3: A nostalgic British Pathe look at Wordsworth country

After Reading Activity 3: Wordsworth’s sense of place by the Wordsworth centre

After Reading Activity 3: Exploring Dove Cottage by Future Learn

After Reading Activity 3: The Romantics, a BBC documentary

‘The Man he Killed’ By Thomas Hardy

After Reading Activity 3: A simple animation of the poem

After Reading Activity 3: Billy Bragg’s version of the poem at Glastonbury 2014

After Reading Activity 3: Andrew Moore’s documentary (from The Making of Modern Britain) on the Boer war

‘Cousin Kate’ By Christina Rossetti

After Reading Activity 3: British Library clip about gender in 19th century

After Reading Activity 3: The quality of life between the rich and poor in Victorian times

After Reading Activity 3: Five ridiculous Victorian rules

After Reading Activity 3: BBC documentary about the pre-raphaelites

‘Half Caste’ by John Agard

After Reading Activity 3: John Agard reading his poem

Activity Reading Activity 3: Half caste documentary

Activity Reading Activity 3: BBC3 documentary – things not to say to someone of mixed race

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Before Reading Activity 1: Worst case scenario – extreme cold (Bear Grylls)

Before Reading Activity 2: Trench Life

Activity Reading Activity 3: Why trenches? With Dan Snow

Activity Reading Activity 3: Life in a trench – the History Channel

‘Charge Of The Light Brigade’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Before Reading Activity 1: A Brief History of...The Charge of the Light Brigade

After Reading Activity 3: Clip from the 1968 movie

Activity Reading Activity 3: Short biography

Activity Reading Activity 3: Clip from Skyfall where M reads from Ulysses

‘Catrin’ by Gillian Clarke

After Reading Activity 3: Everything you need to know about Catrin (useful to get other opinions)

After Reading Activity 3: Clarke reading her tribute to the Welsh football team

Activity Reading Activity 3: Short biography

Activity Reading Activity 3: Clip from Skyfall where M reads from Ulysses

‘War Photographer’ by Carole Satyamurti

Before Reading Activity 1: The Guardian's 1986 'Points of view' advert

Before Reading Activity 2: My photographs bear witness - James Nachtwey

Activity Reading Activity 3: James Nachtwey – we must think deeply before we commit to war

Activity Reading Activity 3: More than a thousand words – the power of images, Tedx

‘Belfast Confetti’ by Ciaran Carson

Before Reading Activity 2: The Irish Troubles easily explained

Before Reading Activity 2: The Art Of Northern Ireland trailer

‘The Class Game’ by Mary Casey

Before Reading Activity 2: Margaret Thatcher: UK's First Female Prime Minister - Fast Facts History

After Reading Activity 3: Poll Tax riots in Brixton 1990 BBC/ITN

After Reading Activity 3: People on the streets of Liverpool react to her death – Liverpool Echo

After Reading Activity 3: Miners’ strike 30 years on – Channel 4 news

‘Poppies’ by Jane Weir

After Reading Activity 3: Jane Weir explains Poppies

After Reading Activity 3: Making the poppies – the Tower of London remembers

‘No Problem’ by Benjamin Zephaniah

Before Reading Activity 2: Portrait Of Handworth riot in 1985 - Pogus Caesar

After Reading Activity 3: BBC Newsnight programme with Zephaniah on modern racism

After Reading Activity 3: BBC Question Time on immigration myths

‘What Were They Like’ by Denise Levertov?

After Reading Activity 3: The Vietnam war simplified

After Reading Activity 3: Viet cong tunnels and traps – Discover Channel

After Reading Activity 3: Vietnam war: the real story

After Reading Activity 3: The Napalm Girl