New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
This project has been created on the initiative of Professor Julie. V. Gottlieb, Dept. of History, University of Sheffield. British political history, political conflict, appeasement and the Munich Crisis (1938) itself is the focus of her research and publications. Rather than approach these topics from ‘traditional’, elite and history from above perspectives, she looks at these topics through the lenses of women’s and gender history, the cultural history of politics, history of emotion, and history from below and history from within. In particular, Julie’s work draws on previously neglected original sources of public opinion (and private feelings evoked by these most public events), including the Mass Observation Archive and the Journal of F. L. Lucas, a fierce critic of appeasement.
In partnership with the Historical Association, the project is collaborating with schools to engage teachers with this cutting-edge scholarship and these timely perspectives on appeasement, exploring ways of introducing it (and the sources on which it is based) into history classrooms.
For more information on the project, please contact:
Professor Julie Gottlieb: julie.gottlieb@sheffield.ac.uk
Jamie Lee Jenkins (Project Officer): jljenkins1@sheffield.ac.uk
Image: Neville Chamberlain addressing the crowds following the Munich Agreement, Wide World Photos, 1938. Cadbury Research Library, The University of Birmingham. 17/1/19/80 NB.
New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Reflections and guidance for teachers on fresh perspectives for teaching appeasement in the classroom
- Teaching Appeasement in the classroom with Year 10 and 11 pupils at Woodhouse Grove School
- Enquiry: How did Gottlieb explore what permacrisis might have felt like in 1938?
- About Mass Observation and its archive
- Resources from the Appeasement workshops for pupils on 19 April 2023