Is this the dullest ever topic for a project?

[BeeEm]

Britain since 1948.
Dull Dull Dull
can anyone convince me otherwise? or am i going to go stark staring mad trying to be enthusiastic about it to DD?
Also if anyone has already done this and wants to sell their LOs efforts I think i'd pay about a million pounds just to avoid doing it!
Can't we do something fun - such as circus training since 1973 or beaches i have visited.
And can anyone suggest a few days out linked with this? I usually use a school project as a really good excuse for an adventure out but am strugglin with the enormity of it all - and thats just me not DD!

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immigration
riots
festival of britain
rise of car culture

Think its just the hugeness of all those changes thats getting me - will have to get her to choose just a specific bit.
Maybe i should just leave her to it and stop being overinvolved?

Not dull at all!!
Winter of Discontent
Punk
Thatcherism
Monopoly of Supermarkets
Environmental Awareness

do a time line with a picture and a paragraph

The Beetles, Punk Rock, New Romantics, Mods and Rockers - brilliant stuff!

plagerise freely www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml

How about music? hippy festivals, punk, reggae etc? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Our Year 6 always do a fashion show for this topic - they make the clothes & have a catwalk show with powerpoint running on a screen behind with facts & pictures from each decade - and the appropriate music of course....

Coronation, Silver Jubilee, Golden Jubilee
Fashion, food, music, education, pastimes...

Huge choice of things to focus on. Our library has loads of (what seems to me) recent history books (How we lived in the 90s!)

Music and Fashion - hemlines up and down and up again

ooooh there a bookwww.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=1403948046

I remember my dd did music since the 1940's in GB.

66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:LcbWQ7NpKmoJ:www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/overview_1945_present_ 01.shtml+britain+%22from+1945%22+to+timeline&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk

this is toooooooooooooo easy

Oh so its just me thats struggl;ing then. am feeling more than a little dull and inadequate now!
so music, fashion it may be. cheers

What, "all the stuff that has happened in Britain over the last 60 years??" Dull???

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oral history - go and visit grandma and ask her about when she was little.

go to the V&A and look at the costume bit
and the Design Museum
and the Geffrye Museum

blimey, telephones in homes, mobile phones.
B+W TVs, colour TVs, cable TV, digital TV.
The internet!!!

I must admit it did sound boring when my DS came home with the very same topic last year. The next day he came home with "We need to do a project on any decade since 1948"

He did the 60s (England won some cup or another ) He really enjoyed doing it and I loved looking at the "stars of the sixties"

I won't be too bad once they get in to it. Honest

Id second the Geffrye Museum suggestion, its my favourite museum ever!!!

It really is a fabulous Museum, i found it by accident in a book called London for Free over 20 years ago. I love the gardens particularly the herb garden (which isnt open all the time) and the ambienece of the place. its an old Alms House and you can sit on the benches in the front and forget that there is a busy road roaring away only 15 yards away, for some reason i didnt even hear the traffic!

www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/

exciting topic. The lifetime fo their parents and grandparents. Of which the children know nothing