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Russia The novel in the classroom
A historical fiction that opens eleven centuries of British power — and the long quarrel between liberty and order. Built for secondary level, at the crossroads of history, language and civics.
Je fus le Roi — A British Soul is a forthcoming French-language novel; classroom materials are first developed for French and European curricula. Tell us your context below.
Power, from the inside
Where the textbook gives institutions, the novel steps into the antechambers of throne and Parliament: how a decision is made, how the office weighs on the one who holds it. History becomes embodied — and so, open to discussion.
Fiction meets History
The narrative crosses real kings, prime ministers and figures. Telling the documented from the imagined becomes a critical exercise: what is a source? What can fiction do — and what can it not?
Liberty and order
From Alfred the Great to today: Magna Carta, Parliament, the civil wars, empire, Brexit — a concrete way into the long, never-linear making of British liberties and into media literacy.
Narrative vs. source
Set an excerpt against a period document (Magna Carta, a royal or parliamentary address): what fiction adds, omits, interprets — and why.
The office and the person
Debate what a role demands and what it changes in the one who holds it. Does power change the person?
Writing workshop
Give voice to a consciousness that crosses a studied era: adopt an internal point of view, write History from within.
Liberty against order
Follow, century by century, the tension between liberty and order — a thread for thinking about how British rights were (unevenly) won.
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