Description:
A 'powerpoint' presentation looking at the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
Textbooks will normally have one or two images about the assassination - by using the internet one can find many more. Here is a sequence of slides - with no captions - that tell the story of 1914. They can be used in lots of different ways - jumble up the slides and ask pupils to sort them into an order; ask pupils to provide a commentary; a commentary from the 'Black Hand' perspective; from Austria's point of view; from Britain's point of view; or from a modern-day historians point of view. Ask them to question the validity of the images as evidence - which ones are reliable, which less so, and so on. The possibilities are indeed endless.
