{"id":1108,"date":"2020-03-24T11:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2020-03-24T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T11:40:53","slug":"free-historical-top-trumps-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/03\/24\/free-historical-top-trumps-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Free historical Top Trumps for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\">\n<p class=\"lead\">A new Top Trumps game, featuring historical figures from across the world, is available for free to UK schools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-body\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\">\n<p>The School of History\u00a0has collaborated with Winning Moves and the Age of Revolution project to create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ageofrevolution.org\/age-of-revolution-top-trumps-available-free-to-schools\/\"><strong>Top Trumps: Great Figures of the Age of Revolutio<\/strong>n<\/a>, a 30-character card game showcasing the diverse history, people, and ideas of the\u00a0Age of Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The card game is the result of a partnership between\u00a0the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ageofrevolution.org\/\">Age of Revolution<\/a> <\/strong>project\u00a0and the University of Kent, with\u00a0original artwork by \u2018Polyp\u2019\u00a0and a design by the\u00a0official Top Trumps franchise. As a pack, the cards convey the\u00a0drama, diversity, and the stakes at large\u00a0in the social and political contests that\u00a0gripped large parts of the world\u00a0in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Six thousand packs\u00a0are available to be sent, completely\u00a0free of any charge, to UK schools as part of the Age of Revolution innovation grant, a national education project looking to\u00a0foster greater interest in history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Top Trumps: Great Figures of the Age of Revolution\u2019 is aimed at\u00a0students aged between 9 and 16, who will be introduced to the historical figures through the cards\u2019 miniature profiles. Each includes a short biography and a series of scores for characteristics including:\u00a0political prowess, radicalism, legacy, and social status at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Its aim is to bring attention to the characters whose\u00a0lives and legacies reflect the upheavals\u00a0of the Age of Revolution between\u00a01775 and 1848. They come from Britain, Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and Africa, and include philosophers, poets, writers, politicians, and campaigners who\u00a0helped to shape\u00a0the major conflicts, reforms, and revolutions of the era.<\/p>\n<p>The deck was assembled by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\">University of Kent<\/a>\u00a0historian Dr Ben Marsh\u00a0following an international poll and consultation process. The figures\u00a0include many household names from the great revolutions of the age \u2013 including the American, French, Haitian, and 1848 uprisings, and\u00a0less familiar characters\u00a0who offer exciting prospects for\u00a0engagement in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/1473\/marsh-ben\">Dr Ben Marsh<\/a>\u00a0said: \u2018A balanced understanding of History is essential\u00a0not just in the classroom but beyond\u00a0it, which is why it is so fantastic for Winning Moves and Age of Revolution to have worked with us in creating and\u00a0delivering these to schools for free.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Top Trumps game, featuring historical figures from across the world, is available for free to UK schools. The School of History\u00a0has collaborated with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/03\/24\/free-historical-top-trumps-schools\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16742,1363],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}