Perhaps it is a mistake to put a picture of Neville Chamberlain next to this word. Covering the topic of the 1938 Munich Crisis is usually/often the main context on which students encounter this concept, and in the popular media and the statements of many politicians, it is often equated with cowardice, giving in, weakness, so pupils may think that appeasement is necessarily ‘a bad thing’ or a stupid policy. So as well as explaining appeasement as it operated in 1938, it can be helpful to explain to pupils that appeasement can sometimes be done intelligently and with benefits to both parties in a dispute (A.J.P Taylor mentions the Belgian Crisis of 1831-2 as one such example). In a conversation with our history PGCE students when I was at the London Institute of education, Martin Gilbert made the point that if there was never any use of the strategy of appeasement, there would be an awful lot of wars and conflicts. Anyway… some resources which might be of use or interest….