Spartacus
Educational: Established in September 1997, the Spartacus Educational
website provides a series of history encyclopedias. Titles currently
include British History: 1750-1960, United States:
1840-1980, First World War, Second World War, Russia: 1860-1945, Germany:
1900-1945 and France: 1900-1945. Entries usually include a
narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each
entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopedia. In this
way it is possible to research individual people and events in great
detail. The sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to
find out about the writer, artist, newspaper and organization that
produced the material.
Ask
an Historian: Spartacus
Educational is now offering a new service to its visitors. In future
people will be able to ask a panel of experts questions about history.
The panel will include teachers, historians, authors and researchers
with expert knowledge of the period. Where possible, people with actual
experience of these events, will also join the panel. The following
sections are currently available: Life
and Death of John F. Kennedy, The Cold War, The Vietnam War, Nazi
Germany, Second World War, First World War, Womens History,
Black History, Spanish Civil War and History of Russia.
Schools
History: This website is authored
and maintained by Dan Moorhouse, Head of History at Laisterdyke High
School, Bradford. The site primarily offers content that is accessible
to students along with a range of lessons and quizzes to develop knowledge
and historical skills. At Key Stage 3 the site has developed large
sections on the Tudors, The Normans, the First World War and The Industrial
Revolution amongst other areas. Each area is supported by a range
of downloadable resources and teaching ideas that include assessment
materials, teaching methods for use with Gifted and Talented students
and worksheets for students. This website is NGFL and GEM approved.
History
Learning Site: This site is run by Chris Trueman, head of year
at Sackville Community College in East Grinstead, West Sussex. The
site contains comprehensive content on Medieval England, Tudor England,
Stuart England and the Industrial Revolution for Years 7 and 8 pupils.
The requirements for Year 9 - World War One, Important Inventions
of the Twentieth Century, the growth of women's rights in the Twentieth
Century and the Indigenous People of America are also covered. The
requirements for the GCSE Modern World History course are covered
in depth as are some aspects of the British Social and Economic course.
The site also contains a number of very detailed A level sections
including Luther, Calvin, Philip II of Spain, the French Wars of Religion,
the Thirty Years Wars and the Civil Rights movement of America 1945
to 1968.
Active
History: "Probably the best history website around"
is how the Guardian
recently described this site, which has been developed by Russel Tarr
of Wolverhampton Grammar School. Active History provides dozens of
self-contained interactive lessons for students and teachers of history
throughout the 11-18 age range, in the form of historical decision
making games, self-marking quizzes, virtual tours and summary slides.
Worksheets and lesson plans are continually being added, and the site
provides an excellent example of how ICT can effectively and simply
be incorporated into the history classroom.
SchoolHistory:
An award winning teacher-created website offering a plethora of resources
and materials for history teachers and pupils. Includes categorised
and reviewed internet links, interactive games, over 650 freely downloadable
worksheets and presentations, online lessons, interactive diagrams
and popular teacher and student forums. In addition to this, recent
developments allow history teachers to submit their own versions of
all the popular activities which can then be shared with the wider
teaching community - and downloaded for their own use.
History
on the Net: A website designed and produced by Heather Wheeler,
a History and Additional Needs teacher at Filsham Valley School, St
Leonards, East Sussex. The site is comprised of four main sections:
Subject information linked to the National Curriculum; lesson ideas
for use in the classroom, including complete one-hour online lessons;
a reference section with an A-Z of History, Timelines and links to
other History sites; and a games section with History quizzes, puzzles
and interactive activities. Recommended by the NGFL, National Curriculum
Online and The History Channel, History on the Net is an expanding
site which regularly posts new information and lesson ideas. Comments
and suggestions are always welcome.
Burnt
Cakes: Whiteboards seem to be the way forward for using ICT in
history - if you can't regularly get into the ICT suite, then bring
the ICT suite to your classroom! Combined with a data projector they
introduce a wide range of versatility into the way we can use technology
in an interactive way. The materials on Burnt Cakes are designed to
take full advantage of these opportunities. They do not replace the
teacher, but allow pupils and teachers to interact in a way that aids
learning. They encourage 'what if' questions, and help develop an
open approach to learning. Produced by practising teachers, these
are materials that work. Colleagues who have used them all agree,
these are quality resources that aid teaching and learning in the
classroom.
Learn
History is a
recently launched website by Dafydd Humphreys, Head of Humanities
at Stanley Technical School in London. It features a full revision
guide for the USA - A Divided Union, and exercises to revision notes
for Nazi Germany and Superpower Relations linked to Spartacus Educational
and History Learning Site. Revision guides to the American West and
Crime and Punishment are planned for the future.
Greenfield
Modern World History: John D. Clare's website includes topic mini-books:
'basics-only' texts on Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Road
to WWII, Cold War, Russia 1917-41 and Britain and World War II, with
links to allow deeper research. The website also contains coursework
materials on Haig and Votes for Women. The texts are available as
Microsoft Word files, for users to download and print as they want.
The website also features Revision Sheets (summaries of 'key facts
and ideas to remember' from the mini-books) and Exemplar Essays on
some 30 topics, each starting with a 150-word summary, and then offering
an 'unpacked' version of around 400 words.
Teachers'
Virtual School: History Department: The Teachers' Virtual School
History Department provides lessons for those teaching history in
the classroom. Lessons are listed under Key Stage and Topic. Teachers
are invited to send in details of any online history lessons they
have produced for their students. The website also includes sections
on History Online Resources, History Quizzes, Timelines, History Forums
and History Journals.
Teaching
History Online: Teaching History Online is a free monthly email
journal for anyone interested in using the internet to teach or study
history. The journal includes online news, reviews of websites and
articles on ICT history. Members will also be able to submit information
for inclusion in the newsletter. In this way Spartacus Educational
hopes to bring people together who are involved in using the internet
to teach history. You can subscribe to Teaching History Online by
sending an email to IwantHistory@keepAhead.com.
IST
Humanities Department: When the International School of Toulouse
opened in September 1999 it became Europe's first fully laptop computer
school. The public launch of the IST Humanities Department website
this week, offers the visitor a fascinating insight into how the nature
of education can change when students exchange pencil cases for keyboards.
The website is built and maintained by teachers Richard Jones-Nerzic
and Peter Flynn, but in addition to their teachers' core 'hypertext
curriculum', a significant proportion of the website is dedicated
to publishing the multimedia work of students. In a section entitled
'Websites for Learning', for example, the authors show how websites
can be used to allow students to build 'multiple-intelligence portfolios'
of their learning. Rather than the passive recipients of information,
students become active producers of content: even to the extent of
producing interactive assessment activities for other learners. The
authors are convinced that laptops and the Internet constitutes "the
most important development in the history of education since Guttenberg
told the monks to put their quills away"
Modern
World History: This site is designed for pupils aged 14 to 16
studying the topic to exam level. Topics covered are the Treaty of
Versailles; League of Nations; Weimar Germany; Nazi Germany; the Russian
Revolution; the era of Stalin; America in the 1920's; the New Deal;
Italy 1900 to 1939; the causes of World War Two; World War Two; the
Cold War and the use of evidence in History. There is also a link
page to other valuable sites.
SchoolHistory
Teachers Section: A newly redesigned area of schoolhistory.co.uk,
the teachers section provides a 'one-stop shop' for advice, resources
and practical help for all history teachers. Includes a 'case-studies'
section that provides explanations and suggestions written from teachers'
own experiences, a 'create your own' section that draws together the
interfaces that allow teachers to easily create their own ICT activities,
the downloadable resources section offering huge numbers of .pdf worksheets
and PowerPoint presentations together with a recently developed section
offering ideas for lesson starters and plenaries.
GCSE
History: Andy Walker's excellent website contains a large collection
of revision resources for students studying GCSE history. This includes
information on using historical sources, top revision tips and exam
practice. At the moment the website specializes on the subject of
medicine and features activities on Roman Public Health, Medieval
Public Health, Renaissance Medicine, Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner,
Surgery, Women in Medicine and Florence Nightingale.
Teacher
Oz's Kingdom of History: This website is a database of topically
organized internet resources for use by students, teachers, and history
lovers. The site first appeared online in 1997 and currently includes
over 100 separate topic pages. Founded on the premise that any topic
relating to humanity relates to history, many different topics are
featured that are not generally considered part of the history curriculum.
While Oz's Kingdom focuses on U.S. History, the site also includes
extensive areas on World History, Geography, Government, Art, Music,
Literature, Film, and Education. Tracey Osborn, a teacher in Texas,
USA and webmaster of the site, understands the importance of interdisciplinary
studies and also includes sections on Science, English, Philosophy,
and Math. The site is designed for easy navigation and includes helpful
links for parents and families.
British
Museum Virtual Tour: The All Souls British Museum Virtual Tour
is one of the oldest UK History Education websites. It has two tours
of Ancient Greek Artifacts + cross currciular resources linked to
the Literacy hour. Look in the different rooms and learn about the
everyday objects of Ancient Greece. There are many supporting teacher
resources such as the Greek Alphabet bingo in PDF format.
History
Schemes of Work: The British government's Standards Unit website
now contains a collection of schemes of work for history that can
be downloaded and edited by teachers. Topics include: Medieval Monarchs,
Medieval People in Town and Country?, The Medieval Church, Elizabeth
I, Islamic States 600-1600, Images of an Age, The Civil Wars, Glorious
Revolution, French Revolution, Industrial Changes, Mughal India, The
British Empire, Black Peoples of America, British Women and the Vote,
Holocaust, Twentieth Century Medicine and Scientific Discoveries.
History
Teachers' Discussion Forum: Extremely popular discussion forum
run in partnership with some of the leading teacher-created history
websites. Offers discussions on teaching, suggestions, ideas, trials
of ICT and history materials together with general help and friendly
advice on issues faced by history teachers today. The detailed calendar
shows up and coming history programmes on British TV. Anyone can access
the forum and a simple registration enables you to get involved. Popular
discussions have covered curriculum issues, GCSE questions, management
questions, lesson plan ideas, textbooks, training and ICT issues.
PBS
History:
PBS is a non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by 347 public
television stations in the United States. It also has one of the best
educational websites on the Internet. So far the PBS has produced
more than 135,000 pages of content. One of the joys of this website
is that it is willing to provide in-depth material on people in history
who are not as well known as they should be. This includes Joe Hill,
A. Philip Randolph, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Marcus Garvey, Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Richard Wright. Other topic covered include
America and the Holocaust, The Donner Party, John Brown's Holy War,
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy and Surviving the Dustbowl.
BUBL
History Reference Library:
BUBL Information Service, based at Strathclyde University Library,
is a searchable database of Internet resources of academic relevance.
The websites are organised by Dewey Decimal Classification and can
be searched by subject or class number. The history main page has
fourteen main categories that include: History Journals, World History,
Biography, Genealogy, History of the Ancient World, History of the
British Isles, History of Europe, History of Asia, History of Africa,
History of North America and History of South America. These provide
links to further categories. For example, the History of the British
Isles, is broken down into websites on Scotland, Ireland, Northern
Ireland, England and Wales. Each website listed has a brief review
with information on the people and organisations that have created
the website.
Jewish
Virtual Library: This website claims it is the most comprehensive
Jewish encyclopedia in the world. Created by the American-Israeli
Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), the website includes more than 6,000
articles. Divided into 13 sections such as History, Women, Politics,
Biography, Israel, Religion and Vital Statistics, the entries are
often illustrated by photographs and maps.
US
Air Force Museum:
The US Air Force Museum based in Dayton, Ohio, has produced an excellent
resource for anyone interested in the history of flight. The website
has been organised in a similar way to the museum. Eight galleries
display samples of aircraft from flight's earliest days to the latest
jet fighters. Each exhibit displayed includes a photograph, a history
of its development and technical details. There are also other galleries
on topics such as 'Engines', 'Weapons' and 'Equipment'. Video clips
are available in some of the galleries.
Victoria
Cross Website:
Created by Mike Chapman, the Victoria Cross website is dedicated to
the 1354 people who have been awarded this medal since 1856. There
are sections on all the military campaigns since the Crimean War.
The section on the First World War is particularly impressive and
visitors can access information about the 624 men who won the Victoria
Cross between 1914-18. This includes details of the deed and location
of the medal. Entries are also listed by regiment, rank, campaign
and nationality.
Famous
Trials:
Douglas O. Linder, professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas
City Law School, has created an outstanding website on famous trials.
Those covered so far include the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), Amistad
Trials (1839-40), Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868), Susan Anthony
Trial (1873), Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921), Scopes Monkey Trial (1925),
Scottsboro Trials (1931-37), Nuremberg Trials (1945-49), Rosenberg
Trial (1951), Mississippi Burning Trial (1967), Chicago Seven Conspiracy
Trial (1969-70) and the My Lai Court Martial (1970). Most of these
include background information on the case, biographies and photographs
of trial participants, trial transcript excerpt and articles from
newspapers that covered the trial.
St
Paul's Cathedral: An impressive website that enables you to take
a virtual tour of some of the amazing architecture of St Paul's Cathedral.
This includes six 360° panoramas: the High Alter and Quire, Centre
of the Cathedral, Chapel of St Michael and St George, the OBE Chapel,
Nelson's Tomb and the Great West Entrance. There is also a detailed
timeline of the history of the cathedral.
Royal
Genealogical Data: A database compiled by Brian Tompsett of the
University of Hull that contains the genealogy of the British Royal
family and those linked to it via blood or marriage relationships.
As Brian Tompsett points out in the introduction, this means it is
"the genealogy of almost every ruling house in the western world
because of the intermarriage that took place between them at some
time or another." The database includes details of over 21,000
individuals. The data is ordered alphabetically, by dates, by ruling
house and title.
St
Thomas Aquinas History Department: A set of history resources
for students and staff. All of the work that we do in KS3 and 4 is
notated along with images for students to revise and get additional
help with homework. Teachers can examine a sample of the lessons I
have available and they can download several for free use in their
schools. Additional information shows some of the work we are doing
along with specific advice for GCSE students.
Middle
East & Jewish Studies: Columbia University's collection of
Middle East Studies Internet Resources is an on-going compilation
of electronic bibliographic resources and research materials on the
Middle East and North Africa available on the Internet. The resources
are organized by region, country and subject. The scope of the collection
is research-oriented but it also provides access to other websites
with different or broader missions.
History
Today: History Today has been Britain's leading history magazine
since 1951 . Every issue brings you a compelling variety of articles
on a vast range of historical subjects. History Today puts most of
its content online and the latest edition includes articles on Afghanistan
in the 19th Century, Gerald L. K. Smith of the America First Committee,
Richard Trevithick's First Steam Carriage and Design in Tudor &
Stuart Britain.
BBC
History Magazine: This month's edition of the BBC History Magazine
includes several articles that attempt to help explain the terrible
events on 11th September. The magazine examines early terrorism, in
both East and West, as well as past conflicts in Afghanistan, the
targeting of civilians in modern war, and the career of the Byzantine
emperor who may have initiated the idea of the crusade as 'holy war',
with a possible impact on the Vikings. There is also an article by
Paul Kennedy who reflects on the historical impact on the attacks
on New York and Washington.
24
Hour Museum: This critically-acclaimed website guide to UK museums
and galleries, launched its newly designed site this week with a section
dedicated to teachers, offering information and support for schools
across the UK. The updated site offers teachers a curriculum navigator.
The database allows them to enter information such as subject and
key stage coding in order to supply them with suggested museums and
galleries. The search also gives details of educational facilities
and resources currently available. For example, if a teacher requests
appropriate information for 9 year olds studying Tudor history in
the North East region, the results will recommend relevant institutions.
Victorian
Books: The 19th century witnessed the economic, social, political
and cultural transformation of Britain. The printing and publishing
industry was caught up in this transformation, benefiting from the
application of power to the various stages of the manufacturing process,
but also able to exploit developments in other technologies, most
notably the railways and telegraphy. This website celebrates this
process with sections on printing technology, illustrations, lithography,
wood engraving, the novel, yellowbacks, penny dreadfuls and children's
books.
HistoryWorld
is a highly interactive site in which users can move back and forth
through time along interconnecting pathways. In 'What When Where'
they can discover contemporary events selected by time, place and
theme. Tours offer a two-speed navigational system from Big Bang to
the present. Illustrated Timelines (thirty of them relating to curriculum
subjects) provide ready-made surveys of the appropriate material.
Users of the sophisticated HistoryWorld database can also select images
and events to mix their own timelines. At any moment a single click
will bring up a narrative account of a selected event. There is also
Whizz Quiz, an addictive history quiz against the clock. And in HistoryClub
people can publish their own articles online. There are few educational
sites where pupils can become so actively involved in so many different
ways.
People's
Century: This website is a companion to People's Century, a 26-episode
television series broadcast on the BBC and PBS. The site contains
material of interest to a general audience, with special content for
teachers and students. The website includes a timeline, which shows
the relative time span of each episode and highlights significant
world events related to the topic. There is also a teacher's guide,
which provides discussion questions to help students in viewing the
programs, as well as classroom activity that focuses on a selected
programme segment.
The
History Net: Web 100 claims that the History Net is the highest
ranking history website on the Internet. The site's sections include
World History, American History, Civil War, Personality Profiles,
Great Battles, World War Two, Eyewitness Accounts, Great Battles of
the Ages, Arms, Armies and Intrigue, Historic Travel, Aviation &
Technology and Homes & Heritage. Other features include a Daily
Quiz, Today in History and Picture of the Day.
History
of the European Union: The European Union (EU) is the result of
a process of cooperation and integration which began in 1951 between
six countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the
Netherlands). After nearly fifty years, with four waves of accessions
(1973: Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom; 1981: Greece; 1986:
Spain and Portugal; 1995: Austria, Finland and Sweden), the EU today
has fifteen Member States and is preparing for its fifth enlargement,
this time towards Eastern and Southern Europe. This website provides
a history of the European Union and links to more detailed information
on the subject.
German-American
History & Heritage: An impressive collection of resources
to use when studying German immigration to the United States. The
website includes biographies of over 200 German-Americans, online
books and miscellaneous essays relating to German-Americans. The teaching
resources section includes materials on 'German Immigrant Culture
in America', 'Revolutionaries of 1848' and 'German-Americans and their
Contributions to American Mainstream Culture'.
The
History Guide:
Steven Kries has created this website for the high school and undergraduate
student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to
major in history in college. The purpose of he History Guide is to
prepare students for their history classes and to make their time
in class more enjoyable and proficient. The History Guide contains
more than seventy lectures in European history from ancient Sumer
to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989.
America
1900: Another wonderful website from the PBS organization. America
1900 presents a comprehensive picture of what life was like in the
United States at the turn of the century. The website site provides
images, information, and documents about 1900. Events covered include
African American Higher Education, African American Military Service,
The Boxer Rebellion, The Fight for Women's Suffrage, The Galveston
Hurricane, The General Allotment Act, Mining Disaster in Scofield,
Rise of Anarchism, The Sapho Affair and War in the Philippines.
Census
Online: The 1901 British census was posted on the internet on
the 1st January 2001. The Public Record Office says it will be invaluable
for people all over the world who want to trace their British ancestors.
Margaret Brennand, from the Public Record Office, said: "A huge
amount of work has gone into taking the original census forms, scanning
them, creating digital images and a comprehensive index to enable
people to search for more than 32 million individuals living in England
and Wales in 1901." The data, which has taken more than two years
to digitalise, is expected to be particularly popular with people
from overseas seeking to trace English and Welsh ancestors. A basic
search of the site will be free of charge but to download a census
image will cost 75p per page. The
initiative is part of the PRO's wider effort, Census Online, which
aims to digitise all the earlier censuses before 1901.
Life
of the People:
During his life the New York garment manufacturer, Ben Goldstein,
collected works that stirred his very personal interest in the city
of his birth, the American people, and the human condition during
the first half of the twentieth century. Goldstein assembled outstanding
holdings of works by creators who shared his social concerns. Among
these artists were women, African Americans, and the Mexican muralists
who were so influential at the time. Life of the People, created by
the Library of Congress, is an online exhibition of Goldstein's collection
of prints and drawings.
History
on the Web is a site of free resources for Modern History students
and teachers. It has over 100 student-friendly articles by first-rate
authors on key AS/A2 topics, carefully arranged to be a complete work
assignment. There are also topic guides, in-depth outlines of key
concepts, comments on exam answers and a 66 page History study guide
that has been used by the government to show the uses of the Internet.
The site has selected links (under constant development) to other
Modern History Internet sites. Simple to use, even for complete novices,
the site is fast and free except for two protected sections, the password
to which subscribers to new perspective - the leading AS/A Modern
History journal, receive the password.
Mr.
Wilson's History Website:
The Head of History at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Manchester
has produced a website where visitors can access his teaching resources.
This includes sections on Manchester in the Blitz and an A-Z of the
Second World War. There is also information and advice on GCSE History,
National Curriculum Levels, study skills, school trips and website
resources.
David
Hart's Home Page: David Hart believes that the use of IT in the
classroom encourages a shift in the focus of education away from the
top down method of delivery towards a more student-centred approach
to learning. He argues that: "With other sources of information
from all over the world available at the click of a mouse button,
there is much less need for the top down approach to learning and
teaching. Teaching then becomes more a process of assisting the student
to find material relevant to their research topic, helping them to
evaluate the information they find, and providing them with the opportunity
to present it in a form accessible to others." His website provides
information on his philosophy and includes examples of how he uses
technology to teach his students.
Lord
William's School: Still in it's early days, this site is produced
by members of the History Department at Lord Williams's School, Thame,
Oxfordshire. It is aimed at Lord Williams's students as a tool for
homework, with copies of resource sheets and revision quizzes for
all year groups from 7 to 13. It is particularly focused on GCSE students,
where the school follows the Edexcel SHP Syllabus (Medicine &
Weimar/Nazi Germany). The site also provides a clear summary of useful
links to other history sites, plus information about department activities
including trips, research and the newly-formed 6th Form History Society.
Students can take part in historical polls and can access email support
from a teacher. The site is evolving all the time in response to student
feedback, and links to the new Lord Williams's School site where students
can access further information related to their studies.
Stanley
Tech History Room: The History Room provides links to the best
school history sites in Britain, together with sites of interest to
students researching for coursework and homework. History heroes/heroines
are featured regularly to provoke the reader to learn more. Viewers
can nominate their own favourite historical characters for inclusion.
Linked to the History
Room are a growing number of pages dedicated to the various modules
of study - at present the American Indians, and shortly the Cold War.
Pupils history work is published in the Pupil Work pages, and student
achievements celebrated in the Honours page.
SHP
History Revision Site: This web site is designed specifically
for students of GCSE history schools history project offering free
online support to all students. Features found on the web site include;
online lessons, multiple choice revision tests, exam practice with
model markschemes, top revision tips and downloadable revision notes
and links out to numerous relevant history sites and other revision
sites. There is also an ask a teacher facility for students in difficulty.
All materials are authored by an SHP examiner.
ProQuest
History: This subscription service website is probably the most
comprehensive online resource of its kind, offering a vast and growing
collection of digitized materials. These include newspaper articles,
rare books, video clips and web links, plus a bookshelf of respected
reference titles and historical journals. Recent additions to the
service include schemes of work for Key Stage 3, student guides and
100 more widely studied curriculum topics.
Centre
for Study of Cartoon and Caricature: This site based at the library
of the University of Kent at Canterbury is an excellent location for
all those interested in the use of cartoons as historical sources.
In particular teachers will find the searchable database an excellent
resource for creating source-based questions. The database contains
a wide range of British cartoons from the First World War to the Gulf
War. This site is superb and it is worth taking a little while to
come to terms with a slightly idiosyncratic search engine (if you
are having trouble getting it to recognise keywords try using the
year of the event instead).
History
Gateway: This site is produced by Beal High School in Ilford and
aims to provide pupils with a resource for research, homework and
revision to use at home or at school. The site contains links to hundreds
of useful websites (some of which have been reviewed in this newsletter).
Pupils will find it especially useful that the sites are organised
into National Curriculum topics, and the areas of the OCR GCSE Modern
World Syllabus. Many of the sites have been reviewed and given 'star',
'recommended' or 'hard site' ratings to help pupils choose the most
suitable sites.
The
Dating Game: Russel Tarr of Active History has created a new website
for students revising for exams. Called the Dating Game, it gives
you two minutes to guess the dates of as many historical events on
your chosen topic as possible. An incorrect guess will result in being
told to guess 'higher!' or 'lower!' whilst a correct guess improves
the quality of your 'date' for the evening!
Weatherhead
High School: A departmental web site created and maintained by
the History staff at Weatherhead High School in Wallasey. It has been
produced so that pupils can have access to downloadable homework and
classwork sheets, PowerPoint presentations, useful website links and
a vast number of History diagrams, clip art and revision sheets. These
resources can also be of use for the sharing of good practice between
History departments throughout the Wirral and even Britain. One of
the most used sections of the website is the 'Ask a Teacher' section
which many of our pupils find extremely useful after school hours.
School
History Revision: A new section of Andrew Field's excellent School
History website is designed to help pupils revise for their history
exams. The website covers four topics in detail (World War I, USA
1929-41, Superpower Relations and Impact of war 1900-50) together
with useful links for other areas. The revision section includes innovative
new revision diagrams where pupils can revise and recap essential
information. A blank diagram is shown on screen - pupils can type
in their own notes and print out the results. Extensive help is automatically
available to complete the diagrams. Pupils can either use this as
a recap and revision aid or to learn additional information.
Greater
Manchester County Record Office collects historical archives relating
to the history of Greater Manchester. The collections cover a wide
variety of material such as medieval documents on parchment, eighteenth
century court martial records, business records, newspapers, maps
and much more. The website includes an education pack that can be
accessed online. The pack is ideal for courses on Victorian England.
It includes original sources, with questions and activities designed
to stimulate learning.
Humbul
Humanities Hub: Humbul helps humanities professionals access relevant
online resources. Employing a distributed network of subject specialist
cataloguers across the UK, the Humbul Humanities Hub, based at the
University of Oxford, is building a catalogue of evaluated online
resources that enables teachers, researchers and students to find
resources that make a difference. A suite of personalised services
My Humbul has been developed to aid users in their search
for quality online resources. Registered users (registration is free)
may take advantage of an alerting service that will notify users by
email when new records have been added to Humbul that match their
search criteria. Users are able to select records from Humbul, add
their own annotations, and export the data in the form of a few lines
of html to add to their webpage. Whenever anyone visits their webpage
it will dynamically retrieve the selected records from Humbul.
Schwab
History Writings: Two historic essays resulting from Helmut Schwab's
encounter with new or unique source material. One essay presents a
biographical sketch of the multifaceted personality and turbulent
life of Henry Villard, 1835-1900; the great journalist, railway builder,
industrialist, and abolitionist. Some of the new source material is
important, some is interesting, and some is amusing to read. The other
essay presents a critical analysis of source material available as
records from the Paris Peace Conference 1919 - the "Papers of
Woodrow Wilson", the official minutes issued by the secretary,
Hankey, and the notes kept by the French interpreter, Mantoux. No
one source is complete or fully correct, as a partial word-by-word
comparison demonstrates.
The
American Revolution: Rick Brainard is an independent scholar and
a member of the American Historical Association. His main historical
area of interest is 18th century history with a special emphasis on
Colonial America. Brainard's The American Revolution: The Struggle
for Independence website directory provides
internet resources, original essays, documents and more information
about the topic.
Political
Cartoonists: A website that contains the biographies and work
of 152 cartoonists who have commented on important political and social
issues over the last 300 years. Artists featured include Cornelia
Barnes, George Cruikshank, Victor Deni, Will Dyson, Daniel Fitzpatrick,
James Gillray, Olaf Gulbransson, Thomas Heine, Joseph Keppler, Rollin
Kirby, John Leech, Robert Minor, Thomas Nast, Louis Raemaekers, Boardman
Robinson, John Tenniel, Eduard Thony, F. W. Townsend, Boris Yefimov
and Philip Zec.
Red
Gold: A companion website to the new four-part PBS mini series
Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood looks at
the facts and myths about blood and its impact on everything from
religion and medicine to commerce and popular culture throughout history.
An interactive timeline charts major moments in the history of blood,
including the first blood transfusion, conducted by the French doctor
Jean- Baptiste Denis in 1667; the discovery of blood types; the Spanish
Civil War, when blood was first collected, refrigerated and carried
into battle; the story of Charles Drew, the American in charge of
the World War II Plasma for Britain campaign who was barred by the
U.S. Army from donating his own blood because he was black; and the
emergence of AIDS and mad cow disease.
Historia
de España: This web site has been created and maintained
by Juan Carlos Ocaña, history teacher in a High School in Madrid.
It has been produced so that students, teachers and everybody else
interested in 20th century history can have access to several sorts
of resources. There are online lessons on First World War and the
Treaties of Peace, International Relations during the Interwar Period,
European Integration Process and European Citizenship and Women's
Suffrage Movement and Feminism, 1789-1945. The online lessons provide
historical texts, chronologies, glossaries, biographies, collections
of selected links and different activities on texts, maps, statistics
and images. The online lessons and the rest of the contents are in
Spanish, although an English and Portuguese version of the European
Integration Process and European Citizenship lessons are available.
Virtual
Museum: Using original documents, images, and film from the Public
Record Office's 1000 year old collection, the 'Virtual Museum' provides
a showcase for some of the treasures at the PRO. Visitors can explore
everything from Famous Names to Crime & Punishment, and from War
& Defence to Kings & Queens. They can find out surprising
facts about famous people - including William Shakespeare, Robin Hood
and Sir Elton John - as well as the extraordinary feats of ordinary
people. Explore each century of the last millennium in the 'Millennium
Galleries' and find out more about
the most famous documents at the PRO in the 'Icons' galleries.
Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History: This website was designed
and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12
schools and colleges and is supported by the Gilder Lehrman Institute
and the College of Education at the University of Houston. The materials
on this website include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated
documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont
Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican
American and Native American history, and US political, social, and
legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity,
private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference
resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links,
classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including
speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds
of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature
allows users to pose questions to professional historians.
Best
of History Web Sites: Designed for history educators and students,
Best of History Web Sites is a useful portal that provides convenient
access to many of the best history resources online. The portal provides
descriptions and ratings of hundreds of excellent history-oriented
web sites, all organized into ten main categories: Prehistory, Ancient
History, Medieval History, US History, Early Modern European History,
20th Century History, World War II History, Art History, General History
Resources, and Maps. There are also three special categories: Lesson
Plans/Activities, Multimedia, and Research. Best of History Web Sites
also contains a special informative section on Teaching With Technology
that offers articles and advice about integrating computers in the
classroom. In this section you will also find links to dozens of useful
resources on educational technology.
History
Channel Website: The
online accompaniment of the excellent UK History Channel, this website
provides a comprehensive history resource for both student and enthusiast
alike. Visitors can listen to history's greatest speeches, re-live
battles blow by blow with the animated battle guides, find events
and exhibitions in their local area, or test their knowledge with
the history quiz. The debate chamber is a popular place for regulars
to voice their opinion, and for students "The History Study Stop"
is the place to go to make revision fun.
History
Buff: This website, developed by the Newspaper Collectors Society
of America, provides articles on major, and not so major, events in
history. For example, there is a series of articles published on the
Jack the Ripper case. The website also includes a Historic Voices
Library where you can hear the voices of famous people. Other features
includes a Presidential Library, Interactive Quizzes and Online Auctions.
History
of Hinchingbrooke House: This website not only provides a history
of the Country House of the Earls of Sandwich but a history of the
site from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, a history of its inhabitants
- from prioresses and nuns through the landed gentry to schoolmasters
- and a microcosm of English history from 600
AD to the present day. The website is designed for the teaching of
history, with work tasks on every page, and shows the links between
on the one hand a particular building and its inhabitants and on the
other the broad sweep of English history. Hinchingbrooke House is
the sixth form centre for Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon.
CasaHistoria
is the History website of Northlands School, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This English language web is designed to offer links to History sites
connected with IB, GCE and GCSE syllabuses in 20th century history.
It has been developed by the Department over a three year period,
is very extensive and offers outlines of each included site along
with its value as a source of information. It was intended primarily
as a tool for Northlands students, but is increasingly being accessed
by a wider audience at university, A level and IB. It also includes
useful links to Latin American history in the 20th century.
Sharon
Howard's History Resources: Sharon Howard is a PhD student in
the Department of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. Her collection of links are organized under the following
topics: Welsh History and Culture, Britain and Ireland, Crime, Punishment
and Law, Women and Gender History and General History Resources. You
can also read the outline of Howard's PhD, 'Crime, Community and Authority
in Early Modern Wales'.
Scholars'
Guide to the WWW: A directory website produced by Richard Jensen,
Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Sections include: History: General, History: USA, History Departments,
Ethnic Studies, Demography & Ethnicity, Humanities, Libraries,
Bibliographies, Online Magazines & Books and Online Maps.
History
Books Online: Naomi Symes Books is a bookselling service to academics,
collectors and enthusiasts in the field of social history and women's
history. It supplies out-of-print, antiquarian and in-print titles
to individual customers and academic institutions worldwide. Over
the summer months, the website has been making improvements to its
online booksearch to allow for easier, more informed browsing. This
means that in addition to its fast search facility, which pinpoints
specific books, the visitor is presented with a range of options related
to your likely interests.
Absolute
Facts: True stories about people and events that changed the life
of mankind. Recent additions include articles on Alfred Nobel, Edvard
Grieg, Vincent van Gogh, Adolf Hitler, Elvis Presley and Marilyan
Monroe. The material is organised into the following categories: Architecture,
Arts, Celebrities, History, Inventions, Literature, Movies, Classical
Music, Pop Music, Organizations, Politicians, Transportation and World
War II.
English
Civil War: Easily the best website so far created on the English
Civil War. The site includes a collection of timelines: Parliament
and Constitution 1640-60, The First Civil War 1640-46, The Second
Civil War 1647-49, The Third Civil War 1649-51, The Commonwealth 1649-53,
Cromwell's Protectorate 1654-58 and The Restoration 1659-60. There
is also twenty-four biographies of leading figures in the conflict
and descriptions of sixty-two battles and sieges.
Studs
Terkel: Oral History: Produced by the Chicago Historical Society,
this website looks at the life and work of Studs Terkel, one of the
world's most important oral historians. Organized into galleries that
are largely centered around the extensive interviews that Mr. Terkel
did for his books, Division Street, Hard Times, The Good War, Race
and Talking to Myself. Each gallery contains dozens of audio clips
of these interviews. The website also contains a multimedia interview
with Studs Terkel, featuring him talking about his books, writing
oral history, and documenting everyday life in the United States.
Guardian
Century: "The maiden voyage of the White Star liner Titanic,
the largest ship ever launched, has ended in disaster. The Titanic
started her trip from Southampton for New York on Wednesday. Late
on Sunday night she struck an iceberg off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
By wireless telegraphy she sent out signals of distress, and several
liners were near enough to catch and respond to the call. Conflicting
news, alarming and reassuring, was current yesterday. Even after midnight
it was said all the passengers were safe. All reports, of course,
depended on wireless telegrams over great distances." That is
the way the Manchester Guardian opened its account of the sinking
of the Titantic on 16th April, 1912. This excellent website contains
hundreds of important articles that have appeared in the Guardian
during the 20th Century.
HyperHistory
is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world
history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines,
timelines, and maps. As the author, Andreas Nothiger, points out the
"synchronoptic concept depicts a full panorama of history in
such a way that it will appeal to a cultivated public at large. A
true picture of the world would be incomplete if it equates history
with the history of wars and politics and neglects all other aspects
of life. The addition of scientific, cultural and religious facts
and events are therefore a key to a fundamental knowledge of society."
Over 2,000 files are interconnected throughout the site. In addition
to that HyperHistory provides several hundred links to the world wide
web. The growing site itself contains presently over 50 MB of images
and text files, but individual files are kept small enough to allow
for a quick display.
Play
Your Dates Right!: This new game from Active History tests historical
knowledge by inviting students to choose a topic area and then presenting
them with a series of shuffled 'cards'. They then have to determine
whether the event described on each new card happened before or after
the one to its left. Visitors are invited to submit their own topics
in a timeline format which Russel Tarr will be happy to convert for
use in the game!
Web
of English History: Marjie Bloy has been a history teacher since
1968. This website began life as a project at the University of Sheffield
and then grew into a resource for people studying British history
between 1830 and 1850. Currently it is being extended to include the
period 1760-1830. The website has sections on Political Personalities,
Tory Governments, American Affairs, Popular Movements, Irish Affairs,
Political Organizations, French Wars and Economic Affairs.
Crime
and Punishment: This local history website was created by Powys
County Archives with the help of the county museums and libraries
in the area. Subjects covered include Religion, Education and Poverty.
The Crime and Punishment section provides a large collection of primary
sources on the way in which offenders were dealt with by the authorities
in the counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire in
earlier times.
Tag
TeacherNet: TagTeacherNet is an online arena for the teaching
community. The website allows teachers to share news, views, resources
and advice. The history section provides links to Associations, Events,
Journals, Learning Resources, Lesson Plans, Maps, Revision, Suppliers,
Teaching Resources, Timelines and Virtual Museums.
Schools
History Project: The present Schools History Project is the successor
to the project funded by the Schools Council in 1972 for "History
13-16". The project suggested that: "Many teachers would
find helpful a project which would provide stimulus, support and materials
to help them revitalise their own practice in general and more particularly
help them to encourage more pupil participation in their study of
History." The Project began initially at the University of Leeds
and transferred to Trinity & All Saints College in 1979, where
it has been based ever since. The SHP website includes resources for
an in-depth study of the American west and the US Cavalry.
Turning
the Pages is an award-winning interactive display system developed
by The British Library to increase public access and enjoyment of
some of its most valuable treasures. Visitors are able to virtually
"turn" the pages of manuscripts in an incredibly realistic
way, using touch-screen technology and animation. They can zoom in
on the high quality digitized images and read or listen to notes explaining
the beauty and significance of each page. There are other features
specific to the individual manuscripts - in the Leonardo notebook,
for example, a mirror button turns the text round so visitors can
try to read his famous mirror handwriting. There are currently nine
treasures on display in Turning the Pages; the Lindisfarne Gospels,
the Diamond Sutra, the Sforza Hours, the Leonardo Notebook, the Golden
Haggadah, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, the Sherborne
Missal and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an.
Pilgrims
in American Culture: Each fall, Plimoth Plantations Research,
Education and Public Relations departments receive thousands of telephone
calls and letters, all asking the same question: "What was the
First Thanksgiving really like?" The answer is more
complicated than you might first think. Most of what we know about
the 1621 event comes from the first-hand accounts of Governor William
Bradford and Master Edward Winslow, leaders of the young colony. Other
facts can be gleaned by studying English harvest home traditions,
available foodstuffs and cooking techniques, Separatist religious
practices and 17th-Century English social patterns and customs. Here
is a collection of information on all these subjects, prepared by
Plimoth Plantation museum staff to answer the questions of students,
teachers, religious organizations and community groups. It responds
to the most frequently asked questions about the First Thanksgiving
and is intended to serve as your guide to re-creating the original
17th-Century event.
History
20: This website has been produced to support the Saskatchewan
Social Studies Curriculum. Each page has been developed to act as
a "resource hot sheet" dealing with topics identified in
the History 20 curriculum. The resource hot sheets can act as a primary
or secondary reading, or to assist in classroom discussions of a variety
of topics. Each page has been supported with appropriate visual images,
and where possible, first person accounts by individuals who were
present during the event. In addition, a number of multimedia-learning
objects have been place including sound bites, mini - movies and flash
items.
Political
Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political
biography, listing 107,137 politicians, living and dead. The coverage
of the site includes certain federal officials, state office holders
and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party
officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates
at election for mayor) of qualifying cities. The listings are incomplete
as the development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Passmores
History Department:
This website is designed to serve both students at Passmores Comprehensive
School in Harlow in Essex, as well as teachers delivering the National
Curriculum more generally. The site is an ongoing project started
in July of 2002 by Stephen Drew, Head of History at Passmores. The
site has (or will have) pages for every lesson taught in Key Stage
3 at Passmores. Students are able to use these pages to reinforce
learning from the lesson, get help with their homework or extend their
learning. It is also possible for students to catch up missed lessons
via the website. As well as this however there is a section of the
site for other teachers. All of the resources used by Passmores History
Department are uploaded to the site, including detailed lesson plans.
All of this work is ongoing with a target of completion at Key Stage
3 of July 2003. Key Stage 4 will then be developed in the school year
2003-2004.
Oral
History: Someone
once said that every time a person dies a library is destroyed. Everyone
has a story to tell about their life which is unique to them. Regardless
of age or importance we all have interesting experiences to share.
The collection of oral accounts is the best way of preserving information
about the past. This website, run by the Oral History Society, provides
some good practical advice on how to start an oral history project.
Life
in the Whitehouse: The White House is more than 200 years old
and its next door neighbor, the West Wing, is celebrating its 100th
birthday this year. Learn about the White House and the people who
have lived there through these activities and games.
Country
Reports: This website has over 1,500 pages of information about
every country in the world. As well as covering issues such as economy,
government, armed forces, geography it also includes a detailed history
of the country. Other features include flags, national anthems, exchange
rates and current weather.
GCSE
History Pages: A website produced by history teachers at the Dartford
Technology College. A revision site for GCSE Schools History project
students it has been online for 18 months and is steadily growing.
It's main features include interactive tests and quizzes, revision
tips, practice exam papers with mark-schemes for self assessment,
revision notes and structured lessons. It also has an ask a teacher
facility which is open for anyone to use.
Jamestown
and the Virginia Experiment: The Virtual Jamestown Archive is
a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the
legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."
Jamestown Interactive highlights some of the newest project development
at Virtual Jamestown. For example, using John Smith's maps and records
as a guide, they have put together Flash maps of the Chesapeake area,
allowing users to interact with Smith's voyages in a new way.
Archiving
Early America: The main focus at Archiving Early America is primary
source material from 18th Century America - all displayed digitally.
Using original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings, the website
covers subjects the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill
of Rights, Famous Obituaries, The Lives of Early Americans, Portraits
and Notable Women Of Early America.
Hostetler's
Social Studies Website: After
23 years of teaching social studies at the 8th grade level, Ned Hostetler
is now in his third year of teaching senior Government at Orrville
High School in Ohio. His website was created to help his students
find information. The site is divided into the following categories:
Current Events, Government, General References, Military History (French
and Indian War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812), Ohio Frontiersmen
and Indians, Colonial Times and Museums.
CHCC
Project: Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, a
team of UK academics is developing the collection of Historical and
Contemporary Census data and related Materials (CHCC) into a major
learning and teaching resource. The project team is working to increase
the use of census datasets in learning and teaching by improving accessibility
to the primary data resources which are also being enhanced through
adding and linking other information. The team is developing resource
discovery tools via a Census portal which will provide access to an
integrated set of learning and teaching materials for teachers and
students (including tutorials, exercises and exemplar-based studies)
relating to a number of subject disciplines.
Accessing
Scotland's Past: The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is currently running a project entitled
'Accessing Scotland's Past'. The project is a one year pilot project,
funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, exploring online access to archaeological
sites and historic buildings in two pilot areas of Scotland. RCAHMS
records and interprets the rich variety of sites and monuments and
buildings which together make up Scotland's built heritage. At the
heart of the NMRS lies the Architecture and Archaeology Collections.
These encompass a rich variety of material, including photographs,
aerial photographs, books and periodicals, site reports and archives,
maps, architectural drawings and models.
British
History: The About network consists of hundreds of Guide sites
neatly organized into 23 channels. The sites cover more than 50,000
subjects with over a million links to the best resources on the Net
and the fastest-growing archive of high quality original content.
The material is organized under the headings such as: Agricultural
Revolution, British Empire, Wars, Historical Maps, Foreign Policy,
Industrial Revolution, Ireland Monarchy, Normans, Political Reform,
Prime Ministers, Reformation, Roman Britain, Saxons, Scotland, Social
Reform, Transport Revolution, Tudor England and Vikings.
American
Revolution: This website, Liberty, produced by KTCA-TV and Middmarch
Films, provides a collection of resources on the American Revolution.
It begins in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and ends with
the creation of the Constitution. It includes Chronicle of the Revolution
(a potpourri of information on the American Revolution), Perspectives
on Liberty (daily life in the Colonies, military information) and
the Road to Revolution (a game that can be used in the classroom).
House
of Lords: When the Labour Party was elected to power in 1997,
it promised to introduce legislation that would make the House of
Lords an elected second chamber. However, Tony Blair, the prime minister
changed his mind and last week called for a fully appointed House
of Lords. On 4th February, 2003, the House of Lords voted for this
measure (335 votes to 110) but it was defeated in the House of Commons
(323 votes to 245) . This Guardian website includes a large collection
of articles on the various attempts to reform the House of Lords.
Airline
History: This website on Airline History has been produced by
Sarah Ward, a former commercial pilot. The Airline History Website
has two main parts: Airlines ( listed from A to Z) Aircraft (listed
by decade) There are also special feature topics covering Paper Planes
(aircraft that never flew), London's Airports (decade by decade),
Supersonic Airliners, Flying-boat Airliners and National airline histories.
Peace
Pledge Union: Educational materials produced by the Peace Pledge
Union. Subjects covered include Pacifism, Conscientious Objection,
Conscription, First World War Christmas Truce, Treaty of Versailles,
Armistice Day, Just War, War and the Environment, Poetry and War,
Landmines, Arms Trade, Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons. The
website also includes biographies of peace campaigners such as Vera
Brittain, Dick Sheppard, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Siegfried Sassoon,
Fenner Brockway, George Lansbury and Albert Einstein.
The
Illustrated Enemy: This website looks at graphic depictions of
national leaders and military and civilian life, as illustrated by
artists both before and during World War I. These images were originally
published in magazines, books, posters and postcards. The artists
are French, German, Italian, Dutch, British and American. Many are
unabashedly patriotic, even jingoistic; others are just as firmly
anti-war.
Scottish
History Online: The Scottish History Club was originally formed
during 2001 to allow visitors who have a serious interest in Scottish
History to be able to interact with each other and share their knowledge,
research, theories, photographs and general enthusiasm for Scottish
History with others within a website that was password protected.
The Club has basically two elements the Club Web Site
and the Club Community Site. The Community is by far more
interactive with the ability to post your own images, contributions
and have online discussions with other members, whether in the chat
room or posted up on the site.
Local
History Trail: Take part in the National Grid for Learning's local
history trail and explore the people, places and events that have
made your community what it is today. The trail features online activities
to show you how to get started in local history, how to explore further
and how to use the internet to help you discover the past. You can
try out your new skills by investigating the history of your local
area - and return to the trail to share your discoveries with others
in the online gallery. Everyone who sends in a contribution will be
entered into a prize draw to win a year's family membership of either
English Heritage, Historic Scotland or Heritage in Wales.
The
Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History Online, a partnership initiative
between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress
in support of their strategies in lifelong learning, made possible
through a grant from the New Opportunities Fund as part of their NOF-Digitise
programme. Trade unions have played, and will continue to play, a
decisive role in shaping economic and social developments in Britain
- yet much of their history is at present unknown and inaccessible
to the public. This site provides a dynamic new resource allowing
us to connect with the working lives of our predecessors, helping
to analyse historical developments and to build for the future. The
site consists of five learning resources, which will be released in
phases throughout 2003. At present you can take a journey through
150 years of labour history with our Timeline, or learn about the
Match Workers strike in 1888. Future developments will include the
full manuscript of the novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
an archive of material from the General Strike of 1926 as well as
every TUC Report from 1868-1968.
The
Monarchy: Apparently Queen Victoria had her own spin doctor, or
court newsman as he was known. Negatives of pictures taken by the
society photographer Alexander Bassano in 1882 show the marks of "retouching,
slimming down the ample waistline, removing wrinkles, adding hair
and drawing in the regal profile to produce a statuesque but trimmer
figure." This interesting article by Stephen Bates on Victorian
Media Manipulation can be found in the Guardian's new website devoted
to articles on the monarchy.
History
Timelines: A collection of history timelines produced by classroom
teachers. Subjects covered include the Romans, Alfred the Great, Normans
and Plantagents, Crusade, Francis Drake, William the Conqueror, Tudors
& Stuarts, American Revolution, French Revolution, Railways, 20th
Century Inventions, First World War (4), Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany,
Second World War (6), the Holocaust, Cold War and Europe 1945-1990.
British
Timelines: This BBC websites provides a collection of timelines
on British History: Neolithic and Bonze Ages (8300-750 BC), Iron Age
(751 BC - AD 42), Roman Britain (AD 43 - 409), Invaders (410-1065),
Anglo-Normans (1066-1215), The Middle Ages (1216 - 1347), Late Medieval
(1348 - 1484), Tudors (1485 - 1602), Stuarts (1603 - 1713), Georgians
(1714 - 1836), Victorians (1837 - 1900), Early 20th Century (1901
- 1944) and Post WWII (1945 - 2002).
Historians:
A collection of short biographies of famous historians. People covered
include Herbert Aptheker,
Charles Bean, Charles Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Teresa Billington-Greig,
Marc Bloch, Arna Bontemps, Alan Bullock, Thomas Carlyle, G. D. H.
Cole, Margaret Cole, Robert Conquest, Isaac Deutscher, William DuBois,
Friedrich Engels, E. Franklin Frazier, Barbara Hammond, J. L. Hammond,
William Hazlitt, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, Ralph Miliband,
Eric Hobsbawn, Stetson Kennedy, Harold Laski, John Morley, A. L. Morton,
Harold Nicolson, Sylvia Pankhurst, Roy Porter, Eileen Power, George
Rudé, Raphael Samuel, Victor Serge, James Silver, David Shub,
A. J. P. Taylor, Richard Tawney, E. P. Thompson, Arnold Toynbee, George
M. Trevelyan, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, Ida Wells
and Howard Zinn.
Crime
and Punishment: In the years after 1660 the number of offences
carrying the death penalty increased enormously, from about 50, to
160 by 1750 and to 288 by 1815. You could be hanged for stealing goods
worth 5 shillings (25p), stealing from a shipwreck, pilfering from
a Naval Dockyard, damaging Westminster Bridge, impersonating a Chelsea
Pensioner or cutting down a young tree. This series of laws became
known as "The Bloody Code." This Public Record Office website
takes a close look at why the Bloody Code passed by parliament.
Political
Ideas and Concepts: This website provides a clear explanation
of key political ideas including anarchism, capitalism, colonialism,
communism, conservatism, democracy, fascism, feminism, individualism,
liberalism, marxism, nationalism, pluralism, social democracy, socialism,
zionism. Key political concepts such as anarchy, authority, equality,
globalisation, liberty, power, state power and totalitarian are also
defined.
Air
Mail Pioneers: This website is dedicated to the men and women
of the U.S. Air Mail Service, a little-remembered organization that
laid the foundation for commercial aviation worldwide. With the cooperation
of the US Air Service, the US Post Office flew the mail from 1918
until 1927. Air Mail Service pilots are the unsung heroes of early
aviation. In their frail Curtiss Jennies and postwar de Havillands,
they battled wind, snow, and sleet to pioneer round-the-clock airmail
service along the world's longest air route, the US transcontinental.
In the process, thirty-four pilots lost their lives.
Historical
Anecdotes: After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the American people rallied
around their president. Indeed Kennedy's popularity rating was never
higher, with eighty-two percent expressing their approval. Kennedy
himself was dumbfounded. "My God!" he exclaimed one day.
"It's as bad as Eisenhower. The worse I do, the more popular
I get!" This is one of the thousands of historical anecdotes
that can be found on this fascinating website.
What
is History?: This website looks at books, reviews and websites
which examine the nature of history and assess the changes in historical
method and practice which have occurred over the last forty years.
It includes articles by Paul Addison, Maxine Berg, David Cannadine,
Richard J. Evans, Arthur Marwick, Alun Munslow, Patrick O'Brien, Diane
Purkiss and James Vernon.
History
of Economic Thought: This website is a repository of collected
links and information on the history of economic thought, from the
ancient times until the modern day. It is designed for students and
the general public, who are interested in learning about economics
from a historical perspective.
Historical
Atlas of the Twentieth Century: An impressive collection of historical
maps can be found on Matthew Hope's outstanding website. Many of these
maps are interactive. If you click on a place, you might zoom in and
get more detail. Similarly, if you click on the legend to a map, you
might get a more detailed explanation of the topic. Clicking on the
Contemporary Context button bar will zoom out to show what's happening
in the world at this time in a specific field of human activity. The
icons symbolize Cities, Government, War, International Relations,
Living Conditions and Economics. Although the atlas is non-linear
in overall design, its backbone is probably the series of maps illustrating
national political systems, so this is probably the best place to
start if you have no particular topic you're curious about.
Historical
Atlas of Europe: The maps on this site give you an overview of
the political changes that have shaped the map of Europe for the last
350 years. Every map is accompanied by a text that explains the changes
and developments that have taken place over the years. There is a
section about the unifications of Germany and Italy in the nineteenth
century. A recent addition concerns the former Yugoslavia. It includes
texts on the wars that took place there in the 1990's, with an ethnographic
sketch of that country to improve insight in the rather complicated
intrigues that have taken place there over the last ten years. Also
maps on the growth and decline of that nation have been added.
History
Online: This website is being developed by the Institute of Historical
Research (IHR). History Online provides high-quality information resources
for the teaching and learning of history. There are currently over
40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university
lecturers, UK current and past research, and evaluated links to web
sites and online resources. Material can be located via title and
author searches, or by historical theme, place, and period.
Interactive
Games:
Learning history doesn't have to be all about reading textbooks and
watching drab documentaries. At the ActiveHistory website interactive
games add a completely new dimension to history studies. Subjects
covered include the Murder of Archbishop Becket, Bayeux Tapestry,
William Rufus, Henry VIII, Medieval Time Machine, Coalbrookdale, Home
Front, Victorian Entrepreneur, Emily Davison, Bolshevik Revolution,
Wall Street Crash, Adolf Hitler, Weimar Republic and the League of
Nations.
Prime
Ministers in History: There have been 51 British Prime Ministers
since 1721. These figures include some of the most influential and
interesting figures in British history. At this 10 Downing Street
website you will find a biography and interesting facts about each
Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to Tony Blair. More interesting
and bizarre facts about past Prime Ministers can be found at the Prime
Ministerial record breakers section.
Malaria:
Malaria was first identified by the Ancient Romans. The name derived
from the bad-smelling air that hung like a miasma over the city in
the summer months and the disease was thought to be spread by breathing.
The disease is caused by a parasite that is transferred to humans
by a mosquito bite. Malaria is therefore a problem for people living
close to marshes. The disease can be removed from an area by draining
the land. The cause of malaria was discovered in 1880 and this has
enabled successful drugs to be developed against the disease. However,
someone still dies of malaria every 15 seconds. This website provides
everything you could ever want to know about this disease.
Abdication
Crisis of Edward VIII: During the spring of 1936 the king's relationship
with Wallis Simpson was reported in the foreign press. The prime minister,
Stanley Baldwin, instructed the British press not to cover this story
and urged the king to consider the constitutional problems of marrying
a divorced woman. The problem for Edward was that as king he was also
head of the Church of England, which did not allow a divorced person
to remarry while their (former) spouse was still living, and Mrs.
Simpson's first two husbands were still alive. The government was
also aware that Wallis Simpson was in fact involved in other sexual
relationships. This included a married car mechanic and salesman called
Guy Trundle and Edward Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster. More importantly,
the FBI believed that Wallis Simpson was having a relationship with
Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Britain, and that
she was passing secret information obtained from the king to the Nazi
government. This website provides a detailed account of the events
that led to Edward VIII abdicating on 10th December, 1936.
The
United Nations: The United Nations officially came into existence
on 24 October 1945, when the UN Charter had been ratified by a majority
of the original 51 Member States. The purpose of the United Nations
is to bring all nations of the world together to work for peace and
development, based on the principles of justice, human dignity and
the well-being of all people. It affords the opportunity for countries
to balance global interdependence and national interests when addressing
international problems. This United Nations website provides a history
of the organization.
History
Mad: This website contains home-produced content (quizzes, worksheets,
etc.), competitions, and an extensive selection of links. What is
special about the links pages is that they are more specific than
other sites and include star-rating reviews written in pupil-friendly
language. The site is easily navigable and lends itself well to project
work since project support pages are also included. For example, pupils
studying Victorian Life or British History 1950-2000 will find carefully
selected links to follow and support pages with suggested questions
to answer, ways of structuring their project work and other tips.
Virtual
Tour of Birmingham: See the wonders of the city centre from the
comfort of your chair! Explore the city's canals and see its public
art by going on one of the Trails. Take a 360° panoramic tour
of parts of Birmingham and then see how certain areas have changed
over the last couple of centuries. Learn facts and figures you never
knew about our great city! There are lots of suggested activities
for use in and out of school. The great thing about this tour is that
you can see the virtual Birmingham on your computer and then actually
go and see the places in person. You can even download the Trails
onto your PDA and take them with you when you go!
English
Heritage welcomes educational groups completely free of charge
on visits to over 400 historic sites. Over 500,000 pupils, students
and teachers each year already enjoy this experience. The education
section of its website attempts to help teachers use the local historic
environment as a resource for teaching across the curriculum. The
pages contain outline schemes of work in history. Clear learning objectives
and outcomes are given, and links across the curriculum and extension
activities are suggested.
Mysteries
of History: A website devoted to solving mysteries. Several of
the sections should interest historians, including Mysteries of Intelligence
(JFK Assassination, Wallis Simpson, Vera Arkins, Selwyn Jepson, Marcus
Garvey and the Sword of Islam), Mysteries of History (Turin Shroud),
Knights Templer, King Arthur, Atlas of Ancient Egypt and Voynich Manuscript),
Mysteries of Warfare (Flight of Rudolf Hess, Katyn Forest Massacre
and Frontline 1940-41).
In
Search of Heroes: An American Journey explores the complex relationship
between Americans and our heroes. Designed to engage people of diverse
ages and backgrounds in thinking and talking about the values that
define our culture and create our history, the project is structured
around four independent and interrelated components: a nationally
broadcast two-part public television series, a multi-phased, interactive
website, an online and DVD curriculum for elementary, junior high
and high school students, and a national community engagement campaign.
Ancestry
Historical Maps: This website provides several hundred historical
maps from all areas of the world. Maps are organized under the following
headings: U.S. State and County, North and South American, British
Isles, European, World, Emigration/Immigration, Migration, Ethnic/Religious,
Military, Land Transaction and Urban/City.
Civil
Rights Museum:
This website is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund.
The main objective is to provide relevant and up-to-the minute civil
rights news and information.
Historiography:
"The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the
past better than they understand themselves." This quotation
by Herbert Butterfield is one of the 150 that can be found on this
Russel Tarr website. Historiography is the name we give to the history
of studying history. In particular, it is about what we can learn
from history. Students are given two random quotes about the nature
of history and then asked which one they find most engaging. They
then have to explain their answer by giving historical examples which
prove its point.
Manx
History: The Isle of Man has a long and complex history, and many
legends surrounding it. From stone age burial grounds, to medieval
fortresses, world war internment camps and Victoriana, there is evidence
of the past all around you on the Isle of Man. St Ninian's High School
has a history curriculum that includes sections on local history for
each year group. Year 7 (prehistoric age on the Isle of Man), Year
8 (the island during the Civil War), Year 9 (First World War and the
Second World War), and GCSE (the Manx cholera outbreak of 1832).
James
Paxton: In 1826 James Paxton became gardener to the 6th Duke of
Devonshire at Chiswick House and then at Chatsworth. Paxton's greatest
project was the Crystal Palace. He also worked at Birkenhead Park,
the People's Park in Halifax, Princes Park in Liverpool, Upton Park
in Slough, Baxter Park in Dundee, the public park in Dunfermline and
Hesketh Park in Southport. This website provides information on all
Paxton's major projects.
British
History Online is a digital library of British historical sources
for historians of Britain located worldwide seeking access to, and
cross-searching of, an interconnected range of historical sources
including text and information about people, places and businesses
from the 12th century to the present day. Built
by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament,
it aims to provide a particular range and a unique configuration of
historical sources whose availability and format will help to devise
and develop new research strategies and methodologies.
Histoforum
is probably the largest educational history site in the Netherlands.
It was started by history teacher Albert van der Kaap five years ago
to explore the possibilities of internet in teaching history. Especially
the section with Queestes (the Dutch equivalent for Webquests)
is the result of this exploration. Besides
sections that are only of interest for Dutch visitors (partly because
the language is Dutch) Histoforum contains sections that may be helpful
to English visitors such as teaching materials, information
about and examples of webquests and a large section with history
links by period, country, alphabet, person and subject.
Urban
Legends: Myths are important symbols of cultural unity, and perhaps
no myths are more important in the modern era than the historical
myths that establish our national heritage and tell us where we came
from as well as who we are. This website provides a collection of
these urban myths and includes: (1) Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
made the trains run on time. (2) The United States standard railroad
gauge derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman
war chariot. (3) A death curse threatens U.S. Presidents elected in
years evenly divisible by twenty. (4) A number of amazing coincidences
can be found between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John
F. Kennedy.
Coverups:
This website looks at the great conspiracy theories developed over
the last 200 years. Coverups and conspiracies covered include: JFK's
Assassination, Adolf Hitler's Death, Big Foot, the Death of Marilyn
Monroe, Abraham Lincoln's Assassination, Roswell New Mexico, Death
of Princess Diana, Death of Jimmy Hoffa, Waco Texas, Area 51, Bermuda
Triangle, TWA 800 and the Lochness Monster.
Best
of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for students,
history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Best of History
Web Sites contains annotated links to over 900 history-related web
sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness.
Site content is well organized into thirteen categories, including:
Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, U.S. History, Early Modern
European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources,
Maps, Lesson Plans/Activities, Multimedia, and Research. Best of History
Web Sites features annotated links to hundreds of history lesson plans,
teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its
pages. There is also a special section on Teaching with Technology
that features articles, tips, and links to current research and practice
in classroom technology. Best of History Web Sites is the creation
of Thomas Daccord, a history teacher and instructional technology
consultant who has taught in North America and Europe.
Someone
in Time: Every month a new mystery guest will arrive on this Discovery
Channel website. Your mission is to uncover the identity of the mystery
guest by clues (text, visual, or audio). Every other day new clues
will be added. You can also ask the mystery guest a question. These
questions and answers are archived and can be read by the person playing
the game. The solution to the mystery is revealed on the 15th day
of the game.
History
Matters: Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S.
History courses. This site serves as a gateway to web resources and
offers useful materials for teaching US history. The website includes
Many Pasts (primary documents): Making Sense of Evidence (guides for
analyzing primary sources); Past Meets Present (articles and resources
that link the past with current ideas and events); Reference Desk
(links to resources); Digital Blackboard (teaching assignments using
web resources): Students as Historians (examples of student work on
the web) and Secrets of Great Historians (distinguished teachers share
their strategies and techniques).
Digital
History: This website was designed and developed to support the
teaching of American History in schools and colleges and is supported
by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University
of Houston. The materials on this website include a US history textbook;
over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on
deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources
on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and US political,
social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film,
ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and
reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated
links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive
including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive
with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian
feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.
Jefferson
Digital Archive: This impressive website includes a Life of Thomas
Jefferson by B. L. Rayner (1834); a guide to the Jefferson Papers,
the Jeffersonian Cyclopedia (a comprehensive account of the opinions
of Jefferson - 9,000 entries arranged under the headings Government,
Politics, Law, Education, Political Economy, Finance, Science, Art,
Literature, Religious Freedom, and Morals); Jefferson on Politics
and Government (2,700 excerpts from Jefferson's writings, ordered
thematically, illustrating the political philosophy of Jefferson)
and Jefferson in the Oxford English Dictionary (a summary of Jefferson's
influence on the English language).
Festival
of Britain: Between May and September 1951 the nation celebrated
the Festival of Britain. After the devastation of war and years of
austerity the Festival aimed to raise the nations spirits whilst
promoting the very best in British art, design and industry. The London
based centrepieces of the Festival, the South Bank Exhibition and
the Festival Pleasure Gardens in Battersea, were the most visible
elements of a Festival which was celebrated in cities, towns and villages
all over Britain. Now you can experience - or re-experience - the
excitement of the time through this remarkable collection of photographs,
memorabilia and personal reminiscences.
Exploring
the French Revolution: This website provides an accessible and
lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary
archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the
Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps
and songs. The project is a collaboration of the Center for History
and New Media (George Mason University) and the American Social History
Project (City University of New York). The best way to navigate the
site is to select the Explore or Browse options. Explore leads to
a set of 12 essays, whereas with Browse can see lists of all the images,
texts, maps, and songs at the site, or view a timeline of events,
as well as a 65-term glossary.
John
Snow: In 1836 Dr. John Snow moved to London and during the next
twenty years carried out a series of brilliant epidemiological investigations.
He traced one outbreak of cholera to a well in Soho, into which raw
sewage was seeping. Snow also did important experimental work on ether
and chloroform and devised equipment to administer anaesthetics. Professor
Ralph Frerichs of UCLA has created this outstanding website dedicated
to exploring the life and work of John Snow.
American
Museum: In 1841 the showman Phineas Taylor Barnum opened his American
Museum in New York City. Dominating lower Broadway at Park Row, in
no time Barnum's American Museum became the "most visited place
in America." For more than twenty years, for six days a week,
fifteen hours a day, people flocked to the five-story building to
marvel at and mock its myriad of changing attractions. However, shortly
after twelve noon on Thursday, July 13, 1865, in one of the most spectacular
fires in New York's history, Barnum's American Museum was destroyed.
Produced by the American Social History Project's Center for Media
and Learning at the City University of New York, this project brings
a recreation of P.T. Barnum's famed American Museum to the Web.
African
National Congress: The ANC was formed in 1912 to unite the African
people and spearhead the struggle for fundamental political, social
and economic change. For nine decades the ANC has led the struggle
against racism and oppression, organising mass resistance, mobilising
the international community and taking up the armed struggle against
apartheid. The ANC achieved a decisive democratic breakthrough in
the 1994 elections, where it was given a firm mandate to negotiate
a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. This website contains
documents that were either produced by the ANC, about the role of
the ANC and its allies in the struggle for liberation or directly
concerned with the ANC.
Historic
Cities: This website is a joint project of the Historic Cities
Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and the Jewish National and University Library. Historic Cities contains
maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning
the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the
location of similar content on the web.
History
Speeches: Hear the words that changed the world. This collection
is drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth
century and includes the voices of Mohandas Gandhi, William Jennings
Bryan, Martin Luther King, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Joseph McCarthy,
John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Earl Browder, Fannie Lou Hamer, Richard
Nixon, Bernadette Devlin, Edward VIII, H. Rap Brown, Samuel Gompers,
Herbert Hoover, Jessie Jackson, John F. Kennedy, A. Philip Randolph,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mao Zedong and Norman Thomas.
Olympic
Games: The revival of the ancient Olympics in Athens in 1896 attracted
athletes from 14 nations. On 6th April 1896, the American James Connolly
won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than
1,500 years. Winners were awarded a silver medal and a crown of olive
branches. The German athlete Karl Schumann finished in the top four
in four different events. The people of Athens greeted the Games with
great enthusiasm. Their support was rewarded when a Greek shepherd,
Spiridon Louis, won the most popular event, the marathon. This website
provides information about every Olympic Games since Athens in 1896.
The
Story of Africa: This BBC World Service website tells the history
of the continent from an African perspective. Africa's top historians
take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the
continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African
apartheid. There are chapters on Living History, Early History, Nile
Valley, West African Kingdoms, the Swahili, Traditional Religions,
Islam, Christianity, Slavery, Central African Kingdoms, Africa &
Europe (1800-1914), Southern Africa, Between World Wars (1914-1945)
and Independence.
British
History 4Kids: Developed by British Information Services, a New
York-based section of the British Embassy in Washington DC, these
pages are a new addition to BritainUSA.com, the most accessed source
of information on Britain in the United States. They offer a basic
and concise overview of British history from prehistoric times to
the 21st century, presented in eleven advertising-free chapters. British
History 4Kids includes links to many recommended UK history sites,
including those produced by British schools, and is intended primarily
to introduce British history to upper elementary and middle school
students (aged 9-14) in the US.
British
Empire: For the last 400 years Britain has played a key role in
the world - mainly because of its empire. Ben Walsh's new exhibition
for KS 3 and 4 uses films, photos, posters, letters and documents
to bring alive those extraordinary times. There are case studies on
the empire in Africa, Australia, North America, India and Ireland,
plus discussion questions that ask pupils to assess events that shaped
the world we live in today.
Teaching
English and History Using Historical Fiction:
This project began in 1993. It is primarily concerned with the use
of historical fiction to teach English and history. The essence of
the project has been for students to read historical fiction set in
a particular period, to research aspects of that historical period
and then to write their own historical fiction. The original work
centred upon the Medieval Realms history study unit using 'A Little
Lower Than the Angels' written by Geraldine McCaughrean. This has
been successfully used by a number of Year 7 classes around Dorset
as a springboard for their own writing. The website provides a list
of books that supports this approach and covers topics such as the
Romans in Britain, Britain 1500-1750, the Tudors, the Renaissance,
Victorian Britain, Britain 1815-1851, American West 1840-1895 and
Britain since 1930.
Assessment
in History: Last year a conference was held at the British Library
to discuss assessment in Key Stage 3 history. The conference dealt
with two major questions: How far are National Curriculum levels useful
for within key stage as well as end of key stage assessment? How can
assessment and assessment data be used to raise standards? The report
of the conference includes details of how the history department of
Snaith School use a range of assignments across the key stage, each
targeted at one or two principal objectives and additionally subsidiary
objectives, with each assignment therefore leading to a holistic overview
of performance.
Virtual
Tours: These 3-d Virtual Tours allow you to experience a historical
building or structure. This BBC website includes the Mary Rose, Captain
Cook's Endeavour, World War One Trench, Ironbridge, Medieval St Edmunds
Abbey, London Bridge, Viking Age Farmhouse, Housesteads Roman Fort
and Scottish Crannog. If the virtual tour doesn't play, you may need
to download a free VRML plug-in such as Cortona.
Kings
and Queens: This Grid Club website provides brief biographies
of all British monarchs since William the Conqueror. It also contains
overviews of the Normans, Angevins, Plantagenets, Lancasters, Yorks,
Tudors, Stuarts, Hanovers, Saxe-Coburg Gothas and Windsors. These
pages include some good coloured illustrations that could be used
to explore changes in clothes and fashions over the centuries.
World
History: This website includes narrative on trends from pre-history
to the 21st century - trends in religion, attitude, technology, philosophy
and political organization. It includes ninety text maps. The site
has a section of book reviews to supplement narrative. The author
tries to tell a story while presenting the positions of various sides
of conflicts with accuracy, leaving his commentaries for a third section
of his site. Since this site went online in 1997 it has benefited
from much scrutiny. Errors have been found and corrected. Pages have
been rewritten, and the author is keen on continuing the struggle
for accuracy and realistic descriptions. He has used primary sources,
but, as have others who write broad sweeps of history, he has drawn
from the works of numerous historians who have devoted their professional
lives to a more narrow focus of study. And he aims at avoiding distortion
through omission.
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