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A World Study after 1900
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Genealogy
DfEE
National Curriculum - History Primary section
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National Curriculum - History Secondary section
History Data Service
Computer readable historical resources for research and teaching.
History
Links
One of the best starting places for history. Lots of resources, selected
by teachers, grouped by age and subject.
Museums
Schoolshistory
An excellent history site for Key Stage 3
English
Heritage
Information, pictures and opening times for many of the historic properties
overseen by English Heritage.
For£25 per year your school could have access to the video clips of the major events of the 20th century.
The
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
The
British Monarchy
This is the official website for the Royal Family.
Flints
and Stones
Explore the world of hunter-gatherers.
BBC website gives you the means to begin finding out your family's history.
Odyssey
Online
Brings ancient cultures to life by exploring the objects created by them.
The
Background to Lighthouse History
Brief account of the development of British lighthouses.
Art
in History
Art Images by Period
Stained
Glass World - Art for Windows
Society
for Underwater Exploration
Information about recent and past underwater explorations in search of
archaeological remains.
Meet
the Ancestors
This BBC website supports a popular series on archaeology.
Archaeological
Analysis: Pieces of the Past
This site offers an illustrated introduction to the processes involved in
an archaeological dig.
Reinventing
the Wheel
This BBC website takes you on a journey through the history of mankind's
bright ideas from the Ancient Greeks and mummification, through alchemy and
the printing press, to morse code and radar.
This
Day in History
A site that can generate interest every day of the year.
Today
in History
Contains information regarding the current date and what has happened on
that day in the past.
Time
Ancient Time, Time Machine, Exact Time and Beat the Clock are all featured
and all are based around a fun and user-friendly approach.
History
of the World: Europe
A synopsis of European history, chronologically presented by century from
AD 14 to 1992.
Period
and Style for Designers
Fashions in art and architecture throughout history, this site from the ancient
art of Egypt and Rome through to the 1970s
Hyper
History
Hypertext is much loved by historians because it can illustrate how subject
links together like nothing else can. This site lets users examine history
through personalities, dates, geography and themes and its thousands of files
are all linked.
This site is at least Key Stage 4 but can be used for research.
The Horus gateway to
history
Delivered by the University of California, this is something every secondary
school should bookmark. It is a compilation of some excellent resources on
many topics: art, literature, history science, medicine and technology. its
content is academic and suitable only for Key Stage 4, but teachers can use
its many sections to prepare resources. Sections on the history of photography
and the history of theatre are especially valuable.
The
history of money
Another history site, this one for the teacher of economics. its title is
"The History of Money from Ancient Time to the Present Day" by Glyn Davies.
Based on a book by Davies, it provides a wide-ranging survey of monetary
issues with sections on: inflation, Celtic coinage, origins of money and
banking, history of finance, Third World debt, and Britain and the European
Union.
William Shakespeare
This site is put together by the Shakespeare Birthplace Foundation in
Stratford-Upon-Avon. This site will give you information about the life and
times of this great man.
Nelson
This set of pages aims to pay tribute to Norfolk's most noble son.
People in History
Leonardo
Home Page
Life and work of Leonardo da Vinci.
The
Greats
BBC website tells you about the artists, scientists, inventors, natural
historians and historial figures.
Edward
Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
William
Wallace: The Truth Behind the Man
The life of legendary freedom fighter William Wallace (of 'Braveheart' fame)
and the principles for which he fought.
Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings
The history of the British Isles from 55 BC to the early eleventh century, and the ways in which British society was shaped by different peoples.
BBC Education -
The Romans
Illustrated articles covering key aspects of Roman history. This website
provides useful material for teachers to print off and an interactive test
for upper Key Stage 2 pupils to find out what they know about the Roman world.
Britannia
An excellent website about the Romans.
Current Archaeology and Directory
of British Archaeology
Beginners guide to archaeology, with directory of archaeological organisations.
Roman
Towns
An online map resource that lets you click and explore the Roman town of
Caistor.
Rome
Life in Ancient Rome may be glimpsed through A virtual reconstruction of
life in ancient rome.
Roman
Gods
A picture and a story or some facts about each of the better known Roman
gods and goddesses.
The
Hunterian Museum :Romans in Scotland
The
Temple of Mithras
This site contains a wealth of information and pictures plus video images
of one of the temples found at Hadrian’s Wall.
The
Forum Romanum
The site features a clickable picture of the Forum and biographies, religion,
daily life in ancient Rome.
The
Roman Military Sites of Britain
Roman fortresses, watchtowers, camps and industrial sites are detailed in
map and gazeteer forms.
Vatican
Exhibit
See how Rome was transformed from a village of ruined buildings and robber
barons into one of the grandest cities in the world.
Caesar
in Britain
Caesar's visit to Britain in 55 BC, taken from his own writings and presented
in short, manageable chunks of text.
Angelcynn
Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900AD
A thorough account of the types of clothing, warfare and weapons used by
the Anglo-Saxons.
The
Old English Alphabet / Anglo-Saxons
The Vikings
Home Page
Many Viking topics including warfare, ships, sagas, sports, food and drink,
jewellery and including the Viking Network Web.
World of the Vikings
Links to everything Viking on the Internet, for schools and research.
Vikings (Re-enactment Society)
The
Viking Network Web: Get to Know the Vikings
The
Vikings
A primary school website
Britain and the wider world in Tudor Times
Some of the major events and personalities, including monarchs, and the way of life of people at different levels of society in Tudor times.
Tudor England
Information on Tudor monarchs and an extensive picture gallery for each reigning
sovereign and the six wives of Henry VIII.
The Mary Rose Museum
Henry VIII's favourite warship on display in Portsmouth.
Pictures
From The Plague
Images depicting the Great Plague of London in 1665.
The
Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet
This text-based site uses a poem as the basis of information about Tudor
war ships.
King
Henry VIII and the Tudors
What
Is Archaeology - Mary Rose
All
About Guy Fawkes and the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
The lives of men, women and children at different levels of society, in Britain, and the ways in which they were affected by changes in industry and transport.
Sainsbury's Virtual
Museum
This excellent site traces the development of this famous store. The
site is the ground floor plan of a museum which operates on two levels. Use
the stairs to move between them. The Virtual Museum has many intereseting
sections which display information for students and resources for teachers.
Cadbury's History
Website
Enables children to explore the lives of men, women and children in Victorian
Britain through experiences of real people. Drawing on primary evidence source
documents and photographs from the extensive Cadbury archives plus oral accounts,
pupils investigate working and leisure times in a Victorian city, factory,
model village and school.
The
Victorian Web
Contains sections such as economics, social context,religion,literature,
the arts, politics, science and technology.
Made
In Sheffield Dot Com
Set up to promote Sheffield. Handy for geography locality and history studies.
Fred
Dibnah's Industrial Age
BBC website all about how steam-driven machinery.
Blackburn,
Cotton and the Industrial Revolution
The lives of men, women and children at different levels of society, in Britain, and the ways in which they were affected by the Second World War and changes in technology and transport.
Internet Modern
history sourcebook
It contains sources on modern European and Western civilisations on topics
such as : the American and French revolutions, the Industrial revolution,
the First and Second World Wars and Europe since 1945.
Anne Frank Online
An American site dedicated to the famous World War II diarist. There is
information about her life and selected extracts from her diary. Many parts
of the site are still under construction (October 1998), including an education
section. The site is useful for history or literacy at Key Stage 2.
The way of life, beliefs and achievements of the ancient Greeks, and the legacy of ancient Greek civilisation to the modern world.
Ancient City of
Athens
A photo archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of Ancient
Greece and particularly of Athens
Perseus
Project - the Ancient World
The Ancient Olympics
It examines sites and objects eg. vases, sculptures, coins, buildings and
contains an atlas. Particularly useful for Ancient Greece. It contains
collections from 70 museums and sources from many academic institutions.
There are 380 texts in Greek and translations.
Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
Ancient
Greek Literacy Hour Resources
Ancient
Greek Artefacts
A virtual tour of The British Museum’s Ancient Greek artefacts.
Greeks
The text is clear and there are a number of interactive activities
Everyday
Greek Life
Thumbnail photos of a number of Greek artefacts mostly items of pottery held
in the British Museum.
Maecenas
- Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
Alexandria
Archaeology Kid's Page
Introduction to the field of archaeology for children.
Mr
Donn's Ancient History site
The site covers the civilisations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece,
Rome, China and others.
Mayan
Math
This illustrates the Mayan mathematical and counting system of dots and bars.
Harappa
A site with a wealth of resources for teaching about the Indus Civilisation.
The
Aztecs
A primary school website
Tenochtitlan
A virtual reconstruction of the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire city.
Aztec
Life
Pupils from Springbrook Elementary (Kent, USA) share their work on the Aztecs.
Ancient Egypt
The
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Secrets and customs of entry into the afterlife.
Rossetta
Stone Colouring Book
Images from Ancient Egypt including crowns, coffins and inscriptions.
Nine
Men’s Morris
Clear instructions and a board are provided for this game enjoyed by the
Ancient Egyptians.
Hieroglyphic
Alphabet
A simple site that displays the alphabet and hieroglyphs.
Colour
Tour of Egypt
Stunning photographs of temples, pyramids and tombs, accompanied by useful
information.
Rigby's
World of Egypt
An extensive site covering Egypt past and present.
Ancient
Egyptian Lesson Plans for Teachers
Egypt
A large collection of photographs of Ancient Egyptian sites and artefacts.
Theban
Mapping Project
Up-to-date information keeps you in touch with the Project's current excavations
in the Valley of the Kings and other Theban Necropolis sites.
Welcome
to Egypt - The Valley of the Kings
Information about Tutankhamun, Ramses II and Amenhotep II, including a high
quality photograph of Tutankhamun’s death mask.
Lostris'
Ancient Egyptian Site
Mummification, myths and legends and gods and goddesses.
Ancient Egyptian dictionaries created by students from an American school.
Construct your own Ancient Egyptian tomb and view some examples made by other children.
Mr
Donn's Ancient History site
The site covers the civilisations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China and others.
Ancient
Egypt
A primary school website.
Mythology
An
Introduction to Greek Mythology
Ancient
Greece
A primary school website.
Try the Mythology link for the tree.
This is a basic list of the most significant Greek gods.
A
long page full of teaching ideas when working on myths
Bradford
Timeline
Many of the photographs have been taken from the Landscapes of Bradford CD
ROM
Bradford City Centre leading
into a tour of Little Germany and
Bradford
Cathedral
Saltaire
An interactive tour of a model village built between 1853 and 1870.
Information about Sir Titus Salt and the massive mill he had built on the
outskirts of Bradford.
Bradford City Centre Historical Banks
Bradford City Centre Sculpture Trail
The key features of a past non-European society.
Africa:
The Art Of A Continent
Use a clickable map to view high-quality photos of art work, and read a brief
history, from any region of Africa.
Some of the major features of Britain`s medieval past, including the development of the medieval monarchy and the ways of life of the peoples of the British Isles.
The story of the Battle of Hastings fought on the 14th. October 1066 told by different historians.
Bayeux Tapestry 2
Unless you're happy to shell out for books or slides or a visit to Bayeux,
this is a valuable way of viewing the tapestry. It reproduces the famous
tapestry in sections and Nick Auwww.cablenetstin, who created the site, has
intensively researched events surrounding the Norman invasion.
It is an impressive personal piece of work and a fine example of how the Net makes objects accessible.
Byzantine and Medieval studies site
Ancient studies with many primary source materials.
Fountains
Abbey
A website which displays teaching materials created by Buttershaw Upper School,
Bradford.
Internet
Medieval sourcebook
It is a sourcebook for Medieval history containing many primary source materials.
Luminarium
English literature from the Medieval, renaissance and 17th century
Middle Ages
What was it really like to like in the Middle Ages? Children use this site
to study tapestries depicting life in the Middle Ages, read stories written
about the tapestry, by other children, then email their own composition to
the site.
Secrets
of the Norman Invasion
Feasting
and Fasting
This simple site provides information about the rituals surrounding feasts
and fasts in ninth- to eleventh-century Britain.
The
Plague
Stories of the people who experienced the devastation and chaos of the Black
Death.
Virtual
Renaissance
Travel back in time to take on the role of apprentice then master for one
of the various guilds that existed during the Renaissance period.
Medieval
Movies
Films set between the Roman Empire and the seventeenth century are arranged
thematically.
Some of the major political, social and religious changes that shaped the history of Britain during this period.
Luminarium
English literature from the Medieval, renaissance and 17th century
The English Civil
War
A collection of various essays and information of personalities and events
of the war.
An overview of some of the main events, personalities and developments in the period and, in particular, how worldwide expansion, industrialisation and political developments combined to shape modern Britain. Pupils should be taught about an aspect of the period in depth.
The
Victorian Web
Contains sections such as economics, social context, religion, literature,
the arts, politics, science and technology.
British
History Encyclopaedia - 1700-1950
A World Study after 1900 (KS3)
An overview of some of the main events, personalities and developments of the twentieth century and how they, and total war in particular, have shaped the modern world. Pupils should be taught about an aspect of the period in depth.
Child labour, parliamentary reform, the First World War and Vietnam.
Public
Records Office - Learning Curve Gallery
This excellent site offers a series of cross-referenced 'snaphots' from the
past.
20th
Century Vox
A BBC website gives you all the information you need to run an oral history
project and the audio archives on a wide variety of subjects.
Oral
History Project
Ambitious history project by the BBC.
Cadbury
History of chocolate production, manufacturing and marketing.
Century
Road
A BBC website which looks at four of the Century Roads were built around
the UK in 1900.
First
World War Encyclopaedia
An International Encyclopaedia of the First World War that is being created
by teachers from around the world.
World
War I - Trenches on the Web
Private
Art: World War II Letters To And From Home
This site provides an intimate glimpse into the life of one ordinary soldier
and his family through his wartime correspondence.
The
Holocaust - A Guide For Teachers
Abe's
Story
Follow Abram Korn's harrowing journey through the Holocaust.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
Coventry
During WW2
A first-hand account of life in a British city during World War II.
The
History Sounds & Pictures Page
An enormous collection of speeches, news reports, images and videos.
Propaganda
This displays a collection of American posters intended to whip up patriotism
during World War Two. While its text is not always up to scratch, the graphics
- whose messages vary from the naive to the sophisticated - are a useful
resource for studies of contemporary history and media, and could also be
used in art and graphic design.
A European study before 1914 (KS3)
The significance of an era or turning point in European history.
A World Study before 1900 (KS3)
Key issues concerning a past non-European society.
North American History
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Southeast
Archeological Center, National Park Service
This site contains content on the history and prehistory of North America.
Windrush
BBC website celebrating the Empire Windrush's voyage from the Caribbean to
Tilbury.
Africa:
The Art Of A Continent
Use a clickable map to view high-quality photos of art work, and read a brief
history, from any region of Africa.
Bradford
City Centre Historical Banks
Bradford
City Centre Sculpture Trail
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission
Generations
- Free Genealogy Tree Builder for Windowsa 95/98
This program is free and fairly easy to use. As well as letting you add images to your family tree it also gives you a quick and easy way to turn your family tree into a web page.
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