This section contains links to other web sites we have found particularly useful. If you know of others please do let us know and we will add them to the list.

Resources Links Black History for Schools [External Link] Resources,links and more, focusing on the teaching and learning of Black history in the British school curriculum. British Library learning website - history pages. [External Link] The British Library has recently relaunched its website: the History and Citizenship pages contain materials on the holocaust – you can actually hear the testimony of survivors, medieval realms, the making of the UK, the East India Company and much more – all beautifully illustrated from the materials in the British Library. The Book of Hours illustrations alone are superb. Bund Deutscher Madel [External Link] This website is about the Bund Deutscher Madel, the female Hitler Youth, an integral part of the Nazi policy of capturing the support of the young. It is probably the most complete resource on the subject in the English language. Something here for teachers and for pupils. Elizabethan food and drink [External Link] A selection of Tudor food and food information Emsource: an East Midlands Learning Resource [External Link] Archive material from the East Midlands. Several teaching resources relating to the Home Front in WW2, both for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. Exploring Ancient World Cultures Internet Resource Index [External Link] The EAWC Internet Index tracks a variety of resources that are relevant to ancient and medieval times and that might prove useful to students and teachers who are engaged in serious study. It is divided into five sub-indices: a chronology, an essay index, an image index, an internet site index and a primary text index. Each of these is further divided into sections, one for each of the cultures represented: the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. Headline History [External Link] Website for Key Stage 2 and 3, where pupils can make their own newspapers. Features different skill levels, different topics - Romans, Victorians, Tudors, WW2 - and includes the ability to 'interview' witnesses. Great detail and support allowing pupils to do it themselves. Especially good for KSt2 but some teachers might want to use it with their KSt3 pupils. Heather Scott's website [External Link] A collection of materials Heather uses on courses, CPD activities and in the history classroom. Just beginning, but will surely grow into a useful website with plenty of resources for teachers to use. Some areas are password protected, but an email to Heather usually generates the necessary password! Heritage Explorer [External Link] Heritage Explorer is a brand new education service developed by English Heritage. The website provides classroom resources and accessible information to create a one-stop shop for teachers seeking to inspire classes at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. All the information can be downloaded and used for free. Developed with input from teachers themselves, Heritage Explorer provides image-based resources for teaching history, citizenship and many more subjects. Teachers can access classroom-ready materials at the click of a button. With over 360,000 pictures, including historic views of daily life, aerial photography, and modern shots of listed buildings, it combines a wealth of inspirational images with accessible information and a range of teaching ideas. All photographs come from the National Monuments Record – English Heritage’s public archive. The website also addresses the challenges posed by new DCSF directives requiring teachers to incorporate local history into lessons across the curriculum by allowing them to search for images relevant to their own locality. Historical Maps of the USA. [External Link] The David Rumney Collection is a large collection of maps of North America and can be used to trace the growth of the American Colonies, United States territory, and American self-knowledge of their geography and topography. There are so many maps that it might take you a while to find what you want! History on TV [External Link] This site is updated every Thursday, and is for anyone who wants to know what history programmes, documentaries and films are on terrestial television each week. You can view the tv listings on the site or download them for reference or viewing later. This should be useful for teachers and lecturers who can schedule their recording of programmes with ease and for anyone who has an interest in history.The site is still growing, but already has links on historical subjects, television channels and top history shows. History Transition [External Link] Website of a project exploring transition from Key Stege 2 to Key Stage 3. Contains Schemes of Work, training materials, videos of training sessions and lessons, as well as the full report. lenty of good ideas here. Inspectioncopy.uk [External Link] A one-stop shop for reviewing and ordering inspection copies. You have to register to use the site, but it is designed to bring together lots of publishers and titles for busy teachers. Invicta Grammar School, Maidstone history dept website [External Link] Resources and a whole lot more, showing the work of the department as well as 'powerpoints' and 'Word' documents you ca ndownload and use yourself. What a good departmental website should be like! Magic Lantern - learning through film [External Link] Site of Tim Brook - who specialises in digital film work with pupils of primary and secondary age.Plenty of stimulating resources, links and ideas if you are getting your teeth into digital video! Mexicolore [External Link] All you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, including a school visit service too. Superb, informative website, and lots of educational materials. Well worth a visit. Munich Air Disaster, 50 years on [External Link] Link to footage and the story of the Manchester United crash in Munich, and to how it is remembered 50 years on. Pathe NEws details on the 'Shapes of Time' website. Myths and Legends [External Link] A collection of myths and legends that can be used in teaching history at Key Stages 2 and 3. Also curriculum guidance and teaching resources. National Army Museum [External Link] The National Army Museum is the British Army's own museum. It is the only museum to tell the story of the Army as a whole from Agincourt in the Fifteenth Century to peace-keeping in the Twenty-first Century. Northamptonshire Black History Association [External Link] Looks at 800 years of Black History in Northamptonshire. A brilliant example of what local volunteers, aided by a Heritage Lottery Grant, can do to raise awareness of what already exists, as well as create new, relevant resources for everyone, and especially for schools. One Stop Education [External Link] One Stop Education is a key site for educational resources, especially Primary teaching resources and educational software. Open Schools Archive [External Link] A small but growing selection of video and audio clips from the BBC Open Archive - with links to lots of other BBC web output - free to download and use in your classroom. Origination [External Link] Origination is a Channel 4 Learning website looking at migration. Children, academics, libraries, schools etc have explored the stories of immigration to this country and published their findings on this award-winning website. Public Health and Housing [External Link] 'Public Health and Housing'is a series of five free lesson plans and downloads for teachers of Key Stage 3 and GCSE classes. The downloads include images of original records, photographs and maps relating to the sanitation problems faced by Nottingham's residents in the mid-19th century. The themes of the lessons include housing, water supplies, sewerage and disease, particularly cholera. SCRAN [External Link] History, Art and cultural site aimed at education from early years through to HE. Most of it is subscription (£150 primary, £290 secondary)- although teachers can get a very cheap personal subscription - over 333,000 resources and learning packages to use in the classroom. ELC's can be used. Short animation re Walter Tull [External Link] Made by Year 4 and 5 pupils working with a professional film maker, this explores the story of Walter Tull, the first Black British Officer, and professional footballer, in WW1. Subject Association Website [External Link] A new website giving access to subject associations across the whole national curriculum has been launched. As well as giving 10 good reasons why every teacher should belong to a subject association, it is a portal to each subject's home page, and an essential guide to help you keep up to date in your own subject. The Anne Frank House [External Link] Official site of the modern-day museum to Anne Frank, who spent two years in hiding while she wrote her diary in the house. Features biography, teaching materials, and rare photographs and film. The British War memorial Project [External Link] The British War Memorial Project – Help build a War memorial on line! In August 2003 the British War Memorial Project was started with a few volunteers the aim being to photograph all British Service personnel graves throughout UK from WW1 to present day. Due to it’s immediate popularity many offers of photographs from abroad came to the project with encouragement to include those buried overseas. In 2004 it was decided to expand the project somewhat to include the 2 million graves and individual memorials throughout the world in order that families of these men and women could perhaps see the graves of their loved ones for the very first time. Now, just over two years later the projects boasts over 700 volunteers and in excess of 200,000 images which are freely available to families and any one with a particular interest in these personnel who made the ultimate sacrifice. Recently the project has been approached by schools conducting foreign visits as part of the National curriculum as many history teachers feel that the pupils may get a better understanding of WW1 and 2 by actually photographing some of these graves ‘ in a foreign field’. These photographs are then credited to the school on the site and will be available in perpetuity and so achieving an element of remembrance to these men and women Reciprocally the Project has helped a number of schools when researching their own local memorials by providing images for the projects of those buried abroad. If you feel you would like to assist in the project aims then please have a look at the site www.wargraves.org.uk or contact the UK Project Director Steve Rogers on steve@wargraves.org.uk. The John Leech Archive [External Link] A collection of Punch cartoons by John Leech from 1840 to 1860 depicting all aspects of life in mid-Victorian England. The Learning Curve - website of the National Archives [External Link] A huge site, with lots to see and do. There are large-scale exhibitions, or small-scale snapshots - single lessons centred around a document or photograph. Extremely good for lesson materials. The Spanish Civil War. [External Link] You can find items from the British Pathe News Archive for Schools that relate to the Spanish Civil War, as well as links to other relevant resources, on the ‘Shapes of Time’ website, by following the link below. Shapes of Time is an excellent site to help you trawl the riches of the Pathe News archive. uniqid=10658 The Tolpuddle Martyrs [External Link] A collection of resources, song extracts and other items referring to the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs and early trade unions. Part of the resources are free, but you have to pay to get the whole resource. You can also purchase a CD of the musical. Thinking History! [External Link] Thinking History! is a new website providing free role plays and other active learning techniques for use from KS2 to university level. The site is being developed by Ian Dawson as part of a National Teaching Fellowship awarded while teaching at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds. The primary purpose of the site is to introduce PGCE students to active learning techniques but, in practice, the site provides materials which can be used by teachers of all levels of experience. Timelines.TV [External Link] TIMELINES.TV – History, documentary and television on the web.Timelines.tv is a new and exciting on-line history resource provided free for the user. Based on the BAFTA award-winning TV series, it offers a wealth of quality TV documentary, arranged on interactive historical timelines that put you in control of your journey through the past. The content covers all aspects of British history from 1066 to the present day, arranged on three parallel timelines: social, political and national / imperial. Clicking on any of the 50 chapter headings will connect you to a wealth of streamed video, broken into user-friendly clips (over 200 clips in all). Transcripts are provided, and links that enable you to chase connections across parallel timelines, and backwards and forwards across the centuries. Timelines.tv offers British history on the web as you’ve never seen it before. TimeMaps - History software for education. [External Link] TimeMaps are animated history atlases for the PC. The maps change dynamically over time, illustrating history as it happened and bringing it to life in a new and dramatic way. TTS [External Link] Commercial publisher and seller of replica artefacts. Mainly primary, but lots are relevant to many aspects of Key Stage 3. Worth a visit if you are looking for artefacts to use in your classroom - many are very reasonably priced. Tudor Britain [External Link] A joint website with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Archives, this site explores the Tudors through original documents and artefacts. For Key Stage 2 and 3. Tudor History [External Link] Details and information on Tudor food and cookery Tyne and Wear Museums Schools Online [External Link] Guide to the resources, loans service and what is on in the whole of the Tyne-Wear region. I particularly liked the Tudor Lives section. Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies. [External Link] The website of the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies has been updated with more research material, publications and background information on Seminars. Video History Today [External Link] Subscription website providing video footage of historic sites and places for you to usse as you wish. Video History Today [External Link] Subscription website providing video footage of historic sites and places for you to usse as you wish. Web Album of the Crimean War [External Link] A selection of Roger Fenton's 1855 Photographs of the Crimean War. Womens Land Army and Timber Corps [External Link] A site with links to a DVD for sale, teaching ideas and resources, and links to other suitable sites on the internet. World of Teaching [External Link] A collection of powerpoints -about 15 are history - that you might want to use in your classroom. Look at them carefully, and adapt them to the ability of your own students. A useful starting point. World War Two Books [External Link] A site dedicated to selling military history books - both new and used. If you are looking for that elusive WW2 title, this is the place to go. Wycombe Museum [External Link] Offers a range of sessions based on the national curriculum. Sessions all have an element of real object handling and some a craft & design element. We believe that there is something very powerful and rewarding in giving students handling opportunities with real objects. Contact the museum to arrange your own topic.