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Last updated: 30/5/08

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See Local Web Sites (for N.E.Lincs.)

General History

  1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ (BBC History - excellent resource)
  2. http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/ (History links for Schools - Click on the year group, GCSE or A level at the top)
  3. http://www.mrallsophistory.com (Revision website for GCSE)
  4. http://www.refdesk.com/history.html (History links with emphasis on America)
  5. http://www.britannia.com/history/ (History of Britain)
  6. http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/ (The History Channel)
  7. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html (Encyclopaedia History 1700 - 1950)
  8. http://www.historyplace.com/ (The History Place)
  9. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/industry.html (British History 1700 - 1950)
  10. http://www.pro.gov.uk/ (Public Records Office)
  11. http://learningcurve.gov.uk/ (National Archives teaching resources)
  12. http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu (Historical Documents)
  13. http://www.historybuff.com/ (History Buff - American History)
  14. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative.html (History of Africans in America 1450-1865)
  15. http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ (The institute of Historical Research)
  16. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ (Eye Witness - History through the eyes of those who lived it)
  17. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html (2,000 years of History)
  18. http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/ (History of Language Communication)
  19. http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/
    Countries/United_Kingdom/History/
    (UK History sites)
  20. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/
    historical/history_main.html
    (Historical maps)

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Historic Buildings

  1. http://www.nt-education.org/nteducation/(National Trust education)
  2. http://www.toweroflondontour.com/ (Virtual tour of the Tower of London)
  3. http://www.lincolncathedral.com/ (Lincoln Cathedral - excellent site)
  4. http://www.castlewales.com/home.html (The Castles of Wales)
  5. http://www.castles.org/index.htm (Castles of the World)

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20th Century

  1. http://tesco.schoolnet2000.com (recent history - childhood memories)
  2. http://www.multied.com/vietnam/ (Vietnam War)
  3. http://www.vietnampix.com/ (Vietnam War)
  4. http://vietnam.vassar.edu/ (Vietnam War)
  5. http://www.vwip.org/ (Vietnam War)
  6. http://www.iwm.org.uk (Imperial War Museum - Collections on-line including sound and film achieve - Conflicts from the First World War to the present day)
  7. http://www.worldwar1.com/ (World War 1)
  8. http://www.annefrank.com/ (Anne Frank)
  9. http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/wars/
    wwii.html
    (World War 2 links)
  10. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ (World War 2 timeline)
  11. www.learningcurve.gov.uk (World War 2 from the Public Records Office Learning Curve web site)
  12. http://www.holnet.org.uk/learningzone/londonatwar/ (London at War - World War 2)
  13. http://www.westallswar.org.uk/ ('Westall's War' - this web site is aimed at Key Stage 3 - one of the worst bombing disasters of World War 2)
  14. http://www.1940.co.uk/ (All about the 1940s)
  15. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/ (Winston Churchill)
  16. http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page1011.asp (Memorial site to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother)
  17. http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/ ('The Passing of a Century' - a huge web site about the 20th Century)
  18. http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home/vtc-ks3-home/vtc-ks3-history/vtc-ks3-history-wwi.htm ( Online teaching and learning resources for World War I)

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The Victorians

  1. http://www.victorians.org.uk ('Virtual Victorians - excellent resource of Victorian life from Tiverton Museum)
  2. http://www.victorianweb.org/ (The Victorians)
  3. http://home.kendra.com/victorianrituals/index.html (The Victorians)
  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/ (Children in Victorian Britain - from the BBC)
  5. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/ (Victorian households)
  6. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/fungames/children/
    child.htm
    (Victorian families from the above site)
  7. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/fungames/children/doll/
    doll.htm
    (Dress a Victorian doll)
  8. http://www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk/history/(Factory work in Victorian times at Cadbury)
  9. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ (The history of the Workhouse)
  10. http://www.camelotintl.com/heritage/victorian_school/ (The Victorian school)
  11. http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Victoria.html (Queen Victoria and her family)
  12. http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html (Queen Victoria in Britannia Encyclopaedia)
  13. http://learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/ (Various Victorian information - you will need to scroll down the page)
  14. http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian
    .html
    (Victorian web sites)
  15. http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/ (Florence Nightingale)
  16. http://www.kbsm.org/ (Kew Bridge Steam Museum - Victorian)
  17. http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/i.html (Brunel - Victorian engineer)
  18. http://www.vam.ac.uk/ (The Victoria and Albert Museum)

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Guy Fawkes

  1. http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/ (The Gunpowder Plot)
  2. http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and
    _archives /factsheets.cfm
    (The Parliament fact sheet about the Gunpowder Plot - note you need Acrobat Reader to see this)

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Tudors

  1. http://www.maryrose.org/ (The Mary Rose)
  2. http://www.tudorhistory.org/ (Tudors -lots of information including the six wives of Henry VIII)
  3. http://www.tudor-portraits.com/ (Portraits of Tudors)
  4. http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ (The Tudor Group expores and recreates Tudor times)
  5. http://www.activehistory.co.uk/main_area/head2head/henry
    /frameset.htm
    (Ask Henry VIII a question - excellent)
  6. http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/
    henry8.html
    (Henry VIII)
  7. http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor/letters.html (Letters of the six wives of Henry VIII)
  8. http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html (Tudor England - includes primary source material - the above 2 entries are from the same site)
  9. http://www.hrp.org.uk/webcode/hampton_home.asp (Hampton Court - Henry VIII's palace)
  10. http://www.bena.com/lucidcafe/library/95sep/
    elizabeth.html
    (Elizabeth I)
  11. http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabib.htm (The writings and speeches of Elizabeth I)
  12. http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm (Sir Frances Drake)
  13. http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ (A modern day recreation of Shakespeare's Globe theatre with a virtual tour)
  14. http://www.historylive.u-net.com/ (Receive a visit from a Tudor - this company offers a living history demonstration)
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The Middle Ages

  1. http://renaissance.dm.net/ (Renaissance)
  2. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm (Renaissance works printed)
  3. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/ (Galileo)
  4. http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/ (The Middle Ages)

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Vikings

  1. http://battle1066.com/ (The Battle of Hastings and more - Click on the King to enter)
  2. http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/nordic/index.htm (Saxon and Viking gods)
  3. http://www.worldofthevikings.com/ (Vikings)

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Anglo-Saxons

See also above in Vikings (Battle of Hastings)
  1. http://www.britannia.com/history/h50.html (Anglo-Saxons from Britannia History)
  2. http://www.geocities.com/sjana2000/saxons.html (Anglo-Saxons)
  3. http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/mpp/mcd/sub/images/
    porch1.gif
    (Portchester Saxon Shore Fort)
  4. http://www.romanremains.freeserve.co.uk/s.htm (Saxon coins and artifacts - very good quality pictures)

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Ancient History

  1. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ (COMPASS - a collection of around 5000 objects selected from the huge range of the British Museum's collections. There is also a simpler site called Children's Compass)
  2. http://www.pantheon.org/ (An Encyclopaedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend)
  3. http://members.aol.com/donnandlee/ (Ancient History)
  4. http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education
    /projects/webunits/greecerome/

    (Ancient Civilisations Art)
  5. http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_
    contents.html
    (Photos of Ancient Rome & Greece)
  6. http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk (British Museum's web site on Mesopotamia covering Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria.)

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Ancient Rome

  1. http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html (Life in Ancient Rome)
  2. http://ireland.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/intro.html (Ancient Romans)
  3. http://www.mrdowling.com/702rome.html (Ancient Rome)
  4. http://www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeline_one.html (Ancient Rome Time Line)
  5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/romans/(Romans)
  6. http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/level2/index.asp (Various Roman Activities)

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Ancient Greece

  1. http://mythman.com/ (Greek Mythology)
  2. http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html (Ancient Greece)
  3. http://www.wgfl.westminster.gov.uk/wgfldir/show/allsouls
    /bm/ag1.html
    (British Museum Ancient Greece Virtual Tour)
  4. http://www.ancientgreece.com/ (Ancient Greece)
  5. http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/ (Ancient Greece)
  6. http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/greek1.html (Ancient Greece from a school site)
  7. http://www.stoa.org/athens/ (Ancient Greece)
  8. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Hercules/ (Hercules)

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Ancient Egypt

  1. http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk (Ancient Egypt from the British Museum)
  2. http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permex/egypt/egypt.htm (Ancient Egyptian Artifacts)
  3. http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4368/ (Ancient Egypt)

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The Aztecs

  1. http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm (The Aztecs & links)
  2. http://www.azteccalendar.com/ (The Aztecs)

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General History
Historic Buildings
20th Century
Victorians
Guy Fawkes
Tudors
Middle Ages
Vikings
Anglo-Saxons
Ancient History
Ancient Rome
Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
The Aztecs
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