General

Archives in Focus
The Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC), the UK's central advisory body on archives, The site includes links to a number of on-line educational resources provided by repositories for teachers to use.
ARCHON
Portal to an electronic directory of repositories holding manuscript sources for British history and Web based information on archival resources. It is hosted and maintained by the HMC.
Artists Papers Register
Online finding list of papers relating to painters, sculptors, designers, craftspeople, design groups and studios.
British Library
10 million documents Including books, journals and reports spanning 500 years of British History.
BBC Education
This site works as a support tool for BBC TV and radio and there is little here that hasn't already been broadcast.
British Monarchy
Official site and has a valuable place as a resource for any study of the monarchy in Britain.
Brooklyn College History Department
A picture database spanning the Ancient Regimes to Post-1945.
Castles in the UK
Directory of UK castles.
Castles of Wales
Over four hundred castles are covered.
Castles on the Web
Everything you wanted to know about castles.
Go Education
This sites history search engine allows you to research by country and by time periods.
The Guardian Century
Archive of the original reports from the Guardian from 1899 to 1999.
Headline History
Interactive site with true stories about English history covering Romans, Tudors, Victorians and World War II.
Historical Map Web Sites
A massive range ancient maps , the one you want is probably here.
The History Net
Good for the Civil War and native American History.
Historical Association
Association is open to anybody to join, contains useful information, particularly for teachers.
History
Links to just about any level of academic research in the UK.
The History of Education and Childhood
Dedicated to the history of education and childhood, providing links to related sites.
The History of Fashion and Dress, The University of Alaska
Clothing from the Ancient World to the modern.
History of the Millennium
The history of a thousand years told in 500 daily instalments.
History Resources
History site that contains an impressive amount of links.
National Archives and Records Administration
Contains a wealth of information and sources including WW2 posters.
National Curriculum for History
Outlines the National Curriculum requirements for History at all key stages.
Paula Bardell's About.com Guide to English Culture
Background information on key events in English History from the 1st century to 1990.
The Public Record Office
Public Records on the web.
Historical Manuscripts Commission
HMC is the UK’s central advisory body on archives and manuscripts. It maintains the National Register of Archives.
National Register of Archives
Maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, collects and disseminates information about the nature and location of manuscript sources for British history.
New Zealand School History
The team at Schoolhistory is made up of history teachers and academics committed to helping other teachers and students. A resource that is certainly not specific to New Zealand.
Manorial Documents Register
A record of the whereabouts of the manorial documents in England and Wales.
Sam Learning
KS3, KS4, and KS5 materials. Approved by NGfL, NAHT, and PIN. Supporter of Capital FM revision line.
SchoolHistory.co.uk
Wide range of both interactive fun games, diagrams and worksheets in history. For Primary, GCSE and A level.
Scran
An essential starting-point for research into Scotland.
Spartacus
Free newsletter on history topics
ViVa Womens' history
History of women, includes many links.
The WWW Virtual Library Museum Pages
Links to online library.

Ancient Civilisations

Ancient Greece
The start of the sub-Mycenaean period to the last days of Alexander.
Ancient Sites
Walk-through tours of an ordinary Athenian home and chat rooms on all the hot ancient history topics.
Egypt: History and Civilisation
Egypt State Information Service's online history resource.
The Epic of Gilgemesh
The oldest recorded story in the world is reproduced here with helpful additional texts.
The Indus Valley Civilisation
Numerous slide shows of indus valley artefacts and excavated sites.
Internet Classics archive
Works by classical authors including Homer, Cicero and Confucius.
The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Texts from the classical world being particularly strong on Roman and Nordic myth.

Saxons

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Useful for anyone studying this period.
Anglo-Saxon culture
Links to ancient manuscripts, maps, living history and archaeological sites.
Anglo-Saxon England
Saxon invasions of England and the culture they left behind.
University of Cambridge Anglo-Saxon resource page
Bibliographies, links to discussion groups and links to relevant organisations.

Britain 1066 to 1500

The Battle of Hastings: 1066
Background to the conflict, shows the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Battle of Hastings Web Game
A game based on the Battle of Hastings.
The Black Death
Discovery Channel's online documentary.
The Camelot Group
Useful material especially for younger children including the official web pages for the Tower of London.
The Pestilence Tyme
A look at the Black Death specifically in England in the 14th Century.
Richard III discussion page
Bulletin board offering the chance to debate this controversial subject.

Britain 1500 to 1700

Britannia: Documents of British History
Provides examples of the crucial texts in British history.
Royal Scandals
Look at the personal lives of British monarchs.
The Golden Hinde School Field Trips
Sir Francis Drake's ship relevant to students studying Tudors, Stuarts, Elizabethans.
Political Movers and Shakers of the Enlightenment
Links to some of the more crucial European as well as British thinkers and politicians.
The Royal Stuarts
Stuarts.
The Stuarts
Key terms from that period in time.
Witchcraft in Scotland
Account of witchcraft trials in Scotland in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Rural Life in 17th Century England
Parish records, 17th and 18th century maps, family histories and images of contemporary life.

Britain 1750 to 1930

The Babbage pages
All about Babbage and the development of Babbage's computing machines.
Infoplease.com
Every Prime Minister from 1770 to the present day, listed in chronological order.
The industrial revolution
A good supplementary package.
The Irish Famine, 1845-50
The potatoe blight its effect. Original drawings, photos and texts.
The Labour History Research Index
A guide to British labour history archives.
Life of the industrial worker
Lives of industrial workers in 19th century Britain.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Suffragette and Suffragist movements.
Spartacus Enyclopedia of British History
British social history.
War Times Journal: Napoleonic Wars
An excellent resource for Military history. A lot on Napoleonic Wars.

Britain since 1930

John Maynard Keynes
Detailed profile of Britain's most influential economist, with links to key texts and critiques.
The Miners Strike
University of Sheffield's online documentary, many first hand accounts of the dispute, photographs and links.
Remembering Bloody Sunday
Details of the factors leading up to the event and links to other Republican sites.
The Winston Churchill Home Page
Good detail on Churchills life.

European History before 1914

The End of Europe's Middle Ages
Background to medieval European history.
A History and Mythos of the Knights Templars Presents The Crusades
A good starting point for students learning about 'The Crusades.
The History Guide
Lectures on European History from the Ancient period to the 20th Century.
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
End of Rome to the Reformation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
US newspaper articles written in 1815 on Napoleon, political cartoons featuring the French leader.
The Official Napoleon Site
All about Napoleon I, II or III. Napoleonic jigsaws and postcards, an enjoyable site.
Online History course: Comparing the French and American revolutions
A site dealing with why the French and American revolutions had such different outcomes.
Renaissance forum
Journal of early-modern literary and historical studies.
La Renaissance - WebMuseum, Paris
Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe (in English).

Romans

BBC Roman History homepage
Primary top KS2. Contains information on life in Roman times.
Lepcis Magma
About archaeological projects tracing the Romans in North Africa. Good for Key stage 2.
Links to Ancient Roman history
Useful links.
Roman Calendar
Converts our calendar into the Roman one.
Roman Britain
Britannia's impressive online resource includes timelines, maps, classic texts and news of recent discoveries.

Tudors

Bloody Mary
Her early childhood, marriage and reign.
The Elizabethan Review
Online journal dealing with cultural issues during the Tudor period.
Henry VIII additional sources
The life of Henry VIII.

Vikings

Encyclopedia Mythica: Norse Mythology
Viking sagas and a genealogy of Norse gods.
Jorvic Viking Centre
Archaeological finds in York. News and details of the Jorvik Viking Festival.
The Viking Age
Swedish site (in English) dealing with the Viking part of their history.
The Viking Network Web
Viking culture in Britain special attention is given to Viking poetry.

Victorians

Casebook: Jack the Ripper
Newspaper reports over the last 110 years concerning the East London murders.
Fawcett Library: Women's Suffrage
Women's suffrage in Britain.
Great Exhibition
An illustrated article on the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Pre-Raphaelite Passion
Uses paintings and poetry to highlight social issues.
Victoria Research web
An aide to teachers, and students in their investigations of any and all aspects of the Victorian period.
The Victorian Web
Social, economic and political context, literature, art and religion.

World history before 1900

The Columbus Navigation Homepage
Columbus's voyages together with plenty of maps and stories.
Discoverers' Web
Nordic, central Asian, African, Siberian, and Australasian explorers.
Plant Cultures
A Kew Gardens site exploring plants and people.
Jewish history sourcebook
This Jewish history site has Real Audio files, timelines, many links including links to neo-nazi and anti-Semitic sites.

World History after 1900

20th century history
European history including the Russian revolution.
Atomic Archive
History surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb.
The Avalon Project
Original text of treaties such as Versailles 1919 and the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928.
The Bucknell Chronology of Russian History
GCSE and A Level students. It breaks Russian History into four periods between 860 and the present.
CNN: Cold War
Designed to promote CNN's TV series.
The History Place
An excellent accounts of Nazi Germany and WW2.
Lostsecrets.com Romanovs
You try to find the Romanov's lost millions. There is a book of clues.
Modern History Sourcebook
The Russian Revolution is covered from the Tsar to Stalin,  A level
Soviet history
A politically correct social history of the USSR and present Federation.

First World War

First World War document archive
Interesting accounts and documents.
World War One Encyclopedia
A lot of information and facts.
World War 1 Archive
Has information on the causes, the fronts, campaigns and Armistice Day.
Ireland and World War I
Bernard Reid, Nationalist and one of many Irish Soldiers gives an account of WW I.
Spartacus
Encyclopaedia of the First World War.
World War I Document Archive
Original texts and images relating to WW1.
World war 1 art
Paintings from international collections commemorating WW 1.
New Zealand’s' war effort
New Zealand's involvement in WW 1.
History of the First World War
All about the war.
World War I - Trenches
Reference materials and images.
Aircraft and pilots of WW1
Aces and aircraft of WW 1.
The Western Front
A guide to the Western Front links, presented in chronological order.
Robert Lindsay MacKay’s Diary
Day-to-day life from 1915 until the end of the war.
WW 1 Political Cartoons
Cartoons
World War I photographs
France during WWI.
WW 1 posters
25 British posters.
WW 1 posters
American posters.
WW 1 encyclopedia
Created by teachers and students from several different countries.
World War I (1914-1918)
Resources from the Canadian College forces.
Other WW 1 links
WWI Document Archive.
Australian war effort
Deals with Australia's part in WW1.
WW 1 photos
Photos sorted into categories.
WW 1 propaganda cards
Themed postal cards produced during WW 1
Effects of WW1 on World development
Interviews, maps, photographs and an interactive timeline on WW1.
Post WW1 materials
Articles, pictures, posters and paintings on what happened after WW1.
The Great War
WW1 Times Journal.
Canada's role in WW1
Articles, statistics, and documents.
War letters
Soldiers letters sent whilst working in postal service during WWI.
War letters and diaries
A large collection of letters home and diaries from the men at the front.
Nurses war
Memoirs by a Red Cross nurse in France.
Submarines of WW1
WW1 submarines.
WW1
Information about WWI.
German chemical warfare
Focuses on German use and Allies defence.
WW1 timeline
Looks at what lead to WW1.
WW1 (1914-1918)
Plenty of accounts of battle together with maps and pictures plus the story of the 36th (Ulster) Division.
Submarine warfare during WW1
U-Boat warfare.
Project on WW1
Materials developed on WW1 for project work.
US Expeditionary force
The story of the American Expeditionary Force.
Great war battlefields
WW1 battlefields
WW1 links
Information as well as war poetry.
Liberty Memorial Museum
Artifacts and information on WW1.
Treaty of Versailles and its mistakes
The peace settlement, and how it caused WW II.
Battle of the Somme
An account of the worst day.
Canadian regiments war
The Royal Newfoundland Regiment war charted.
ANZACS remembrance site
A comprehensive site devoted to the Australian and New Zealand war effort.
Latvia during WW1
Latvia’s independence war with maps.
WW1
BBC review of WW1
Gas warfare
Tear, mustard and chlorine gas use in WW1.
Timeline of WW1
Analysis of the war from start to finish.
Gallipoli campaign
British and Anzac troops landed in Gallipoli hoping to bring an early end to the war.
Battle of Verdun
Account of a battle that cost nearly 1 million lives.
The Trenches
A soldier's perspective.
The Mons
The battle.



WW1 Aviation


WW 1 Aviation Page
Aces and their victories. Stories and pictures.
WW 1 Fighters
WW 1 aircraft
WW 1 Aviation Society
WWI aviation history, and newsletter.
The Fokker Dr 1
One of the most famous planes.

Second World War

The A-Bomb
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A-bomb WWW Museum
Human angle to the use of the A-Bombs.
Bethshalom.com
Lots of valuable information and worksheet material on the holocaust, useful resource for assemblies.
Cybrary of the Holocaust
First hand accounts and remembrances, a virtual tour of Auschwitz and extensive teachers guide.
History Net
US history, a lot on the Second World War.
The Holocaust Centre
For information about the Holocaust and book shop.
IEARN
The Holocaust and Genocide project
Soviet Women Pilots in the Great Patriotic War
How three squadrons of female Russian fighter pilots fought for their country.
Third Reich Fact Book
Information on (almost) all aspects of Germany and her allies during World War II.
United States Holocaust Museum
The Holocaust museum's site, some useful teacher resources links.

Medicine through time

BBC GCSE Bitesize Revision
GCSE students preparing for exams in the Medicine Through Time option.
Medieval History: Science & Medicine: Health & Medicine
Contains a variety of medieval medical topics.
Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret
A virtual guided tour of the exhibits like trepanning and amputation instruments.
United States National Library of Medicine
Nearly 60,000 images of diseases, cartoons and key figures in the history of medicine.
The Wellcome Trust
This site provides a light-hearted tour through the development of needles in medicine.

The American West

American History Online
This is a compilation of content from all of the publisher's books and web sites.
Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association
Biographies of characters such as Sitting Bull, Reno and Custer together with details of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
General George A. Custer Home Page
All about Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Smithsonian Institution: Museum of the American Indian
Exhibits selected by American Indians to examine their way of life.
Spartacus
Encyclopaedia of the history of the USA.

Black History

African American History
Features an interactive quiz on key African American figures in the 19th century.
The African-American Mosaic
A resource guide for the study of Black American History and culture.
Black History Museum
A site about slavery of Black Americans and afterwards.
BBC Education
About an African slave who bought his own freedom and campaigned in Britain for the abolition of slavery.
Black History Page
This Black History Page has a calendar of important black history dates as well as information on upcoming events.
The Untold History of America
All about African American history together with further links.

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