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Links for students
We’ve assembled some links to web sites that students might find interesting. Plus you will find more links to web sites on specific topics within most of our exhibitions and snapshots.
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At this site from the British Museum you can find out about the pyramids, pharaohs and mummification. Suitable for key stage 2 pupils.
This site on Tudor history is produced by a primary school. The topics covered include: monarchs, daily life and fashion. Suitable for key stage 2 pupils.
This is an on-line database featuring around 5,000 objects chosen by the curators from the British Museum's collections. You will find background information, maps, and online tours covering a huge range subjects. There are introductions to the current exhibitions. Objects can be enlarged and studied in closer detail.
The German Propaganda Archive is a growing collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic. The material on the site gives an idea of the strategies at work in both totalitarian systems. There are two types of propaganda included - material designed to influence the ordinary citizens and "behind the scenes" material designed for the propagandists themselves. This is suitable for GCSE and A level students.
This site has content about how castles were built and what it was like to live in a castle. Suitable for older key stage 2-3 pupils studying Medieval Realms and/or the Making of the United Kingdom.
This provides an illustrated history of the Berlin Wall with very good photographs of the main locations. This is suitable for students studying the Cold War at GCSE.
A really interesting site about a raid in 1704 on an English settlement situated in the Pocumtuck homelands in the mid-Connecticut River valley. The raid on Deerfield was one incident in an ongoing struggle among Europeans and North Eastern Native communities competing for control of Native lands.
This site contains a large collection of eyewitness accounts to some of the main events of the past. There is a lot of audio and visual material on the site.
This is a detailed site for anyone studying the Great War.
This site has material that includes much of the history studied in schools and colleges and followed as part GCSE and A Level courses.
A site to help with chronology, this includes a series of detailed timelines covering the last 2000 years. There are also links to other resources.
KidsZine is a free online magazine with information and resources for kids. This is the homework help section for history.
This wide-ranging history site for GCSE pupils also covers most of the national curriculum areas taught in secondary schools. There are interesting sections on Cartoonists 1700-1980 and Black People in Britain.
A resource for GCSE and A students that provides first hand accounts from former slaves who lived on plantations, in cities and on small farms. Their narratives were recorded in the 1930s. This offers an insight into slavery in North America, including labour, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious beliefs.
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