HISTORY

General and Reference

• We have a subscription to LearnPremium which has a large and excellent History section particularly useful for boys in Yrs 3,4,7 and 8. Hopefully, they will know the username and password. Otherwise, email me at npauli@st-johns.org.uk.
• Eyewitness to History presents history through the eyes of those who lived it and is an excellent site to browse.
• Biography Find is a handy site if you want to look up a famous person.
• The BBC has an excellent multimedia history games section.
• This is an excellent site on Britain's parliament.

Greeks, Romans and Celts

• The Romans in Britain is full of fascinating and disgusting facts.
• Verulamium is also known as St. Albans and is our closest major Roman site. This is their museum.

The Middle Ages

• General
  • Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History 950-1066AD. This is a very worthwhile site for picking up a lot of background info.
  • Unravel the Medieval Cartoon Mystery from the Public Record Office.
  • Feudalism is a very useful site of sites on the feudal system.
  • A Time Travellers Guide to the Middle Ages is a very cleverly constructed introduction from the people at Channel 4.
• Saxons and Vikings
  • Bede's World - an excellent site on the life and times of the famous monk from Jarrow in Northumbria.
  • Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History 950-1066AD. This is a very worthwhile site for picking up a lot of background info.
  • The Vikings - the story of a people who crossed the sea in search of other lands.
• The Norman Conquest
  • Essential Norman Conquest is a 'must visit' site. Their online scrolling edition of the Bayeux Tapestry is superb.
  • Invasion of England, 1066 from the Eyewitness site.
  • 1066 - Norman Conquest provides an well paced tour of the events of the year and finishes off with a quiz.
  • Replay the Battle of Hastings at the BBC multimedia history games site.
  • The KCT Library provides a good page on feudalism with useful links to other sources.
• The Domesday Book
  • Domesday Book from the Public Record Office. There is also a briefer introduction here.
• Thomas Becket
  • The Murder of Thomas Becket, 1170
  • From the British Library, the death of Thomas Becket.
• Magna Carta
  • From the British Library, a brief look at the Magna Carta.
• The Black Death
  • The Black Death is a very well researched site with plenty of good pictures.
  • Frequently Asked Questions About SARS from the US Dept of Health.
• Castles
  • The Castles of Wales.
  • Snayfwickby Castle - a light introduction to castles.

Tudors and Stuarts

• Full of fascinating facts about The Tudors and includes a quiz.
• The Royal Seal of Approval from the Public Record Office investigates Elizabeth I's royal seal.
• The Kirk o' Fields Explosion looks at the mysterious death of Mary, Queen of the Scots' husband in 1567.
• The Spanish Armada of 1588 gives plenty of pictures and details.
• Here's another site on the Armada from the Public Record Office.
• Was Guy Fawkes tortured? looks at his signature before and after his time in the Tower of London.

The Victorians

• The Victorian Web has a number of good short articles - pay it a visit.
• This is a good introduction to the Victorians.
• The Victorian era in Britain was dominated by industrialisation and this excellent site from the BBC is a good introduction.
• The Poor Law of 1834 introduced Workhouses - this site is from the Public Record Office.
• This Public Record Office site investigates the differences between homes for the rich and poor.
• Florence Nightingale is famous for turning nursing into a respectable profession for women in Victorian times. This site looks at her life.
• Florence Nightingale's work in the Crimean War first brought her to public attention and is the subject of this site from the public Record Office.

1930s and on

• General
• Wall Street Crash from Spartacus Schoolnet uses excellent source material and finishes with a useful set of links.
• The Home Front and WWII
  • The World War 2 Memories Project: Memories of the 1940s.
  • The Midnight Watch is a very good, easy to follow, well detailed site covering all aspects of life on the Home Front.
  • How Did the Home Front Prepare for War from the Public Record Office - excellent document question practice.
  • This is a nice easy to follow introduction to The Home Front
  • Children of World War 2 from the BBC is a good active site. Well worth a visit.
  • This site from the Public Record Office looks at the evacuation of children to Canada. And a more recently added one looks at evacuation to Shropshire.
  • People at War from the BBC is an excellent overview of the Home Front and then goes on to look at propaganda. Use the menu button on the site to get a good background on the events leading up to the Second World War.
  • This site, from St. Andrews University, on propaganda posters introduces the subject very well and has a lot of examples of such posters.
  • This site, from the Public Record Office, looks at a propaganda leaflet issued by the British government in West Africa.
  • Truth and Propaganda from the Imperial War Museum is full of fascinating material.
  • Air Battle Over London from the Eye Witness to History site gives an exciting account of from the Battle of Britain.
  • The Second World War Gallery with items on rationing, women during the war, bomb damage to a Sainsbury's store and recipes for a tea party is part of Sainsbury's excellent Virtual Museum.
  • The London Blitz, 1940 from the Eye Witness to History site gives a brief introduction to the London Blitz and then gives an eyewitness account of the worst night of the Blitz.
  • A GI's Trip to London, 1944 also from the Eye Witness to History site gives a fascinating visitor's view of London.
  • "Loose Lips Sink Ships" - looks at a leaflet given to U.S. troops before they entered the war zone.
  • The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive stores aerial photograph from WWII. See how much could be seen from the air.
• Immigration
  • Windrush was the ship which brought many immigrants from the West Indies. This is from the BBC Education site.
• Cars
  • Early Adventures with the Automobile. This is another excellent offering from the Eyewitness site.