Famous British People: Famous British People and Events is dedicated to finding the crème de la crème of British historical websites and placing them at your fingertips. WZ's aim is to assist you and save you time in your quest for research or knowledge. Home of the 45-second newsletter, WZ's focused monthly e-zine is completely free for subscribers. Each e-zine covers a different part of British history that can be explored at leisure. WZ is willing to assist students with research projects on British history. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, e-mail them for assistance.
Biography: The American television show Biography is one of the most popular shows on the A&E Network. Now in its thirteenth season, it is also one of the longest running documentary television programs. It offers new thematic prime-time programming, from Great Women, Great Entertainers, Wealth & Power, Action Heroes, Lives of Crime, Leaders & Legends, to Lifespan - a four-hour Sunday evening special on one of civilization's greatest figures. The show has an impressive companion website, with detailed biographies of more than 25,000 people. Each biography includes a chronological list of achievements, and links to other biographies of "related people."
Nobel e-Museum Peace Prize: A website that celebrates the people and organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The site includes biographies, nobel peace lectures, articles written by Nobel Laureates and links to other relevant resources. Prize winners featured include Jean Henri Dunant (1901), William Randal Cremer (1903), Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Elihu Root (1912), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Gustav Stresemann (1926), Jane Addams (1931), Arthur Henderson (1934), Cordell Hull (1945), Emily Balch (1946), Albert Schweitzer (1952), Martin Luther King Jr (1964), Mother Teresa (1979) and Nelson Mandella (1993).
The Monarchs of England: This is one of the excellent websites produced by Rod Hampton and Seth Fox of Britannia. The site contains biographies and portraits of the sixty-nine kings and queens who have ruled England since 829. There is also a detailed account of Oliver Cromwell's period in power. The kings and queens are listed in the order of accession and this appears by the side of a two-page overview of the British monarchy. There are usually two or three pages of information on each of the monarchs. Relevant links with other websites appear next to the biographies. A beautifully designed and easy to use website.
British Prime Ministers: A website provided free by Britannia. The site contains pictures and biographical details of seventy-three of Britain's Prime Ministers. It starts with Sir Robert Walpole in 1721 and ends with a small section on Tony Blair in 1997. A biography of the Prime Minister is followed by a time-line of key events that took place during his/her period in office.
The American Presidency In the United States educational publishers are major suppliers of free teaching materials on the Internet. The Grolier Corporation's 'The American Presidency' contains detailed biographies of a large collection of presidents, first-ladies and vice-presidents. These biographies are cross-linked with a range of different articles that appear under headings such as 'Presidential Scandals' and 'Presidential Programs'. There are also linked pages to the important political parties and pressure groups in the USA. As well as the results of the American presidential elections since 1789, there is an interesting database of political cartoons. The 'Grolier Online Exhibition Hall of Presidents' contains three short documentaries about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan. This part of the website also enables the user to hear speeches made by fourteen of the presidents, including one made by Grover Cleveland in 1892.
United States National Portrait Gallery : The United States National Portrait Gallery contains over 100,000 pictures. At the moment only a small percentage of these portraits appear on the website. Organised under several different headings, these paintings are accompanied by a brief biography of the featured individual. The 'Hall of Presidents' is not as impressive as Grolier's 'The American Presidency' but other sections, such as 'Native Americans' and 'The Age of Revolution' include very useful information on less well-documented individuals from the past. A new addition is a collection of paintings that relate to the 'Amistad Case'.
Victoria Cross Website: Created by Mike Chapman, the Victoria Cross website is dedicated to the 1354 people who have been awarded this medal since 1856. There are sections on all the military campaigns since the Crimean War. The section on the First World War is particularly impressive and visitors can access information about the 624 men who won the Victoria Cross between 1914-18. This includes details of the deed and location of the medal. Entries are also listed by regiment, rank, campaign and nationality.
Time 100: This website provides profiles of the hundred people selected by Time Magazine as the most influential in the 20th Century. The biographies are organized under five fields of endeavor: Leaders & Revolutionaries, Artists & Entertainers, Builders & Titans, Scientists & Thinkers and Heroes & Icons. Other sections include Person of the Century, Phonies & Frauds, Event of the Century and the 100 Worst Ideas.
Scotland 1700-1960: Biographies of sixty-eight important people born in Scotland. People featured include George Birkbeck, Henry Brougham, John Buchan, Thomas Carlyle, Andrew Carnegie, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Bruce Glasier, Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, Keir Hardie, David Octavius Hill, Joseph Hume, Jennie Lee, John MacAdam, Mary Macarthur, Ramsay MacDonald, Margaret McMillan, John Menzies, Thomas Muir, Allan Pinkerton, Allan Ramsay, John Reith, Marie Stopes, Thomas Telford and James Watt.
Encyclopedia Titanica: This website is a unique resource for anyone interested in the Titanic. Over 2,100 individual passenger and crew biographies, regularly updated passenger and crew listings, exclusive research articles and ongoing discussions about the Titanic.
US Biographies Project: In May of 1997, the US Biographies project was organized by Jeff Murphy, using the established KY Biographies Project as a model. State coordinators were then sought to set up their own state project. So far there are projects taking place in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. If you wish to volunteer to assist in entering or editing biographies for a particular state, please contact Deb Murray, the US Biographies project coordinator.
Greatest Military Leaders: This website provides biographies of the most influential military leaders of all time. This includes biographies of George Washington, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Julius Ceasar, Gustavus Adolphus, Francisco Pizarro, Hernando Cortés, Cyrus the Great, Simon Bolivar, William the Conqueror, Frederick the Great, Attila the Hun, George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Oliver Cromwell, Sun Tzu, Hannibal, Eugene of Savoy, Horatio Nelson, Vo Nguyen Giap, Scipio Africanus, John Pershing and the Duke of Wellington.
Military Obituaries: A collection of obituaries of men who played a significant role in the Second World War. The obituaries originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph and The Times and includes figures such as Johnnie Johnson, Leo Marks, Patrick Porteous, Geoffrey Page, Marcus Oliphant, Charles Merritt, Vera Atkins, Thomas Ferebee, Jean Pierre Bloch, Harriet Waddy, Telford Taylor and John Howard.
Tudor Biographies: A large collection of Tudor biographies including Kate Ashley, Thomas Audley, Anthony Babington, Anthony Bacon, Francis Bacon, Charles Blount, George Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, Thomas Boleyn, Eleanor Brandon, Frances Brandon, Arthur Brooke, Anthony Browne, Thomas Butler, Edmund Campion, George Carew, Robert Carey, Adriano Castelli, Robert Catesby, Robert Cecil, William Cecil, Anne Clifford, Henry Compton, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Cromwell, Robert Devereux, Everard Digby, Francis Drake, John Dudley, Robert Dudley, William Fiennes, John Gerard, Hugh O´Neill, Mathew Parker, Thomas Sackville, Edward Seymour and Mary Sidney.
Black People in Britain: A collection of biographies of black people who lived in Britain. This includes John Alcindor, Ira Aldridge, John Archer, Francis Barber, Manchererjee Bhownaggree, George Bridgetower, Learie Constantine, William Cuffay, Offobah Cugoano, William Davidson, Celestine Edwards, Olaudah Equiano, Marcus Garvey, C. L. R. James, Claude McKay, Tom Molineaux, Harold Moody, Dadabhai Naoroji, George Padmore, James Peters, Bill Richmond, Paul Robeson, Shapurji Saklatvala, Innatius Sancho, Mary Seacole, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Walter Tull, Robert Wedderburn, Arthur Wharton and Sylvester Williams.
Aviation Pioneers: A collection of biographies of those people who played an important role in the history of aviation. This includes Clément Ader, William Bland, Frederick Brearey, Jean-Marie Le Bris, George Cayley, Octave Chanute, Glenn Curtiss, Henri Giffard, Lawrence Hargrave, William Henson, Otto Lilienthal, Etienne-Jules Marey, Louis Mouillard, Thomas Moy, Alexander Mozhaisky, Alphonse Pénaud, Horatio Phillips, Percy Pilcher, Charles Renard, John Stringfellow, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Victor Tatin, Felix du Temple de la Croix, Nikolaj Teleshov, Thomas Walker, Francis Wenham, John Wise and Wilbur & Orville Wright.
Educational Websites
Standards Site, BBC History, PBS Online, Open Directory Project, Virtual Library,
Education Forum, History GCSE, Design & Technology, Learn History, Music Teacher Resource,
Freepedia, Teach It, Science Active, Geography IST, Brighton Photographers, Sussex Photo History,
Compton History, Universal Teacher, English Teaching, English Online, History Learning Site,
History on the Net, Black History, Greenfield History, School History, HistoryWorld, I Love History,
E-HELP, Ed Podesta Blog, Macgregorish History, Historiasiglo20, Sintermeerten, ICT4LT |
News and Search
Guardian Unlimited, Times Online, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, New York Times,
Washington Post, BBC, CNN, Yahoo News, New Scientist, Google News, Channel 4, ZDNet,
Google, Excite, Yahoo, MSN, Lycos, AOL Search, Hotbot, Metacrawler, Netscape, Ask, Search,
Go, Looksmart, Dogpile, Raging Search, All the Web, Kartoo, Search Engine Watch, About
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