Teaching
History Online
Number
12: 8th October, 2001
Introduction
1.
Time 100
2.
Winston Churchill
3.
Schools
History
4.
The
American Experience: Vietnam on Line
5.
Working Class Movement Library
6.
History
Schemes of Work
7.
Castles
of Wales
8.
Richard
York: Historical Musician
Introduction
Spartacus Educational
publishes Teaching
History Online
every week. The newsletter includes news, reviews of websites and
articles on using ICT in the history classroom. Members of the mailing
list are invited to submit information for inclusion in future editions
of Teaching
History Online. In this way we hope to create
a community of people involved in using the Internet to teach history.
John Simkin
spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
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.
Winston
S. Churchill:
Maintained by the Churchill Center
in Washington, this website is devoted to the life and times of Winston
Churchill. The very detailed biography is organised into eight sections:
Youth (1874-1900), Young Statesman (1901-1914), The Challenge of War
(1914-16), The Stricken World (1917-1922), The Prophet of Truth (1923-1939),
Finest Hour (1939-1941), Road to Victory (1942-1945) and Never Despair
(1945-1965). Other sections include Debates about Churchill, Churchill's
Life: Day by Day, Churchill Facts and Frequently Asked Questions.
Schools
History: This website is authored
and maintained by Dan Moorhouse, Head of History at Laisterdyke High
School, Bradford. The site primarily offers content that is accessible
to students along with a range of lessons and quizzes to develop knowledge
and historical skills. At Key Stage 3 the site has developed large
sections on the Tudors, The Normans, the First World War and The Industrial
Revolution amongst other areas. Each area is supported by a range
of downloadable resources and teaching ideas that include assessment
materials, teaching methods for use with gifted and talented students
and worksheets for students. This website is NGFL and GEM approved.
The
American Experience: Vietnam on Line:
This beautifully designed website provides the most comprehensive
account of the Vietnam War on the Internet. The website was produced
by the US Public Broadcasting Service to accompany their award-winning
television series: Vietnam: A Television
History. The website includes an interactive time-line
of the war, basic statistics, maps, a glossary of terms and acronyms,
texts of key U.S. government war documents, weapons used during the
war and forty-two biographical portraits of key personalities in the
war, including six from North Vietnam and a bibliography for further
study. The website also contains Reflections
on War, a collection of twelve first-hand accounts of the
conflict and transcripts of all the television programmes.
Working
Class Movement Library:
The Working Class Movement Library in Salford is a collection of English
language books, periodicals, pamphlets, archives and artefacts, concerned
with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labour movement,
its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century. The
website includes a searchable database covering more than 23,000 books
held by the library. There are articles on trade union activities
and
archives, on Luddism and Chartism, and on personalities ranging from
Thomas Paine to Ewan MacColl.
History
Schemes of Work: The British government's Standards Unit website
now contains a collection of schemes of work for history that can
be downloaded and edited by teachers. Topics include: Medieval Monarchs,
Medieval People in Town and Country?, The Medieval Church, Elizabeth
I, Islamic States 600-1600, Images of an Age, The Civil Wars, Glorious
Revolution, French Revolution, Industrial Changes, Mughal India, The
British Empire, Black Peoples of America, British Women and the Vote,
Holocaust, Twentieth Century Medicine and Scientific Discoveries.
Castles
of Wales: This
website is the work of Jeffrey L. Thomas and a couple of castle fanatics
from Oregon, Lise and Brandon Hull. This attractively designed website
enables the user to find out about 170 different castles. The creators
provide a detailed history of each castle. As well as text there are
numerous illustrations, for example, Beaumaris has twelve photographs
and a drawing of the layout of the castle. To help the student there
is an excellent online glossary of castle terms. There is also a section
on Welsh Abbeys and a whole range of links with other sites including:
A History of Wales, Royal
Families of Wales and Cultural
Traditions. Jeffrey Thomas has produced a splendid website
that will be much imitated in the years to come.
Richard
York: Historical Musician: Richard York travels widely to schools,
museums and heritage sites presenting workshops in history through
music and drama, and as a historical musician and interpreter, for
medieval, Tudor, 17th century and Victorian periods. His website features
an extensive resources section. Aimed largely at children aged 6-12
with whom he has worked, it's for anyone to find more about the many
instruments he plays, their history, technology, social context, and
historical sources; also other aspects of each period's history. So,
for example, alongside pictures of the historical English and European
bagpipes he plays, are period representations in paint, manuscript,
or carving, on which they're based. There are also examples of period
language, of other replica artefacts, references to clothing, social
roles, etc.
Please email John Simkin at spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
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