Teaching
History Online
Number
27: 27th January, 2002
Introduction
1.
Not
for Ourselves Alone
2.
George
Rarey's Sketchbook Journals
3.
Wars
of Independence
4.
Scotland
1700-1960
5.
Voluntary
Aid Detachments
6.
English
Civil War Game
7.
English
Civil War Game
8.
Church
and State
9.
History
of the BBC
Introduction
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John Simkin
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Not
for Ourselves Alone: In
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The organization
condemned the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices
to women and advocated easier divorce and an end to discrimination
in employment and pay. This website, based on the television documentary,
Not For Ourselves Alone, celebrates the achievements of these two
remarkable women.
George
Rarey's Sketchbook Journals:
George Rarey was drafted into the US Army Air Corps in 1942 and eventually
became a member of the 379 Fighter Squadron. Rarey was also a commercial
artist and until he was killed in France in 1944 kept a cartoon journal
of the daily life of the fighter pilots. This very impressive website,
produced by his son, includes George Rarey's drawings, with explanatory
text contributed by surviving members of the 379th Fighter Squadron.
The website also features excerpts from Rarey's letters and his wife's
memoirs.
Wars
of Independence:
Scotland and England are two nations divided by their experience of
history. That divide was never wider than during the Wars of Independence
in the 13th and 14th centuries when a chance event brought an era
of relative friendship to an end in violent conflict. This website
produced by the BBC includes an overview of the conflict plus detailed
biographies of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
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.
Voluntary
Aid Detachments: During the Great War over 6,000 men and women
in the county of Kent in the UK joined Voluntary Aid Detachments to
help care for sick and wounded soldiers. They set up and ran over
80 auxiliary military hospitals, to which over 125,000 men of many
nationalities were admitted. This site has a list of military, VAD
and other hospitals in Kent used for military patients as well as
information about some of the detachments, activities and the people
involved.
English
Civil War Game: Could you have kept your head as King of England
in the crisis-ridden years of the 1630’s and 1640’s? Try
this decision making game and find out! A great way for students to
gain an introduction to a complex subject, created by Russel Tarr
of ActiveHistory.
Church
and State: An
extensive website on the development of the Church and State in Britain.
Written by some of the world's leading historians the material is
organized under four main headings: Monarchs and Leaders, Nations,
Church and Reformation and Documents.
History
of the BBC: Since it was first formed as a company in 1922, five
years before it received its first Royal Charter and became the British
Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC has been a world leader in programme
production. It has pioneered communications in radio, television and
online technologies. The BBC has proved a powerful force in the 20th
century - providing entertainment, education and information, and
captivating millions of viewers and listeners at home and abroad.
This website gives a short history of the BBC, with highlights from
radio and television from each decade.
History
Website Directory: All websites reviewed in Teaching
History Online are
added the History Website Directory. The websites included in the
directory are organized by topic and age of target audience.
Please send me details of any history websites that you believe should
appear in our popular directory.
Please email John Simkin at spartacus@pavilion.co.uk
if you have information you want included in next month's edition
of Teaching
History Online.
