Teaching
History Online
Number
45: 4th August, 2002
Introduction
1.
History
Channel Website
2.
History
Buff: Newspaper Collection
3.
Nam
Magazine
4.
Nova
Romana
5.
History
of Hinchingbrooke House
6.
Rosalind
Franklin
Introduction
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History
Channel Website: The
online accompaniment of the excellent UK History Channel, this website
provides a comprehensive history resource for both student and enthusiast
alike. Visitors can listen to history's greatest speeches, re-live
battles blow by blow with the animated battle guides, find events
and exhibitions in their local area, or test their knowledge with
the history quiz. The debate chamber is a popular place for regulars
to voice their opinion, and for students "The History Study Stop"
is the place to go to make revision fun.
History
Buff: This website, developed by the Newspaper Collectors Society
of America, provides articles on major, and not so major, events in
history. For example, there is a series of articles published on the
Jack the Ripper case. The website also includes a Historic Voices
Library where you can hear the voices of famous people. Other features
includes a Presidential Library, Interactive Quizzes and Online Auctions.
Nam
Magazine provides the reader with actual first hand accounts from
men and women who served in the Vietnam War. It can be viewed as a
primary source for those studying the conflict or looking for perspectives
regarding this time in history. Many of the writers that contribute
served in the US Armed Forces. The stories are true and the publishers
do their best to confirm the accuracy of each piece. Some veterans
have contributed poetry or pieces from a published work. The magazine
has also provided readers with articles written by Vietnamese individuals.
Nam Magazine is currently
published in a paperback format for a fee, but can also be viewed
online in part. Older issues are maintained in an archive section
and can be viewed in their entirety.
Nova
Romana is a virtual Roman town. See pictures of the Roman Empire,
visit houses, shops and temples. Become a centurion in the ancient
Roman army, or pay a visit to the Celtic village. You can find out
all about daily life in a Roman town. There's
lots of activities and background information on Rome, Pompeii, Hadrian
and much more.
History
of Hinchingbrooke House: This website not only provides a history
of the Country House of the Earls of Sandwich but a history of the
site from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day, a history of its inhabitants
- from prioresses and nuns through the landed gentry to schoolmasters
- and a microcosm of English history from 600 AD to the present day.
The website is designed for the teaching of history, with work tasks
on every page, and shows the links between on the one hand a particular
building and its inhabitants and on the other the broad sweep of English
history. Hinchingbrooke House is the sixth form centre for Hinchingbrooke
School, Huntingdon.
Book
Section
Rosalind
Franklin: In March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College London
announced the departure of his obstructive colleague, Rosalind Franklin
to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist, Francis Crick. But it was
too late. Franklin's unpublished data and crucial photograph of DNA
had already been seen by her competitors at the Cambridge University
lab. With the aid of these, plus their own knowledge, Watson and Crick
discovered the structure of the molecule that genes are composed of
- DNA, the secret of life. Five years later, and more brilliant research
under Bernal at Birkbeck College, at the age of thirty-seven, Rosalind
died of ovarian cancer. In 1962 Wilkins, Crick and Watson were awarded
the Nobel prize for their elucidation of DNA's structure. Franklin's
part was forgotten until she was caricatured in Watson's book The
Double Helix. In this full and balanced biography Brenda Maddox
has been given unique access to Rosalind's personal correspondence
and has interviewed all the principal scientists involved, including
Crick, Watson and Wilkins. (Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins, ISBN 0 00
257149 8)
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