Teaching
History Online
Number
46: 11th August, 2002
Introduction
1.
Highland
Clearances
2.
Durham Mining Museum
3.
Chrystal
Eastman
4.
Reichstag
Fire
5.
Suffragist
movement and Feminism, 1789-1945
6.
CasaHistoria
7.
Doves
of War
Introduction
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Highland
Clearances: In the second-half of the 18th century, Scottish society
in the Highlands suffered an economic. Subsistence farming could no
longer sustain an increasing population and this was aggravated by
the policy of many major landowners of clearing their land for sheep
farming by the expulsion of crofters and the burning of their cottages.
This website provides a detailed look at these events.
Durham
Mining Museum: This website contains a collection of teaching
materials on the mining industry in Durham. This includes extensive
materials from The Victoria History of the Counties of England - Durham
(1907) and The History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine
of Durham (1894). There are also colliery maps and several articles
including those on Safety Lamps, Sinking Machines, Coal - Its Origin,
Mining Occupations and the 1838 Huskar Disaster.
Chrystal
Eastman: When Crystal Eastman died of
a brain hemorrhage on 8th July, 1928 one obituary claimed that "she
was for thousands a symbol of what the free woman might be."
Eastman was one of the leaders of the women's suffrage movement in
the United States and during her short life played a significant role
in establishing the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, the
Woman's Peace Party and the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACTU). Eastman's political activities led to her being blacklisted
and she spent most of her later life in England. This website provides
a biography of Chrystal Eastman and extracts from articles that she
wrote for The Nation, The Liberator, Time and Tide, the Daily Herald
and the Birth Control Review.
Reichstag
Fire: A week before the planned elections on the 27th January
1933, the German parliament building, the Reichstag, was deliberately
set on fire. Without doubt, the Reichstag fire was one of the most
significant crimes of the last century. Marinus Van der Lubbe, a Dutch
communist was found at the scene, he stood trial, was found guilty
and executed. In the days following, Hitler and the Nazi government
used this 'evidence' of a planned uprising to arrest thousands of
members of the Communist Party, to close their newspapers and to prevent
them campaigning in the election. This was the first step taken to
creating the Nazi dictatorship which lasted until the end of the Second
World War in 1945. This material, created by Richard Jones-Nerzic,
provides a series of activities based on this important event.
Suffragist
movement and Feminism, 1789-1945: This material was elaborated
in the framework of a Comenius School Project “Men and Women
in the Current European Society”. It contains an overview on
feminist movement and women’s fight for the right of suffrage
from the late 18th century (French Revolution and earlier British
feminists) to the end of the Second World War when equal franchise
was given in most of the Western countries. All the pages contain
different sort of activities to be carried out by students. The website
includes a selection of biographies, a chronology and a list of links
to webs in different languages.
CasaHistoria
is the History website of Northlands School, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This English language web is designed to offer links to History sites
connected with IB, GCE and GCSE syllabuses in 20th century history.
It has been developed by the Department over a three year period,
is very extensive and offers outlines of each included site along
with its value as a source of information. It was intended primarily
as a tool for Northlands students, but is increasingly being accessed
by a wider audience at university, A level and IB. It also includes
useful links to Latin American history in the 20th century.
Book
Section
Doves
of War: To this day, the Spanish Civil War is remembered as a
conflict of passionate ideals and cruel fanaticism. Much has been
written about the epic battles and the role of the Great Powers, about
revolution and reaction but little about what the war meant for the
women involved and how it affected their relationships with lovers,
husbands and children. In Doves of War, prize-winning historian Paul
Preston focuses on four exceptional women (Margarita Nelkin, Nan Green,
Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller, Priscilla Scott-Ellis) whose forgotten stories
help us understand the tragedy of the war. (Paul Preston, Harper Collins,
ISBN 0 00 255633 2)
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