Teaching
History Online
Number
63: 8th December, 2002
Introduction
1.
Medieval
Pilgrimage
2.
Dorothy
Day
3.
Passmores
History Department
4.
Oral
History
5.
BUBL
Welsh History Reference Library
6.
Castles
of Wales
7. Paths
of Glory
8. Zilliacus
Introduction
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Medieval
Pilgrimage: In the Middle Ages the Church encouraged people to
make pilgrimages to special holy places called shrines. It was believed
that if you prayed at these shrines you might be forgiven for your
sins and have more chance of going to heaven. Others went to shrines
hoping to be cured from an illness they were suffering from. This
website provides an overview of pilgrimages and sections on Britain's
most important religious shrines including
those at Canterbury, Walsingham, St. Winifred's Well, Lindisfarne,
Glastonbury, Bromholm and St. Albans.
Dorothy
Day: Almost immediately after her death in 1980 controversy arose
about whether Dorothy Day should be canonized a Saint by the Church.
Voices opposing the process say that Dorothy Day shunned the suggestion
she was a saint and believe she would rather have any money spent
on her canonization given to the poor. Others are concerned that her
radical vision will be sanitized and spun to support Catholic traditionalism
and a narrow anti-abortion stance, neutralizing her ardent pacifism,
radical critique of society, and love of the poor. This website provides
a tribute of this amazing woman and includes biographies, articles,
photos, bibliographies and a large collection of her work as a journalist
and campaigner.
Passmores
History Department:
This website is designed to serve both students at Passmores Comprehensive
School in Harlow in Essex, as well as teachers delivering the National
Curriculum more generally. The site is an ongoing project started
in July of 2002 by Stephen Drew, Head of History at Passmores. The
site has (or will have) pages for every lesson taught in Key Stage
3 at Passmores. Students are able to use these pages to reinforce
learning from the lesson, get help with their homework or extend their
learning. It is also possible for students to catch up missed lessons
via the website. As well as this however there is a section of the
site for other teachers. All of the resources used by Passmores History
Department are uploaded to the site, including detailed lesson plans.
All of this work is ongoing with a target of completion at Key Stage
3 of July 2003. Key Stage 4 will then be developed in the school year
2003-2004.
Oral
History: Someone
once said that every time a person dies a library is destroyed. Everyone
has a story to tell about their life which is unique to them. Regardless
of age or importance we all have interesting experiences to share.
The collection of oral accounts is the best way of preserving information
about the past. This website, run by the Oral History Society, provides
some good practical advice on how to start an oral history project.
BUBL
Welsh History Reference Library:
BUBL Information Service, based at Strathclyde University Library,
is a searchable database of Internet resources of academic relevance.
The websites are organized by Dewey Decimal Classification and can
be searched by subject or class number.
Castles
of Wales: This
website is the work of Jeffrey L. Thomas. 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'.
Paths
of Glory: This is a new joint European project between a war museums
in Britain, France, Belguim, Germany, Spain and Italy. So far it contains
sections on the First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second
World War. The website is available in six different languages.
Book
Section
Zilliacus:
Konni Zilliacus was an enemy of fascism from the 1930s, and after
the Second World War worked against Cold war hysteria through meetings
and contacts with Stalin, Khrushchev, Tito and Castro. This led to
him being expelled from the Labour Party but he was later re-admitted
and in 1955 won the parliamentary seat of Manchester Gorton. This
biography, based on the Zilliacus Papers and other sources, traces
the life of this remarkable man and throws light upon people and events
over the first decades of the 20th Century. (Archie Potts, Zilliacus,
Merlin Press, £14.95)
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