Teaching
History Online
Number
77: 16th March, 2003
Introduction
1.
The
Monarchy
2.
History
Timelines
3.
Robert
Owen Museum
4.
Digital Library of
Historical Directories
5.
North
East History
6.
German
Resistance
7. Civil
War in Miniature
8. A
Place for Heroes
9. Glasgow's
Forgotten Village
Introduction
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The
Monarchy: Apparently Queen Victoria had her own spin doctor, or
court newsman as he was known. Negatives of pictures taken by the
society photographer Alexander Bassano in 1882 show the marks of "retouching,
slimming down the ample waistline, removing wrinkles, adding hair
and drawing in the regal profile to produce a statuesque but trimmer
figure." This interesting article by Stephen Bates on Victorian
Media Manipulation can be found in the Guardian's new website devoted
to articles on the monarchy.
History
Timelines: A collection of history timelines produced by classroom
teachers. Subjects covered include the Romans, Alfred the Great, Normans
and Plantagents, Crusade, Francis Drake, William the Conqueror, Tudors
& Stuarts, American Revolution, French Revolution, Railways, 20th
Century Inventions, First World War (4), Spanish Civil War, Nazi Germany,
Second World War (6), the Holocaust, Cold War and Europe 1945-1990.
Robert
Owen Museum: Robert Owen, the son of a saddler and ironmonger,
became one of the most successful mill owners of the Industrial Revolution
with a reputation as the producer of fine cotton. However, it was
not as a successful and respected businessman that he left his mark
on history, but as one of the most prominent social reformers of the
period, a pioneer of modern British socialism and a source of inspiration
to the co-operative and trade union movements. The Robert Owen Museum
includes a detailed biography of this remarkable man.
Digital
Library of Historical Directories: The University of Leicester's
New Opportunities Fund project is creating a digital library of eighteenth,
nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories
from England and Wales. Directories of counties and towns are among
the most important sources for local and genealogical studies. They
include lists of names, addresses and occupations of the inhabitants
of the counties and towns they describe, and successive editions reflect
the changes in the localities over a period of time. High quality
digital reproductions of a large selection of these comparatively
rare books, previously only found in libraries and record offices,
will be freely available online to anyone with an Internet connection.
There is also a powerful search engine available so that names, occupations,
addresses and other key words or phrases can be located to their exact
places on pages within the text. Those who will reap the benefit of
these historical sources include not only academic local, economic
and social historians, but also school students, amateur genealogists
and members of the public. Particular target audiences will be school
students, University students of history, family history societies
and researchers working on their own.
North
East History: This is the place to visit for information about
the history, legends, dialect, songs, place names and famous people
of the North East of England and Yorkshire. This website was developed
and designed by David Simpson, author of The Millennium History of
North East England. If you are looking for a place in the Tees to
Tweed region (Northumberland and County Durham) visit The North East
Map and click on the locality of your interest. Visit The Yorkshire
Map for the Tees to Humber region. Roots of the Region has lots of
information on the origins of Dialects and Place Names, many of which
go back to Anglo-Saxon and Viking times. Other important pages include
Border History, Christian History, The Kingdom of Northumbria, Coal
Mining and Railways, Industrial Pioneers and Legends, Songs and Poems.
Important towns and cities covered by this website include Newcastle
upon Tyne, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Durham, Leeds, York, Sheffield
and Hull.
German
Resistance: The German Resistance Memorial Center is a site of
remembrance, political studies, active learning, documentation, and
research. An extensive permanent exhibition, a series of temporary
special exhibitions, events and a range of publications document and
illustrate resistance to National Socialism. The goal is to show how
individual persons and groups took action against the National Socialist
dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 and made use of what freedom of action
they had. The website so far has 65 biographies of people who resisted
the government of Adolf Hitler.
Civil
War in Miniature: A collection of quizzes on the American Civil
War. Subjects covered include Battles and Strategies, Cavalry, Robert
E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Southern Confederacy,
General James Longstreet, General Lee's Lieutenants, Tough Men and
Tough Women, Person, Place or Things. The website also contains a
good chronology, information on the contribution made by individual
states and an excellent section on Civil War terms.
A
Place for Heroes: This is a web site dedicated to Second World
War and Korean War heroes. Unknown stories are revealed and places
rediscovered as well as personal stories of combat and of the home
front. Read about a young P-40 crew chief in Darwin sweating out a
Japanese invasion with no arms or food. How about playing dead in
a crater as a Japanese tank hovers at the edge looking for signs of
life? Even the first hand personal story of a pretty young Southern
debutante who left a life of privilege, cotillions, and ease to do
her bit in the war effort.
Book
Section
Glasgow's
Forgotten Village: Grahamston vanished beneath the foundations
of Glasgow Central Station more than 100 years ago, buts its memory
lives on in buildings, in street patterns and not least in the urban
legend of an abandoned village beneath the platforms of Scotland's
busiest station. In this fascinating book, local historian Norrie
Gilliland brings Grahamston back to life and shows the important role
it played in the growth of Glasgow. (Norrie Gilliland, Grahamston
Publications, ISBN 0 9542764 0 X)
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