Teaching
History Online
Number
78: 23rd March, 2003
Introduction
1.
British
Timelines
2.
Women,
Society & Change
3.
Canadian
Labour History 1850-1999
4.
Tolpuddle
Martyrs
5.
We
Were There
6.
Maryland
and the Underground Railroad
7. Cold
War Policies 1945-1991
8. China:
50 Years of Communism
9. Napoleon:
His Wives and Women
Introduction
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British
Timelines: This BBC websites provides a collection of timelines
on British History: Neolithic and Bonze Ages (8300-750 BC), Iron Age
(751 BC - AD 42), Roman Britain (AD 43 - 409), Invaders (410-1065),
Anglo-Normans (1066-1215), The Middle Ages (1216 - 1347), Late Medieval
(1348 - 1484), Tudors (1485 - 1602), Stuarts (1603 - 1713), Georgians
(1714 - 1836), Victorians (1837 - 1900), Early 20th Century (1901
- 1944) and Post WWII (1945 - 2002).
Women,
Society & Change: When the Liberal government came to power
in 1906 there were many important issues facing the country. One of
these issues was women's suffrage. Throughout the period 1906-18 dedicated
groups of men and women campaigned for women to be able to vote in
general elections in the same way as men. The material on this Public
Record Office website deals with four issues: The campaign for the
vote. The case for women's suffrage. The case against women's suffrage.
Wider issues relating to women.
Canadian
Labour History 1850-1999: In Canada, the Labour movement has been
in the forefront of groups seeking social progress. Pensions, health
insurance, the shorter workday, a living wage, the right to organize
- all these were fought for by workers in unions or trying to form
unions. This website traces the history of Canadian Labour with the
aim of showing how it served its members while obtaining broader reforms.
Tolpuddle
Martyrs: In 1834 six English farmworkers were charged with taking
illegal oaths while establishing a local trade union branch of the
Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers in the Dorset village of
Tolpuddle with the aim of obtaining an increase in their wages. The
six were found guilty and condemned to seven years' transportation
to Australia. This website, produced by the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum,
tells the story of this terrible injustice.
We
Were There: The contribution made by Gurkhas to the fighting strength
of the British Army, and the involvement of troops from Australia,
Canada, New Zealand and South Africa during the two World Wars has
been fully documented. However less in known about the contribution
made by military and civilian personnel from other parts of the British
Empire and Commonwealth; particularly those from Africa, the Indian
sub-continent, the rest of Asia (including Hong Kong) and the West
Indies. The men and women from these countries served in theatres
of war throughout the world, many in the front-line, working as infantrymen,
pilots and seamen. This photographic exhibition celebrates the vital
yet little known contribution made by these people.
Maryland
and the Underground Railroad: The Underground Railroad was a secret
network organized by people who helped men, women, and children escape
from slavery to freedom. It operated before the Civil War (1861-1865)
ended slavery in the United States. The Underground Railroad provided
hiding places, food, and often transportation for the fugitives who
were trying to escape slavery. Along the way, people also provided
directions for the safest way to get further north on the dangerous
journey to freedom. This website has been designed to help students
look more closely at Maryland’s people, stories, and events of
that surrounded this important effort.
Cold
War Policies 1945-1991: A collection of illustrated articles and
outline notes on the Cold War. Subjects covered so far include Yalta:
The Cold War Begins, Containment 1947-49, The Crisis of Harry Truman,
Cold War Spies, NATO, Coercion 1950-1968, Détente 1968-1980,
Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik, The Arms Race Renewed,
Glasnost, Mikhail Gorbachev, Arms Control Treaties and The Triumph
of Solidarity.
China:
50 Years of Communism: To mark 50 years of communist rule in China,
BBC News Online's special coverage looks back at the birth of the
People's Republic and takes stock of what the future might hold for
its people. Articles include Mao's Legacy, Images of the Cultural
Revolution, China's Foreign Fears and the People's Republic at 50.
The website also includes a very good China's Communist Revolution
Glossary.
Book
Section
Napoleon:
His Wives and Women: Christopher Hibbert throws fresh light on
Napoleon's relationships with the women in his family (his strong-willed
mother and three sisters, Caroline, Pauline and Elisa), his two wives,
whom he successfully crowned Empress (Josephine and Marie-Louise),
and his many mistresses. From his wife he would brook no complaint:
"I am not like other men. The commonly accepted rules of morality
and propriety do not apply to me." Christopher Hibbert is the
author of many acclaimed historical biographies, most recently of
Nelson, Wellington, Queen Victoria and the Marlboroughs. (Christopher
Hibbert, HarperCollins, ISBN 0 00 257092 0, £25)
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