Schools History Project on www.schoolshistoryproject.org.uk

Teaching Ideas & Activities:
External Websites & Resources

Thinking History Website

The Thinking History website, by Ian Dawson, provides a wide range of activities to deepen pupils’ knowledge and understanding – from KS2 to A Level.

Visit this free website

England’s Past for Everyone

England’s Past for Everyone provides case-studies of engaging local history enquiries to support learning outside the classroom.

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Their Past – Your Future

Their Past – Your Future is the Imperial War Museum’s website for schools. It provides history teachers and students with wealth of resources for exploring the course, cause and consequence of conflict in the twentieth century.

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Science Museum’s
‘Brought to Life’ Website

‘Brought to Life’ is the Science Museum’s website for the history of medicine. It contains a wealth of material aimed at the medicine development study.

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Resources from ‘Romans Revealed’

A new website from the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Reading and partners.

The site includes ‘excavations’, videos, a resource pack and activity sheets.

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The Royal Archives:
Queen Victoria's Scrapbook

 

 

 
 

“Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook”, an educational and public online resource from The Royal Archives launched by Buckingham Palace to mark the Diamond Jubilee at www.queen-victorias-scrapbook.org

The Historical Association

The HA website has a wealth of good resources and articles for primary and secondary.

See the Primary resources

See the Secondary resources

War Memorials Trust:
Learning Programme

War Memorials Trust runs a Learning Programme to teach school pupils and youth group members about the history and significance of war memorials and to encourage young people to care for this aspect of our heritage.

The programme provides free resources including lesson plans, and support for teachers undertaking war memorial projects.

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Bangla Stories

Bangla Stories, a new website for Key Stage 3 pupils explores post–1947 migration from the state of Bengal.

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Free Holocaust DVD from IWM

A new free film resource called The Way We Lived is now available to schools.

The DVD contains two films which explore the extraordinary diversity of pre-Second World War Jewish life and culture in Europe.

See this resource

TimeMaps.com

The TimeMap History of the World is a fantastic resource, particularly for learning about more distant periods of history.

It enables you to explore history using interactive, information-rich maps.

Visit this website: www.timemaps.com

‘Historians Connect!’

‘Historians connect!’ encourages collaboration and dialogue between academic historians and school history teachers in order to enhance students’ understanding and enjoyment of history.

When they register with ‘historians connect!’, history teachers in primary or secondary schools are paired with an academic historian whose area of expertise best suits their needs. Collaborations can take many different forms.

Visit the project website: www.raphael-samuel.org.uk/young-history-workshop/