Links

General (Newest updates at the top)

http://www.history.ac.uk/resindex.html

Institute of Historical Research – good list of resources

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/focuson/film/film-archive/

Some good film clips here – especially of the cold war and votes for women. Even film footage of the Domesday Book...?

http://www.timelines.tv/indexSearch.htm

Some timelines of British History and lots of video clips

http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/index.cfm

Trivia Quiz website, including several thousand history quizzes

http://simplythebest.net/sounds/MP3/sound_effects_MP3/index.html

Lots of free sound effects. There are also some movie quotes – eg “Good Morning Vietnam!”

http://www.historyshareforum.com/

Useful site full of history resources. Most are based on powerpoints which can then be adapted for your needs.

Impressive collection of powerpoints at http://www.pptpalooza.net/.

They concentrate on American history but there’s other stuff there too. It’s connected to http://www.historyteacher.net/ which also looks promising.

http://www.national-anthems.net/

Every national anthem of every country, ever... These seem to work best if you click on the link next to the “MP3” symbol where it says “Download instrumental anthem”. You should then get a page like this http://www.national-anthems.net/music/IT (Italian National Anthem) – click under “MP3” where it says instrumental anthem of Italy and it will play automatically.

Key Stage 4

We didn’t Start the Fire Video – good for Cold War revision

http://www.mrallsophistory.com/fire.html

Some nice images and audio of Sputnik and the Space Race at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7018809.stm

This is the website for a US history textbook which contains lots of useful images for America in the 20s (plus Civil War / slavery information for Year 9)

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/divine5e/chapter98/deluxe.html

Key Stage 3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7074596.stm

Trailer for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, plus access to other film clips

http://pabucktail.com/songs.htm

http://www.meloware.com/articles/civil_war.htm

Some American Civil War music to try – or put “civil war music mp3” into google!

Tutor Time Resources

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7074596.stm BBC Quiz of the Week

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/ Archive of previous BBC quizzes

http://www.itv.com/ITVPlay/SkillGames/Blockbusters/default.html Blockbusters!