Useful websites for history students
The BBC now has resources available for all school year groups on a huge range of topics. They cover a huge range of topics from the Celts and Romans through to the Vietnam War and beyond.
Spartacus Educational is a free online encyclopedia with essays and other educational material on a wide variety of historical subjects (including British history and the history of the United States as well as other subjects including World War I, World War II, Russian Revolution, slavery, women's suffrage, Nazi Germany, Spanish Civil War and Cold War). It is used by history teachers and students.
Although this website is no longer updated, it still contains detailed articles about a huge range of history on all topics from the Ancient World to the history of the World Wars and Family history.
Timelines.tv is a two-times BAFTA award-winning educational resource, covering 1000 years of British history in 50 short-form videos. The material on the site was originally commissioned by the BBC, and was broadcast between 2005 and 2007 as a series of five hour-long programmes. The site breaks down the video material from the original BBC series along three parallel timelines, following the trajectory of British social, political and ‘imperial’ history. The JRCS history department often uses clips from the website to support our teaching.
Wikipedia is a free encylopedia which is supported by donations from millions of people around the world. The articles are all written by volunteers and then carefully fact-checked and regularly updated. This is an absolutely incredible source of information on every topic imaginable. This is fantastic for history students who want to read advanced articles on topics of interest, although it is designed for adults and so may be quite challenging.
A really useful website designed to support GCSE history students across different exam boards and syllabuses. They have some excellent materials on the Cold War, in particular.
An excellent website for anyone interested in anything Medieval. It has free access to a range of sources, articles, books, podcasts - endless resources.
Here you can search and view the gallery's collections of 185,000 portraits.
Holds lots of classical texts online (Plato, Cicero, Homer etc). You can read the English translation or see the Latin or Greek. A must for anyone interested in Ancient Greek and Roman history.
A treasure trove with plenty of sources on the Modern world history.
Part primary documents and part essay, this website is designed to be accessible to those wanting to understand the complexities of Soviet history.
This is a collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery. The materials are presented in ten sections, which have been compiled by leading scholars. All of the materials can be used free of charge for teaching, research, and related purposes; the site is strictly intended for individual, non-commercial use.