History+websites

= = =History websites=

Revision materials for A-levels, including hints and tips for passing exams: []
===** History and Social Studies: **This is a good resource for history and social studies at secondary education level, both in English and Spanish: [|www.historiasiglo20.org] ===

Super website with online history lessons, downloadable resources, interactive programmes: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
===This website, created by history teacher in Spain, shows how concept maps can be used to create an entire website in both Spanish and English: [|http://www.claseshistoria.com]===

Create and share materials and resources for your subject: []
===Navigate your way around this site to find and use documentaries about your subject, transcripts are provided as well as class worksheets to go with them at Teacher Resources: http://www.pbs.org/teachers===

On this website you will find lots of film and speeches connected to US history: http://www.americanrhetoric.com
= An award-winning portal containing links to over 1200 history web sites and K-12 history lesson plans: http://www.besthistorysites.net =

Links to history websites for particular age groups: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistory.htm
===This is the Princeton library of history website links: __ http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/hiswebs.htm __ ===

School History has a useful list of history websites: []
===BBC World Service materials on Colonialism:[| http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section11.shtml] ===

Materials for Key Stage 3 (11-14 years old) History: http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/keystage3-ks3/keystage3-ks3-history
=Youtube website materials=

Neville Chamberlain announcing that Britain is at war with Germany: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJ_zbz1NyY
==="Mill Times" The origins and development of the mechanised textile industry (1 of 6): [] === ===Working conditions in a cotton mill in the US in the first half of the 19thC: []===

Summary of what happened in World War 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqppJ-L88U&feature=youtu.be
===Excellent series of videos (also in German and Polish) that cover every week of what happened in WW1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk&feature=youtu.be and to find all of them in chronological order go here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMK8YelHj6VS6w3KxuKsMvT===

Crashcourse history has lots of short videos explaining periods of history - you could start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
=History songs=

and with historic footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTnp6oJTn28
===Martin Luther's 95 Theses - rap song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5AJr0wls0 and longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcyEc_yZY6A and lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRjlKv7o25s===

=**History humour**=

Monty Python: What have the Romans ever done for us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9foi342LXQE
=Online History dictionaries=

Free online history dictionary: http://www.babylon.com/define/52/History-Dictionary.html
=Films about history=

The Vikings (1958, Kirk Douglas)
=History teaching books=

Oxford History Study Units (OUP) e.g. Expansion, Trade and Industry Key Stage 3
=Publisher websites=

Nelson Thornes http://www.nelsonthornes.com/aqagcse/
**Pearson: http://www.pearsonIS.com/EdexcelIGCSE**

Cambridge University Press:[]
=If you come across any other useful websites that you think could be added here, just email me at grahamworkman@aol.com=