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Pupil Help

Bitesize Revision - History
 GCSE Revision - History
 Homework Help - History

Information about particular topics studied is included below.

 

S1 & S2

Wallace and Bruce


http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/scotril2.htm

This is the homepage of a Scottish Trilogy which includes good accounts of the Battles of Stirling Bridge and Bannockburn.  The Bannockburn pages contain good background information on the whole Wars of Independence period.  

http://www.braveheart.co.uk/macbrave/history/bruce/bannock.htm 

Don’t be put off by the page being titled “MacBraveheart”.  It contains a lot of useful information and is good on the background and course of the battle of Bannockburn.

http://www.clan.com/history/menu.html  

The Scotweb Scottish History pages  have several articles on the life and death of Wallace.


The Jacobites


http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/culloden/home.htm  

These are the pages of the Highlander Web Magazine and are well worth a visit. This URL leads you to the Home pages which have links to pages on The Union of the Crowns, The Rise and Fall of the Jacobite Rebellion, The House of Stuart and Bloody Culloden. Bloody Culloden is a very good site, providing information about the background to the battle, its course and its tragic aftermath. The presentation is excellent and will appeal to S2 pupils.

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/5443/scotril2.htm  

The Scottish Trilogy has a good section on Culloden, tracing the events leading to the battle, the battle itself, the immediate aftermath and longer term consequences for the Highlands.

 

Standard Grade

 

Population Change

 

http://www.macgowan.org/higclear.html  

This is an excellent site devoted to the Highland Clearances. It provides a chronology of the events, census information, very good eyewitness testimony and a picture gallery.  Well worth a visit.

http://www.clan.com/history/menu.html  

The Scotweb History Pages provide several articles on the background and course of the Highland Clearances.

http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/frame.html  

This is a good site for The Irish Potato Famine.  It provides an outline history of Ireland, an account of the Great Famine and Irish emigration, plus a section on the science of the potato blight.

http://www.seark.net/~sabra/potato.html  

Another extensive site, tracing the background, course and consequences of the Great Famine.  It includes large amounts of contemporary source material, plus links to other relevant sites.

http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/

An extensive collection of graphic material related to the Potato Famine, culled from The Illustrated London News, Cork Examiner, Pictorial Times, Punch etc.  Again includes links to other sites.
 

World War One
 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm  

A really fine site. It categorises the war in a very user-friendly way, and each category provides good information, high quality graphics and very useful primary sources.  Highly recommended.

http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm  

This takes you to the Reference Library section of Trenches on the Web, a huge site which provides information on all aspects of Trench Warfare. Well worth a visit!  

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/greatwar/trench/frameset.htm

An interesting site based on materials housed in the Public Record Office in London.

http://www.firstworldwar.com

A good introduction to the topic with very clear navigation

http://www.activehistory.co.uk/GCSE/ww1/frameset.htm

As above but includes a very useful section about weapons.

http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm

Looking for photographs to improve your investigation ?  This site contains almost 2,000 images of the war, arranged into categories.

www.nls.uk/experiencesofwar/jock/ trench/main-trench.html

The experiences of a young Scottish soldier as recorded in his diary in the National Library of Scotland.  Good source material and a useful collection of photographs.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/fww_rem/fww-art.htm

Similar to above but this time the diary of a young English soldier.  Vivid source material plus a fine collection of art work showing his experiences in the trenches.

 

Germany 1919-39  

 

Teachers should be extremely cautious about allowing pupils to use search engines for such topics as “Hitler” or “The Nazis”.  There are a large number of neo-Nazi sites on the web whose material is totally unsuitable for pupil access.  The following sites are regarded as suitable for pupil use.

 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnazigermany.htm

As ever, the Spartacus site provides a wealth of information, usefully divided up into a series of sub-topics.  Well worth a look.

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/program.htm  

The History Channel (produced in association with History Review) is a useful starting point.  It divides its information into the categories “gcse” and “A-level”, although there can be considerable overlap.  It includes useful sections on The Rise of the Nazis and a Biography of Hitler. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/nazi/nazihtm.htm 

A good overview of life in Nazi Germany provided by the BBC.  Includes sections on how life changed under the Nazis, how they kept control, and the Jews in Nazi Germany.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/hitler/hitlehtm.htm  

Part of the same series as above, this provides a good background to the weaknesses of Weimar and the way in which Hitler was able to gain power.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi%20Germany.htm

Another site that is full of information and easy to navigate.

 

 

S5 & 6

Here, the range of topics offered makes it impossible to give more than a flavour of what is available.  However, the web can be a very useful source when researching extended essays e.g.

 

Women’s Rights

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk  

This splendid site provides the link to The Emancipation of Women 1860-1920.  This provides good information on a large number of campaigners for Women’s Rights and goes far beyond the normal few entries.

Bismarck

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/alevel/index.htm  

This provides two useful articles on The Bismarck Debate and Bismarck’s policies.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6916/unification2.htm  

This is The German Unification Era, a 9 page article tracing the development of Germany from the 1790s to the downfall of Bismarck.

The U.S.A.

http://www.marist.edu/summerscholars/96/fdrhome.htm  

This is “Building America - FDR’s New Deal”.  The site includes information on the great depression, the New Deal and personal accounts of life in the period.

http://newdeal.feri.org/

This is the New Deal Network (sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute).  It includes a variety of online resources (including classroom resources), and over 4000 relevant images.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnewdeal.htm

An excellent site on Roosevelt and the New Deal.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm  

Another excellent series of pages dealing with the Civil Rights movement from 1860 to 1980.

 

Misc.

http://www.rampantscotland.com/history.htm

If you are interested in Scottish history, this site is invaluable.  It provides links to hundreds of sites relating to the history of Scotland from prehistory to the present day.  It is very long but worth looking at - it is surprising what you can turn up.

The sites mentioned above are only a fraction of those available on the web, but have been cited as being worth entering into Favorites or Bookmarks in order that they can be accessed by pupils without the necessity of typing in complicated URLs.  Many of these sites contain links to other relevant material and are just the starting point for any detailed study.