History > Key Stage 3

Links to Useful Websites

Year 7

The Voyages of Discovery

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• More on Henry
• The Age of Exploration (scroll down and you will find information on all aspects of this topic on this excellent site)

Medieval Realms

• The Norman Conquest
• Battle of Hastings game
• The Battle of Hastings

The Romans

• The Roman Empire
• The Romans

Year 8

The Making of the United Kingdom, 1500-1750

• Tudor England
• Elizabethan England

Industrialisation in Britain, 1750-1900

• British History 1700-1900
• Quarry Bank Mill
• Emancipation of women 1860-1920

Year 9

Black People of the Americas

• Black History
• Power, Politics and Protest – How and Why did Political rights Change in the 19th Century?
• Slavery

The Era of the Second World War

• The First World War
• World War One
• Twentieth Century Heroes and Villains – Winston Churchill and Dresden, Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Stalin and the industrialization of the U.S.S.R., President Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb.
• The German Propaganda Archive – examples of Nazi propaganda (posters and speeches and much more). BE WARNED: SOME OF THIS MATERIAL IS HIGHLY RACIST AND MAY OFFEND.
• GCSE Modern World History – absolutely essential for GCSE students in years 10 and 11. Also useful for year 9 students studying The Era of th Second World War.
• Revision – superb resouces, information, explanations, tips, quizzes and examples of exam questions.
• History Study Stop – games, GCSE Revision Quiz, articles, TV programmes, special offers.

General

• Active History – an excellent site for all years. Includes interactive games and simulations. Ask your History teacher for the password.
• Britannia: British History
• Exhibitions – written and pictorial sources on the for years 9,10 and 11. Themes include World War 1, 19th century politics and protest and Victorian Britain.
• History Matters – Why History is such an important subject.
• ProQuest Learning – ask your History teacher for your username and password in order to access the superb members section of this site.
• School History – this is an excellent site which includes resouces, quizzes and activities for all year groups.
• Snapshots – activities based on visual sources. Themes covered include how we find out about 19th Century people; Victorian homes and leisure; was Hitler a lunatic?; was Guy Fawkes tortured?; what did people think of the new Poor Law?; how did the Home Front prepare for war?.
• Spartacus Encyclopedias – superb historical encyclopedia.
• The History Net – an American view of U.S. and world history including the Second World War.
  

Pages created by J Reeve, 2006.