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World War I Links page
These links were collected for our Year 9 project on the First World War.
Spartacus, BBC, Imperial War Museum, Trenches on the Web, Poetry, Art and much,
much more...
Go, look!
And these are further ones worth investigating:
PRO LearningCurve: The Great War, 1914-1918
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/greatwar/default.htm
Seven galleries investigating central aspects of the Great War and asking the
question "Why did people say that the Great War had to be the war to end all
wars ?"
Excellent investigation usaing primary material and encouraging thinking.
World War One - site with notes on all aspects of the first World War
http://www.granada-learning.com/yitm/ww1/
The Western Front 1914 - 1918
http://www.richthofen.com/ww1sum/
The War Times Journal have produced this summary of the Western Front during
the First World War.
The Eastern Front 1914 - 1916
http://www.richthofen.com/ww1sum2/
A World War One summary of the Eastern Front, from The War Times Journal.
Maps and photographs are included.
World War 1 Eurohist
From AP European History
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/EHAP_Topics/EHAP-Topic-WW1.htm
A list of assignments & questions, with links to information sites on a
range of topics.
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm
Useful World War One links
WWI Image Archive - Earth Station
http://www.earthstation1.com/WWI.html
Austria-Hungary Belgium France Germany Great Britain Greece Italy Japan
Maps Russia Serbia Turkey United States
Angli Campus Eric Brown
http://www.angliacampus.com/public/sec/history/eric/
Interesting source material following an officer who died on the Somme.
Some pages have an interactive exercise - sometimes quite simple - to sustain
interest and exercise the brain!
Topics on: The British Expeditionary Force · The race for the sea · Eric Wreford
Brown · Travelling to the front · The Ypres salient · A letter from the trenches
· The daily routine · Officers and men · Death of a friend · Reliable sources
· The Somme and the death of Eric · Aftermath ·
2nd Battle of Ypres
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/
In-depth treatment of the Second Battle of Ypres in the First World War can
be found at this excellent site.
Well organised and easy to navigate, it makes good use of Javascript to provide
detailed pop-up maps and timelines.
Intersting and effective.
Versailles - all you could possibly want to know!
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html
Treaty of Versailles
http://www.rpfuller.freeservers.com/gcse/history/2.html
Good factual summary - in some but not excessive detail.
Also German views listed, and what was ignored.
Peace Treaties with Germany's Allies (1919-23)
http://www.rpfuller.freeservers.com/gcse/history/3.html
Good summary with comments
Inter-war diplomacy
http://www.rpfuller.freeservers.com/gcse/history/4.html
Good summary with comments
BBC Education World War II sites featuring, amongst others:
Countdown to War - Day by day news reports as the world approaches war.
Audio clips - Hear the actual news, reports and programmes from 1939*.
Evacuation: The True Story - In depth article looking at the true story behind the evacuation.
Memories of the Evacuees - Listen to audio recollections*
The Daily Mirror Reports - What was happening in Britain on September 2, 1939?
The Blitz: A Graphic Summary - With photos from the Imperial War Museum.BBC News Archive
Your Memories of WWII
Sights and Sounds
Hitler's Address to the ReichstagWWII Programme Archive
Finest Hour - with Daily Mirror articles
War of the Century
One Foot in the Past - Defence of the Land - Defence of the People - Defence of Art
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/wwtwo.shtml
Causes of World War II - a useful round-up essay from Grolier:
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_1.html
World War II Commemoration
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html
Grolier Online have produced this excellent site which outlines the conflict,
its causes, heroes and impact on history.
There are biographies of the main personalities involved.
Contains: The Story of World War II - Read all about the conflict, its causes,
its heroes, and its long-term impact on history.
Biographies & Articles - More informative articles about the war, organized
by person and topic.
Air Combat Films, Photographs, World War II Links.
World War II - the full story from Grolier - excellent:
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html
Eyewitness accounts of World War II
http://www.war-experience.org/collections/index.html
A developing site: Diaries, interviews from people giving personal accounts
from the Army, Navy, RAF, Home Front, Civilians abroad...
A rich resource of first-hand experiences.
German armed forces in World War II - detailed look at every aspect:
http://www.feldgrau.com/
WWII resources, concentrating on Pearl Harbor:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/
Focus on Cartoons - Public Record Office
An interesting examination - very useful for GCSE:
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/FocusOn/Cartoons/setup.htm
WWII Sights and sounds
http://www.earthstation1.com/wwii.html
Aircraft, America, Orphan Ann ("Tokyo Rose"), Great Britain, Czechoslovakia,
France, Germany, The Holocaust, Italy, Japan, Poland, Propaganda Broadcasters,
Propaganda Posters, Russia [Updated 5/31/00] Yugoslavia, Sound Effects, Warships
WWII Britain Audio and Posters
http://www.earthstation1.com/Britain_WWII.html
D-Day, North Africa, Aircraft, El Alamein, Asia & The Pacific, Battleship Bismarck,
Propaganda Broadcasts, The Battle of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill,
Sir Anthony Eden, Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth Europe's Conquest, Europe's
Liberation, King George VI, The Graf Spee, H.M.S. Hood, Field Marshal Montgomery,
Edward R. Murrow, Propaganda Posters, Sound Effects, Warships
Normandy 1944
http://search.eb.com/normandy/week1/buildup.html
Excellent Britannica Online page. Essays on Build Up | Invasion | Fighting Inland | Break-out | Normandy in Memory. Plenty of illustrations and diaries.
D-Day 6 June 1944 - History Revisited
http://www.dday.co.uk/
Website designed for those who want to visit Normandy beaches. Comprehensive illustrated pages on all main areas and key topics. A well designed site that delivers useful information in digestible amounts.
Wikipedia Battle of Normandy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Normandy
A comprehensive site but almost entirely text. Hot-links through every article make it easy to look up key points - but also to get taken off topic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2004/d-day/default.stm
BBC site: descriptions from the time and after, pictures and memorial occasions covered.
D-Day: Canada's role
http://www.cbc.ca/news/dday/
Canadian Broadcasting site - reasonable coverage for its Canadian focus.
Imagining D-Day - from Britannica.com - 'The History behind Saving
Private Ryan:
http://normandy.eb.com/
London at war
http://www.holnet.org.uk/learningzone/londonatwar/index.html
This excellent site shows you aspects of how Londoners prepared for and survived
the Blitz.
Organised in 5 sections: Shelter | Air Raids | Daily Life | Children.
Each of these contains further sub-sections.
The Public Record Office: Learning Curve Snapshot
The
Home Front: How did people prepare for the war?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot09/snapshot9.htm
The Public Record Office: Learning Curve Exhibition
The
Home Front 1939-45
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/homefront/
There are 7 sections: Preparations for War | Evacuation
| Bombing of Britain | Empire Home Front | Everyday Life | Women at War | Spies
Excellent investigation using primary material and encouraging thinking.
Home Front Interviews at Oakham School
http://history.oakham.rutland.sch.uk/taste3.htm#Home_Front
Over 6 years some classes at Oakham School have carried out interviews with
people who lived in Britain during the Second World War.
These interviews provide a good source of 'Home Front' material - there is a
wide range of evidence.
Using 'Authorware Player' you can search across each year's interviews for key
words.
The History Place: Holocaust Timeline -with links to articles. Excellent:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
About.com The Holocaust. Links to a massive compilation of articles,
a timeline, a glossary, and much more.
It's all here:
http://history1900s.miningco.com/education/history1900s/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm
The Holocaust: a guide for students - from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/nrule.htm
Collection of on-line exhibits from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, including Anne Frank the writer, Kristallnacht, Berlin Olympics,
Children in hiding, Kovno Ghetto, Persecution of homosexuals, Dietrich Bonehoeffer...
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/
Holocaust Learning Center
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
Very well organised - excellent for teachers & bright students.
Good text and pictures, well linked - together and to other resources.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
A great site for instructional resources on the Holocaust.
Good clear outline of the following sections, with links to documents and illustrations.
Rise of the Nazi Party (1918-1933) | Nazification (1933-1939). | The Ghettos
(1939-1941). | The Camps (1941-1942). | Resistance (1942-1944). | Rescue and
Liberation (1944-1945). | Aftermath (1945-2000).
Also links to other recommended related sites.
Stories of the Holocaust:
http://remember.org/mooney/toc.html
Witnesses of the Holocaust:
http://remember.org/witness/
Plans of the Concentration Camps - an interactive guide to Birkenau
& Mauthausen
http://remember.org/camps/
Images of the Holocaust: 2 pages of a catalogue of powerful images:
http://remember.org/image/images1.html#Start
http://remember.org/image/images.html#Shoah
Yad-Vashem
http://www.Yad-Vashem.ORG.IL/
This impressive site provides a Jewish perspective on the Holocaust.
Atomic Bomb: Decision
Documents on the decision to use the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
A-Bomb WWW Museum
Iinformation on the impact the first atomic bomb had on Hiroshima - to 'show
that such weapons of total destruction should never again be used'.
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/
Hiroshima: Was it necessary?
A very full essay, with supporting materials.
http://www.doug-long.com/
PRO LearningCurve: Truman - Hero or Villain?
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/heroesvillains/truman/default.htm
Part of the excellent LearningCurve site - one of a series on 20th C leaders
This focuses on Truman and the decision to use the A-Bomb - examine contemporary
sources, consider rival interpretations of Truman's role.
EarthStation Propaganda Posters - excellent.
U.S. British, Russian, French, German. Organised by country:
http://www.earthstation1.com/warpostr.html
300 American World War II posters
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
Spartacus Emancipation of Women, 1750-1920.
Every person, organisation and topic you could possibly want!
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm
'The West' - PBS site - huge and full of good material, including many
photographic images
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
American West History Channel
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/americanwest.html
Simple summary - good overview
The First Americans
http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
A wonderful site on the culture, history and legends of Native Americans.
Starts at a basic level. Well illustrated.
If you follow the hypertext links on each page you can go deeper and get to
some excellent source material, stories & illustrations.
Native Americans
http://www.nativeamericans.com/
Basic information with pretty pictures - but links to some excellent material:
Buffalo and its importnance to the Native American way of life;
Pages on all(?) the Native American Peoples or "Tribes".
Poster galleries.
Eyewitness - The Old West
An interesting collection of illustrated stories
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/owfrm.htm
Information on Individual Native American Nations - encyclopedic
http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/nations.html
Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association
A wonderful site for browsing the biographies of characters such as Sitting
Bull, Reno and Custer, as well as a collection of photographs taken from the
Little Bighorn Battlefield and a quiz to do too!
http://www.garryowen.com/default.htm
George Armstrong Custer - biography with links from 'The West' PBS TV
series site
A good introduction to the man and his doings
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/custer.htm
Eyewitness to the Battle of the Little Bighorn - from 'The West' PBS
TV series site
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/six/bighorn.htm
Artists
Albert Bierstadt
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/bierstadt_albert.htmlGeorge Catlin
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/catlin_george.htmlThomas Cole
http://www.yale.edu/amstud/cole/Frederic Remington
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/remington_frederic.htmlCharles M. Russell
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/russell_charles_m.htmlArt of the American West: 9 paintings by various artists
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/%7Ehhk6s/art-west.html
African American History
http://www.encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=761595158
Encarta article - actually 29 chapters that tells the story of African Americans
from the 15th century to the present day.
Looks at the main issues. Each article contains links to other Encarta articles,
and to other relevant websites.
An excellent starting point for studies of Black Peoples of the Americas.
Africanaonline
http://www.africanaonline.com/introduction.htm
Key topics in African-American history in sections: Africa, Slavery, Civil Rights,
Activists, Sports, Arts, Poetry.
Presented in clear structure - useful articles and links to other sites.
Britannica Study Guide
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/study/index_eb.htm
Thin at first glance, but if you explore you can find usseful articles and activities.
Spartacus Encyclopedia of Slavery 1840-1960
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm
Another very full, superbly organised encyclopedia from Spartacus.
Language is accessible, aricles illustrated and very well supported with source
quotations
Sections on Slave Accounts, The Slave System, Slave Life, Events and Issues,
Campaigners Against Slavery (66), Political Organisations, British Campaigners.
Encarta Africana: The Peculiar Institution
http://www.africana.com/specials/packages/peculiar.asp
"Slavery brought Africans to America and transformed them, their descendants,
the continent and the world. Two and half centuries of enslavement, followed
by another century of discrimination, limitations and abuse, have left indelible
wounds."
Articls on: Slavery in the United States | Transatlantic Slave Trade | Amistad
Mutiny | Slave Narratives | Free Blacks in the United States | Underground Railroad
| Slave Rebellions in the United States | Abolitionism in the United States
| Dred Scott Case
Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, the African
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
As it says: 'This is the very moving story of an African who was captured and
put on a slave ship.'
He features in every textbook!
BBC biography of Olaudah Equiano
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/equiano_olaudah.shtml
Guardian Black History Links Page
http://www.educationunlimited.co.uk/netclass/schools/history/links/0,5607,97492,00.html
Some good sites -although most are listed here.
BLACK RESISTANCE: Slavery in the United States
http://www.afro.com/history/slavery/main.html
Collection of simple articles. Lively style.
Encarta Africana: Lynching
http://www.africana.com/research/encarta/tt_374.asp
Article - intelligent, advanced language.
No pictures
What is lynching?
http://www.africana.com/research/blackfacts/bl_fact_202.asp
And other articles: Jim Crow etc - use the search machine
Encarta Africana: KuKluxKlan
http://www.africana.com/research/encarta/tt_111.asp
Article - intelligent, advanced language. No pictures
And other articles: Jim Crow etc - use the search machine.
Famous African Americans in the Humanities:
20TH CENTURY - a biographical guide to resources
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/htmls/humafro.html
Everybody who is/was anybody, and maybe some more in the fields of Art, Education,
Literature, Religion and Philosophy.
No politicians or campaigners unless they fit these categories - many do.
Lest we forget - Bennie McRae:
'Our agenda is simple. The contributors and I offer you the history, culture,
preservation efforts, and current events of African-Americans, other ethnic,
non-ethnic groups and individuals. We focus on and emphasize their sacrifices,
relationships, interactions, patriotism as well as their contributions to the
growth and development of this great nation. Let us never forget them.'
http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/
Very wide-ranging collection of links. 10% is worth following
BlackHistory Sounds
http://blackhistory.eb.com/audiov.html
Sound/Video files of MLK, Malcolm X and others.
Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This website is a companion to 'Africans in America', a six-hour public television
series.
"The website chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States
-- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end
of the American Civil War in 1865 -- and explores the central paradox that is
at the heart of the American story: a democracy that declared all men equal
but enslaved and oppressed one people to provide independence and prosperity
to another."
Usual excellent PBS site.
Language is quite advanced but it is well organised and well illustrated.
Resource bank of annotated images and documents, stories and commentaries.
Useful Teacher's area.
Library of Congress Exhibition: The African American Odyssey: A Quest
for Full Citizenship
This is the address for the Civil Rights section, from where you can also get
to earlier periods. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html
Includes short factual descriptions of key episodes & some good illustrations.
'Williamsburg: Half Free, Half Slave'
http://www.history.org/History/teaching/enslaved/a1.html
"In the eighteenth century, half the population of colonial Williamsburg
was African-American.
Who were they, those first African-Americans? Where did they come from? And
how did they become enslaved in the first place? How can we find the answers?"
A useful researching exercise, making use of on-line resources.
Welcome to African American History!
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/index.html
Fairly comprehensive site. Useful Table of Contents.
Several historical good articles, as it happened stories. No illustrations
Sections (each further divided into separate cases/pages) on
1. : The Dred Scott Case (1857): http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html
2. After the Civil War (1865-1900): http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/post-civilwar/index.html
3. Early Civil Rights Struggles (1945-1955): http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/index.html
4. The Civil Rights Movement (1955-1965): http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
5. School Integration (1955-1975): http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/index.html
Including:
The Murder of Emmett Till: http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html
Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/montbus.html
School Integration in Little Rock, Arkansas http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/school-integration/lilrock/index.html
Mississippi & Freedom Summer http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/missippi.html
African Americans
http://www.africanamericans.com/
Huge site - links at the top of this page to:
Activism | Africa | Africana | African American History Month | African Languages
| African Origins | Afrocentric | Archives | Arts | Authors | Biographies |
Birth of a Nation | Black Films | Black Saints | Black Videos | Black Indians
| Broadcasting | Canadian | Catholics | Celebrities | Census Facts | Civil Rights
| HB Colleges | Culture | Dating | Demographics | Education | Educational Potpourri
| Famous | Speeches | Fashion | Fraternities/Sororities | Genealogy | Harlem
| Health | Heritage | Historical Documents | History | Juneteenth | K-12 | Kids
| Kwanzaa | Links | Literature | Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | MLKjr Speeches
| Military | Misc | Museums | Music | My Bondage and My Freedom | National Parks
and Historic Sites | Negro National Anthem | National Urban League | Newsgroups
| Politics | Potpourri | Professional Organizations | Radio | Reference | Religion
| Resources | Sciences | Shopping | Slavery | Sports | This Week in Black History
| Today in Black History | Timeline | Up From Slavery | Women | Women's Health
| Rosa Parks | Home
Spartacus Encyclopedia of Civil Rights, 1860-1980
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
Another very full, superbly organised encyclopedia from Spartacus.
Language is accessible, aricles illustrated and very well supported with source
quotations
Sections on: Campaigners : 1860-1900 (94) | Campaigners : 1900-1980 (108) |
1840-1900: Issues, Events & Organizations | 1900-1980: Issues, Events & Organizations
Encarta Africana: Civil Rights Movement
http://www.africana.com/research/encarta/civil.asp
Article - intelligent, advanced language. No pictures
Civil Rights Documents
http://www.africanamericans.com/Documents.htm
Some major documents for the history of coloured people in the USA, from 1705
to 1966.
The Integration of Little Rock Central High School
http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/gallery/faculty/counts/integration.html
Single page Photo article, with spelling mistake! Simple resource for the case.
Key Sites on Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/kngsites.htm
15 sites, with notes explaining what each offers.
Links for Martin Luther King - SeattleTimes
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKlink.html
8 more links (some duplicate).
Speeches of Martin Luther King
http://www.africanamericans.com/MLKjrSpeechMenu.htm
Links to the texts of his major speeches.
"I have a dream"
http://www.encarta.msn.com/find/MediaMax.asp?pg=3&ti=761595158&idx=461517407
Listen to a clip of MLK's famous speech.
"I have a dream" 2
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/sound/dream_resample.wav
Longer (1 minute), leading up to previous link.
Martin Luther King: "I have a dream"
http://www.mit.edu/people/yandros/doc/i-have-a-dream.txt
The Speech! Text
Stanford University: The Martin Luther King Papers Project
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Excellent site
Includes:
Hear extracts from 9 landmark speeches:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/multimedia.html
Encarta Africana: March on Washington
http://www.africana.com/specials/packages/march_on_washington.asp
"Forty years ago the Civil Rights Movement had its grandest hour. The August
28, 1963 March on Washington had an obvious impact, both on the passage of civil
rights legislation and on nationwide public opinion."
A collection on the march, the background, the main figures and organisations
involved.
National Civil Rights Museum
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/gallery/movement.asp
The Interactive Tour tells the story from before the Civil War.
Very well illustrated, with not too much text to a page - but you can only navigate
it in order.
Takes a long time to get to the twentieth century.
To jump to the Brown vs Board of Education case in 1954, click here: http://216.157.9.6/civilrights/tour/it26.html
University of Virginia: History of the Civil Rights Movement
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/civilrights/syllabus.html
This is a fantastic site for Julian Bond's civil rights course. Bond is the current president of the NAACP.
If you click on the dates on the syllabus, a variety of useful audiovisual source materials come up.
Interpreting the Irish Famine
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
Interpreting - not a neutral version! But well organised and powerful.
IrelandStory: The Great Famine
http://www.irelandstory.com/past/famine/index.htm
Sections on: Prelude to Famine: Irish Agriculture, The Potato, Economics,
Demographics
The Famine: Potato Blight, Distribution of Famine Effects, Peel's Relief
Programme to July 1846, The Winter of 1846 to 1847, The Summer of Black '47,
The Famine after 1847.
Effects of Famine: Agriculture, Emigration, Demographics
Illustrated London News
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/ILN/Index.html
16 articles, 72 engravings from the Illustrated London News, between 1842 and
1857.
Fascinating and detailed resource.
BBC: The Search for Peace
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/northern_ireland/understanding/default.stm
"Piece together the puzzle of the Northern Ireland conflict by clicking the related subjects"...
4 sections on
Profiles, Themes, Events, Parties/Paramilitaries - 10-24 articles in each, each page about 400 words. All together this site gives a good introduction to the recent history of Northern Ireland.
Watch out for typing errors though!
The Troubles
http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/sligo/93/past/troubles/index.htm
Maps & Statistics on the Troubles, 1969-1998
BBC: Good Friday Agreement
http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsifs&tab=news&q=good+%2B+friday+%2Bagreement§ion=&range=range&fromday=1&frommonth=11&fromyear=1997&today=30&tomonth=6&toyear=2004&order=sortboth
Search the BBC website for articles on the Good Friday Agreement.
CAIN: Good Friday Agreement
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/peace/docs/agreement.htm
The Good Friday Agreement - full text from the CAIN website
CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet): Murals Gallery
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/mccormick/intro.htm
The Directory contains a brief description, information on location, and status
of 1,756 murals across Northern Ireland, photographed since 1996.
Organised into albums - with thumbnail, description, location, date, status…
click on the thumbnail to go to fullpicture.
Not every mural is available as a photograph, but the site is continually developing.
There is a link to publications available on Murals in Northern Ireland.
BBC History Murals in Northern Ireland Gallery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/troubles/gallery/index.shtml
Divided into 4 galleries
Republican: (1981-1994), (1995-2000)
Loyalist: (1981-1996), (1998-2000)
An easy to use guide - well organised with a short but good selection.
BBC News Picture Gallery of Murals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/771541.stm
Picture gallery: Northern Ireland murals
Northern Ireland's political murals tell the stories of communities - and some
of the darkest days of the Troubles. Here is a selection of some of them.
BBC Profile: Gerry Adams
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1287262.stm
BBC Profile: David Trimble
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/765174.stm
WWW-VL: History Of Ireland
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/eire/
Links on all aspects of Irish History
History of India
http://www.historyofindia.com/home.html
Easily navigated, Indian site which discusses the history of the nation from
8000 BC to modern times.
It is divided into time periods. The section covering the British in India covers
the East India Company, the Indian Mutiny, the Raj, and Independence.
Presentation is good, although the content is not very extensive.
The life and death of Mahatma Gandhi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_50000/50664.stm
The BBC produced this illustrated single-page article on the life and influence
of Gandhi in 1998 on the fiftieth anniversary of his assassination.
Unambitious but it gives a good overview of his career & ideas.