Skip to content

  • Increase font size
  • Decrease font size
  • Default font size
The lighthouse for learning
The lighthouse for learning
You are here:- Home Education Websites Education Websites History KS 3 and above
PDF Print E-mail
History KS 3 and above

General

General

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/history.shtml BBC Secondary History Activities

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Default.aspx?Subject=13&AgeGroup=4 Key Stage 3 History links from Topmarks

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Default.aspx?Subject=13&AgeGroup=5 Key Stage 4 History links from Topmarks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ BBC History

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/ History links for Schools - Click on the year group, GCSE or A level at the top

http://www.mrallsophistory.com Revision website for GCSE

http://www.britannia.com/history/ History of Britain

http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/ The History Channel

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html British History

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ The National Archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education National Archives resources for schools

http://www.refdesk.com/history.html History links with emphasis on America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative.html History of Africans in America 1450-1750

http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ The institute of Historical Research

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ Eye Witness - History through the eyes of those who lived it

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html World History

http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu Historical Documents

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ Historical maps

Buildings, 20th Century, Victorians

Historic Buildings

http://www.camelotintl.com/tower_site/tour/ Virtual tour of the Tower of London

http://www.lincolncathedral.com/ Lincoln Cathedral

http://www.castlewales.com/ The Castles of Wales

http://www.castles.org/ Castles of the World

20th Century

http://www.vietnampix.com/ Vietnam War

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/ Vietnam War

http://www.vwip.org/ Vietnam War

http://www.iwm.org.uk Imperial War Museum

http://www.worldwar1.com/ World War 1

http://www.annefrank.org/ Anne Frank

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/wars/
wwii.html World War 2 links

http://www.westallswar.org.uk/ 'Westall's War' - one of the worst bombing disasters of World War 2

http://www.1940.co.uk/ All about the 1940s

http://www.winstonchurchill.org/ Winston Churchill

http://library.thinkquest.org/27629/ 'The Passing of a Century' - a huge web site about the 20th Century#

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home/vtc-ks3-home/vtc-ks3-history/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events-world_war_1/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events-world_war_1-lesson_resources Lesson Resources for World War 1

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc-home/vtc-ks3-home/vtc-ks3-history/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events-world_war_2/vtc-ks3-history-20th_century_individuals_and_events-world_war_2-lesson_resources Lesson Resources from World War 2

Victorians

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/ Children in Victorian Britain - from the BBC

http://www.victorians.org.uk 'Virtual Victorians' - Victorian life from Tiverton Museum

http://www.victorianweb.org/ The Victorians

http://home.kendra.com/victorianrituals/ Victorian rituals

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ The history of the Workhouse

http://www.camelotintl.com/heritage/victorian_school/ The Victorian school

http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/ Florence Nightingale

http://www.vam.ac.uk/ The Victoria and Albert Museum

http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon58.html Queen Victoria in Britannia Encyclopaedia

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html Victorian web sites

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/i.html Brunel - Victorian engineer

Guy Fawkes, Tudors, Middle Ages, Vikings, Anglo-Saxon

Guy Fawkes

http://www.gunpowder-plot.org/ The Gunpowder Plot

http://www.parliament.uk/gunpowderplot/children_index.htm The Gunpowder Plot form the Parliament website

Tudors

http://www.tudorbritain.org Tudors

http://www.tudorhistory.org/ Tudors lots of information including the six wives of Henry VIII

http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html Tudor England - includes primary source material

http://www.maryrose.org/ The Mary Rose

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

http://www.hrp.org.uk/HamptonCourtPalace/ Hampton Court - Henry VIII's palace

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizabib.htm The writings and speeches of Elizabeth I

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/drake Sir Francis Drake

Middle Ages

http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/ The Middle Ages

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ Renaissance works printed

http://galileo.rice.edu/ Galileo

Vikings

http://battle1066.com/ The Battle of Hastings

http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/nordic/ Saxon and Viking gods

Anglo-Saxons

http://www.britannia.com/history/h50.html Anglo-Saxons from Britannia History

http://www.eng-h.gov.uk/mpp/mcd/sub/images/porch1.gif Portchester Saxon Shore Fort

Ancient History

Ancient History

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/families_and_children.aspx Explore ancient treasures from the British Museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/explore_introduction.aspx Highlights of the British Museum's collections

http://www.pantheon.org/ An Encyclopaedia of Mythology, Folklore and Legend

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk British Museum's website on Mesopotamia covering Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria

http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/myths.htm Contains information on Roman, Egyptian, Saxon and Viking myths/gods

Ancient Rome

http://rome.mrdonn.org/ Ancient Rome

http://www.mrdowling.com/702rome.html Ancient Rome

http://www.romansinsussex.co.uk/level1/ Romans in Sussex

http://www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeline_one.html Ancient Rome Timeline

http://www.brims.co.uk/romans/ Romans

Ancient Greece

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/welcome.html Ancient Greece interactive website

http://mythman.com/ Greek Mythology

http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html Ancient Greece from Mr Dowling

http://www.ancientgreece.com/ Ancient Greece

http://www.stoa.org/athens/ The Ancient City of Athens

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/ Hercules

Ancient Egypt

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk Ancient Egypt from the British Museum

Aztecs

http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm The Aztecs