A job in recruitment????....you decide!
Wednesday 26 September 2007
Monday 2 July 2007
Cruel Britannia??
What was life like in Britain during the Industrial revolution? The learning curve website takes a look at the key questions to help you decide on what life was like during the Victorian Age! Sources, and info on a range of topics all laid out in a simple and ckear way....a great introduction to life in this period! Some great links too!!!Sunday 1 July 2007
Wednesday 27 June 2007
Saturday 23 June 2007
Tuesday 19 June 2007
Cottoned on yet???
Cotton played a major part in the Industrial Revolution (getting fed up of writing that now) some say it led the way for other industries, they literally 'cottoned on!' This is the Cotton Times website; links, timelines, info, biographies interactive maps and even a bibliography for you to copy... I mean make use of! Click on the cotton to take a look!The Industrial revolution..Simple!
A basic introduction to some of the key areas of the Industrial Revolution.... it's child's play! click on the picture to take a look!
Watt's This??
Watt's all this then? I hear you cry! Well click on the picture for more links to do with the Industrial Revolution. it will hopefulyl clear up some of those 'Whats?' you have been acking yourself..........god these puns are hard work now, they used to come so easily! any help gratefully recieved!
Viva La Revolution!
For all things to do with the Revolution...the Industrial Revolution, click on the picture for a link to site that has a number of primary sources, which you never know, may just help with your coursework.!!!! Enjoy Comrade!
Wednesday 30 May 2007
Have your own Mini H-Team!!!
That's right the launch of the mini H-team! Click on the picture above to add a miniture version of the H-team to your myspace/blogger/facebook/typepad account. You will always be in the know about new updates and you will also be helping the H-team take over the world!Tuesday 8 May 2007
Bitesize............
Increase your chances of doing wlel in the history exams with these exam tips from the wonderful bitesize bbc people type thing! click on the picture of dinner to get going!Not that Seagull......
The FBI site that has documents about the crimes and trials of many of the prohibition era's most notorious gangsters. (not gangstas...you aint american or 'street') Take a look and see what you can find! click on th epicture to get going!Wednesday 18 April 2007
Sunday 1 April 2007
Struggling with sources? Ketchup with this...(see what i did there?)
Not that type of sauce......but the type that you will have deal with on your GCSE exam. Yes, source work forms a large dollop of your examinations and as you will know because you are all dedicated students, it is the basis of paper two.To help you understand source based questions and provide you with tips on how to answer them a handy booklet has been put together. Giving this booklet a good read through will provide you with the skills you need to answer a major part of your course! If you haven't read this you haven't revised....just click on the picture and see for yourself.
Friday 30 March 2007
Bite Me!!!
Revision is not an ugly word.......not the most fun thing you can do sure....but not ugly, especially with the BBC's Bitesize thingy-me-bob!
If you have those GCSE's looming or just want to brush up on what you have learnt recently, dont forget to set the old VHS recorder or even the BETA MAX!
April 3rd 0400-0600
This is a must record show....all about exam skills and source evaluation. Everyone must watch this, if you do you can watch your exam grade rise!
April 4th 0200-0400 hrs
A show concentrating on the Schools History Project course (the one we do) featuring the American West and the good old Medicine Through Time. Another schools history project show is shown on
May 3rd 0400-0600 hrs.
Enjoy!!
Saturday 17 March 2007
Mouldy old dough!
Did you know there was a 'Penicillin Day'? I didn't, and frankly i am impressed! It just shows the impact that Flemming's....er....Florey and Chain's work has had!
This website has a few different activities and some information on penicillin, how it was discovered, how it works, and even tells you how to grow your own mould....if that sort of thing floats ya boat!
Be careful though it is rather Flemmingcentric........does that count as a word?? click the picture and look for yourself!
Monday 12 February 2007
P,P,P,Pick a Poster!
Below are a number of images that have been created as posters for your wonderful H-Team site. Pease look through them and comment on the ones you like and dislike. Which one would like to see advertising the one and only H-Team?
Wednesday 7 February 2007
Game for some revision???
Here's the site that we have mentioned with alol the history games, 'Fling the Teacher' (no representations of yours truely please), 'Walk the Plank,' and of course 'Penalty shootout'!!
Click the picture to get connected! The monkey has no relevance other than i like the image....no monkeys...sorry chimps were harmed during the production of this post!
Have fun!
Tuesday 30 January 2007
Stop playin' around and do some work!
Fancy testing your incredible historical knowledge? then take a look at this quiz site from the History Channel. It has detailed quizzes on a range of topics that are great for testing what you have learnt in lesson, or through personal study. Give 'em a go and leave a comment of your high score.Medicine through time, Russia, The British Empire, American History and the Cold War are all covered and many many more!
Click on the picture to get goin'!
Can ya hear me now???
Now i know you probably listen to your sony walkman cassette player on the way home from school, but try and listen the wireless (radio) instead.For those of you studying medicine through time there is a new series on Radio 4, starting from monday 5th February 2007, every week day for 6 weeks. Called, 'The making of modern medicine,' the series will look at the development of medicine from the time of the greeks through to the present day. it starts at 3.45pm and finishes at 4pm. It's only 15 minutes a day and it will be really useful.
THE MAKING MODERN MEDICINE 3.45pm from 5th Feb Mon-Fri for 6 weeks BBC RADIO 4!!!!
Friday 26 January 2007
Monday 22 January 2007
Shake a leg-acy!
An article on the legacy of Martin Luther King.
http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2007/010807a.html
http://www.h-net.org/~hns/articles/2007/010807a.html
Saturday 20 January 2007
Blog off!
Check out this history blog created by General History and featuring general history. Bits and bobs about history, a sure favourite for anyone who is interested ini all things historic.generalhistory.blogspot.com
Martin Luther King Day!
History 180: Edition #2: Edward Jenner
A short round up on Kayleigh's boyfriend! The guy has an annoying accent, but hey, dont you all!
Bigfoot and friends
No not that Bigfoot, but Chief Bigfoot! Visit this great site to learn all about him and the massacre that occured at wounded knee.http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/index.htm
The Bubonic Rap
A rap about the bubonic plague.......you will end up wishing these two had caught that darn thing!
Get your Bolshe-KICKS!
Bad pun i know! but a short clip of the bolsheviks....look out for a man with a huge 'tasche about 25 seconds in!
Tuesday 16 January 2007
Get ahead with the A to Z!.......move over Slim i got rhymes too!
An A to Z of famous historical people, take a look!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
OY, Flo! Move over for Mary!
Mary Seacole, voted the greatest Black Briton, even though she was from jamaica (no she went of her own accord) did alot for nursing. She worked helping soldiers in the crimean war but old Flo Nightingale stole the limelight! Take a look at why Mary is sooo special!Sally Cinnamon?
1929 film clip, with rare colour footage....i have a bet that none of you watch this full clip!
Saturday 13 January 2007
I predict a RIOT!
Mr Meredith joins Mississippi university....not normally a porblem, but the acceptance of this black student would have massive effects.
Call my Buff......alo!
A clip of a buffalo hunt, it feels like you are watching it through a letter box, but hey it is all good fun!
Friday 12 January 2007
Screwball Scramble!
No not Screwball Scramble, the beat the clock ball bearing game, but the SCRAMBLE for Africa. It's all to do with Imperialism, and is much more fun......check out this site for biogs on individuals and the key events that led to the domination of this continent.
http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/scramble/
Suck it and see........not the fisherman's friends, but the mint imperials!
Look at this mint site about imperialism, it has a number of contemporary sources from articles to cartoons, the only way to find out if it is helpful or not is to suck it and see....Wednesday 10 January 2007
Make Mine Freedom
More anti-communist propaganda fromt he good old USA, note the liberties and freedoms it lists, especially if you are studying civil rights, but also how the right to a fair trial allows to to wolf whistle women....
How to spot a communist!
American anti-communist propaganda, note the groups that are labelled communist, even a group protesting against the actions of the KKK...
Duck and Cover
Fine safety advice from when the cold war was at it's height. Look out for the girl who cant see a 4ft sign, and just think what would happen to the picnic food...i know a nuclear bomb has just gone off but think of the mess!
Tuesday 9 January 2007
There is ROMANOV for everyone at the Alexander Palace!
There is lots of room at the Alexander Palace, even with all the pictures, tours, sources articles and biographies on everything Romanov! Check it out!Monday 8 January 2007
Proper Propaganda!
Small girl with an inability to count, an atomic bomb, cold war tensions and one guaranteed victory!
Say 'allo to ma little friend!
Thr original scarface, the person on who both the 1932 and 1983 films were based. Learn all you ever wanted to know 'Scarface' in this detailed biography of Alphonse Capone, top of the the FBI's most wanted list!Dont keep it bottled up... speakeasy!
Here's a real swell site that'll stop you bein' a Dumb Dora and turn you into the Cat's Miaow, well as long as it's to do with uncle's Sams ban on the giggle water... all aspects of 1920s life is covered including a section on 20's slang!Sunday 7 January 2007
The Roaring Twenties?...You decide!
A biography of the 1920s, look at the information and take a vote to decide was the twenties a 'roar' or really a'yawn'.
Gangster Trippin'!
All aspects of the roaring twenties are investigated in this detailed look at the decade. All types of news and info, including some great pictures. Gangsters and speakeasies a plenty!Have you got the bottle? Then put it down and check out this site!
Have you got the bottle to check out this site? It is all about the anti-saloon (no, not your mum's sister) league. This group was one of the influencing factors that led to America's dry spell. (no, not the weather)You Dirty Rat!
The schools history site, with some information about the USA in the 20's, including gangsters and prohibition.
I LINK therefore I am!
Two sites that have a lot of links about America in the 1920s, from biographies, to government reports, to news articles to cartoons, to music to...well...basically anything you need to know about life in the Jazz age! (some links may be inactive, but its still pretty good)
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm
CAPTAIN AMERICA.....if he is that hard, why does he need a shield?
A biography of the United States split into a range of topics and eras....if your studying the USA you could do worse than YANK out this page!Tuesday 2 January 2007
Kennedy vs Khrushchev in Cuba
You have read the info, now play the game....can you avert a nuclear war?Monday 1 January 2007
What do you mean i have 'had enough'?
What do you mean I have 'had enough'? I can see perfectly well.....Glug, Glug, Glug.....Hic!
Drunk on Information?
The spartacus website discusses prohibition...enjoy!
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAprohibition.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAprohibition.htm
Bit of a Flapper?
Background about life in the USA between 1918-39, a time of gangsters, dancing but strictly no drinking officer!
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