David Peal, Tutor and Coach
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Podcasts on history and the news
Victorian Life
Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations
(19th century Britain)
Victorians, 1850-1901
(National Archives, UK)
Victorians
(British Library)
British Prime Ministers: Interactive Timelines
The Victorians
(interactive BBC site for school use)
British Empire: Overview
(audio)
Sceptered Isle
(extensive BBC series with information about 90 episodes in history of British Empire)
Irish Potato Famine
Related information about
potato famine
The Origin of Plant Pathology and the Potato Famine (and Other Stories of Plant Diseases
)
Views of the Famine
John Snow
(UCLA site on the man who discovered the cause of
cholera
)
Irish peasants during the potato famine, 1846-7
Cholera Online
(National Library of Medicine)
History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy
The Great Transatlantic Cable
(PBS Web site devoted to TV special about the cable)
Transatlantic Cable (
for kids - BBC)
Victorian Web
Victorian Britain: An industrial nation? A happy nation? A healthy nation?
Britain, 1906-1918
(National Archive, UK)
Prisoner 4099
(a boy imprisoned for stealing rabbits)
Charles Darwin
Origin of Species
Darwin and art
Pine Tree Web
(primary sources on early history of scouting around the world)
Provisioning a Transatlantic Liner
(Scientific American article, 1901)
Transatlantic Crossing
(9-part series about the ships that brought immigrants to the US, especially from Norway)
About
Resources
Study skills
The news & media literacy
History resources
Geography resources
Podcasts on history and the news