Resource Centre

Social Studies Online

Daring to Resist
Although this site is based on the movie about three Jewish women who resisted Nazism during World War II, it can be used effectively without actually viewing the film. There are background notes, an interactive timeline, study guides and an excellent set of links.
Levels 5 to 8

Guy Fawkes Day Links
A set of links compiled by the North of Boston Library Exchange.
Levels 1 to 8

Holocaust Links
A set of links for those planning to teach the Holocaust.
Levels 5 to 8

Ireland
Free resources for downloading. A mix of fun and serious information about Ireland.
Levels 1 to 8

National Archives (United Kingdom)
This link will take you direct to the Learning Curve exhibitions, which are based on topics in the History National Curriculum. They provide in-depth information, organised into galleries. Each gallery is an investigation into a theme using primary material, linked to an overall question. Interactive tasks and teacher's notes are included. Topics include the Cold War, the Home Front, Victorian England, the Great War, and Power, Politics and Protest.
Levels 1 to 8

The Nizkor Project
Nizkor is Hebrew for "we will remember"; in this case the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Information about the concentration camps, people involved, the Nuremberg Trials. Examines the issue of holocaust "revisionism". Reference.
Levels 5 to 8

Renaissance Secrets
This Open University/BBC website explores four mysteries from a historian's point of view. Teachers can use this site to explore conspiracy, medicine and inventions in Renaissance Europe.
Levels 5 to 8

Spartacus Educational
A virtual school history programme for the English History curriculum.
Levels 3 to 8

Voices of the Holocaust
The Gateway section of the site provides access to transcripts of interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Levels 5 to 8