Unfortunately revision is a fact of life. The good news is that there are lots of resources out there to help on the World Wide Web. We have listed some of the best ones below.
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Our wiki is building up a collection of activities, games and other resources to help you with your History studies. It will soon have resources for every year group in the school.
Years 7-9
School History and Active History are both massive websites full of revision hints and tips, activities and games. They are both useful for all year groups. Particularly for Years 7 to 11. Try your hand at Fling the Teacher on School History or have a go at interviewing Stalin or Hitler on Active History. Both come well recommended. You will need a User Name and Password for Active History - ask your teacher for these.
History Stuff is a new website with lots of games and activities on topics such as Henry VIII, the Reformation and life in the Trenches during World War One. There's something for everybody on this useful little site.
If you have a project to do then Spartacus is the place to start. It is packed full of information on everything you will ever need to know about. There are not many funky graphics but it is well worth a visit or 6.
TimeRef.com is a new website which will make medieval history even more exciting than it is already! Take a virtual tour around a castle, build a timeline, operate a trebuchet and much, much more. Great for Year 7.
Trenches on the Web is the place to go for World War One. It contains everything you could possibly need to know about this dreadful war.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has a database for you to search which lists every single casualty of World Wars One and Two. It will tell you what happened to the soldiers killed during the wars.
Angelfire has all the information you need to complete your Victorian Day project on Victorian Servants.
This link will take you to a role playing game to help you find out about the Luddites and working conditions in Britain in Victorian times.
GCSE Year 10-11
John Clare is a very experienced history teacher and writer of textbooks who has built his own website for GCSE Modern World revision. It covers all the topics we do at Farnborough Hill and is well worth adding to your Favourites list.
BBC Bitesize also covers our syllabus in easy to revise chunks. They even have history revision MP3s - now there's no excuse!
This link from BBC Bitesize will take you to a "Make your own Mindmap" page where you can create, save and print mindmaps on any topic you like.
School History and Active History are both massive websites full of revision hints and tips, activities and games. They are both useful for all year groups. Particularly for Years 7 to 11. Try your hand at Fling the Teacher on School History or have a go at interviewing Stalin or Hitler on Active History. Both come well recommended. You will need a User Name and Password for Active History - ask your teacher for these.
Spartacus is packed full of information on the syllabus we cover at GCSE.
Handsworth Grammar School History Department have produced an excellent site with podcasts on how to answer the questions in the exam papers. There is also stacks of other relevant information for the GCSE course on this site.
I Love History is another comprehensive GCSE History revision site. It also boasts of podcasts for all the topics that we cover.
The Canadian museum The Musee McCord has an excellent interactive game to help you to understand life in the USA in the 1920s. Choose whether to be a young man or woman about town and find out if you would have survived in the very modern world of the "Roaring Twenties".
Wall Street Whiz is a simulation of the Wall Street Crash. You have $100,000 to spend on stocks and shares. Spend your money wisely as you try to survive 1929 with your bank balance intact. You will need to register before you can play this excellent free game.
The Authentic History Centre is an American website dedicated to the History of the Twentieth Century. Visit this site to hear the music, listen to the radio programmes, and see the sights of the 1919-1941 period in the USA.
Teacher Tube is rapidly building a comprehensive library of videos useful for the GCSE course. Currently there are films available to watch on Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan and the Reichstag Fire among many others.
History Support is a not a website for those of you who like flashing pictures and funky animations. However, it is an excellent resource for hints on tackling GCSE questions. It also boasts a very useful Revision Checklist section which covers all of the topics that you will be examined on.
AS and A2 Years 12-13
The Historical Association is developing an area of it's website to support A Level History students. There is a section on study skills, podcasts on topics including Russia and 20th Century China and a collection of articles on a wide variety of Historical periods. You need a password to access this area of their site. Ask your History teacher for this.
Another website which you will find helpful in preparing you for the challeneges of A Level History is the University of Manchester Humanities Department page. They have put together an excellent site full of advice on how to improve your skills in note taking, essay writing, revising (and more). It is aimed at undergraduates but is also highly relevant to your studies at Farnborough Hill.
The Internet Modern History Sourcebook is an excellent site for all of the A Level topics covered at Farnborough Hill. It would be a useful place for research into coursework pieces as well. It is a massive site that contains a plethora of links and articles on everything from the serfs of Russia to "How to do History". This link will take you to the China resources. This link is for Russia. Churchill related stuff can be found here. Gladstone and Disraeli are better served by the Victorian Web (see below).
For those of you wanting to go deeper with your studies and particularly those considering reading History at university then the Institute of Historical Research is a must-visit. The most useful part of the site for us are the reviews of all the most recently published articles on historical matters. These will give you an excellent insight into recent developments in the key historical debates. Useful for coursework support as well.
The History Faculty was set up by university lecturers in order to support A Level students. It contains podcasts of common A Level topics by experts in thier fields. You have to register to use the site but it is all free. Particularly useful for the Year 13 Russian course.
The Victorian Web is a massive site dedicated to the politics, social history and literature of the period. A must for Year 13 students of G+D.
History on the Web is another excellent resource for AS and A2. It carries articles on all of the topics that we cover. You need a password to access some areas of the site. Your history teacher would be delighted to let you have it.
The Peel Web contains everything you could possibly need to know on the early nineteenth century. Very useful for background to the Gladstone and Disraeli course.There are also a number of links to useful websites housed on this site.
Hansard contains a record of all Parliamentary debates in the Houses of Lords and Commons since 1803. The debates are now all online here. It is free to search. For anybody studying a British coursework topic with links to the Houses of Parliament this is a must visit site.
The China History Forum is a fantastic site with articles (submitted by readers) on all aspects of Chinese History. One of the great features of this site is the potential for you to ask questions about topics that you are struggling with or comment on articles that are already on the site. Scroll down to the section headed "Chinese History by Dynasty Period" for the most relevant topics. A must-visit.
Brooklyn College has an excellent site on Chinese History and Culture. It is packed full of reference information, research papers and (most helpfully of all) links to other Chinese History websites.