Material Culture

If you could choose 5 objects to represent you and/or your family in a museum exhibition, what would you pick? Go over to the Forum to add yours...

Need some inspiration. Why not have a look at some museum displays:

"Magnificence of the Tsars" at the V&A

Chartwell National Trust Property - Home of Sir Winston Churchill

Harry S Truman Presidential Museum & Library

New Forum - Who's your favourite president?

We are trialling a new forum and to get us off the ground, the first question we want to hear from you on is: "who is your favourite US president and why"? The forum can be accessed through this portal. So why not have a look? Additionally, you can use this forum to ask our historians any questions that you might have. Hope to see you there. Jonathan.

Photographs

We have started a new project on Flickr to collect photographs of historical buildings, sites, battlefields etc. We're not so much worried about the quality of the photos (although, it would obviously be good if they weren't blurred and that you could make out the main focal point!) but want to build up as large a documentary record as possible. If you've been on a school trip or holiday and recorded anything historical, please go to The History Faculty's group page on Flikr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/historyfaculty/) and upload away! Please don't forget to tell us what the pictures are of, and, if you know what geotagging is, please geotag them (this is not compulsory). Let's see how large a record we can create...

Site Updates

Kevin Yuill has added further reading and weblinks to his podcast on US Immigration.

Why not follow us on Twitter for historic quotations, questions answered, or just to see who's following us (i.e. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, Alan Partridge) or who we're following (i.e. Snoop Dogg, Hillary Clinton, Alan Carr & JLC, Larry King, Dalai Lama, and many, many more)?

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become a fan on facebook and add your photographs of historic sites, buildings etc. to our own.

That's all folks!

New Reading Lists

An update on new resources available onsite:

James Harris has added timelines, further reading and synopses to his podcasts on Stalin's Economic Transformation of the USSR & Stalin's Rise to Power.

Similarly, Alastair Kocho-Williams has added further reading an information to his podcast pages: Russia, Germany & the Alliance System, 1872-1914 & Stalin's Foreign Policy, 1917-1924.

Natalie Mears (University of Durham) has provided an extensive reading list focused upon the Tudors.

Kate Ferris (University of Durham) has put together some introductory reading for the study of Modern Italy and, specifically, Mussolini.

Gaby Treglia (University of Durham) has provided a reading list to aid the study of Native American History.

Additionally, we continue to add online resources and web links to our resources page (which is now searchable, along with the podcasts).

Please don't forget to submit a resource if you think that it could help and/or interest someone else.