Presidential Inaugurations: Historical Insights, George Washington's First Inauguration

Presidential Inaugurations: Historical Insights, George Washington's First Inauguration:

"Marvin Kranz, historical specialist, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress."

From The American Memory Collection at The Library of Congress.

Link to video presentation (outside THF network).

There are also links to the inaugurations of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln (2), Ulysses S. Grant (2), William McKinley (2), and Theodore Roosevelt.

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NEW - HumBox: online resources & teaching materials

Welcome to HumBox - HumBox

"HumBox - a new repository to share, store, manage and repurpose teaching materials from across the Humanities was launched today at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield.

The repository has been developed by a partnership of four subject centres: English, History, LLAS and PRS and eleven institutional partners. It is funded by JISC and the HEA.

HumBox already contains over 1000 resources all uploaded using Creative Commons licences. Resources range from simple handouts to more complex learning objects as well as audio and video resources. The repository includes a simple commenting function so that users can leave feedback on the resources. Users have a profile page to promote their own research and teaching. They can set up collections of related resources and include descriptions to ensure that they are more usable for teaching.

HumBox has been closed during the development phase of the project but is now open to all. So please get sharing!"

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Black Europeans - features hosted by The British Library

Black Europeans:

A series of features guest-curated by Mike Phillips for the British Library Online Gallery.

Popular versions of history have all too often airbrushed out the contribution of non-Europeans to Western arts and sciences. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to challenge the idea that race or ethnicity is a barrier which can stop individuals from participating in any culture they choose. In Europe this has encouraged a new drive to explore and understand the hidden or ignored contribution of people of African descent to the mainstream of European culture and society.

The figures featured in Black Europeans – Alexander Pushkin, Alexandre Dumas, George Polgreen Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Archer.

The exhibition contains images, sound and historical interpretation. Mike Phillips' features on each 'Black European' can also be viewed, saved and/or printed in pdf format.

Link to online exhibition (outside THF network).

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The Tudors - Wolsey's Foreign Policy

The Tudors - Wolsey's Foreign Policy

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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The Tudors - Wolsey's Significance

The Tudors - Wolsey's Significance:

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

Cardinal Wolsey (Headstart History Papers)

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The Tudors - Henry VIII's Reformation

The Tudors - Henry VIII's Reformation:

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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The Tudors - Elizabeth: Religion and Religious Politics

The Tudors - Elizabeth: Religion and Religious Politics:

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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The 1916 Rising in Ireland

The 1916 Rising:

The National Library of Ireland’s online exhibition The 1916 Rising: Personalities and Perspectives. This study resource draws almost exclusively upon the collections of the National Library, including the Library’s rich holdings of books, newspapers, photographs, drawings, proclamations and, not least, manuscript material. In all, over 500 images have been selected for study and analysis.

Through the medium of contemporary documents, The 1916 Rising: personalities and perspectives focuses upon those who set the stage for the events of Easter Week 1916, the seven signatories of the proclamation, the others executed in the aftermath of the Rising, the casualties and the survivors.

Link to the online exhibition (outside THF network).

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The Falklands Conflict

Falklands 25th Anniversary Exhibition

This special exhibition was created to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict in 2007, the only invasion of a British territory since the Second World War. Explore the conflict through the first-hand accounts and personal artefacts of those involved, from civilian eyewitnesses, to those closely involved in the fighting. Created from resources held by The Imperial War Museum.

Link to exhibition (outside THF network).

If you have problems viewing this multimedia site, there is a static version here.

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Impact of the Second World War (UK)

Impact of the Second World War

1 in 5 people alive today lived through the Second World War. Although the war ended over 60 years ago, it lives on in people’s memories and family histories, in the UK’s rebuilt city centres and ‘new towns’, and in our education, social and health services. Through a mixture of personal stories, reminiscences and previously unseen archive images, objects and film footage, this award-winning online exhibition explores how the war changed the people and the landscape of the UK forever.

Link to exhibition (outside THF network).

If you have difficulty viewing this exhibition, there is a static version here.

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People of the Great War

People of the Great War

Watch or download the thought-provoking film created in 2008 to mark the passing of the First World War generation. Extra learning resources, including all images from the film, are available as files to download. You can also watch the 'Making of...' film - an insight into the work of the Imperial War Museum Learning team. These are essential resources for History, Citizenship and Media students.

Link to resource (outside THF network).

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The Battle of the Somme

Imperial War Museum's The Battle of the Somme

The Somme - the longest, biggest and most costly land battle in British history - still haunts our collective memory of the First World War. The unsurpassed collections of the Imperial War Museum, brought together in this online exhibition, provide a unique resource for anyone wanting to explore this important event in more depth.

Link to exhibition (outside THF network).

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Media and War: The Battle for Hearts & Minds

Media and War

The battle for hearts and minds. An online exhibition from The Imperial War Museum for teachers and students of Citizenship, History and Media Studies which examines the use of propaganda during the main conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Link to online exhibition & resources (outside THF network).
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The Great War: a resource for schools

The Great War

Investigate the causes and the nature of the First World War in this resource for schools from The National Archives.

Link to resource (outside THF network).

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Webquests: Resources for Students & Teachers (KS1-4)

Webquests

WebQuests are brilliant new online resources for schools – based on collections from nine national museums, including the Imperial War Museum. They are mapped to the curriculum at Key Stages 1 to 4, across subjects including English, Maths, History and Citizenship.

Link to resource (outside THF network).

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