World War One
A comprehensive collection of articles from the BBC on the Great War. It includes transcripts of newspaper articles from the time. A fantastic resource.
Mapzone
Mapzone can help your map reading skills. There are games to play and map resources for teachers.
World War II
The BBC has put together this superb site on the Second World War which not only summarizes the events of each of the war years from 1939 to 1945, but it looks at major aspects of it such as the Battle of Britain, the Blitz, evacuation and much more.
Evacuation
Information, pictures, posters and photographs from the Imperial War Museum about the Evacuees from towns and cities in Britain during the Second World War.
Mr Allsop History - OCR Modern World GCSE History Revision Podcasts
History resources and GCSE history podcast revision guides in MP3 audio format by Mr Allsop for the OCR Modern World History GCSE. An excellent site with useful tips on how to achieve the best marks.
Mapmaker Interactive
NatGeo Mapmaker Interactive from National Geographic has maps of countries providing lots of different information about each country.
Encyclopedia of the First World War
A comprehensive site on the Great War which includes biographies of the main personalities involved, details of the soldiers and their lives in the trenches, war statistics, the home front and much more.
Simon Hinds History Videos
Excellent YouTube video lessons to help you with GCSE or IGCSE modern world History exams.
World Book Day
Packed with teaching resources, information, ideas and inspiration you’ll find everything here to make your World Book Day celebrations a success and encourage reading for pleasure all year round.
Peep and the Big Wide World
The animated series Peep and the Big Wide World has games aimed at teaching science and maths to preschoolers.