aclJohn's History-Genealogy Finds

Originally released on Laserdisc, the BBC project to record daily lives , back in 1986, is now available on the web.

Find out how your area has changed.

Search by entering...

• a place name; or

• a postcode.

• click a square covering that location on a map.

Users can then view photographs and read written accounts from that time.

Perhaps history/local history/community/etc. practitioners and their learners can update existing entries (sadly the blank areas can't be updated).

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Historypin..

• is a service that Local History Practitioners will find invaluable;

• allows anyone with a Google account to place images within the setting of current Google Maps Streetview imagery;

• allows visitors to explore the imagery added by others.
  • To explore the imagery on Historypin...
    • zoom in on a location; and
    • select a range of dates on the Historypin timeline.

Learn more about Historypin in the video below...

Visit http://www.historypin.com/ to ...

The National Heritage List for England is a searchable database of all nationally designated heritage assets including...

• Listed Buildings;
• Scheduled Monuments;
• Registered Parks and Gardens;
• Registered Battlefields; and
  
• Protected Wreck Sites

In the past practitioners and/or learners had to search various different sources and websites to access the records and datasets relating to the above, now they can find them all in one place - on the new National Heritage List for England....

"Music videos we made to make teaching history more fun."

History for Music Lovers is very much a place to learn and to laugh. The lyrics to popular songs (both old and new) have been transformed from karaoke into history lessons with a touch of humour.

Topics include...

• Men of the Renaissance (The Violent Femmes);
• The Black Plague (sung to Gwen Stefani);
• The Crusades (Billy Idol); and
  
• The French Revolution (Lady Gaga); embedded below...
  
  

This collection of homemade videos h...

I know this will frighten many Techies, as this is in alpha (if you never take a risk, you never do anything!), but I like the format of this YouTube Time Machine (YTTM).

YTTM allows visitors to pick a year and watch a video from it; it goes all the way back to 1860! Yes I know they didn't have video then but, they did have the very first audio recordings; on YTTM you can listen to them.

This could be great for history lessons and in my case nostalgia.

Go on take a look at http://w...

Art History: resources on the web, is maintained by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, an art history professor; is, in the main, a collection of links to various art topics, but what makes it different from other resource sites, is both the level of organisation and the vast number of links relating to art history.

Art History: resources on the web lists includes...

• Pre-historic art...
  • Palaeolithic;
  • Mesolithic and
  • Neolithic;
• Ancient Near East Art;
• Egyptian Art;
• Greek Art;
• Roman Art;
• Art in Late ...

History Animated <http://historyanimated.com/newhistoryanimated/> provides animations of the...

• American Revolution;
• US Civil War; and
• US Pacific Campaign in WWII.

All of the animations on History Animated are available for free viewing on the website. ...

The question is, "where did your last meal come from?"

Harvest of History is a website produced by the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York, USA.

Harvest of History is designed to help learners and practitioners explore the origins and development of modern farming practices. Its design is ideal for Family Learning Practitioners but some of the content of Harvest of History could also be used with older learners to spark discussion about the development of modern agriculture.

Vis...

This website claims to be the largest on-line collection of animated historical maps

• for students: a learning tool to increase comprehension and retention
• for practitioners: a ready-made teaching tool to add visual impact in the learning environment
• for history geeks: a new technology to add new perspectives

The on-line maps use animation, colour and narration to bring history to life.

Find out more at http://www.the-map-as-history.com/.