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Weblinks for French Revolution reading & revision

PastMatters — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:52:01 +0000

There are a number of outstanding websites that will help to develop your understanding of the different key ideas we have studied for AS History.

First among them is Maurice Cranston’s History Today’s http://www.historytoday.com/maurice-cranston/french-revolution-ideas-and-ideologies article on Ideas and Ideologies of the French Revolution. It covers the full period in detail.
Another website that covers the period 1774-1815 in far greater comprehensive detail. It poses questions and offers further links to other material. The Open University’s learning pages at http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397093§ion=1 explore and develop the work we’ve done in class in tremendous detail.
Schools Wikipedia entry on the French Revolution http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/f/French_Revolution.htm
The Terror in the French Revolution http://www.port.ac.uk/special/france1815to2003/chapter1/interviews/filetodownload,20545,en.pdf

BBC News Magazine article entitled Class, Cricket and the French Revolution explores the absence of a similar revolution in the UK at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16821779
The Telegraph’s article entitled Vendee French call for term Genocide http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3964724/Vende-French-call-for-revolution-massacre-to-be-termed-genocide.html

Exam on Monday – American West Revision

PastMatters — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:33:55 +0000

Getting ready for the exam on Monday – there are a number of ways to be revising on this site.

Consider clicking the American West link at the top of this post to see everything filed under the heading ‘American West’.

There are lots of Weblinks that can also help to sites like BBC Bitesize (http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/shp/americanwest/) that are full of revision games and help.

Keep revising hard, and don’t forget to share your revision using the social media buttons.

Enjoy!

PastMatters.

American West Games

PastMatters — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:34:36 +0000

History of the American West

Dozens of Revision games and quizzes available online here. Test your knowledge online.

via American West Games.

How the American West was really won: C19th images of early settlers in Deadwood | Mail Online

PastMatters — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:32:54 +0000

How the West was REALLY won: Early settlers on the coach to Deadwood and in pow-wows with the natives revealed in 19th century photographs

By Tom Leonard

Last updated at 8:51 AM on 10th March 2011Comments (21) Share

The Wild West as it really was rather than how Hollywood has imagined it is revealed in this extraordinary collection of pictures.The grainy photographs, taken in the late 19th century in and around the notorious gold mining town of Deadwood, provide a unique, sepia-toned glimpse of the Wild West. The images were published in American papers this week after being released by the U.S. Library of Congress.Deadwood — recently brought to life in an acclaimed TV drama series of the same name, starring Ian McShane — has gone down in legend as a riotous and lawless town that was home to the likes of ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp. Modern travel: The photograph taken by John C.

via How the American West was really won: C19th images of early settlers in Deadwood | Mail Online.

Biography Surgery Christian Barnaard

PastMatters — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:40:15 +0000

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