I am a Secondary School History teacher from Cambridgeshire, England.  I am the KS3 curriculum ICT coordinator and a History teacher at Neale-Wade Community College in March (I even designed their website).  I completed my PGCE in History and English in 1998, following my BA in History at Durham University.

QUICK UPDATE: JAN 2003.  This page will be updated further within the next month.  Some information out of date - we now receive an average of 3,500 unique daily visitors.  Once the A-Level section is completed, this page will be fully updated.  Mr Field.

I created this site to provide a safe and convenient place for history teachers and pupils to find information, download worksheets and basically have some fun using ICT!  The Internet has much to offer and there are many amazing sites relevant and useful for history but it is very difficult to quickly select the beneficial places to visit.  Since first creating the site in June 2000 I am delighted to see how it has grown.  The site now receives an average of over 2,000 visitors a day, with a record - near GCSE exam time - of nearly 5,000 visitors.

Use of ICT is a National Curriculum requirement in all subjects.  The potential of ICT for history study is enormous yet, in my opinion, it is vastly under utilised.  This site attempts to offer innovative, exciting and above all beneficial ideas for the use of ICT in secondary school history.  Note: I did say attempts!

Each website has a review indicating the suitability for the relevant yeargroup.  With more and more schools offering the opportunity for occasional whole class internet lessons I have tried to highlight possibilities wherever feasible.

There is now a huge range of online lessons, games and quizzes, all linked to the secondary school national curriculum for history.  These can be used directly from the site in class.  The home page allows to you locate the range of materials the site now offers.

Pupils fortunate enough to have internet access at home could also be directed to the site.  This would allow them to research a specific topic or to revise using the quiz section.  However, care is clearly needed not to overlook those without access.  Many local libraries offer internet access, and more and more often schools offer access to pupils at different times.  A history club could use the site before school, during a lunchtime or even after school.   

Whilst I do check the sites that I link to, I cannot take responsibility for the content of linked sites.  Many schools have filtering software, but as at home, adult supervision is advised while children are using the Internet.  All currently listed sites are believed to be suitable - I have spent a great deal of time looking and researching!

Any errors on this site are my own, and I apologise in advance for any such inaccuracies.  If you do spot any errors or problems both within this site or on the linked sites please contact me though!

The downloadable resources section has grown out of all proportion, due to the generosity of teachers sending in their own materials.  There are now more than 350 .pdf worksheets, more than 50 PowerPoint presentations and a collection of CD-Rom task-sheets.

I have created a number of other internet sites, for my History and English teaching, as well as in my ICT role at Neale-Wade:

Page updated 23 January 2003