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Kings and Queens of England from 871 to Present
40 different categories of History related images
General Links: these cover more than one chronological period
General Art
Huge collection of Propaganda Posters (Free Information Society)..... but not categorised in any way.
The VLIB History & Images Index is a good place to visit:
http://vlib.iue.it/hist-images/
Themes Index of the Famous Artworks exhibition (WebMuseum, Paris) - Gothic to Pop Art
Web Gallery of Art ... The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.
Mary Evans Picture Library ..... this is the link to the portal of images on key historical themes. The whole site is searchable.
Turning the Pages (British Library) Leaf through 15 books and magnify the details. Includes sketches by Leonardo, Mercator's Atlas, selections from the Luttrell Psalter and Vesalius' Anatomy. Uses the Shockwave plug-in to simulate the action of turning the pages of a real book. The volumes may not open if you block popups on your computer.
Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature (University of Canterbury)
All those David Low cartoons + much more.
Audio and video
British Pathe preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. All content is free of charge for use by UK Maintained Schools in the classroom.
Conversations with History (Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley) .....The Research Galleries are probably the best way in to these "lively and unedited video interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. The interviews span the globe and include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world." Good for A Level/IB and General Studies.
Earth Station .... historical sound & image archive.
British
Audio and Video Clips (BBC) ..... includes a useful selection from Schama's 'History of Britain'
British Library Image Library Online .... this is the subject index which is searchable.
Museum of London Picture Library: Hundreds of images. Searchable in various ways.
National Portrait Gallery ... searchable
Science and Society Picture Library ..... over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and the National Railway Museum. Over 50,000 images digitised.Collections include 4000 personalities, the Daily Herald and Manchester Daily Express archives, and the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot and Tony Ray-Jones.
People's Museum, Manchester
People's Museum: Workers images online
American
American Historical Images Online …..the Native American experience.
American Library of Congress Exhibitions .... A huge range of topics mainly, but not exclusively, American.
American National Archives Online Exhibits
Cartoons for the Classroom .... American site. Has links to 8 different sites with cartoons ranging from the Reconstruction era to Vietnam and beyond.
EASE History .... "EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History." Brilliant stuff and good for American Politics too.
Educational Cartoon Strip 'Stories' this link is to the archives page which is worth exploring since there is masses of material there useful for classroom displays (?) on topics with an American emphasis. Includes things such as American Indians, Slavery, Korean War, Rosa Parks - and much more. Also good if you teach American Politics.
Growth of a Nation: A free, ten minute movie which depicts the geographic history of the United States from the beginning of the nation to fifty states. Geographic elements are interactive, as is the timeline.
Historic Pittsburgh .... The Image collections are searchable in various ways (eg theme, date etc)
Historical Picture Collections ... A Portal site from San Diego University with links to a huge range of sites with image collections. The 'Pictures by Topic' section also includes links to video, sound and music collections. Mainly, but not exclusively American.
Native American Diminishing Lands... Short Flash movie showing how Native Americans were pushed west at various points in time.
US History Image Library Over 300 images in chronological order taken from an American Educational publishers history survey textbooks. The site is searchable. Some interesting/useful images for American history topics.
The Authentic History Centre
This is a great resource (Audio and Image files) covering American history from the Antebellum period to the present. All is neatly organised and there is some excellent material. Although the emphasis is on popular culture there are also some very useful resources on political topics. Eg Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, Malcom X and M L King etc etc.
Other Countries/geographical areas
Multimedia Middle Eastern Studies - varied materials A huge range including visual sources.
National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue ...searchable.
India's Wars in Pictures .....an excellent collection of photographs covering the mid C18th onwards. Good for WWI and WWII especially.
Politics
Do Politics' (Electoral Commission) this link is to a range of downloadable posters showing how politics affects a range of issues from what music you listen to, to the food you eat. Good for Citizenship. The site also has many more resources
Maps
Blank and Outline maps (.pdf) to print. Covers the world and continents. Some are historical. Very useful.
Historical Maps ( Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection) This is the index page.
Online library of historical and everyday maps (from The History Channel). Good site. Maps organised by geographical region, but can also view the whole list.
Outline maps (America and Western/World): Modern and Historical .... downloadable pdfs.
Medieval (500-1500)
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - selected highlights collected by theme. Wonderful!
Sea Monsters and shepherds Medieval woodcuts (more medieval woodcuts from the home page of this site too)
Renaissance (1500-1750)
Reformation Picture Gallery - European reformers
Audio lectures on aspects of the European Reformations ... Stream or download. Good on Calvin and Luther. Suitable for A Level
Painting of Henry VIII on his death bed pointing to Edward VI..... a good sized image. A source often used when considering C16th propaganda.
Tudor England Images .... portriats of Tudor monarchs and their contemporaries.
Queen Elizabeth I Gallery - a good range of portraits here
Portraits of Elizabeth I .... with commentary.
1750-1900
British
[url="http://www.bucknell.edu/The_Bucknell_Difference/Arts_at_Bucknell/Samek_Art_Gallery/Collection/Gillray/Plates.html"]James Gillray Caricatures[/url]
[url="http://hogarth.chez-alice.fr/"]William Hogarth[/url] A treasure trove of 18th century pictures
[url="http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/gallery.asp?gallery=003+Isambard+Kingdom+Brunel"]Isambard Kingdom Brunel Gallery[/url]
[url="http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/photographs/index.html"]Hidden Lives Revealed[/url]: "Hidden Lives Revealed focuses on the period 1881-1918, and includes unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society. The Society cared for children across England and Wales - in both the densest urban conurbations and some of the smallest rural villages." This link is to the photographs page. The whole site is well worth exploring and has some good materials for teachers.
American
[url="http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html"]The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record[/url]
The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
[url="http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/"]Harper's Weekly Reports on Black America, 1857-1874[/url]
1900 - present.
Maps
[url="http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm#govt"]Historical Atlas of the C20th[/url] Hugely useful site which is useful for Citizenship, Geography and Politics too. Also has a comparative Timeline.
[url="http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/244/250679/carnesmg/M770.gif"]Map of Europe after WWII[/url]. Smaller maps show zones of Germany and Berlin.
Also see the General Maps links at the top.
Cartoons and Posters
[url="http://opal.ukc.ac.uk/catalogue/ccc.pl"]Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature (University of Canterbury)[/url]
All those David Low cartoons + much more.
[url="http://www.llgc.org.uk/illingworth/index_s.htm"]Illingworth Cartoon Collection[/url] ..... covers Illingworth's cartoons both by theme and chronologically. Also has pupil and teacher resources.
[url="http://www.izaak.unh.edu/specoll/mancoll/WWII.htm"]University of New Hampshire Library Special Collections: World Wars I and II[/url] ...... has links to other sites with visual materials too.
[url="http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/"]'The Chairman Smiles'[/url] (International Institute of Social History) ..... this is the front page to collections of posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China.
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/subject.cfm?Subject=War%20%26%20Propaganda"]War and Propaganda Posters[/url] - a portal to posters on various topics: WWI, WWII, Spanish Civil War, Soviet
World War I
Photos and Posters
[url="http://index.php?showtopic=4796"]Photos taken at the beginning of WWI[/url] This is a link to a Forum thread where, amidst the discussion, are some good photos taken in various countries at the beginning of WWI.
[url="http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/"]World War I in colour[/url] …… a great resource.
[url="http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-color.html"]The Great War in Colour[/url] Scroll down for the links to pages with these "first real colour photographs". There is a great deal more on this site and some of the photos are very gruesome so perhaps not one to use directly in class
[url="http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/uk.htm"]First World War: Propaganda Posters: British[/url] ...... This is from FirstWorldWar.com which has a great deal more visual material on WWI.
[url="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/posters.htm"]First World War Posters[/url]
Video Clips
[url="http://www.firstworldwar.com/video/1914.htm"]Vintage Video: 1914[/url]: "This page of the Vintage Video section of the website contains archive footage of personalities and events filmed during 1914, both before and after the war had opened."
Footage includes the arrival at Sarajevo town hall of the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand; shortly after he re-emerged he was assassinated, setting off a train of events that led to the onset of war a month later." +much more.
[url="http://www.intst.net/humanities/igcsehist/...rajevo_1914.wmv"]An edited version of the Sarajevo assassination from the BBC 'Days that Shook the World' series[/url] From the International School of Toulouse (Richard Jones Nerzic) site. It's a good illustration of how drama can enhance historical understanding.
[url="http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/g3/worksheet/video.htm"]Trench Experience Video Clips[/url] (National Archives Learning Curve) These video clips are reconstructions of life in the trenches, told from the viewpoint of a World War One soldier
Maps
[url="http://www.1914-1918.net/maps.htm"]First World War campaign and situation maps[/url] .... a long list from an excellent site on WWI from the British perspective. Eg has a good section on the [url="http://www.1914-1918.net/menu_life.htm"]Tommy's Army Life[/url]
Spanish Civil War
[url="http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/spancivwar/scwgraphics.html"]Spanish Civil War Graphics Archive[/url] .... photos and posters.
World War II
[url="http://www.earthstation1.com/Chamberlain.html"]Neville Chamberlain: Sounds and Pictures (Earth Station)[/url]
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/countdown_390828_mon_07.shtml"]Countdown to World War Two (BBC Archive):[/url] a selection of audio clips covering: Germany's 16-Point Plan, Invasion of Poland, Evacuation of Children, Chamberlain's Declaration of War, King's Speech to the Nation.
[url="http://www.otr.com/munich.html"]Radio Days: Munich Crisis[/url] ...... Description of the Crisis. At the bottom of the page are links to a number of 'soundbytes'
[url="http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/%7Epv/pv/courses/posters/posters.html"]British Propaganda Posters: WWII[/url] .... categorised into 6 key themes.
[url="http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm"]World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art[/url] ..... Portal site with extensive links.
[url="http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm"]Dr Seuss Goes to War[/url] .... the political cartoons of 'Dr Seuss'. The site is searchable
[url="http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/cutaway/"]Unusual technical images of equipment used in World War II [/url]
[url="http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Index/picindex5.html"]World War II Pictures by Date[/url]
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/feature/dday/"]Video Nation (BBC) D -Day[/url] .... Short, punchy recollections and stories from the 6th June 1944. [It's worth having a look at [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/videonation/archive/"]the Archive page[/url] as well. There's lots there that could be useful in Citizenship and Geography.
[url="http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdday.htm"]Photographs of D Day[/url] - has an American emphasis
[url="http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/ww2women/"]Women as Portrayed in Britsh World War II Advertising[/url]
Holocaust
[url="http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/index_exhibitions.html"]Holocaust History Museum (Yad Vashem)[/url] : Online Exhibitions Index page. The exhibitions include those which are largely visual such as 'Photos of the Warsaw Ghetto' and 'The Auschwitz Album'
[url="http://www.remember.org/image/index.html"]Cybrary of the Holocaust: Images[/url] - photos of camps, survivor art, historical images, Warsaw Ghetto etc
[url="http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm"]Galleries of Holocaust images[/url] (from A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust, University of Florida) ...... 10 sections ranging from archival to modern photos, memorials etc and includes art.
[url="http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/maps.htm"]A huge collection of map[/url]s mainly dealing with aspects of the Holocaust (same site as above). Also includes - some are blank - maps of Europe at significant dates (pre 1919 >>> the present). Very useful.
[url="http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/"]Mapping the Holocaust[/url] (part of the excellent United States Holocaust Memorial Museum); Form this page you can access animated maps with commentaries. The one on 'The Holocaust' would make a good starter, but there are several more including one on Jewish Resistance which is an aspect often neglected in our teaching I feel.
[url="http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR.htm"]Virtual Reality movies[/url] of various concentration and death camps. Needs QuickTime.
[url="http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm"]Movie Clips[/url] Short QuickTime movies of survivor testimony, Kristallnacht, ghettos, transports, camps and other Holocaust themes. Good for lesson starters?
[url="http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/excerpts/index.html"]Fortunoff Video Archive of Holocaust Testimonies[/url] (Yale University) ..... short video clips from 9 survivor testimonies.
[url="http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/music.htm"]Music Files[/url] A collection of music files appropriate to a study of the Holocaust. Useful to accompany a PPT? Needs Quick Time.
[url="http://www.canadafirst.net/current_issues/fe0705coren.wmv"]Holocaust Denial: This Clip[/url] is an interesting 7 minute chat-show extract about a Holocaust denier and the moral dilemma of how to deal with him. Could be a useful starter to a lesson.
[url="http://remember.org/then-and-now/"]Then and Now[/url]
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Then and Now is an online exhibition which is a subsite of Remember.org. This exhibit shows artworks by former inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp and juxtaposes the rendered scenes of camp existence with photographs of the camp as it now stands. Users can click on the images to flip back and forth between the image 'then' and the image 'now.' The startling contrasts would particularly serve as a teaching tool.
[url="http://www.remember.org/auschwitz/"]A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau[/url] A new online tour from Remember.org
Post 1945
[url="http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/MAPS/map011b.pdf"]Blank map of Europe: 1945[/url]
[url="http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/BERLIN_A/PHOTOLIS.HTM"]Berlin Airlift photos[/url] ... a hyperlinked list of captions to all the photos. Part of a site on the Berlin Airlift from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
[url="http://www.cafepress.com/warposter/379782"]Anti war propaganda posters (mainly Iraq)[/url] 1940s propaganda 'remixed'. This is great!
[url="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mural%20belfast&w=all"]Belfast Murals[/url] Lots of images of the murals on flickr. Could be a good resource if you teach N. Ireland.
Germany
[url="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A2374&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1"]George Grosz[/url] - first of 3 pages of Grosz's paintings.
[url="http://www.towson.edu/heartfield/artarchive.html"]Heartfield[/url] .. John Heartfield's anti-Nazi collages
[url="http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org/history_wing/assets/room2/Wiemar_political_parties.jpg"]Weimar Republic Political Parties[/url]: representation in the Reichstag 1920 - 1933. And if you have problems using it because of its size [url="http://index.php?showtopic=3423"]see the original thread.[/url]
[url="http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpdhitler.htm"]Photographs of Hitler[/url] - a wide categorised selection.
[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml"]BBC Nazi Propaganda Gallery[/url] - - a really good short selection with commentary by David Welch
The German Propaganda Archive (Calvin College) has some excellent visual sources:
[url="http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters1.htm"]Pre 1933 Nazi Posters[/url]
[url="http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm"]Nazi Posters 1933 1945[/url]
[url="http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Posters"]Links to a whole range of other visual material from Nazi Germany[/url]
[url="http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/hitler-19390130.shtml"]Hitler on the Jewish Question, Speech to the Reichstag Jan 30th 1939[/url] (Real Audio file)
[url="http://www.thirdreichruins.com/index.htm"]The Third Reich in Ruins[/url] ...... photos of historical sites associated with Germany's Third Reich (1933-1945), both as they appeared while in use, and as the remains appear today.
(and from that site ...... [url="http://www.thirdreichruins.com/kunsthaus1.htm"]Haus der Deutschen Kunst, Munic[/url]h which features portraits of the Führer and his homeland, and other approved themes, [url="http://www.thirdreichruins.com/kunsthaus2.htm"]Part 2[/url] shows portraits of other Nazi leaders and Party themes, [url="http://www.thirdreichruins.com/kunsthaus3.htm"]Part 3[/url] features artwork with military themes, and [url="http://www.thirdreichruins.com/kunsthaus5a.htm"]Part 4[/url] covers sculptures.)
[url="http://www.bdmhistory.com/main.html"]The League of German Girls[/url] .... not just visual sources, but does have an excellent collection of posters, postcards, photos.
Russia
[url="http://www.historymagic.co.uk/as/russia/files/russia_social_pyramid.gif"]Russian Social Pyramid: Pre-Revolution (1)[/url] and [url="http://www.historymagic.co.uk/as/russia/files/social_pyramid_2.gif"]another version of the same [/url]...... courtesy of Doug Belshaw.
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/thumbdir.cfm?StartPage=1&Period=Bol&Country=RU&NavBar=PosterFinder+%3A+Country+%26+Period+%3A+Bolshevik+Era"]Russian Posters: Bolshevik Era[/url]
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/thumbdir.cfm?StartPage=1&Period=NEP&Country=RU&NavBar=PosterFinder+%3A+Country+%26+Period+%3A+New+Economic+Policy"]Soviet Union: NEP Posters[/url]
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/thumbdir.cfm?startpage=1&Period=FYP1%2CFYP2%2CFYP3&CountryAbrevValue=RU&CountryName=Soviet+Union&PeriodName=First+%26+Second+Five+Year+Plans"]Soviet Union: Five Year Plan Posters[/url]
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/thumbdir.cfm?StartPage=1&Style=&Period=WWII%2C40%2C50%2C60%2C70%2C80%2C90&Country=RU&NavBar=PosterFinder+%3A+Country+%26+Period+%3A+WWII+to+Present"]Soviet Union: Great Patriotic War Posters[/url]
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm"]Soviet Propaganda Poster Archive[/url] .... a wide, categorised selection with a good general introduction. (the front page for the 4 links immediately above this one)
[url="http://www.yale.edu/annals/siegelbaum/images/siegelbaum_photos.htm"]Stalinism as a way of life: Image Gallery[/url] (Yale University) .... Some great photos and posters. Part of a bigger site on the topic.
[url="http://www.internationalposter.com/thumbdir.cfm?StartPage=1&Style=&Period=WWII%2C40%2C50%2C60%2C70%2C80%2C90&Country=RU&NavBar=PosterFinder+%3A+Country+%26+Period+%3A+WWII+to+Present"]Soviet Union: Posters 1945 > the present[/url]
Also see:
[url="http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/"]'The Chairman Smiles'[/url] (International Institute of Social History) ..... this is the front page to collections of posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China.
United States
See also many of the links in General American section at the top.
[url="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html"]Chicago Daily News Image Archive[/url] This collection comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The [url="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnsp5.html"]Native American topic collection[/url] is particularly useful.
Civil Rights
[url="http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/Customer/index.aspx"]BBC Motion Gallery[/url] Use the 'Watch a Reel' drop down menu to see a 2 min clip on the Civil Rights Movement. Also[url="http://index.php?showtopic=3811"] see this Forum thread[/url] for discussion at the time this was first mentioned. I can't quite sort out whether the rest of the site is all 'pay for' now.
[url="http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/index.html"]Remembering Jim Crow[/url] (American Radio Works) ..... Excellent site with categorised audio clips and slide shows. Black and white Americans remember the era of the Jim Crow laws.
[url="http://www.al.com/unseen/"]Unseen. Unforgotten[/url] Previously unseen images of the Civil Rights Movement from Birmingham (USA). Several photo galleries chronologically organised.
New Deal
[url="http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/fdr/FDRcartoons.html"]FDR Cartoon Archive[/url] .... wonderful collection of cartoons of the New Deal era.
[url="http://newdeal.feri.org/library/default.cfm"]New Deal Photo Library[/url]
[url="http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/photos.html"]Franklin D Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum[/url] .... Thousands of on-line, copyright free photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt , The Great Depression and the New Deal, and World War II.
China
[url="http://www.iisg.nl/%7Elandsberger/"]Chinese Propaganda Posters[/url] .... at the bottom of this page are links to all the different categories Eg. The Mao Cult, Cultural Revolution Campaigns, Population Policy.
Also see:
[url="http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/"]The Chairman Smiles'[/url] (International Institute of Social History) ..... this is the front page to collections of posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China.
[url="http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=2698"]Forum Seminar History and Art [/url]
Interesting and useful discussion on the value of using Art to teach History led by Stephen Drew.
You may also wish to view [url="http://clioweb.free.fr/images/visualcf.htm"]Daniel Letouzy's slightly different organisation of this list[/url] on his website and also his [url="http://clioweb.free.fr/clio/affiches.htm"]Affiches, posters et caricatures (histoire du XXeme)[/url][url="http://clioweb.free.fr/clio/affiches.htm"] links page.[/url]
Carole Faithorn
18/2/06
Updated: 11/09/06
This post has been edited by Carole Faithorn: 11 September 2006 - 07:17 PM
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