UK home educators will almost certainly have heard of the British Museum. It’s one of the most famous of the London museums, although it’s outside the main Kensington museum area, being in Bloomsbury instead. The British Museum collections are, in many cases, historic artefacts collected during the time of the British Empire, and so there…
Category: history
V&A Museum – Resource Packs
UK home educators will probably know about the V&A Museum. It’s in the Kensington museum district of London, and focuses on art and design – fashion, ceramics, culture and much more. The V&A generally has an Art & Design orientation, and the website tends to advertise the current exhibitions and displays rather than being easy…
English Heritage – Find Sites By Period
If you live in the UK, you’ll most likely be familiar with English Heritage. Along with the National Trust, they’re one of the two well-known organisations that manage many of England’s historic sites and buildings. What you may not know is that the English Heritage website lets you search their sites by historical period. That’s…
Crash Course World History – curriculum
Crash Course make great videos. World History was one of their earlier courses, and my son has watched it all the way through. Some of it shot over his head, some he really got, all of it he enjoyed. Now Crash Course have branched out a little and created a curriculum to go with the…
Big History Project
The Big History Project is at https://school.bighistoryproject.com/. The project covers history from the Big Bang to the present day. There are different sample curricula provided, depending on whether you want to focus on human history, cover the full timespan equally, and so forth. There is a shorter, six-hour version for the just-interested, or a full programme…
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