History Weblinks (Click here to go to Local Weblinks.)
All the weblinks below take you out of this website.
Websites suitable for young people
All periods - BBC
The BBC, BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach websites
have an excellent collection of history information, videos and animations
for Key Stages 1 & 2 (and KS3) - here in chronological order.
Archaeology: Proud to be an archaeologist - video - Click here.
Archaeology: Hands On History - information and activities - Click here
Prehistoric Britain - videos, activities and information - Click here.
Middle Stone Age - video - Click here. New Stone Age - video - Click here.
Ancient Britain: Hands On History - information and activities - Click here.
Bronze Age Britain - Click here. Iron Age Britain - video - Click here.
The Roman Empire - videos - Click here. The Roman Invasion - video - Click here.
Roman Britain - videos - Click here. Roman Voices - videos - Click here.
Roman Britain: Hands On History - information and activities - Click here.
Anglo-Saxons - videos - Click here. Anglo-Saxon Britain - video - Click here.
Anglo-Saxon songs BBC School Radio with animations - Click here.
The Vikings - video - Click here. Vikings -videos - Click here. Vikings - videos - Click here.
Vikings: Hands On History: make a longship - information and activities - Click here.
The Viking Sagas BBC School Radio with animations - Click here.
The Normans - video - Click here. The Bayeux Tapestry - video- Click here.
The Domesday Book - video - Click here.
Normans : Hands On History: castles and feasting - information and activities - Click here.
The Middle Ages - videos - Click here.
The Later Middle Ages: visit a castle - video - Click here.
The Tudor Period - videos - Click here. Tudors and Stuarts -videos - Click here.
Georgians - videos - Click here. Victorians - videos - Click here.
Victorians: Hands On History - information and activities - Click here.
Edwardians - videos - Click here.
World War 1 - videos and information - Click here. World War 1 - videos - Click here.
After World War 1 - videos - Click here.
World War 2: Hands On History - information and activities - Click here.
After World War 2 - videos - Click here.
● You might also want to take a look at the history clips in the Learning Zone
● and some of the BBC History topics for Key Stage 3 - Click here.
● See also BBC School Radio's history topics for KS1 and KS2 which all have animations -
Romans, Tudors, Great Fire of London, Victorians, World War 2, Britain since the 1930s,
and more . . .
All periods - English Heritage
English Heritage manage over 4000 historic buildings and sites across the country. Take a look at their website, Kids Rule! for lots of varied activities.
Prehistoric England - Click here. Roman Britain - Click here.
Norman England - Click here. Medieval monasteries - Click here. Castles - Click here.
Tudor England - Click here. Stuart England - Click here.
Georgian England - Click here. Victorian England - Click here.
English Heritage videos - there are dozens of them on YouTube covering all periods!
BBC History Overviews - an excellent set of pages for adults to brush up their history
British Prehistory Romans Vikings Anglo-Saxons
Norman Britain Middle Ages Tudors Civil War & Revolution
Empire & Sea Power Abolition of the Slave Trade Victorians
Home Front: World War One World War Two The Making of Modern Britain
The History Cookbook. Do you know what the Vikings ate for dinner, what a meal of a wealthy Roman family consisted of, or what food was like in a Victorian Workhouse? This project looks at food of the past and its influence on the health of the people. Click for the History Cookbook.
The Historical Association supports teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all levels and brings together people sharing an interest in the past. Free resources for members, small charge for non-members. Click.
Stone Age
The High Weald (Sussex) website has a very good timeline with pictures and information about the history of that area from the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic) to the present.
Sussex isn't Nottinghamshire! but much of the information is relevant to both areas.
Click here to go the TIMELINE on their website. See also High Weald characters videos.
Timeline - Prehistory
VISIT . . .
Stone Age (and later)
Creswell Crags is a spectacular limestone gorge straddling the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border. It is dotted with a large number of caves, fissures and rock shelters, many of which harbour secrets from our prehistoric past including evidence of the Neanderthals who arrived here first over 40,000 years ago. Click here to visit their website.
Georgian
Victorian
Green's Windmill in Nottingham, a working 19th-century mill - with a hands-on science display. Run by volunteers and free.
Victorian
The Great Central Railway runs from Loughborough to Leicester. It is the UK's only double track, main line heritage railway and the only place in the world where full-size steam engines can be seen passing each other – just as it was when steam ruled the rails.
Trains run every weekend of the year, bank holidays and selected week days through the summer. Take a trip - click!
Further research
References for further research - in no particular order
All these weblinks take you out of this website.
Langar cum Barnstone History A really interesting mix of articles and information about the parish of Langar cum Barnstone, the website of local historians, Nigel Wood and Gordon White. Lots of local detail.
Acknowledgements: I have used the content of this site extensively throughout this website.
Signpost - Langar cum Barnstone Parish Newsletter
Online newsletters from the Parish Council have lots of interesting articles of local and historical interest - news of the parish council, Langar School, the Tarmac works, bowling club, arts club, Brownies, archers, walkers, local events, Langar & Barnstone Festival, Apple Day and local history articles by Nigel Wood.
December 2015 - includes: A Temporary Gentleman, a First World War story by Nigel Wood
March 2016 - includes: First World War Roll of Honour
June 2016 - First World War 1916 part 1; Barnstone Cement Works
September 2016 - First World War 196 part 2
December 2016 - winners of the short story competition Eira Murray and Amelie Clayden; Prisoners of war at Langar and Barnstone - World War 1
March 2017 - World War 1: The Double Tragedy of Albert and Herbert Smith
June 2017 - More on the First World War - 1917
September 2017 - A Hero of Cambrai (WW1); Lost church of St Etheburga (medieval)
December 2017 - You Can’t Ride a Bike in a Trench! (WW1); Lost church of St Etheburga (medieval)
March 2018 - All the local news!
June 2018 - RAF 207 Squadron memorial at Langar Airfield rededicated; WW1 Spring 1918
September 2018 - St Ethelburga's church; Langar & Barnstone Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 and more
November 2018 - Remembrance
May 2019 - All the local news!
Bingham Heritage Trails Association website is a fine example of a detailed, thorough but accessible local history website. There are sections on all periods - and Bingham is only 5 miles up the road from Langar - so what was true for Bingham is true for Langar.
Prehistoric Bingham Iron Age
Roman Anglo-Saxon Medieval
Tudor
Stuart Georgian Victorian 20th
Century
Crime and Punishment Farming World War One World War Two Railways
Acknowledgements: I have used the contents of this site extensively throughout this website.
The South Nottinghamshire Farmlands Landscape Character Assessment - excellent overview of The Vale of Belvoir - Newark & Sherwood District Council
East Midlands Historic Environment Research Framework resource developed as part of a national strategy to create a series of self-sustaining regional research frameworks for the historic environment of England. It was prepared in collaboration with stakeholders from across the historic environment spectrum, with guidance from a Steering Group and an advisory panel of regional, period and subject specialists.
The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway is designed to provide a guide to the heritage resources of the county, and a history of Nottinghamshire featuring the latest research.
Nottingham Hidden History Team - Originally formed in 1965 to try to save or at least record before destruction the cave sites continually discovered during the major redevelopment of the City that took place in Nottingham in the 1960s. In the 1980s and 1990s the Team conducted with the help of Dr Robert Morrell and Syd Henley, research and work on Nottingham’s history, folklore and local archaeology. On this site you will find a series of history, folklore and archaeological related articles and information. We try to upload weekly articles, news and photographs mainly about old Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire History - Nottinghamshire is an often unappreciated English county. This website attempts to counter ignorance like this by making accessible a wide range of books and articles reflecting the rich and fascinating history of this part of the midlands.
Placenames of Nottinghamshire - University of Nottingham Key to English Placenames - This is an up-to-date guide to the interpretation of the names of England's cities, towns and villages. The names of villages and towns frequently refer to particular people(s), social and administrative activities, landscape, birds and animals, crops and vegetation, and most of them are well over a thousand years old. In other words, they can tell us something important about the history of those places, and how they were perceived, which would otherwise be unknown.
Nottinghamshire Villages An anonymous and interesting blog: 'This blog is a labour of love. It is an ideal way to combine our interests of natural history; local history; photography; gardening; walking .... and popping in to pubs. Our aim is to visit the villages of Nottinghamshire - which is where we live - research the history, both anecdotal and factual; take photographs to present a pictorial record; provide links to useful, interesting or just odd sites that add colour and flavour to the taste of the villages and present it all in this blog.'
OurNottinghamshire is a non-profit making website which was purchased in 2010 with funding from the Nottinghamshire Loves Learning Partnership. This partnership acts as the umbrella body. It is as partners of this body that Nottinghamshire Libraries, Archives and Information Service and Nottingham City Library & Information Service administer this website.
History of Nottinghamshire Farming - by David Rose on the Woodborough’s Heritage website.
Southwell and Nottinghamshire Churches History Project The Church History Project was set up in 1998 in conjunction with the University of Nottingham to provide an accurate historical and archaeological record for each church and church site within the Diocese. See also their extensive list of Resources for Researchers.
St Ethelburga's Church The Lost Church of St Ethelburga: Medieval pilgrimage in the Vale of Belvoir by David G Bate 2016
Notes on the Churches of Nottinghamshire - by John T Godfrey 1907 - See Langar church - Barnstone - The Lost Church of St Ethelberga
The Grantham Canal Society - history
The History of Parliament The official website which contains all of the biographical, constituency and introductory survey articles published in The History of Parliament series maintained by The Institute of Historical Research - includes local MPs going way back!
Roman Britain - includes local sites
Kings and Queens of England and Britain - dates and potted histories from the Historic UK website