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Second World War Online Resources |
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Imperial War Museum
The website of the Imperial War Museum including links to the five museum sites: IWM London (Lambeth Road), IWM North (Trafford Quays Manchester), The Cabinet War Rooms (nr. Whitehall), HMS Belfast (The Thames London), and IWM Duxford (Duxford Airfield Cambridgeshire).
The Imperial War Museum’s Collections Online
The Imperial War Museum’s Collections Online website offers access to material covering all aspects of twentieth century conflict, including a plethora of Second World War material. The site includes detailed catalogue information for thousands of items from the Imperial War Museum's collections.
The Ministry of Defence history
The Ministry of Defence history pages include links to a series of commemorative booklets published to mark the 60th anniversaries of key events leading to the end of the Second World War.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, including the Debt of Honour database, a searchable facility with comprehensive data on CWGC cemeteries and the casualties buried in or commemorated at them worldwide. Includes access to the CWGC education website Remember Me.
The Anne Frank Trust
The Anne Frank Trust draws inspiration from Anne Frank's diary, and works towards promoting mutual respect and social justice through education.
Spartacus
Spartacus is a history educational website aimed at schools including Political Events and Issues, the History of Aviation, the Second World War and more.
The Second World War history resources
The Second World War history resources from the BBC including historical background to key battles, the Home Front, the Holocaust, key figures, maps and links to veterans’ testimony.
The BBC’s People’s War
The BBC’s People’s War website is an online collection of stories and memories about the Second World War, some first-hand from veterans and some second-hand from veterans’ friends or relations.
The Second World War Experience
The Second World War Experience Centre in Leeds is a dedicated centre for collecting and preserving evidence of the Second World War.
War Detectives
War Detectives is part of the Big Lottery Fund's Their Past Your Future scheme, which in Scotland is being managed by the Scottish Museums Council (SMC) leading a Scottish Consortium with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) and Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS). The site invites young people to explore the experience of the Second World War. Students will investigate through first hand accounts; by interviewing local veterans and those who lived through the war, and by recording stories of life during the Second World War in their communities.
emsource
An online teaching and learning resource for the East Midlands, includes archive materials relating to the experience of WW2 in the East Midlands along with 5 National Curriculum linked teaching and learning packages.
The Second World War in Northern Ireland
This website from the Northern Ireland Museums Council lets you explore how the Second World War affected people in Northern Ireland. It provides access to objects, documents, images, audio and film that bring their experiences to life and testify to their courage, and includes a range of learning materials.
Recollections of WW2
This site has been created to highlight the existence of the thousands of oral history recordings that have been carried out with people who experienced the Second World War. The collections listed on this site contain memories of servicemen and women from all nations, evacuees, Holocaust survivors and civilians who experienced the war on the Home Front.
Our Secret War
A website dedicated to the collection of oral testimony from Second World War veterans whose work engaged them in secret, covert or unsung operations, including the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and the Special Operations Executive. |
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