- British Design and Art Direction
Professional association and charity representing the UK's design and advertising communities.
www.dandad.org
- ePHOTOzine
Brings a selection of new techniques, equipment tests, and photo galleries.
www.ephotozine.com
- YouTube: The Royal Channel
The official channel of the British Monarchy. Includes Queen Elizabeth II's broadcasts, as well as historical videos.
www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel
- Whichbook.net
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Offering book choices that stem from the reader rather than from the overwhelming choice of books available. Choose a book to match your mood.
www.whichbook.net
- Ancient Egypt
Aimed at Key Stage 2 students with topics including Ancient Egyptian home life, geography, religion, the pharoahs, pyramids and temples in Egypt, trades, and writing. From the British Museum.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk
- Moving Here
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Online database of original sources recording the migration experience to England since 1800.
www.movinghere.org.uk
- FreeBMD
Project aiming to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 1983 and to make records freely available online.
freebmd.rootsweb.com
- BALTIC
International center for contemporary art housed in a former 1950s grain warehouse in Gateshead, northern England.
www.balticmill.com
- Design Council
Who we are, what we do, and a great deal of design related information.
www.designcouncil.org.uk
- familyrecords.gov.uk
Reference guide to family history sites and records from Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland.
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
- Whitechapel Art Gallery
www.whitechapel.org
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
www.edbookfest.co.uk
- Sir John Soane's Museum, The
Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art.
www.soane.org
- Historyforkids
Offers information for Key Stage 2 and 3 students with accompanying teaching resources.
www.historyforkids.org
- Mary Rose
Tudor-period warship raised after more than 400 years on ocean floor. Hull remains and more than 1000 artifacts on display.
www.maryrose.org
- Cutty Sark
The last surviving example of an extreme clipper built for the China tea trade.
www.cuttysark.org.uk
- Times Literary Supplement
Offers weekly book and literary reviews, biography, travel, and theatre.
www.the-tls.co.uk
- Royal Air Force Museum
Britain's national museum of aviation located at Hendon and Cosford.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk
- Jorvik Viking Centre
Housed in the restored medieval church of St. Saviour in the center of York. Offers tours where visitors dig in the dirt to piece together history.
www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk
- HUMBUL Gateway, The
Links to web content about archaeology, philosophy, language studies, English studies, area studies, and literature. Humbul Humanities Hub has merged with Artifact to form the Intute Arts and Humanities database, but site will be accessible for the time being.
www.humbul.ac.uk
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