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America's Outdoor History Museums
www.outdoorhistory.org
Information about museums and historic colonies throughout the United States.
Colonial America 1607-1783
www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/16071783/index.htm
Comprehensive website covering religion, history and culture from the founding of Jamestown to the Declaration of Independence.
Colonial House
www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/
Extensive website produced to accompany the American showing of the series (under a different name). Includes information on how the series was made, biographies of the participants, video diaries, games and quizzes.
The Edwardian Country House
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/C/countryhouse/index.html
Website accompanying the Channel 4 series about modern families living under the authentic historical conditions of England in 1905.
Elizabeth
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/elizabeth.html
An extract from David Starkey's compelling recreation of Elizabeth I's early life.
Interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman
www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-10.htm
Respected history professor and author gives her views on the relationship between the Native Americans and the English during the colonisation of North America.
MayflowerHistory.com
www.mayflowerhistory.com
History of the Mayflower, Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony, including a list of all the passengers and their biographies. Full text of the Mayflower Compact, the first American Constitution, is reproduced.
Native Americans
www.nativeamericans.com/Wampanoag.htm
Taken from an expansive resource about Native Americans, this section concentrates on the Wampanoag.
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620
www.rootsweb.com/~mosmd
Descriptions of the background, journey, and beliefs of the Pilgrims; lesson plans for educators; and diagrams of buildings and ships from First Nations peoples.
Pilgrim Hall Museum
www.pilgrimhall.org/plgrmhll.htm
Along with images of artefacts and possessions of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, the museum's online companion has interesting facts about the journey of the colonists and life in the colony.
Plimoth Plantation
www.plimoth.org
Living history museum representing 1627 Plymouth, along with Native American interpretation at a reconstructed Hobomok's Homesite. The museum maintains – and occasionally sails – a full-scale reproduction of the Mayflower.
Plymouth Ancestors
www.plymouthancestors.org
Genealogical information on the inhabitants of the Plymouth Colony in 1627. Provides information on how to start your own genealogical research.
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
An extensive collection of 17th-century sources and historical documents, providing information on the people, architecture and activitiesof Plymouth colony.
Time Traveller's Guide to Stuart England
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide17/index.html
All you need to know about the filthy and dangerous streets of Civil War and Restoration London. Take a look at what the Pioneers were escaping from.
Time Traveller's Guide to Tudor England
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide16/index.html
Everything the adventurous traveller needs to journey to the time of Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen, who championed the cause of intrepid explorers seeking the rewards of new territories.
Virtual Jamestown
www.virtualjamestown.org
A digital research, teaching and learning project which explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and 'the Virginia experiment'.
17th Century Colonial New England
www.17thc.us/index.php?id=2
Gateway site to links covering daily life, architecture, witchcraft and much more.
1940s House
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/0-9/1940house/index.html
Website accompanying the Channel 4 television series, created as a living experiment, where a modern family lived in a real house under wartime conditions.
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