Planning a First World War project
40 First World War educational websites for primary and
secondary schools
Phil Bracegirdle – SEGfL Associates
Last updated January 2014
For more information about the websites listed in this catalogue visit:
www.ww1toolbox.org.uk
National Education Network First World War online Teaching & Learning resources
E2BN Picture
http://tools.e2bn.org/pictureteller/
E2BN Museum Box
http://museumbox.e2bn.org/
CookIT
http://cookit.e2bn.org/
History’s Heroes
http://historysheroes.e2bn.org/
Battle of the Somme
http://ovnv.lgfl.org.uk/somme_theatre/
What impact did
technology make on the
First World War?
http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/FWW4/default.htm
What was it like to fight in
the battle of the Somme?
http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/FWW2/default.htm
What was trench warfare?
http://www.dur.ac.uk/4schools/FWW3/default.htm
Use historical photographs to create
impressive multimedia presentations.
Organise resources (text, audio,
images and video) to create a
persuasive argument about a person
or an event
Follow the online recipes to make the
food soldiers would have eaten in the
trenches and families would have
eaten in the UK.
Make a compelling case for a World
War I figure to be added to the
History’s Heroes website.
6 easy to follow lesson plans for 13 –
18 year olds.
Explore how developments in
technology led to changes in tactics,
methodology and fighting in the 20th
Century.
Read the official view of The Battle of
the Somme. How does it compare to
the accounts given by the infantrymen
and artillerymen that were fighting in
the trenches?
Use the notes found amongst the
papers of Lieutenant Colonel W D
Lowe to see what it tells you about the
theory of trench warfare.
First World War Archive Film Collections
British Film Institute
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/history/index.ht
ml
National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-worldwar/
Imperial War Museum
http://www.iwm.org.uk/learning/resources/learni
ng-resources
BBC Learning Zone
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/
Screen Archives SouthEast
Wessex Film & Sound
Archives
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/screenarchive/
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa.htm
The First & The Last
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_cgNcbxktE
The screen online collection includes
one hundred short films about the First
World War. Topics covered include: The
Home Front, Women in War Time and
the War on the land.
The National Archives First World War
collection includes a large library of
archive films and podcasts. Film titles
include National Service and Women
making munitions.
Short interviews with IWM staff about
propaganda, recruitment and the role
Commonwealth soldiers played in the
First World War.
Set of 65 clips. Topics covered include:
War Graves, Causes of the Conflict and
The causes of World War I.
Film archive includes historical films
about Sussex, Surrey and Kent
Film archive includes historical films
about Hampshire, Isle of Wight,
Berkshire and Buckinghamshire
Superb film about the conflict in
Western Europe funded for the
centenary by the Belgium Government.
First World War Photographic Collections
Heritage Explorer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_cgNcbxktE
National Archives World
War I image collection
https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
NEN Gallery
http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/
National Army Museum
http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/
World War I Colour
Photos
Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
IWM Photographs
http://members.1914.org/photographs/
Wiki Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_War_I
http://school.eb.co.uk/
First World War photographic
collections include Memorials, Women
at Work and Transport
The collection features Ordnance
photography and photographs of The
Home Front & Women working on
farms, in factories and on the railways.
A collection of high quality First World
War images that can be repurposed by
teachers and students.
Collection includes images grouped under
the following themes: Great Generals,
Horses in War, Remembrance and Women
in the British Army.
A collection of images from the Western
Front.
Free access to the EB School Library that
comprises of over 8000 World War I digital
images
A collection of 50 high quality digital images.
To access these resources schools must
register as a Centenary Partnership
Member.
Large depository of copyright free images.
Subjects covered include War Leaders, War
at Sea, Propaganda, Memorials and
Postcard Collections.
First World War Audio Library websites
IWM Podcasts
http://www.1914.org/podcasts/
IWM Sound Archives
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collectionsresearch/about/sound
FirstWorldWar.Com
http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/index.htm
BBC History Soldiers’
Story Audio Gallery
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/s
oldiers_stories_gallery.shtml
Internet archive: Songs of
World War I
First World War Poetry
digital archive
https://archive.org/details/SongsOfWorldWarI
First World War New
Perspectives
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-warnew-perspectives
National Archives First
World War Podcasts
http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/t
ag/first-world-war/
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/first-world-warpoetry-digital-archive
A collection of 38 audio recordings
about events associated with The First
World War.
Created by the IWM and Western Front
Association the collection contains over
3300 WW1 recordings.
The website contains audio recordings
of politicians, royalty, commanders,
battles, songs and speeches from the
period 1914 – 18.
On this website actors read aloud diary
extracts, memories and letters of those
who fought in the war.
A collection of 10 American popular
World War I songs.
A set of podcasts created by the First
World War Poetry Digital Archive
Project at Oxford University.
A series of short introductory talks from
experts in the field presenting new
perspectives on the First World War.
Produced by the University of Oxford.
A set of 40 podcasts and videos that
share the recollections of service
personnel and civilians.
BBC Wilfred Owen Audio
Library
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
wilfred_owen_gallery.shtml
Library & Archive Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-worldwar/interviews/index-e.html
Listen to Wilfred Owens’s poem “The
Sentry” and extracts from a letter written
to his mother in January 1917.
Interviews with veterans of the
Canadian Expeditionary force.
War Graves, Military Records and Census websites
Commonwealth War
Graves Commission
(CWGC)
Imperial War Museum
War Memorial Archive
Ancestry.co.uk*
http://www.cwgc.org/
Find my Past*
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
National Archive Census
Records
Forces War Records
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/rese
arch-guides/census-returns.htm
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/
Search the CWGC database to find out
what happened to the service personnel
who died in the First World War.
Site lists the location of all UK War
Memorials.
Research the family history of men and
women who were alive during the First
World War.
Search census records dating back to
1841 and military records from the
period 1914 - 1918
User guide on searching and
interrogating census records.
Search the database for information
about First World War regiments.
* Some Local Authorities offer free online access to these collections.
Contact your Library Services Team for more information.
Other useful First World War websites
Royal British Legion
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/sc
hools-and-learning
The Royal British Legion education
Pack can be used in the classroom to
support topics linked to history,
citizenship, literacy, PHSE and
citizenship.
First World War Timelines
BBC World War I digital Timeline (Text only)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance/timeline/ind
ex.shtml
National War Museum Interactive Timeline
(with images and links)
http://theworldwar.org/explore/interactive-wwitimeline
National Archives First World
War Timeline (Text only)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/fir
stworldwar/timelines/timeline1914.htm
http://books.google.com/
A collection of World War I timelines.
First World War E-Books
First World War Artists
Paul Nash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/p
aul-nash
Stanley Spencer
Search the Google online book
collection for full texts and extracts from
fiction and non-fiction books about The
First World War.
View the work of prominent First World
War artists on these websites.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/painting
s/search/located_at/national-trust-sandhammemorial-chapel-7464_locations
IWM First World War Art Collections
http://archive.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/95/col
lections/art/john-singer-sargent.html
First World War Toolbox
http://www.ww1toolbox.org.uk/
The “one-stop” shop for all World War I
Teaching & Learning resources and for
information about First World War
events and projects taking place in
2014 across the South-East region.
The “one-stop” shop for all First World War resources www.ww1toolbox.org.uk