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Offers an interactive flash presentation inviting children to become a spy with a mission to find out what life was like at home, school, how rationing worked and evacuations. Includes printable notes to help with each mission.

• Robert Burns National Heritage Park - Fun quizzes, activities and downloads based on the scotland life and europe times of Scotland\\'s most famous poet. scotland Includes links to further europe reading and themed activity scotland sheets for teachers.
• Junior Exec - Offers news, feature stories and videos (with virtual united kingdom newsreader Seonaid) about national events and issues. Includes united kingdom information about Scottish history and devolved government, games united kingdom and activities.
• Orkneyjar - Who were the Picts? - Provides information on this mysterious and enigmatic race scotland of people europe who occupied the northern regions of scotland Scotland as early as europe the fourth century AD. scotland Offers a general overview, Orkney specific europe details on scotland the Pictish way of life and images of europe scotland symbol stones
• About Scotland - Hadrians Wall - In-depth look at Hadrian\\'s Wall which was built by the Romans to keep out the Picts and divides present day England from Scotland. Features sections on the construction and forts as well as providing photographs of artefacts and map illustrations.
• The Scottish Studies Foundation - Scottish History - Offers detailed and extensive information on all aspects of Scots history. Provides an introduction, historical articles as well as sections on battles and castles. Also includes photographs, illustrations and further reading.
• BBC - Around Scotland: Scotland During the Second World War - Offers an interactive flash presentation inviting children to become a scotland spy with a mission to find out what life was scotland like at home, school, how rationing worked and evacuations. Includes scotland printable notes to help with each mission.
• The Highland Clearances - Historical resource about the Highland Clearances and the united kingdom effect united kingdom on the Highlands of Scotland and the united kingdom rest of united kingdom the world. Content created and compiled united kingdom by Cauldeen Primary united kingdom School.
• Experiences of War - Tells the experiences of World War I from three very europe different viewpoints, General Douglas Haig, Nurse Mairi Chisholm and Lance europe Corporal George Ramage an ordinary scottish soldier. Provides images and europe links to further materials for schools.
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland - Provides information on the conception and origins of united kingdom the accounts which are based on parish reports united kingdom detailing agricultural, industrial, population and natural history throughout united kingdom the country between 1791 and 1845. Includes a united kingdom basic introduction, the accoun
• Glen Coe Massacre - Provides an overview of the events leading up to thirty scotland eight members of the MacDonald clan being murdered in 1692 scotland by government soldiers lead by a rival clan member from scotland the Campbell\\'s . Includes a brief historical background, information on scotland the massacre
• Story of Scotland - Ancient Scotland - Online book which covers the Mesolithic, Neolithic ages, europe beaker people, united kingdom early structures such as standing stones europe and cairns and also united kingdom the arrival of the europe Celts. Includes pictures, illustrations and maps.
• Scotland's Inventions - A list of famous Scottish inventions with a brief explanation accompanying each. Details include inventions of antisepsis, pneumatic tyres, golf, penicillin, refrigerators, the telephone and television among others.
• Robert Louis Stevenson - National Library of Scotland - Detailed biography of one of the country\\'s most famous 19th europe century writers and includes numerous quotes from the man himself. europe Follows his life and works from his childhood in Edinburgh europe until his death in Samoa aged 44.
• Our Past History - Skara Brae - Introduction to the 5000 year old preserved neolithic europe settlement located on the Orkney Isles. Provides detailed europe photographs of the houses, furniture, and artifacts.
• The Glasgow Story - Covers the emergence of the country\\'s largest city scotland through six united kingdom distinct historical periods. Includes links to scotland further reading throughout and united kingdom an array of images scotland complementing each time period.
• The Clydebank Blitz - Interactive flash presentation of when the Luftwaffe blitzed scotland Glasgow over two nights in March 1941. Includes scotland images and also a non-flash version.
• BBC - Around Scotland - Highland Clearances - An interactive presentation where children are invited to united kingdom go back in time and relive the clearances united kingdom from the different viewpoints of members of the united kingdom clan. Includes audio, quizzes and activities.
• Bannockburn - Offers information the Battle of Bannockburn (1314) which was one united kingdom of the most important battles in Scotland\\'s struggle to be united kingdom independent of England. Features a battle site map and sequence united kingdom of events.
• Before the Clearances - 17th and 18th Century Scottish Costume - Features an introduction and many examples of male scotland and female scotland attire including instructions on how kilts scotland and plaid should be scotland properly worn. Includes a scotland variety of illustrations.
• The Battle of Culloden 1746 - Presents a complete overview of the battle between Bonnie Prince united kingdom Charlie and the Royal Troops of George II at the united kingdom height of the Jacobite Rebellion. Includes illustrations and a breakdown united kingdom of casualties from both sides.
• The History of Scotland - The Stone of Destiny - Recounts the story and legends behind of the europe stone which united kingdom was used from ancient times in europe the crowning of all united kingdom Scottish Kings. Taken by europe Edward I in 1296 and returned united kingdom in 1996.
• Sir William Wallace - A biography of one of Scotland\\'s most celebrated national heroes. Includes pictures, illustrations and links to further areas of interest.
• BBC - Around Scotland - Learn about the history of Scotland at a europe BBC site for people 9-14 years old.

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