SUGGESTED WEBSITE LINKS
Suggested Website Links
First World War
General
Microsite from the BBC.
A general overview.
Allows anyone to search military records for relatives who fought in the First World War.
A range of clips from recent television programmes; sometimes variable quality.
First World War Index – text heavy but good for detailed information.
Poetry website.
Online exhibition of sources on the First World War from the National Archives. Has good links to movies held by the archive. Also has good maps for use on whiteboards.
Website supporting Hew Strachan’s book of the same name.
Birmingham University Website.Has an online bibliography, e-books and dissertations.General British, but also regional references.
Art of the First World War.
Index website with good links to other sites.General British perspective.
Excellent website – well-constructed and thoughtful, as you might expect from the ImperialWarMuseum.
Document website – American based.
Activities related to the First World War from Schools History.
Website of Radical Glasgow, an e-book that gives excellent information on key personalities, issues and disputes.It has a very useful chapter on the peace movements.
Exhaustive and fascinating website based on the Willie Gallacher archive.A brilliant source of primary evidence.
Learning and Teaching Scotland’s comprehensive new Scotland’s History website includes sections on The Great War and Red Clydeside.
Scottish websites
Fighting
National Museums website.
National Library website.
National Archives website.
Black Watch site; concise history of engagement in the in the First World War.
Gordon Highlanders; basic information on the website.
Basic information and guidance for contacting the museum at StirlingCastle.
Cameronians (Scottish rifles) website.
Scots Guards website.
Royal Scots website.
Website of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers.
Link to SCRAN Pathfinder Pack on the Somme.
Link to SCRAN detailing the experience of war of Jack Carmichael and his family.Jack was killed in 1917.
Excellent website with extremely useful online book section.
Seaforth Highlanders website.
Impact on politics, society and industry
An essential reference for radical politics, Red Clydeside and the impact of the war on society, industry and the changing role of women.
Link to SCRAN Pathfinder Pack on rationing.
Link to SCRAN Pathfinder Pack on the Home Front.
Link to SCRAN Pathfinder Pack on Women at War.
War poets At Craiglockhart.Website looking at Sassoonand Owen when they were being treated in Edinburgh.
Glasgow in the First World War.
Remembrance
Website on the Kinnethmont War Memorial, Aberdeenshire.Extensive information on each of the men named on the memorial.
Link to SCRAN Pathfinder Pack on the Armistice and Recruitment.
Official website of the Scottish National War Memorial.
North East War Memorial Project.
War memorials for the Black Watch.
War Memorials Trust.
War memorial Kilmarnock.
Poppy Appeal by the Royal British Legion.
Lost Generation microsite from Channel 4.
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