Good youtube video here about the Great Leap, including footage of Mao's bizarre sparrow cull. Narrated by Tom Baker, it is a pretty sound account.
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Mao, China's Revolutionary Leader
Lenin Addresses the Crowd
The History Blog for Sutton Grammar School. Updated regularly with material both relevant to the different SGS History exam courses (GCSE and A-level), and some broader historical observations. After all, where there's history, there's life (and so on, inserting cliche where appropriate).
Lesson Presentations And Other Links
Mao, China's Revolutionary Leader
Chinese History (AS-level)
- + Tiananmen Square Declassified - Episode 1 of series on youtube
- + Wikipedia's History of China
- + History of China pages, split into timeline and history pages.
- + Condensed History of China - brief overview of key periods, useful as a starter.
- + Excerpt from 'The Last Emperor', showing the bizarre life of China's last imperial leader, a mere boy.
Lenin Addresses the Crowd
Russian History Links (A2 coursework)
Articles on the Web
- + Critical review of the Mao biography in the London Review of Books
- + Excellent review of Jung Chang's Mao bigraphy, and a further book taking us into Deng's China - by Clive Foss in 'History Today'.
- + Holocaust article from 'History Today' magazine
- + Vietnam, Forty Years On - Stanley Johnson in the Spectator revisits Vietnam and says the Americans won after all.
History on You Tube! A selection of relevant videos from the youtube site.
- + China in 1911 - first of ten video documentaries on China in Revolution.
- + Tiananmen Square Declassified - first of several parts to examination of events in 1989
- + Gulf of Tonkin - archive tapes and interview with McNamara expose the reality of the Tonkin incident.
- Vietnam War Pt 1 - Why US Became Involved
- Vietnam War Pt 2 - Increasing US Involvement
- + War Made Easy - short documentary shows how the Tonkin Resolution came to be re-lived in the Iraqi War decision.
Other Links
- + Marc Morris' Blog - the excellent blog from medieval specialist and "Norman Conquest" author Marc Morris.
- + Why Study History? The pre-eminent SGS video on youtube!
- + John D Clare - indispensible GCSE History site.
- + Spartacus website - comprehensive coverage, loads of links.
- + History Learning Site; offers a number of articles for GCSE Modern World History.
- + History Today
- + BBC History Site
- + The SGS Politics Blog
- + SGS website
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