History

Only2clicks links to History websites [|here].
On this page - World War I, Blue Mountains, SA History, Onkaparinga, Inventions, Ancient Egypt, Fibres and Fabrics

Australian History timeline from the National Film and Sound Archives History of Navigation at sea

Early Navigators of Australia

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Australia day history and activities Gold rush links

World War I

 * World War I || From the BBC. Interactive guides, Interactive drama, guides, picture galleries, news and features. ||
 * RSL Virtual War Memorial || Tributes of honour for SA & NT ||
 * Gallipoli and the ANZACS ||  ||
 * Lest we forget || Teacher support and background information about WW1. Tabs for Glossary, Supporting resources and related literature. ||

Armistice Day /Remembrance Day
[|Tower of London poppies] [|Public pictures of Poppies] [|Albany remembers]

Blue Mountains Crossings Bi-Centenary 2013 to 2015 new 24/6/13

 * Retracing the steps of Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth ||< Mordern day explorers prepare to retrace the footsteps of Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth - two hundred years after the Europeans' original journey. Radio interview of the organiser. Transcript available. ||
 * Blue Mountains Crossings BiCentenary official site. ||< The Royal Australian Historical Society and Western Crossings Committee are delighted to endorse this website as a central source of helpful information about Bicentenary related events, activities and history. ||
 * Across the Blue Mountains and surrounding areas. ||< For kids - online book, play, find a word, crossword, game, comprehension, missing words, finding the way, imagine, design a stamp activities. Search the rest of the website for further information. ||
 * Explorers of Australia - Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth ||< Information from Kidcyber. ||

SA History

 * SA Timeline || From SLSA [] ||
 * Matthew Flinders intro || @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9JA5PrLKu4 ||
 * Flinders Voyage || From SLSA Encounter 1802 - 2002 ||
 * Flinders Encounter || From SLASA Encounter 1802 ||
 * The Navigators || From ABC ||
 * Flinders Biography || From Australian Dictionary of Biography ||

Inventions

 * [|Australian Inventions] || Australian inventions have assisted with everyday activities such as hanging out the clothes to dry on a rotary washing line, putting food into the fridge so it keeps fresh, drilling a hole in the wall so you can hang a picture, taking antibiotics to help a throat infection and hearing people laugh if you were born deaf. ||
 * [|Australian Inventions] || Australia has generated a remarkable number of important inventions in the last 200 years. Here is a list of a number of inventions that White Hat considers significant. ||
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Ancient Egypt[[image:librarysk7/5680883227_fb45769c06.jpg width="146" height="211" align="right"]]
Discovering Ancient Egypt The Ancient Egypt site Ancient Egypt From the British Museum. Egyptians From the BBC Ancient Egypt From Woodlands-Junior Ancient Egypt From Royal Ontario Museum. We are Ancient Egypt online Ancient Egypt by two uni students An Introduction to Ancient Egypt from Woodlands Junior School.

Fibres and fabrics

 * [|Wild fibres] || Natural Fibres include wool from sheep and fibre from alpaca, angora rabbits, cashmere and angora (mohair) goats, silk from insects (silkworms), and plant fibres such as cotton, flax and linen, nettle and hemp. ||
 * [|Timeline of Fabric History] || Important dates in Fabric history - from 9000BC to 1979 ||
 * [|Timeline of Manmade fibres] || A useful filament was not produced until the last part of the 19th Century. ||
 * [|Manufactured or man-made fabric?] || What is the difference? ||