Google flies you to The Moon.

So you want to travel to the moon and explore it's history? Land on the Moon in Google Earth.Check out how, by watching the video below and then log onto http://www.google.com/moon/

Then download Google Earth by logging onto http://earth.google.com/moon/

The Moon Landing - July 20th 1969

Check out 1. Extract from a NASA programme on The Moon Landing, including original footage. 2. Trailer for the Documentary Film 'In the shadow of the moon'.

Revision - Dictatorship and Democracy 2 - Russia

Hope all our Leaving Certificate History Students will use the extra individual study time created by school closure to revise more topics and complete more timed past exampaper essays.

See Clips below focusing on Russian History. Topic - Propaganda and Control - 'Stalin's Show Trials'.

Revision. Dictatorship and Democracy 1. Germany.

A bit slow moving in places but a useful starting point for revising German History. These two clips come from the beginning of the series 'The World at War'. Episode 1 - A New Germany - explores the growth of Fascism and Dictatorship.

History of Decades

Happy 2010 to all!

To our Leaving Certificate Students - hope you revising well and working on the final draft of your Research Topic.

Check out the two videos below representing views of the histories of different decades. Video 1. 2000 - 2009 Video 2. 1950's and 60's. Let me know what you think!

More posts to follow over the next few days, some to do with the History of Weather!