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The Study Centre

SINCE its establishment, history-ontheweb has gained an enviable reputation
as a no nonsense web resource. Under constant development, it now has
over 230 work-assignment articles and access is remarkably inexpensive.

Alf Wilkinson, the Historical Association/Actis Internet training officer wrote way back in April 2000, 
‘… [history-ontheweb] is quickly becoming an indispensable one-stop shop 
for discerning AS and A2 students and teachers’ 
and Ferl/Becta report that the site is 
‘… the best of the History magazine web sites’

Study Centre content and structure
To make the site even more user friendly for teachers and students, in August 2002
it was restructured and the Study Centre created in which the full range of
study components are collected and integrated. The eight sections in the Study Centre,
including some 230 work-assignment articles, are as below.

British History
Nineteenth century - political, economic and social
Twentieth century - political, economic and social 

European History
German History: nineteenth century 
German History: twentieth century 
Russian History: nineteenth century 
Russian History: twentieth century 
Italian History: nineteenth and twentieth centuries 

General and World, including USA, History  

In each section are collected:

• Work-assignment articles

• Related topic guides

• Related concepts, terms and ideologies

• Study advice and advice on answering structured and source-based questions

• Direct access to the acclaimed Advanced History students’ study guide (government endorsed)

• Selected related Internet sites

• Advice on how to read articles on the site effectively.

The work-assignment articles, set out in the applauded,
student-friendly, new perspective style include:

• A summary

• Questions to consider

• Words and concepts to note 

• Related articles on history-ontheweb (many with direct links)

• Further reading suggestions.

If you think the Study Centre is for you are a teacher click here.
If you are an A level student click here .

To sample one of the 200 articles in html on this web site click here in pdf click here

News, news and more news

15. Autumn 2007. Our sister publication ehistory, free to Study Centre
Licence holders, added to the Centre (pdf format).

14.  Spring 2007 A new section in the Study Centre started, eLearning with unit e-guides
and templates, free for users to adopt. This section will be developed rapidly

13.  Spring 2007 All issues of e-new perspective digitised in pdf. Vols 1-3, (1995-8) based
on older technology carry lower resolution but they are serviceable

12. September 2006. Download of page 9 of Vol 12, No 1 (September 2006) of page
with correct illustration. We apologise for the error.

11. From Autumn 2006 'full factual frameworks', extended from
our sister site (modernhistory.org.uk) will be available in the Study Centre

10. Early Spring, 2006. The whole of The Good History Students' Handbook
was made available online for subscribers to the online new perspective journal.
From August 2006 it was added in the Study Centre

9. April 2005. Most of volumes 4-10 (7 volumes in total )are now available
in printable pdf format in the Study centre

8.  Spring 2005 Reduced-cost e-new perspective only subscription
section to be initiated for 2005/6 Please see order form.

7. February 2005, as promised, powerful Google-style search facilities
have been added to the open access part of the site and, separately, the Study Centre

6. New Year 2005. We changed our ISP to a different company
within the same overall plc. There bedding-in issues are resolved.

5. NEWS, NEWS. March 2004 The online edition of the journal e-new perspective
was initiated. It is in the Study Centre.
There are already (October 2004) 5 back volumes available online,
other volumes will follow. The way is now open for Heads of History and Librarians
to achieve greater flexibility with resource provision of first-rate
unit-study content at very little cost. Access is by the eLC qualifying Licence.
To find out how to gain a free Licence click here.

4. From March 2005, for the 2005/6 subscription year, an online only
cheaper subscription will be available. Details will be on the 2005/6 order form,
accessed from the start/index page

3. NEWS. Grade Buster’s guides, a brilliant new series, is now established.
Some guides will be published in the new perspective journal, some will be
available only in the Study Centre. The series will take popular study units
from AQA, Edexcel and OCR and provide careful advice on how to gain a high grade,
and still enjoy study, partly using history-ontheweb resources.
When published on the web, in the Study Centre, the links will be in place
to take the user straight to the resources. As they say, watch this space!

… and MORE NEWS. During the early months of 2003
the GCSE Resource bank was established.
The pages of the GCSE Resource bank are of two kinds: 
2. Selected articles that provide content for GCSE courses added:

    AQA, Edexcel or OCR GCSE Modern History specification-related articles (86 articles)
     AQA, Edexcel or OCR GCSE Social and Economic History specification-related articles (56 articles)
     AQA, Edexcel or OCR GCSE Schools History Project specification-related articles (35 articles)

1. Teaching resources and selected GCSE student study skills advice added.