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1500s landscape drawing showing a bridge over a river looking on into a harbor
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Biblioteca Ambrosiana

The site is visually attractive and well designed, with straightforward navigation. It provides an introduction to the site and a history of the collection; a database search that scans the collection by artist, subject, and other parameters; and bibliographies for the drawings, for the history of
Logo and name for the International Dunhuang Project
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International Dunhuang Project

The IDP, based at the British Library in London, is an international collaborative effort to catalog, conserve, and encourage research of Silk Road artifacts. This website, which currently displays around 20,000 digitized images of these artifacts, is one product of this larger effort.
Detail: Black and white photograph of two girls in dresses standing in front of a tree
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Abdul-Hamid II Collection Photography Archive

Teachers and students of the history of children and youth will be particularly taken by the vast array of education-themed photographs, which reveal a strong emphasis placed on schooling by the Ottoman Empire at the time.
Detail of a photograph showing two children sitting on the wing of a crashed German fighter plane.
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Childhood and Evacuation

Most of the contributions are long and full of detail on humdrum daily routines during the war, which may try the patience of young people today. Yet the website surely achieves its objective of providing a monumental learning resource for future generations.
Detail of the header for The Illustrated London News showing the word "News" over part of the London skyline
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The Illustrated London News

In sum, the archive has a variety of delights for the historians to search through, and a well-organized website, though no great depth of coverage or supporting material.
1914 cartoon reading "Bound for Berlin: The Great War Game" encircling a German soldier with a frightened look
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Cartoons

This site provides students and teachers alike with a way of enlivening their approach to British political and social history. The website has a huge amount of material available, and it is well organized to help the researcher find cartoons from a particular cartoonist, or on a particular theme.
Detail of a1919 photo titled "Group Photo St. Deny's Home for Toddlers" showing a group of young children and a nurse.
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Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive

At its heart is a collection of "Photographs", "Case files", and "Learning materials" from one of the many philanthropic societies dedicated to the care of children in Britain at this period.
Detail of a 1930s drawing by Alberto Monos showing a purple tank with multiple guns firing at airplanes
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Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War

In short, this is a potentially interesting collection that gives a child's perspective on the war, but from a teacher's point of view, there is very little help in ways of deploying it in the classroom.
"The Radical's Arms" a political cartoon criticizing French Revolutionaries for the reign of terror by depicting two peasants with a guillotine before a burning globe
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

It is this type of versatility, coupled with the topical essays and the intuitive design of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity that makes this site a welcome resource for teachers of European history and world history (and their students).
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Execution of a Pirate in Wapping, London

This print by Robert Dobb depicts a pirate being hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping, London's largest seafaring neighborhood.