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A site with over 200 free documentaries on the topic of history. Sorry for the vague tags on sites like this, but the collection is so eclectic that it's hard to be thorough. Searching for region and time period should yield results when you're looking later.

To those of you who recently joined the group after the QHTA State Conference, I promised that I would provide the podcast of my presentation if any of you missed anything. Here it is. I've also placed some of my lesson podcasts here. Alternately, you can subsribe to my podcasts on iTunes by searching for David Hilton. As sources they're probably unreliable...

This site has some excellent maps, timelines, etc on a wide spread of historical periods. Might be useful for student research or classroom activities? It's quite comprehensive.

There's a lot of rubbish on this site but some good stuff too if you're patient. This fella has some quality powerpoints for use in the classroom; I've found the Flow of History powerpoints better but still use these sometimes. Not sure if you can download them.

Enormous collection of older books now out of copyright on a wide array of topics. Some specialist topics here suitable for senior secondary/tertiary research and organise well under topics.

Wikis in general tend to arouse some strong reactions in teachers (I guess we've all seen what Google and Wikipedia have done to research in many history and social studies classrooms...) yet I thought some people might find this useful, especially towards the start of the year when you look back over your units. Which of course we all do. Of course.

"The LBC/IRN Audio Archive, (London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive) consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content - approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. The digitised archive contains invaluable recordings of a wide range of broadcasts including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin."

You can only listen if you are part of a tertiary institution which has a paid subscription through the Athens ID system (v. annoying!) however you're able to read the transcripts for free.

Comprehensive set of study materials on the history of the Middle Ages provided for tertiary students.