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Link: Bomb Sight - Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census http://i.snag.gy/1Q8i3.jpg

Link: Invisible Works: Ghosts: London blitz aerial maps http://www.invisibleworks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Heinkel-london-Isle-of-Dogs.jpg

Link: Magna Carta - The British Library

Link: Hillforts of Britain and Ireland

Link: The Great Battles - Google My Maps

Link: Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive From the archive: [Translation: Google Chrome] Source: SA-kuva. Archive: 12000 images [at the time of posting]

Link: A Race of Discovery

Link: World History Maps & Timelines | GeaCron http://i.snag.gy/PVmMV.jpg The website allows you to input up to 10 dates [by year] below the map and step through those dates to see how world borders changed over that time. Or you can use the arrows above the map to step a set number of years for each click: <<< 100 years back << 10 years back < 1 year back Similar steps for the forward pointing arrows. More videos: Link 2: Help | GeaCron

Link: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire http://i.snag.gy/hootU.jpg

Link: Home | LOCATING LONDON'S PAST http://i.snag.gy/oeR0I.jpg

Link: BBC Taster - Ghosts of Thiepval VR: Rate

Link: Stonehenge Man: not just a pretty face - life - 03 January 2014 - New Scientist On a side note: Anyone see a little of Matt Smith when The Doctor was sporting a beard? http://news.whoviannet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ttt-doctor-beard.jpg http://oursideoftheuniverse.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/soothsayer2.gif

I was originally going to post this on a thread about getting hold of Win 7 pre order where someone was asking why everyone was in such a hurry to spend their money. This got me thinking about why I have personally put money down to by an OS for the first time in my life. After the Vista debacle, I never thought I'd be excited about an MS OS again. Being of a certain age, I remember the anticipation surrounding the releases of various versions of Windows over the years and with a couple of notable exceptions, I've been excited to try every single one. Here then is my potted of history of what got me excited about Windows at almost every version. Windows 1.0 - Oooh windows! No apps though. Windows 2.0 - Oooh, overlapping windows. Pagemaker! Yay! Windows 3.0 - Nice step up from Windows 2.x. Colour! Program Manager! Windows 3.1, Workgroups etc. - Mmmm networking, Internet. Windows NT 3 - At the time I was not that interested, but that would change. Windows 95 - Hugely exciting at the time. I forget how many floppies this came on but at the time it was well worth it. All that desktop customisation - good stuff. Windows NT 4 - This came along just in time to save me from years of suffering with Novell NetWare. Windows 98 - Smoothing out of the rough edges and a much nicer OS all around. This is what 95 should have been from the start. (as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, R2 was the version to have) Windows 2000 - This came along just in time to save me from years of suffering with NT 4. A giant leap forward for Microsoft and a very very solid OS, still running in many places. Windows ME - Best left alone although some newer stuff did debut here. Windows XP, 2003 - Despite the solidity of Win2K, it was never an exciting user experience but XP fixed all that and 2003 was a good evolutionary step on the server side. Windows Vista - Never wanted it, never used it so I suppose I should just keep quiet about it. Anyone else care to share their thoughts / memories at this exciting time... [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows[/ame]

Link: BBC News - Richard III dig: DNA Result Says...

Link: Queen Victoria Online Scrapbook http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/503/queenvictoriascrapbooko.jpg From the teachers notes in the scpapbook:

Link: Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court Search URL: Search - Home - Central Criminal Court

Link: A Vision of Britain through Time | Your national on-line library for local history | Maps, Statistics, Travel Writing and more http://i.snag.gy/irszk.jpg