Any historians out there? The gusette has to do a project for school on "The Gauls". Any suggestions about where I can go? Gav take a deep breath and hold back your typing finger! She is 12 and will be reading this. I have heard that there are sites around for students etc. I will make sure she does her Bibliographies and acknowledge the sources and she knows she is not allowed to cut and paste large chunks. She basically needs 1. Information and 2. Some photos and maps.

No not those photos Sting and Screach, nor yours Ciara.

Thank you.

-- Anonymous, August 03, 2000

Answers

Gus

You can try BBC Education History section, which is pretty good on all things historical. I did a quick search and found 9 items as follows. Hope this helps.

Barry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/

Search results... 1-9 of 9 documents matching one or more words BBC Education - The Romans Before the Romans invaded, the Celts ruled Britain. The Celts were divided up into different tribes ruled by kings or chiefs who lived in hill forts. In Celtic Britain there were no towns, as such. Most Score: 100%, Matching: gaul BBC Education - Meet the Ancestors: The Roman Invasions of Britain The Roman Invasions of Britain In 54 and 55 BC the Romans tried to invade Britain under the legendary Emperor, Julius Caesar. On both occasions he failed. It wasn't until AD43 that Emperor Claudius returned Score: 100%, Matching: gaul BBC Education: Mapping the Town: Ripon 4 Julian Richard, I've just come from tangible evidence of the wider power of the church, and now I am back in town, and I mean to me, all I can see standing here is the cathedral a couple of hundred yards over Score: 100%, Matching: gaul Tribes of Britain 24: Atrebates This is another British tribe that shares a name with another tribe in pre-Roman France. This tribe was the second most powerful group in southern Britain at the time of the Roman Conquest. They Score: 100%, Matching: gaul Tribes of Britain 23: Belgae The Belgae were probably not a British tribe. Rather the Romans created this civitas (an administrative unit within a Roman province). Before the Roman Conquest, the whole of the territory between Score: 100%, Matching: gaul Tribes of Britain 22: Durotriges Centred in Dorset, this people were also found in southern parts of Wiltshire and Somerset and western Dorset. This was a people that minted and used coins before the Roman Conquest, but there Score: 100%, Matching: gaul BBC Education - France Inside Out - Lyon Lyon Marseille Montpellier Toulouse Paris Lyon, past and present It was the Romans who established the military colony of Lugdunum, now modern-day Lyon, in 43 BC, on the convergence of the Rhtne and Score: 100%, Matching: gaul BBC Education - WALDEN ON VILLAINS - NERO: ABOUT THE MAN THE GREAT FIRE OF ROME When Rome caught fire in AD64, Suetonius claims that Nero was so moved by the beauty of the flames that he sang of the Sack of Troy as he watched from his tower. Given Nero's Score: 100%, Matching: gaul BBC Education - Meet the Ancestors: Timeline Meet the Ancestors Timeline THE YEARS BC PREHISTORY MESOLITHIC c.10,000 - The end of the last Ice Age when mainland Britain was still joined to the continent by a land bridge and was populated by Score: 100%, Matching: gaul

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-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

gus - I will e mail you a list of sites from a Copernic search.

If you don`t have Copernic, it`s well worth downloading - if you have the space - the free version is very good, and more than adequate for most peoples requirements. (:o)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gus - simplest just to buy her a copy of "Asterix and the Gauls" - a thumping good read, and handy if she needs to use any pictures to brighten up her report !

Actually the Asterix books do have a factual basis, eg. there really was a Chief Vercingetorix - except he got squashed by the Romans (as opposed to him sitting on them in the comic books !).

Gus - you need to warn the Gusette of 2 things. Firstly the dubious nature of much purporting to be history on the web. Secondly, the fact that most of our info on the Gauls actually comes from the conquering Romans - ie. the vanquishers always get to write the history and therefore largely shape the views of future generations. If she can get her little noggin around that, then she has a great future as an historian.

That notwithstanding (though I wouldn't try that on a 12 year old), she can find some maps via a fair Ancient History site:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/bl/ bl_maps_europe_europa.htm

I take it I hadn't mentioned I did a first degree in Ancient Near Eastern History then ?! :o))

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gus
There's a 'History of the Gauls' at the location below http://moltenlava.com/uo/Celtichistory.html

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Gus
Oops. At the location on the same line.

Far too early in the morning for complicated stuff like html new lines.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

One or two useful sites listed here

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Thank you one and all. I will know she will thank you all personally most likely next weekend when she comes to stay with me.

I will email the thread to her tonight.

On that matter, her name will probably raise a few giggles amongst some of you.

Any guesses? A hint is a strong connection to the N/E and to several correspondents to this BBS.

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Is she called Heaton or Blyth?

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

How about, 'something' (= girl's name) Weightman?

;7)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

It's gotta be Geordie! (or Magpie, or Toon, or.......)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Maria? ;-)

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Come on now, play fair.

Bud is partly right (the Weightman bit), the others should only have I go each, not options.

LOL at Maria, however that name has more Manc connections than Geordie ones!

If you only put 1 choice on one of you are very very close.

And a prize, you can have all my winnings from the Daily Toon comp!

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Blythe?

what does LOL mean?

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

LOL - laughing out loud

ROFL - rolling on floor laughing

ROFLMAO - rolling on floor laughing my ass off (introduced by ciara would you believe, and her being so well brought up and everything ;- ))

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Back to the original question!!!

A very good site for all things related to National Curriculum History (with the exception of the Gauls!) is at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/history.htm

Might be worth bookmarking it for future homeworks.

Another site well worth looking at for links is the National Grid for Learning page at http://vtc.ngfl.gov.uk/ (click on"Curriculum Subjects" and you will find all sorts of stuff) As a teacher, I nick things off here all the time and pass them off as my own!

-- Anonymous, August 04, 2000

Well done Beardo, Blythe it is. I had hoped you would have said Heatone!!

I did manage to sneak the name past my then wife.

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000

I've arrived late at this competition but I thought that it might be something like 'gusset'

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2000