British Empire: Student Zone

This section is designed to help those students and pupils who have assignments related to the British Empire or of Imperialism. Obviously, I do not want to do the assignments or research myself - that is your job! A word of warning on researching on the Internet, students should not get into the habit of copying and pasting with abandon (and with a lack of citation). First of all, copying and pasting is very easily discovered by your teacher - all they need to do is to take a sentence from your essay and put it into a search engine! Secondly, it is always obvious which words are yours and which words are not. And of course, you learn very little from an assignment if you put this minimal amount of effort into it. Having said all that - it is perfectly natural and acceptable for you to seek help and guidance and to do background research and note taking on the topic assigned. It is for this reason that I hope to add a number of brainstorm boards to help out students with common imperial related essay titles. These boards are designed to help students with their note taking and to act as a springboard for further research. They are in no way definitive and they are not laid out in any particular order. Use, ignore, add to, challenge the information provided as you see fit. They are really just to get you started and to provide some kind of focus for your research. At the bottom of the page you will find some title suggestions for books designed for students of British imperial history.

Brainstorm Boards

Reasons for Rise of Empire Benefits of Empire

Reasons for Fall of Empire Costs of Empire

St. Boniface Humanities Site
this is a more general website that I host for the school that I work at. It is designed for use with the British National Curriculum from Key Stage 3 up to A-Level. The A-level topics offered are on the totalitarian regimes of Russia and Germany.

Causes of War
A bibliography and collection of links on the causes of various wars, most of which have a strong imperial connection. The idea of the page is to understand how and why wars start with the idea of forewarning people of the danger of future wars.

The British Empire, 1815-1914
This Access to History book is designed for A-level and First Year Undergraduate students. As well as providing a wider context for imperialism, it also discusses the areas of controversy.

British Imperialism 1750-1970
This Cambridge Perspectives in History book provides an excellent introductory overview for the A-Level student.

Teach yourself about the British Empire
This book by Michael Lynch provides an interesting and easy to access set of facts about all the most important facets of Imperial History. It provides a good overview.

Brainstorm Boards

Reasons for Rise of Empire	Benefits of Empire

Reasons for Fall of Empire	Costs of Empire

	St. Boniface Humanities Site this is a more general website that I host for the school that I work at. It is designed for use with the British National Curriculum from Key Stage 3 up to A-Level. The A-level topics offered are on the totalitarian regimes of Russia and Germany.
	Causes of War A bibliography and collection of links on the causes of various wars, most of which have a strong imperial connection. The idea of the page is to understand how and why wars start with the idea of forewarning people of the danger of future wars.

	The British Empire, 1815-1914 This Access to History book is designed for A-level and First Year Undergraduate students. As well as providing a wider context for imperialism, it also discusses the areas of controversy.
	British Imperialism 1750-1970 This Cambridge Perspectives in History book provides an excellent introductory overview for the A-Level student.
	Teach yourself about the British Empire This book by Michael Lynch provides an interesting and easy to access set of facts about all the most important facets of Imperial History. It provides a good overview.