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Hello ladies,
I was wondering if any of the UK members could let me know what you do for history. Do you have any favourite books / courses on UK and world history? I am thinking of children from 6 years old upwards. Would you be able to recommend any web sites which may be interesting. For the moment I have been doing montessori history - so the great lessons (formation of universe, timelines, early civilisations to modern day). We have not gone into details UK history as such.
I would be very greatful for any recommendations (UK or general world history).
I am hoping that this might spark some very overdue awakening on this subject for me too! It is something I just never got into. 
Blessings,
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Hey Mari, the Mater Amabilis site has lots of suggestions.
Then there is the Baldwin Project which has links to the Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall book Our Island Story, amongst others.
Not to mention that over there the history can be viewed first hand 
I LOVED visiting the castles, old churches, roman ruins and prehistoric villages as a kid (I was born and raised in England!)
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Well, Rachel beat me to it  this is what I would recommend as well!! WE have thoroughly enjoyed Our Island Story and there are so many more listed in the Baldwin project that could expand this too!! Have fun with it 
Ooh, Rachel what a neat experience to bring to your children too!!
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Meredith... we hope to go to England and visit my family next year, and DH and I have all kinds of trips we hope to do
For now we make do with photos from Mum and Dad, who just visited the Tower of London. Last time it was Warwick Castle.
The churches are best because they are free and the stained glass is marvellous.
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I should hasten to add that we also visited the historical sites in France (I just saw that is where you are)... my absolute favourite was the Mediaeval City of Carcassone, but there too the churches, ruins (think Nimes) and so on are fantastic.
Then there are the museums, palaces and areas of historical interest.
For instance, when studying Charlemagne, you should visit one of his cities... ditto for Joan of Arc. IF you can  . Hands on learning in the method of visiting the site is a great way to bring history alive though...
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Thank you so much! I certainly will be digging into history now that you have guided me to the right places! I have been visiting lots of historical sites with my dds - I guess we have been real learning history and I didn't even realise how much we have actually done.
I always tend to see visiting castles and old towns as architectural interest!!! I suppose that it shows that whatever the child's primary interest (in my case architecture being one thing) you can teach them other things through that.
I am glad you were able to visit Carcassone Rachel. Part of my dh's family originated from there.
The reason I am interested in the UK side of things is because I am British (amongst other things...) and being in France raising kids I suddenly feel it is important for me to trasmit something of it to them!
With gratitude,
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Well Mari, there I can sympathise... as I said, I am British too... just in America . Sharing my heritage is one reason I wanted to homeschool
Do you still have folks back home? If so, try to get them visiting places and sending you postcards/maps/something from the gift shop.
There are also a tonne of sites online, I even found a site with a Norman helmet for the tales of the Norman Conquest
Most historical sites have a website nowdays, so you can further your architectural loves by viewing some of them online... it should be interesting to view the similarities in British churches after the Norman Conquest, to the French ones
Finally, the suggestions I made earlier (the Baldwin site and Mater Amabilis) should enable you to have a nice central text to study around... we use Story of the World which is not British, but world history, although it does have a good coverage of British history, it is not perfect. I like the activity books best This gives us a spine, and the rabbit trails of history often follow...
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I think that I spend my life following rabbit trails! Maybe that is why I could never "do" history at school - there were so many interesting things off the curriculum that I prefered to read about! Thank you for all your advice.
Many blessings
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