Just browsing around the Teachit website and came across a raft of LPs for The Machine Gunners. Follow the link below to access them.
If you're a teacher who has prepared classroom materials for The Machine Gunners and would like to share them with coleagues, please do get in touch.
Northern Grid for Learning has just announced the release of their WW.2 Project which incorporates Westall's War.
The resource is available free of charge for use in schools and is intended to assist teachers to help pupils foster an intergenerational and transnational understanding of social relationships in the context of WW2.
The resource includes 5 distinct themed units of work from KS2 to A Level. Also included is an exclusive commissioned video resource.
The Fantasticfiction website has a useful, starting point Westall bibliography with book and edition information. Note: links to various online booksellers.
Brian Pears and the late Roy Ripley's North East Diary 1939-45 website is a must-visit for anyone interested in how the region fared during World War II. The breadth of detail and knowledge is astonishing. You'll find content arranged by Place Index with Explanatory Notes and Maps, Calendars, Other Events, Background Information, Ships Built in the N.E., Popular Songs, Films and Prices, and Post-War Events. Or you can just read the Diary from the start and get absolutley hooked.
Visit the North East Diary 1939-45