Spartacus Educational
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Spartacus Educational - an historical encyclopedia mainly focused on Britain and the U.S.[1]
In 1984 Simkin John Simkin established Spartacus Education. Over the next 13 years the company published books and computer software for teachers of History, Geography, Mathematics and English.[2]
In September 1997 Spartacus abandoned book publishing and became one of the first companies to provide free online teaching materials. The spartacus schoolnet website is a collection of history encyclopaedias. Titles include British History: 1750-1960, United States: 1840-1980, First World War, Second World War, Russia: 1860-1945, The Cold War, Watergate, Spies and Spymasters, Assassination of JFK, Spanish Civil War, Medieval World, Tudors & Stuarts, Germany: 1900-1945 and France: 1900-1945. Entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. The text within each entry is hyperlinked internally, to other relevant pages in the encyclopaedia. The sources are also hyper-linked, for the writer, artist, newspaper or organization that produced the source material.
