The settlement at Roanoke: links to useful websites

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/hh/16/hh16d1.htm A detailed and informative history of the Roanoke settlement from the National Park Service.

http://www.britishexplorers.com/woodbury/raleigh1.html Provides a detailed timeline relating to the settlement at Roanoke.

http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1/roanokei_dc.html An extract from a publication entitled Our Country which was published in the nineteenth century.

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/barlowe.htm An account of the first voyage to Virginia in 1584 by Arthur Barlowe.

http://www.nationalcenter.org/ColonyofRoanoke.html Extracts from an account of the Roanoke colony by Ralph Lane, Governor of the settlement.

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/ronoake.html John White’s account of the attempt made to find the settlers in 1590.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/raleigh.htm Copy of the Charter granted to Raleigh by Elizabeth I empowering him to establish a settlement in Virginia.

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Den/7812/roanoke.html A brief but illustrated timeline relating to the settlement at Roanoke.

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html A new interactive site relating to the settlement at Jamestown. It makes use of images, maps and other original sources.

http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot37/snapshot37.htm A Snapshot from the National Archives’ Learning Curve investigating the contact between native Americans and the settlers of Jamestown.