Resources

Topics

Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse: the biography (book, KGS Library)
Amy (documentary - buy, borrow, extracts on YouTube)
Amy Winehouse: the diva and her demons (Rolling Stone magazine)
Amy Winehouse 1983-2011 (Rolling Stone magazine)
Amy Winehouse: the final interview (Daily Telegraph newspaper)
A most modern tragedy (NME)
What really happened to Amy Winehouse? (ThinkProgress news website)

Andes plane crash

Extreme survival (book, KGS Library)
Alive (film - buy, borrow, YouTube)
Documentaries on YouTube
Official website
The Long Way Home (based on survivor Nando Parrado's book)
Andes Survivors
I Will Survive (extract from Nando Parrado's book)

Concorde

I know you got soul (book, KGS Library)
The aircraft book (book, KGS Library)
Supersonic Airplanes and the Age of Irrational Technology (The Atlantic magazine)
Concorde and supersonic travel: The days when the sun rose in the west (The Independent newspaper)
Concorde (private site)
Concorde's last flight (documentary)
The Concorde story (documentary)

Harold Shipman

Crime & detection (book, KGS Library)
Documentaries on YouTube
The Shipman Murders (BBC website with numerous pages)
Harold Fred Shipman (Gerald England - poet, editor, publisher)
Harold Shipman (Guardian newspaper)
Dr Harold Frederick Shipman (Murderpedia)

Herald of Free Enterprise

The greatest disasters of the 20th century (book, KGS Library)
The Herald of Free Enterprise Tragedy (student paper)
MS Herald of Free Enterprise (blog)
Seconds from Disaster (American TV documentary)
BBC News 7/3/87

Hindenburg

The disaster of the Hindenburg (book, KGS Library)
Documentaries on YouTube
The Hindenburg disaster
The Hindenburg (original 1937 newspaper report)
Hindenburg burns in Lakehurst crash (original 1937 newspaper report)
Last flight of the Hindenburg (ghostsoldiers website)

Kelly Holmes

Black, white & gold (book, KGS Library)
Piers Morgan's Life Stories (Youtube)
Sports Life Stories (Youtube)
Various interviews (Youtube)
Kent Life interview
Kelly Holmes doubles up

Marley

Marley: a dog like no other (book, KGS Library)
Marley and me (film - buy or borrow
John Grogan interview (Scotsman newspaper)
John Grogan interview (goodreads.com)
Hollywood's hottest dog (Daily Mail)

Matthew Henson

Arctic hero (book, KGS Library)
Various documentaries (Youtube)
Unofficial Matthew Henson website (includes links to contemporary newspaper and magazine articles)
Unofficial Matthew Henson website (includes links to contemporary newspaper and magazine articles)

Metallica

Metallica (book, KGS Library)
Some Kind of Monster (documentary, Youtube)
The Highs and Lows of Metallica (Consequence of Sound)
Some Kind of Refined Monster (New York Times newspaper)
Metallica's Lars Ulrich (The Wrap - entertainment news organisation)

Susanna Kaysen (Girl, Interrupted)

Girl, interrupted (book, KGS Library)
Girl, interrupted (film, buy or borrow)
Extracts and interviews on Youtube
Interview (goodreads.com)
Review (New York Times)
Borderline Personality Disorder (Mind)

Titanic

A night to remember (book, KGS Library)
The discovery of the Titanic (book, KGS Library)
Titanic (film)
A night to remember (film)
Various documentaries (Youtube)
Daily Mail reports from 1912
Survivors of the Titanic (BBC radio extracts)
History of the Titanic (website)

Winterdance

Winterdance (book, KGS Library)
Various documentaries (Youtube) on the Iditarod
Iditarod: race across Alaska (website)
Nome or Bust (Popular Mechanics magazine)
Out in the Great Alone (ESPN)
Iditarod veteran Ally Zirkle seeks title after three second place finishes (Sports Illustrated)

117 Days Adrift

Obituary of Maralyn Bailey (Daily Telegraph)
The rescue of the Baileys (blog post - story continued on same site)
The arrival of the Baileys in Seoul (YouTube)