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Websites for History

 

General | British History - Organisations, Archives Online Resources | American History | Australian History | Museums | Gateways

General

• Institute of Historical Research
• Learn History : a website from the British Library. Contains an interactive timeline and resources covering a range of historical, social and cultural topics

British history

Organisations

• Council for British Archaeology
• English Heritage
• Historical Association : ask Library staff for a password to access the Student Zone
• Institute of Historical Research : the national centre for history
• Royal Historical Society
• The Society for Army Historical Research : encouraging 'the study of the history and traditions of the British Army from the late Middle Ages to modern times'.

Archives

• 1901 : living at the time of the census : a web exhibition from the National Archives, using words, pictures and documents
• Africa through a lens: ' a set of thousands of images taken from a broader photographic collection of Foreign and Commonwealth Office images, held at the National Archives'.
• Archival sound recordings : 12,000 selected recordings of music,spoken word, and human and natural environments
• British newspaper coverage of the French Revolution : 'A Small Archive of the British View of Unspeakable Events in the French Revolution'
• British Pathe : preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970
• Charles Booth online archive: Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)
• Churchill Archives Centre : the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and 'over 570 collections of personal papers and archives documenting the history of the Churchill era and after'
• Great War Archive : part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. 'Contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008. Every item originates from, or relates to, someone's experience of the First World War, either abroad or at home'.
• HEIRPORT : Historic Environment Information Resources Portal : demonstrating how information from different public agencies can be drawn together using information technology
• Hidden lives revealed : an archive about children who were in the care of The Children's Society in late Victorian and early 20th century Britain.
• The John Johnson collection : an archive of printed ephemera. 'This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries'
• The National Archives : the UK government's official archive.
• Reading Experience Database : 'Its mission is to accumulate as much data as possible about the reading experiences of readers of all nationalities in Britain and those of British subjects abroad from 1450 to 1945'. Currently contains more than 25,000 records.
• Your Archives : the Historical Streets Project : a local and family history project where you are invited to write stories about localities, properties, institutions, and businesses etc.

Online resources

• Archaeology Image Bank : a tool for locating and sharing archaeological images
• The Archives Hub : archives of UK universities and colleges
• British Library Calendar of Events : historical anniversaries as well as contemporary events
• British Library Manuscripts catalogue : search the main catalogues of the British Library's collection of Western manuscripts, covering handwritten documents of all kinds from pre-Christian, Classical, medieval and modern times.
• British Library online gallery : virtual books and online exhibitions
• Coalmining history resource centre : includes the 1842 Royal Commission reports
• Cotton Town :  from the early days of hand loom weaving enterprise through to the rise and fall of the cotton industry.  
• Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles
• Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
• Histpop : the online historic population reports website
• Intute : humanities :  a free online service providing access to the best Web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists. Please note that, unfortunately, no new resources are being added to the catalogue.
• Labyrinth : resources for Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
• Mitchell and Kenyon Collection : a website about the 'amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century'.
• Old magazine articles. com : covers the period from World War I to World War II
• The Second World War Experience Centre : the mission : to collect and encourage access to the surviving testimony of men and women who lived through the years of the Second World War and to ensure that different audiences share and learn from the personal recollections preserved in the collection.
• The Victorian web
• Vision of Britain through time : 'a vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions'

Crime

• Dying speeches and bloody murders : a digitized collection of more than 500 English broadsides dating from 1707 to 1891
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London's Central Criminal Court, 1674-1913

London

• Charles Booth online archive: Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)
• Cross's New Plan of London 1850 
• London Historians' blog: 'Random musings about London's history'
• London Lives 1690 to 1800 : London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners.
• Threads of feeling: 18th century textile tokens left with abandoned babies at the London Foundling Hospital

Manchester

• Chetham's Library : collections include the Belle Vue Archive (thousands of posters, programmes and photographs, and the financial and business papers of the owners).
• Our Manchester : a collection of eight web sites with connections to the City of Manchester and the Greater Manchester area. 

Scotland

• The drawn sword : engravings and woodcuts from the MacBean Jacobite and Stuart collection. Access to c.1,300 loose engravings and woodcuts that form part of the MacBean Collection.

Archaeology

• Internet archaeology : a fully refereed electronic journal for archaeology, hosted by the University of York. Search for journal articles here.

American history

• The American Folklife Center : includes online collections
• American Civil War homepage : a multitude of resources

Australian history

• Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954

Museums

• The 24 hour museum : the National Virtual Museum celebrating UK culture
• Culture 24 : 'latest news, exhibition reviews, links, listings and education resources from thousands of UK museums, galleries, archives and libraries, all in one place'
• British Museum
• Imperial War Museum
• Museums Online
• National Museum of African American History and Cultureat the Smithsonian
• National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian
• NMSI : a family of museums : links to the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum and the National Media Museum
• People's History Museum, Manchester
• Victoria and Albert Museum in London
• York Castle Museum
• Yorkshire Museum, York

Gateways

• Academic Info History gateway  : covers world history.
• Best of History: a portal to over 1,000 History websites. From the US; useful for American Studies
• The labyrinth: resources for medieval studies from Georgetown University
• OAIster: currently provides access to 15,606,520 records from 943 contributors, including these, research collections, eBooks and image collections
• Victoria search web: scholarly resources for Victorian research

 

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