General Sites

• The Battle of the Somme
• BBC Online - History
• Best of History Websites
• Conversations With History: interviews with over 150 distinguished men and women from all over the world
• Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story
• Eye Witness: archive of on-the-spot historical reports
• The Great War: in poetry and postcards
• Great War Archive: contains over 6,500 items contributed by the general public between March and June 2008
• History World: includes timelines
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
• Institute of Historical Research: publishers of History in Focus
• The Medici Archive Project
• Multicultural Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe (Michael)
• Museums
• The National Archives: The Cabinet Papers, 1915-1977
• Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War: an exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• News media archives: including newsreels and newspapers
• Nova Online: Decoding Nazi Secrets
• Propaganda: a weapon of war: from the National Library of Scotland
• Propaganda Leaflets of the Second World War
• Renaissance Secrets
• Rome: Republic to Empire
• Russian History Websites
• Shared Experience: Art & War:  the
  experiences of Australians, Britons, and Canadians in the Second World War expressed through paintings
• TimeSearch: search the Web through time
• Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern: Harvard Classics vol. 33
• Wartime Propaganda Leaflets: searchable by conflict, language and organizations
• The World at War: from Versailles to the Cold War

UK History

• A2A: catalogues describing archives held throughout England and dating from the 900s to the present day
• Battle of Britain History Site
• BBC Domesday Project: project was launched in 1986 to provide a snapshot of everyday life in the UK: Archive is now online
• BBC: WW2 People's War
• British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-60
• British Empire Exhibition 1938
• British History Online
• Collect Britain: putting history in place (British Library)
• Cromwell Association: Oliver Cromwell Website
• Dunkirk Remembered
• Early Stuart Libels
• 800 Years of Human Rights
• Essential Norman Conquest
• Historical Directories: a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919
• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• History UK.com
• History of the Workhouse
• Learning Curve: documents etc. from the Public Record Office
• Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium of common knowledge
• Margaret Thatcher Archive Online
• National Archives: includes Public Information Films
• Old Maps (UK)
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807
• Pepys Diary: daily entry from the diary with links to people and places mentioned
• Public Records Office Virtual Museum
• Spartacus Encyclopaedia of British History: 1500-1950
• Subterranea Britannica: man-made and man-used underground places in Britain
• Timewitnesses: memories of the last century
• Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603
• Vision of Britain through Time: a vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001: including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions
• Victorian History

Local History

HistoryPin: aims to become the largest user-generated archive of the world's local historical images and stories.

UK

• British Association of Local History
• CommunityArchives.org.uk: national directory of community archives in the UK
• Legacies: UK history local to you
• 24 Hour Museum: local history websites

England

• Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies
• Chester Image Bank: old photographs of Chester
• Clergy of the Church of England Database: 1540-1835
• English Heritage
• Exploring 20th Century London
• Henry VIII: Man and Monarch: the British Library Online Gallery
• History of York
• Images of England: photographic record of England's listed building
• Local History Magazine: contains many local history links
• Local History Trail: includes individual local history projects
• Locating London's Past: matches historical maps of London with data on plague deaths, court sessions & more
• London: A Life in Maps
• London Lives: 1690-1800: searchable archive of crime, poverty and social policy in the metropolis
• London's Industrial Heritage
• PhotoLondon
• PictureSheffield.com: internet version of Sheffield Local Studies Library's computerised image system
• The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE): a relational database comprising a structured register of persons that includes, in principle, every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1042: now includes Domesday Browser and Mapping Tool
• The Soldier in Later Medieval England: an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) research project : includes a searchable database
• Tower Hamlets History
• Virtual Norfolk: Norfolk history online
• ViewFinder:  online image resource for England's history.  
• Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies

Scotland

• The Drawn Evidence: Scotland's Development Through its Architectural Archives
• Glaswegians Photo Archive [unavailable at last check]
• Hebridean Connections: genealogy, history, traditions, culture and archaeology of the Western Isles
• Historic Scotland
• Maps from National Library of Scotland
• One Scotland, Many Cultures: a broad appraisal of immigration to Scotland over the past few hundred years
• Scottish Archive Network
• Scotland on Film: clips from film, television and radio
• Search for Scotland
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland: 1791-1845: subscription service with limited access for non-subscribers
• Timothy Pont's Maps: earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland
• University of St. Andrews Photographic Archive
• The Word on the Street: broadsides from the National Library of Scotland

Wales

• Gathering The Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History
• Blue Books of 1847: Report into the State of Education in Wales (1847): from the Digital Mirror: the Digital Library of Wales

Genealogy

Great Britain and Ireland

• Ancestry.co.uk: commercial site with annual or quarterly subscription: now includes Australia Convict Records 1788-1868
• BBC Family History
• Black Sheep: find your more "colourful" ancestors
• BritishIslesGenWeb Project: the regional resource page for research in the British Isles
• Carl's Cam: pictures of Cheshire for family history hunters
• Census Records  for England, Wales , Channel islands and Isle of Man (charges a fee)
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: includes the Debt of Honour Register
• Familia: directory of family history resources held in public libraries in the UK and Ireland
• Family History: from the Guardian
• Family History: from the National Archives
• Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
• Family History Society of Cheshire
• Family Search: free: provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Find my Past: pay per view
• Free BMD: free, but incomplete service, staffed by volunteers: part of FreeUKGEN
• The Genealogist: subscription or pay per view
• Genes Reunited: site for amateur genealogists
• Genuki: UK and Ireland genealogy
• General Register Office for Scotland: official government source of genealogical data for Scotland (charges a fee)
• Local History Magazine: Genealogy Links
• Lookup UK: UK Lost Friends / Relatives / Missing Persons website
• Moving Here: 200 years of migration to England
• Origins.net: data for family history in England Scotland and Ireland
• Public Records Office Documents Online: includes wills
• ScotlandsPeople: records of  persons who lived, died, and were married in Scotland
• Scots Origins : "pay-per-view" database of indexes from the genealogical records of the General Register Office for Scotland
• Scottish Documents: Scotland's Written Legacy
• Scottish Emigration Database: passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960
• The Society of Genealogists

General Sites

• American Family Immigration History Center
• AncientFaces: database of family photographs
• Cemetery Records Online: mainly US, but includes graveyards in Canada, Ireland, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, India, and Japan
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• Genealogy Homepage
• Genealogy Today.com
• Family Search: from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons)
• PublicProfiler/Worldnames:  maps and statistics for surnames
• Rootsweb
• WorldGenWeb Project: a non-profit, volunteer based organization dedicated to providing genealogical and historical records and resources for world-wide access
• Who's Alive and Who's Dead

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