General Sites

• 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

• 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

• News media archives: including newsreels and newspapers

• Nova Online: Decoding Nazi Secrets

• Renaissance Secrets

• Rome: Republic to Empire

• Russian History Websites

• TimeSearch: search the Web through time

• Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern: Harvard Classics vol. 33

War

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: includes the Debt of Honour Register

• 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

• First World War

• Lives of the First World War: project from the Imperial War Museum for members of the public to download documents and memories of those who took part in the War

• Nazi Propaganda in the Second World War: an exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial

• Propaganda: a weapon of war: from the National Library of Scotland

• Propaganda Leaflets of theecond World War

• Shared Experience: Art & War:  the
  experiences of Australians, Britons, and Canadians in the Second World War expressed through paintings

• 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 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 :local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919

• Historical Manuscripts Commission

• History UK.com

• History of the Workhouse

• Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium of common knowledge [unavailable at latest check]

• 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

• Britain from Above: aerial photos 1919-1953

• British Association of Local History

• CommunityArchives.org.uk: national directory of community archives in the UK

• Domesday Reloaded: a BBC online survey of the UK

• Legacies: UK history local to you

• 24 Hour Museum: local history websites

• A Vision of Britain Through Time: online library for local history

England

• Cheshire 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

• Historic England

• History of York

• Huddersfield.org: history of Huddersfield and district

• Images of England: photographic record of England's listed building

• The List :National Heritage List for England (NHLE): official and up to date database of nationally designated heritage assets; from Historic England

• 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

• PhotoLondon [archive only]

• 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.  

Scotland

• The Drawn Evidence: Scotland's Development Through its Architectural Archives

• Glaswegians Photo Archive

• 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

• Scottish Trade Directories

• 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

• Blue Books of 1847: Report into the State of Education in Wales (1847): from the Digital Library of Wales

Genealogy

Great Britain and Ireland

• Ancestry.co.uk: commercial site with annual or quarterly subscription:

• BBC Family History

• Black Sheep: find your more "colourful" ancestors

• Carl's Cam: pictures of Cheshire for family history hunters

• Census Records  for England, Wales , Channel islands and Isle of Man

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission: includes the Debt of Honour Register

• Deceased Online: central database for UK burials and cremations [initial search free: further information may be purchased]

• 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)

• : Historical Directories: University of Leicester

• Local History Magazine: Genealogy Links

• Lookup UK: UK Lost Friends / Relatives / Missing Persons website

• Manchester Family History Research

• 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 : replaced by Discovery

• 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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