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British History Organizations

• H-Albion
  (the H-Net Discussion Network for British & Irish History)
• Institute of Historical Research / History: the Website
  (conferences, seminars, centers, research tools, reviews)
  • American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research (news and use of IHR, charitable organization)
  • British History Online (from IHR and History of Parliament, sources from medieval and early modern period)
• North American Conference on British Studies
  (conferences, fellowships, and funding opportunities, includes The Making of the Working British Historian--forum and report)
  • Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies
  • Midwest Conference on British Studies
  • North East Conference on British Studies
  • Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
  • Southern Conference on British Studies
  • Western Conference on British Studies
• British Studies Conferences (list meetings of historians and others of related interest)

British History, General Research and Teaching Sources

• AHDS: History
  (Arts and Humanities Data Service, with catalog of available historical data sets available)
• Archives Hub
  (search engine to detailed descriptions of archival sources in UK universities and colleges)
• BBC British History
• BOPCRIS, the British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
  (search British Official Publications, 1688-1995)
• British Empire
  • British Empire
    (gateway site by Jane Sampson)
  • British Empire Studies
• British History Syllabi on the Web
• British Monarchy
  (well-produced official site with history of monarchs, art, and residences)
• British Sources
  (links, especially current newspapers and magazines)
• Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London
  (from Tufts University)
• Encyclopedia of British History, 1500-1990
  (well-linked from Spartacus Educational)
• England (further History Favorites)
• English Calendar
• History of the United Kingdom--Primary Documents
  (chronological links to numerous texts, part of EuroDocs of Brigham Young University)
• IBIS Links
  (Research aids, from Institute for British and Irish Studies, University of Southern California)
• Ireland (further History Favorites)
• John Bull and Uncle Sam: four centuries of British-American Relations (from Library of Congress and British Library)
• Libraries
  • British Library
    • British Library catalogues
      • Integrated (Print) Catalog
      • Manuscript Catalog
      • Newspapers Catalog
  • Collage
    (Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery, searchable, image database)
  • Hamnet: Folger Library Catalog
    (early modern and modern catalog, Washington, DC)
  • Huntington
    (British and American history from 15th century, San Marion, CA)
  • Newberry Library
• Maps
  • British History Online
    (includes maps and gazetteers)
  • Great Britain Historical GIS Project
    (gazetteer and map samplers, database of historical databases, and access information)
  • Unveiling of Britain
    (over 800 maps from the 9th century onwards, Britain from a world perspective)
  • www.old-maps.co.uk
    (Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive)
• Money
  • Current Values of Old Money
    (set of links, history of money, etc., not just pounds)
  • Purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1264 to 2002 (calculator)
  • Gross Domestic Product of the UK from 1830
    (and selected earlier years, calculator)
• Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
  (with organized gallery of historical photographs)
• National Archives
  (formerly known as Public Record Office, includes research materials, database, online 1901 census)
  • Accessions to Repositories
    (yearly updates of accessions to all archives)
  • Documents Online
    (let the selling of history begin!)
  • Family Records Centre
    (births, marriages, and deaths and census returns)
  • includes link to Archives Portal, online database of archives in the UK, National Register of Archives, Manorial Documents Register
  • PRO, Equity Pleadings Database
• National Portrait Gallery
  Queen Elizabeth Portraits (for example)
• Newspapers
  • British Library Newspaper Library
    • Concise History of the British Newspaper Since 1620
      (timelines, sample news sheets, search catalog)
    • Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900
• No. 10 Downing Street
  (official site of Prime Minister, includes PMs in History)
• Office Holders in Modern Britain
  (lists of royal households, major and minor officeholders in government and military)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  (50,000 online biographies available by subscription--this link for Eastern Illinois University on campus)
• Parliament
  • Portcullis
    (gateway with search engine to the archives of Parliament)
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
  (comprehensive bibliography of British and Irish history, linked with London's Past Online)
• Scotland (further History Favorites)
• Society of Genealogists
• United Kingdom Parliament
  (mainly current information [post 1988] and texts, with link to Explore Parliament for teachers)
• ViewFinder
  (20,000 photographs from the National Monuments Record's important collections)
• Wales (further History Favorites)

British History, by Era

• Roman to 1485

  • Battle of Hastings 1066
    (includes entire Bayeux taestry and commentary)
  • Beginner's Latin
  • British Isles, 500-1000
  • Camelot Project
  • Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany
  • Essential Norman Conquest
  • History of the Norman World
  • Medieval English Legal History, Year Books, 1268-1535
    (Boston University School of Law)
  • Vindolanda Tablets Online
    (excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England)

• 1485-1714

  • Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
    (massive collection, fully accessible)
  • British Printed Images to 1700
  • CERES, the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
    (on early modern manuscripts)
  • Clergy of Church of England Database
    (ongoing project, search prosopographical database of clegy, c. 1500-1800)
  • Digital Quaker Collection
    (17th and 18th century documents, Earlham School of Religion)
  • Early English Books Online
    (full facsimile of all printed works before 1700, available by subscripton; link to Eastern Illinois University subscription for those on campus)
  • Early Modern Center English Ballad Archive, 1500-1700
    (project of the English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, to create an electronic archive of extant ballads, beginning with the 1,775 ballads in the Samuel Pepys collection)
    • includes links to other ballad sites
  • Early Modern History: Useful Links
    (from University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History, not all British history)
  • Early Modern Literary Studies
    (refereed journal, links, and electronic texts)
  • Early Modern Resources
    (brief, annotated links, including British, Welsh, and regional links)
    • include E-Prints
      (directory of open-access academic papers on early modern subjects)
  • Elizabethan Sites
    • Sir Francis Drake
    • Elizabeth R
    • Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare
    • Gloriana: the Life and Reign of Elizabeth I
    • Philological Museum
      (Humanistic texts, principally British, under the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, includes, for example,
      • William Camden, Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha, 1615 and 1625, full text chronicle year-by-year of Elizabeth's reign, Latin and English versions)
    • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603, part of Luminarium)
  • John Foxe, Book of Martyrs
    (varorium index)
  • Michigan Early Modern English Materials
    (search 55,000 sources for word usage, 16th & 17th centuries)
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
    (fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings: 100,000 trials)
  • Renascence Editions
    (online repository of works printed in English between 1477 and 1799)
  • Stuart era
    • Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, 3rd ed. (1906)
    • Diary of Samuel Pepys
      (Pepys' blog!)
    • John Stow, The svrvay of London, 3rd ed. (1618)
      (from Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, Penn Library)
    • King James VI & I
      (texts; see also Daemonologie and Newes from Scotland)
    • 1662 Book of Common Prayer
    • Williamite Universe
      (network, conference, bibliography)
  • Tudor era
    • Tudor England, 1485-1603
    • Tudor England: Images
    • Tudor History
    • Tudor Portraits
  • Victoria & Albert Museum, British Galleries
    (material culture, 1500-1900)

• 1714 to 2006

  • Act of Union Virtual Library
    (pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain--massive, searchable)
  • British Empire (links)
  • Charles Booth Online Archive
    (London poverty maps and survey into life and labor in London, 1886-1903)
  • The Complete Newgate Calendar, vol. I
  • Digital Quaker Collection
    (17th and 18th century documents, Earlham School of Religion)
  • First World War.com
    (multimedia history, mainly but not exclusively British)
  • History of the BBC
  • Lewis Walpole Library
    (18th century collections, part of Yale University Libraries)
  • Modern Britain, 1688-2000, Research Resources
    (solid, annotated list, by Howard B. Fedrick of King's College, London, updated?)
  • Modern History: Useful Links
    (from University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History, not all British history)
  • Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
    (photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences)
  • Newsreel and Film
    • British Pathe
      (film archive, millions of stills, free previews of footage from events in modern history including British)
    • Film Archive (from National Archives, footage of 20th century Britain on Film)
    • Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
      (on documentary on director of "Fires Were Started")
  • Nineteenth Century Letters from Britain
  • Office Holders in Modern Britain
    (massive prosopographical tool, with dates of appointment, mainly from 1660 to mid-19th century, including the useful)
    • Court Officers, 1660-1837
  • Periodicals and Serials
    • NCSE, Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
    • Punch.co.uk
      (materials from Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, from 1841 until its closure in 2002)
    • Punch: A History Project
    • RSVP
      (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals)
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834
    (fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings: 100,000 trials)
  • South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)
    (Cook's Journals and others, maps, and other resource for the history of European voyaging, from National Library of Australia)
  • Those Were the Days, 1900-2000
    (timeline with text from Wolverhamton Express and Star newspaper)
  • Victoria & Albert Museum
    • British Galleries
      (material culture, 1500-1900)
  • Victorian Era
    • Victoria Research Web
      (information on archives, libraries, bibliographies, and research trip tips)
    • Victorian Database Online
      (search 100,000 book, article, and dissertation listings, 1945-2004)
    • Victorian Era (History in Focus)
    • Victorian Prose Archive
      (pdf eTexts)
    • Victorian Web
      (includes information on literature, arts, history, technology, gender)
    • Victorian Women Writers Project
  • ViewFinder: Picture Gallery and Stories
    (illustrations of the industrial age--including the Henry W Taunt Collection--from the 1840s to the present)
  • Virtual Seminars for Teaching English Literature
    (award-winning site mainly focusing on the literature of World War I)
  • Vision of Britiain Through Time
    (statistical and other information on Britain and regions from 1801-2001), includes:
    • Travellers Tales (full text, from Giraldus Cambrensis to Edwin Russell)
  • William Blake Archive
    (search engines for text and images in massive, hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and other institutions)

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last updated on April 15, 2009