Geographical Area - Britain and Ireland

A2A: The Access to Archives Project
http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm
A2A: The access to archives project intends to create an online national archives catalogue for England. This catalogue will bring together records of national, regional and local importance dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. |description|

Age of Industry
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
This site provides an organised and annotated set of links to web sites covering many different aspects of the industrial revolution. |description|

AIM25: Archives in London and the M25 Area
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/
The AIM25 project intends to provide electronic access to details of archives held by over fifty institutions (higher education and learned societies) in the greater London area. |description|

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

Anarchist Archives
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html
The aims of this site are the provision an online history of anarchists and anarchist movements, and of the collected works of major anarchists. |description|

Ancient World Web
http://www.julen.net/ancient/

Anglo-American legal tradition
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT.html
The Anglo-American legal tradition (AALT) website is a project of the O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center in the United States. The AALT provides free access to digitised versions of legal documents of medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London. |description|

Anglo-Saxon Culture
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/british_isles/anglo-saxon/anglo-saxon.html
The Anglo-Saxon Culture web site acts as a gateway to sites relating to Anglo-Saxon Art and Architecture, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Journals and Scholarly Publications and Old English teaching resources. |description|

Archives Hub
http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/
The Archives Hub provides access to descriptions of unique and unpublished primary source material held in more than 160 UK universities, colleges and research institutes. |description|

ARCHON
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm
ARCHON provides a gateway to UK archives. ARCHON includes details on all repositories in the UK and overseas which are noted in the indexes to the UK National Register of Archives. |description|

Bletchley Park
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

British Cartoon Archive http://library.ukc.ac.uk/cartoons/
The British Cartoon Archive was established in 1973 as a research centre and picture library which is based upon an archive of over 85,000 pieces of cartoon artwork. |description|

British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
Built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, this is a pilot digital library of British historical sources.|description|

British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
http://molcat.bl.uk/
The British Library on-line manuscripts catalogue has been created in order to provide a single point of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts. |description|

British Library of Political and Economic Science: pamphlet collection
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/pamphlets/
This section of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) website provides information and access to the full-text of its pamphlet collection. There are over 90,000 pamphlets in the collection, mainly published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |description|

British Records Association
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/bra/
The British Record Association's web pages provides information on the activities of the Association. |description|

CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/

Cambridge Victorian Studies Group
http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk/index.html
The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group website provides information about the group's five-year, interdisciplinary research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled "Past versus Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress". The project aims to examine Victorian attitudes to the past. |description|

CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent scholarly site, still growing, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English). |description|

Celtic Inscribed Stones
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/
The Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP) is creating a database of all known inscriptions (apart from runic inscriptions). |description|

Centre for Contemporary British History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/icbh/welcome.html
The Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH) is a research department of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. |description|

Centre for Metropolitan History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html
The Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) was established in 1988 and promotes the study and appreciation of London's character and development. |description|

CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Archives http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html

Charles Booth's 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/home.html
Charles Booth's map of London poverty has been reproduced on this site. |description|

Churchill Archives Centre
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/home.shtml
The Churchill Archives Centre, based at Churchill College Cambridge, holds 570 collections of documents relating to Churchill. |description|

The Churchill Era: An Educational Resource
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_era/
The Churchill Era is an educational web site published by the Churchill Archives Centre, and has been specially designed for teachers and students of A-Level History courses. |description|

The City as Hero: Victorian London in Life and Literature
http://www.gober.net/victorian/
This site was created by Susan Horton from the English Department of the University of Massachusetts at Boston for a course that she teaches. Although some of the details on the site are specific to the course, information of general interest is also available. |description|

Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/

Concise History of the British Newspaper http://www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html

Dscriptorium: Digital Images of Medieval Manuscripts http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/dscriptorium.html

Eurodocs: Irish Primary Historical Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ireland.html

Every Generation
http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/
This web site is concerned with black history, genealogy and heritage. |descriptionI

Familia: Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain and Ireland
http://www.familia.org.uk/
Familia is an excellent source of information for family history in the UK and Ireland (includes the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man). |description|

familyrecords.gov.uk: UK Family History Online
http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/
The UK family history online web site, created by familyrecords.gov consortium, aims to provide information about and links to all the main UK family history web sites. |description|

Friends of Devon's Archives
http://www.foda.org.uk
This is the website of the Friends of Devon's Archives, an organisation which supports the work of the local record offices for that county.|description|

Genuki: UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
Genuki aims to act as a 'virtual reference library' of genealogical information, in particular information relating to the United Kingdom and Ireland. |description|

Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb1.html
This web site provides access to information about markets and fairs in medieval England and Wales. |description|

Great Britain Historical Database Online
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.asp
The Great Britain historical database online access to a large part of the statisitical information on the Great Britain historical database. |description|

Greenwood's Map of London
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/
This web site provides access to a map of London printed in 1827. |description|

Hall-Carpenter Archives
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/gutoho/hall_carpenter_archives.htm
Founded in 1982, the Hall-Carpenter Archives are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain. |description|

The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieveal Northwestern Europe
http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html
The Heroic Age is a peer reviewed electronic journal publishing on the history of northwestern Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the start of the Norman Empire. |description|

History of the Monarchy: Queen Victoria
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page118.asp
These pages form part of the History of the Monarchy site from the British Monarchy web site. The short biography of Queen Victoria features extracts from her published journal, which are in PDF format. |description|

Historical Archives of the European Communites
http://wwwarc.iue.it

The Historical Association
http://www.history.org.uk/

History: American and British http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml
This web site, from Rutgers University, acts as a gateway to American and British History. |description|

AHDS History
http://ahds.ac.uk/history/index.htm
AHDS History holds over 500 separate collections which have been transcribed, complied or scanned from historical sources. |description|

History Guide
http://www.historyguide.de/

History of European Integration
http://www.eu-history.leidenuniv.nl/
This site provides an annotated gateway to a large number of web sites relevant to the study of the history of European integration. |description|

The History of Disabilities and Social Problems http://codi.buffalo.edu/graph_based/.bibliography/woodhill/woodhill.html
The history of disabilities and social problems is a bibliography of printed resources which was originally compiled in 1987-88. |description|

History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html
The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. |description|

History: The British Library Newspaper Library http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html
This site presents an outline of the history of the newspaper library at the British Library and an overview of the history of the British Newspaper from 1620. |description|

The Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html
The Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase provides access to online Middle English texts. |description|

Labyrinth Library: Old English Literature http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/oe.html
The Labyrinth Library: Old English literature provides access to Anglo-Saxon texts. |description|

Lambeth Palace Library
http://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/
Lambeth Palace Library is the library of the archbishops of Canterbury and is the principal library and record office for the Church of England. |description|

The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
http://65.107.211.206/history/workers1.html
This site, which is part of the Victorian Web, provides access to primary source material from inquiries into the conditions of industrial workers in the 1830s and 1840s. |description|

The Linen Hall Library
http://www.linenhall.com
The Linen Hall Library was founded in 1788 and is the oldest library in Belfast. The web site provides details of the collections held in the library. |description|

Mass Observation Archive
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs/homearch.html
The archive holds the results of the original Mass-Observation social research organisation covering the late 1930s to the early 1950s. The archive has also, since the 1980s been collecting writings about everyday life in Britain. |description|

Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/medren.html

Medieval English Towns
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
The Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index provides a tool for locating articles and essays relating to medieval women, sexuality or gender. |description|

Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
The material on the site covers a wide range of topics and geographical areas from the Fall of Rome to the Reformation. |description|

Medieval Resources Online
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/med_online/
Medieval Resources Online is a website from the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds which offers a list of annotated links to valuable online resources for Medieval Studies. |description|

Medieval Technology Pages
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/tekpages/Technology.html
The site aims to provide accurate, referenced information on medieval technological innovation. |description|

Modern Records Centre
http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk/
The Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick has the aim of collecting and making sources for British political, social and economic history, in particular labour history, industrial relations and industrial politics, available for research. |description|

History of the Monarchy http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp
This site, which forms part of the British Monarchy web site, provides a brief history of all the monarchs of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom. |description|

Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
http://www.mundus.ac.uk
The Mundus Gateway provides an online guide to the archival collections in the British Isles that hold material concerning the history of missionaries.|description|

Museum of London
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/menu.htm
The Museum of London web site provides a host of information about the museum and its collections. |description|

National Archives of Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
The web site of the National Archives of Ireland provides information about their holdings and publications as well as general information for readers. |description|

National Archives of Scotland
http://www.nas.gov.uk/
The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) is the repository for all the public and legal records of Scotland which are to be preserved. |description|

The National Archives of the UK
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives of the UK holds the national archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom. |description|

National Monuments Record
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/knowledge/nmr/index.asp
The National Monument Record (NMR) is the public archive of English Heritage. It has public search rooms in Swindon and London. |description|

National Register of Archives
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm
The UK National Register of Archives (NRA) provides indexes to the papers of approximately 150 000 corporate bodies, persons and families relating to British History, with an additional 100 000 connected records. |description|

North West Film Archive
http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/

The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
http://www.patrin.com
Patrin is a web resource which covers aspects of Romani culture and history. |description|

Public Record Office

Please see The National Archives of the UK.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
www.proni.gov.uk
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland. |description|

Publications of the War
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/pubs/
The Publications of the War web site provides access to digital facsimiles of a selection of publications produced during the First World War. |description|

The Rural History Centre
http://www.reading.ac.uk:80/Instits/im/index.html
The Rural History Centre at the University of Reading fulfils several different functions; it is a university department, a centre for research and information, it acts as a national resource centre and also functions as a museum. |description|

Scottish Economic History Database 1550-1780 http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html
The Scottish economic history database holds data on crop yields, demographic data, price series, wage series and weather statistics. |description|

The Shaping of the Medieval World. Medieval Studies on the Internet
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/

Statisitical accounts of Scotland
http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc/
The Statistical accounts of Scotland web site, hosted by EDINA, is a fully searchable and browsable facsimile of the Old Statistical Account (1791-1799) and the New Statistical Account (1845) which were compiled from information supplied largely by parish church ministers. |description|

Stormont Papers: Northern Ireland Parliamentary papers online 1921-1972
http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/
This site provides free access to an electronic library of full text government reports relating to Northern Ireland during the period from June 7, 1921-March 28, 1972. They include over 92,000 printed pages from 84 volumes of minutes of the Stormont (Northern Ireland devolved parliament). |description|

Tyburn Tree: Public Executions in Early Modern England
http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/index.htm
This site originally created by Zachary Lesser, now expanded and maintained by Charlie Mitchell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides a wide variety of information about public executions in early modern England. |description|

U.K. Archival Repositories on the Internet
http://www.archivesinfo.net/
ArchivesInfo was created by Simon Wilson in 1998. The site provides briefly annotated links to UK and overseas archival repositories. |description|

University of Southampton Library: Archive and Manuscript Collections
http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/

Victoria County History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/vch/

Victoria Research Web
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/
The Victoria Research Web has been designed as a resource for the scholarly study of nineteenth century Britain. |description|

Victorian Turkish baths
http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/
The history of the Victorian Turkish bath is virtually uncharted, so the website is an attempt to interest historians in an aspect of Victorian life which has been almost totally forgotten. |description|

The Victorian Web
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html
The Victorian Web provides a comprehensive general overview of nineteenth century British history and literature. |description|

The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The Victorian Women Writers project aims to provide access to highly accurate transcriptions of works from British women writers from the nineteenth century. |description|

Views of the Irish Famine
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/
This web site provides access to primary source material relating to the Irish Famine. |description|

The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
The Wilfred Owen multimedia digital archive aims to improve access to primary source material relating to Wilfred Owen through online provision, and to preserve this material in a digital archive. |description|

William Morris Gallery
http://www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg/home.htm
The gallery's web site provides details of the gallery (opening hours, location, latest news etc) and its collections. |description|

Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/quaker/
The Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Projects aims to increase access to and awareness of collections of Quaker material relating to Yorkshire. |description|