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Type of History - Cultural History


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


American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html

The American memory web site aims to provide electronic access to holdings at the Library of Congress which relate to the United States.
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Anglo-Saxon Culture
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/british_isles/anglo-saxon/anglo-saxon.html
The Anglo-Saxon Culture web site from Georgetown University 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.
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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|


Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio State University
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/epigraphy


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


Eighteenth-Century Resources
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/
Eighteenth-century Resources, compiled by Jack Lynch of Rutgers University, is an annotated gateway to a wide range of web pages relating to the eighteenth century.
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The GLBT Historical Society
http://www.glbthistory.org/
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society collects, archives, and exhibits material that deals with the history of homosexuals and other sexual minorities. |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|



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.
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The Medici Archive
http://www.medici.org/


Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This site provides access to primary source documents.
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National Monuments Record
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?wci=mainframe&URL1=default.asp%3FWCI%3DNode%26WCE%3D146

The National Monument Record (NMR) is the public archive of English Heritage.
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NetSERF
http://www.netserf.org

NetSERF is a partially annotated gateway to over 1400 medieval web sites.
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/
The online medieval and classical library (OMACL) is a collection of literary work from classical and medieval times.
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Out of the Past: 400 years of Lesbian and Gay history in America
http://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/
Out of The Past explores the importance of history in creating identity, and documents the history of gay men and women in the United States over four centuries. |description|


Parliament and the British slave trade 1600-1807
http://slavetrade.parliament.uk/
Marking the two hundred years since Parliament passed the Act that abolished the British Slave Trade, this website illustrates the role that the government played in slavery. |description|


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.
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Photographic Libraries
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/
The Photographic Libraries web site offers links to over 140 image libraries and collections, ranging from agency portfolios to archival resources. |description|


SCRAN: Culturenet Scotland
http://www.scran.ac.uk/


Storia di Venezia
http://www.storiadivenezia.it/

This web site has been produced by a group of academics at the University of Venice and provides a history of Venice from the city's foundation to the present day.|description|


Talking History: Aural History Productions
http://talkinghistory.org/

Talking History based at the University at Albany, State University of New York 'is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history'.
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The Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/me/me.html
Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase provides access to online Middle English texts.
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The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies gateway currently has 278 links to web sites on several different aspects of medieval studies.
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South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons (SARCAJC)
http://www.sarcajc.com/
South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons (SARCAJC) is South Asia's first study centre for research into the history and political importance of cartoons, political satire, advertisements and journalism. |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.
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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.
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February 2003