Type
of History - Social History
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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An American Time
Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadside and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
The American Time Capsule web site has been developed by the rare
books and special collections division of the Library of Congress
to provide access to printed ephemera held by the Library of Congress.
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The Ascoli Project
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/jb6/archives/index.html
British Cartoon Archive
http://library.ukc.ac.uk/cartoons/
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 Library
Newspaper Library
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html
The History of the British Library Newspaper Library web site has
four main sections. The first section provides a historical overview
of the British Library Newspaper Library. |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|
By Popular Demand:
'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
By Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures web site,
from the Library of Congress, provides access to thirty-eight pictures
relating to the women's suffrage movement in the United States between
1850 and 1920. |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|
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. The map, which was originally created in 1889, has been scanned
and prepared for viewing over the WWW by Sabiha Ahmad of the University
of Michigan. |description|
Danish Data Archive
http://www.dda.dk/
The English Emblem
Book Project
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/
The English emblem book project was set up with the aim of making
full text emblem books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
available online. |description|
Every Generation
http://www.everygeneration.co.uk/
This web site is concerned with black history,
genealogy and heritage. |descriptionI
From Slavery to
Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
The From slavery to freedom: the African-American pamphlet collection
web site, compiled by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division
at the Library of Congress provides access to the full-text of 397
pamphlets published between 1824 and 1909. |description|
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|
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|
The Great Chicago
Fire and the Web of Memory http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html
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|
AHDS History
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/
AHDS History 'collects, preserves and promotes the use
of digital resources, which result from or support historical research,
learning and teaching'. |description|
The History of Education
and Childhood
http://www.socsci.kun.nl/ped/whp/histeduc/index.html
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|
The Holocaust History
Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
International Institute
of Social History
http://www.iisg.nl/index.html
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded
in 1935. It is involved with the documentation of and research into
social history in general and the labour movement in particular.
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International Institute
of Social History: Collections
http://www.iisg.nl/collections/index.html
This site outlines the collections available from the International
Institute of Social History. |description|
Internet Modern
History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
This sourcebook covers a wide range of topics from the Reformation
up to the present. |description|
Interpreting the
Irish Famine, 1846-1850
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
The Interpreting the Irish Famine web site provides a brief outline
of the Irish Famine and provides access to primary source material.
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The John and James
Booker Civil War Letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/booker/
The John and James Booker Civil War letters web site provides access
to digital facsimiles of twenty-two letters that they wrote to their
cousin during the American Civil War. |description|
Journal of Canadian
Labour Studies
http://www.mun.ca/cclh/llt/
The journal of Canadian labour studies is the official publication
of the Canadian Committee on Labour History and is published twice
a year. |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|
Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Making of America is a digital library of primary documents relating
to American social history. |description|
Mass Observation
Archive
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs/homearch.html
The Mass-Observation Archive, a charitable trust, has been housed
at the University of Sussex since 1970. |description|
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. |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|
Monuments and Dust:
the Culture of Victorian Britain
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/
The aim of this project is to create a visual, textual and statistical
representation of Victorian London. |description|
Mr Charles Booth's
Inquiry
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/
National Archives
of Canada
http://www.archives.ca/
The web site of the National Archives of Canada holds both general
and detailed information on their holdings. |description|
Nazi
Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/
This is one of the online exhibitions on the web site of the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and it deals with the Nazi campaign
of persecution and violence against German homosexuals. |description|
NDAD: UK National
Digital Archive of Datasets
http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/
NDAD provides access to archived digital data from UK government
departments and agencies.
Netherlands Historical
Data Archive
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/dd_nhda/dd_nhda.htm
NetSERF
http://www.netserf.org
NetSERF is a partially annotated gateway to over 1400 medieval web
sites. |description|
The Nineteenth Century
in Print: the Making of America in Books and Print
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/ncphome.html
The Nineteenth Century in Print web site brings together online
collections of nineteenth century books and periodicals from the
University of Michigan, Cornell University and the Library of Congress.
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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. |description|
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.
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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|
SCRAN: Culturenet
Scotland
http://www.scran.ac.uk/
Select List of Victorian
Illustrated Newspapers and Journals in the British Library Newspaper
Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/victoria.html
This page forms part of the British Library Newspaper Collection
web site. |description|
Slave Movement during
the Eighteenth and Nineteeth Centuries
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
The Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
web site provides access to data sets. |description|
Studies in the World
History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~slavery/
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'. |description|
Tudor History
http://www.tudorhistory.org/
The Tudor history site, developed by Lara Eakins, contains a variety
of information about the Tudor period. |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|
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|
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|
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. Selected articles and illustrations are available
from the Illustrated London News, the Cork Examiner, The Pictorial
Times and Punch. |description|
Virginia Runaways
http://www.uvawise.edu/history/runaways/
Virginia Runaways, created by Tom Costa at University of Virginia's
College at Wise, provides an online collection of press adverts
for runaway and captured slave and servants in Virginia from 1736
to 1790. |description|
Virtual Jamestown
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html
The Virtual Jamestown project, hosted by the Virginia Center for
Digital History, aims to create an online resource on the history
of Jamestown, Virginia in the seventeenth century. |description|
Votes for Women:
Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Collection 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/rbnawsahtml/
The Votes for Women web site from the Library of Congress consists
of 167 full text items relating to the American women suffrage movement.
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William Francis
Brand Civil War Letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/brand/
The William Francis Brand Civil War Letters web site provides access
to digital facsimiles of letters written by Confederate soldier
William Francis Brand to his future wife Amanda Catherine Armentrout.
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Witchcraft in Salem
Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
The Witchcraft in Salem Village web site provides access to primary
source material on the witchcraft trial in Salem Village, (now Danvers)
Massachusetts in 1692. |description|
The Workhouse
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.html
This site provides a helpful and interesting introduction to workhouses
and poor relief in general. |description|
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