Useful web sites for History
Associations & Organisations
Institute of Historical Research
Gateways
Archives Hub Provides a single point access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. This user friendly, easy to search and gives full details of the archives listed from where they're held to their extent and notes about the history of the archive itself.
BUBL Information Service Catalogue of selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas. Try searching in the subject menu, A-Z menu or the Dewey menu 900,s.
History Guide Run by the State and University Library at Gottingen, Germany and contains varied resources with a mainly Anglo-American focus. Resources are listed with brief descriptions and metadata and can be found via a subject index or a resource type index. The search function is a little confusing, so primary use of the indexes is recommended.
Intute: Arts and Humanities Previously known as Humbal. Resources are arranged by type and then alphabetically with some annotation. Also hosts online tutorials to get you started on the web, try the Internet for Historians.
Intute: Social Sciences Previously known as SOSIG. Contains useful links to National and International resources in the social sciences.
Voice of the Shuttle Wide range of access points to all areas of the Arts and Humanities, though its bias is to towards American sites.
Virtual Library Based at the University of Kansas this site offers a number of sources, divided by material type, topic, epoch or country. You may be disappointed by the sparse nature of sources in some sections.
World History Compass A free access site covering a huge range of historical topics. Resources are indexed by country and there are added indices for the Ancient World and specific subject areas such as Aviation and Medicine.
Yahoo - History This site is a major gateway for many historical and related topics and is well worth a browse. Some of the key areas you will find are British History, American History, Maritime History and Military History.
General
Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Collects, catalogues and encourages use of high quality data resources.
The Data Archive More than seven thousand datasets relating to the period after 1945. Integrated with the History Data Service and shares a catalogue, BIRON locates and orders files on-line.
Econ Lit Indexes articles, books, essays in collection etc published since 1969, including economic history.
English Heritage - ViewFinder An online image resource for Englands History.
Eurodocs Historical documents from Western Europe - selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.
Histpop A collection of British historical population reports with access to the complete reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.
The History Data Service A new and developing service aiming to make accessible large deposits of original historical data.
Labour and Business History A site listing organisations, institutions and other resources relating to these specific areas of history
Open University Free resource material from the Open University openlearn website
Project Gutenberg Alphabetical list of Gutenberg Literature.
Victorian Web An online encyclopaedia about Victorian Britain with many links to other sites.
Discussion Lists
JISCmail The national academic mailing list service.
Library Catalogues
COPAC A joint on-line catalogue of several of the biggest research libraries in the UK including Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
British Library Catalogue An opportunity to search the main catalogues of the British Library and the Document Supply Centre in Boston Spa.
Primary & Secondary Resources
Active History Quizzes, interactive sources and worksheets.
History Learning Site Numerous topics aimed at key stage 3 through to A level.
History on the Net Historical information linked to the National Curriculum, offers a range of games and interactive activities with a history theme. Approved by the Association of teacher web site.
National Archives Learning Curve An on-line teaching resource structured to tie in with the History National curriculum from key stages 2 to 5.
School History Provides interactive quizzes, worksheets, resources and internet links, search by year group from primary to A-level.
Teachers Virtual School: History The history departments home page providing key stage resources, lesson plans and links to activities and on-line journals. Part of the Association of teachers web site.
Local History
Devon Communities History Pack
Devon Library and Information Services - Local Studies Service
Sibmas International Directory of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
For an eLearning tutorial that teaches critical evaluation of information found on the Internet then try the Internet Detective website. The website also includes sections on copyright matters, plagiarism and citation/referencing.
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