History: Websites and Portals

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History Websites

History (General)

AHDS History
U.K. national centre for the collection, preservation and dissemination of historical digital resources, located at the social science Data Archive at the University of Essex.

Archaeology Data Service
Includes a map-based interface to its collections on the historic environment.

Best of History Web Sites
Contains links to over 1000 evaluated websites on topics from prehistory to the twentieth century.

BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries)

Cold War International History Project
Document library, maintained by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Cornell University Library Witchcraft Collection
An online selection of titles from the Cornell University Library's extensive collection of materials on Witchcraft.

History of European Integration
From the History Department of Leiden University

HISTORY On-Line  Database
Maintained by the Institute for Historical Research, useful for details of U.K. theses, research and teaching, and recent publications.

Internet History Sourcebooks
Collections of historical texts online; material on medieval studies, modern European history and some American documents.

Intute: Arts and Humanities
Arts and Humanities gateway to internet resources (formerly Artifact/HUMBUL).

MedHist
A free catalogue of evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences.

Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
A free, online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers

SCRAN Scottish Cultural Resource Access Network

WWW-Virtual Library History

Online books

Celt corpus of electronic texts
From University College Cork - the online resource for contemporary and historical Irish documents in literature, history and politics. The texts can be searched, read on-screen, downloaded for later use, or printed out

Country Studies/Area Handbook
Series from the Library of Congress. Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

Domesday Book (1086)

Learning resources

History in Focus
Occasional series which takes a thematic approach to history and concentrates on highlighting books, reviews, websites and conferences that relate to the theme of each issue

Internet for History
A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for historians, written by staff from the Humanities Computing unit at Oxford University and from the Institute of Historical Research

Great Britain

British History Online
A digital library of primary and secondary sources on British history, published by the Institute of Historical Research in collaboration with the History of Parliament Trust.

Charles Booth Online Archive
A detailed online catalogue of materials relating to Booth's survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903), including digitised versions of the Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9.

Connected Histories
Brings together in a single site a number of key databases for economic, social and political history. These include the Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913, British Newspapers 1600-1900, British history online digital library, House of Commons Parliamentary papers, Charles Booth Archive, London Lives 1690-1800, and more. These include access to primary source materials, court reports, maps and documents.

Historical Directories
A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history

Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website
The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937.

London's Past Online
A free online bibliography of published material relating to the history of the Greater London area.

Memories of War
Provides resources relating to the Second World War, including oral testimonies and photographs.

Scotland's People
Provides free access to the index of wills and testaments in Scotland, 1513-1901.

Victoria County History 

Victorian Web
Provides a comprehensive general overview of nineteenth century British history and literature.

Viewfinder
Online image resource for England's history by English Heritage, including the collection England at Work

United States

Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals
Full image access to ship manifests and arrival records

Foreign Relations of the United States
Online versions of key documents in US foreign policy, published by the Office of the Historian, State Department

Library of Congress American Memory Site
Online collections of primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States

Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization project
Presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois

National Security Archive
Collects and publishes declassified US documents

New Deal network

US National Archives and Records Administration

Rare book, manuscript and special collections library at Duke University
Provides access to digitised collections of resources, including material on the Women's Liberation Movement, African American women, and women in the Civil War

Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
An electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials

Valley of the Shadow
A digital archive of sources relating to the American Civil War, focusing on the experiences of two opposing communities

Organisations

American Historical Association

English Heritage

Historical Association

Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Museum of London

National Archives

Oral History Society

University of Essex