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Discover a range of history resources covering significant political, historical and cultural events, including historical periods,news events, rulers, social history and architectural heritage.
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50,000 biographies of people who shaped history |
Noteworthy and influential people from all walks of life, in the UK and Worldwide from 1898 onwards. |
Act of Union Virtual Library - collection of material related to 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain
Ancient Egypt - information from The British Museum on all aspects of Ancient Egypt
BBC Family History Get Started - advice on starting to trace your family history
BBC On This Day - news items for given dates going back to 1950
Best of History Web Sites - an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites and more
Biography - biographies of over 25,000 personalities, from historical figures to present-day celebrities
Britain's Small Wars - the history of British Military Conflicts since 1945
Britannia History - very comprehensive coverage of British history from prehistoric times (5000 BC) to the present day, including narrative histories and original documents
British History Online - the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
British Pathé - news and entertainment video film archive, 1896 - 1976
Censuses and Indexes - sources useful for family history research
Civic Heraldry - information and illustrations of the coats of arms of local authorities in England and Wales, current and obsolete
The Classics Pages - news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome
Coalmining History Resource Centre - includes searchable database of over 164,000 recorded accidents and deaths
Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Debt of Honour database
County Asylums - information and photographs of the remains of the England and Wales local authority funded mental hospitals
Crystalinks - information about ancient and lost civilizations
eHistory - site for both history students and those interested in history, covering world and US themes
English Heritage - includes listed buildings, royal history and places to visit
EuroDocs - online sources for European History
Europeana - online archive of European culture
Eyewitness History - from the Ancient World to the present
Find a Grave - photos, burial locations and short biographies of the famous and not-so-famous around the world. Searchable by name, location, claim to fame and date.
First World War - a multimedia history of World War One
GENUKI - Genealogical information for the UK and Ireland
Genesis - women's history sources
Guardian Century - articles from the Guardian on major events from 1899 to 1999
Guardian's Egypt - take a cyberjourney through the ancient monuments of Egypt
The History of World War Two - an award winning, comprehensive site on the history of World War Two
History Online - resources from historians from the Institute of Historical Research
History UK - people, organisations and places associated with UK history
History World - search by themes and historical period
The History of World War One: Trenches on the Web - learn about The Great War in 3D
HyperHistory - 3,000 years of world history, browse by people, places or events
Imperial War Museum Collections - all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain, the Commonwealth and other former empire countries
The Long, Long, Trail - the British Army in the First World War
Measuring Worth - compare relative values and purchasing power of currencies across time for the UK and the US
The Napoleon Series - 800+ pages of articles, features and documents dedicated to Napoleon and the Napoleonic era
Naval History - information on the Royal Navy, US Navy during and post-war, casualty lists, war diaries, ship lists and seas
Old Bailey Online - details of criminal trials held at London's central criminal court
Old Weather - weather observations made by the Royal Navy around the time of World War One
PastScape - discover England's archaeological and architectural heritage
Perseus Digital Library - holds collections of Greek and Roman Materials, Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser, Arabic Materials, Germanic Materials, 19th-Century American, Renaissance Materials, Richmond Times Dispatch and Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri
Royal Historical Society Bibliography - British and Irish history from Roman period to the present day
Rulers - comprehensive country by country listings of heads of state and heads of government, historic and current
Sources on Monetary History - comprehensive world history of money including financial scandals and money in fiction
Spartacus Educational British History - British History from 1400 - 1980
Theban Mapping Project - a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes
Trenches on the Web - navigate the people, places and events of World War One through armoury, 3-D worlds, discussion forums, biographies and trivia
UK Battlefields Resource Centre - downloadable terrain and action maps of the battles, aerial photos and accounts of the battles
The Vietnam War - photographic images of the Vietnam War
Virtual Library History - searchable index of websites with sources on the history of Europe
The Victorian Web - includes political and social history
World of Scientific Biography - collection of biographies of scientists
The World War One Document Archive - contains official papers, personal reminiscences, books and images
