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National Endowment for the Humanities

Links

  • Institute of Historical Research
    The London University's Institute for Historical Research site contains extensive links to resources for research and teaching history.
  • Humbel Humanities Hub
    Part of a well-financed British Resource Discovery Network (RDN) that offers fully catalogued access to selected and substantial sites in the humanities.
  • Collect Britain
    This British Library website offers virtual exhibits and digitized artifacts that highlight some of the Library's world-renowned collections. In addition to browsing collections, temporary exhibits, and "Themed Tours," users may conduct user-friendly searches to find documents or images for any number of potential classroom uses. Curators plan to offer 100,000 images and sounds.
  • Rutgers University Library gateway for research in American and British History
    An excellent library reference site with many links to research collections in British History.
  • The Royal Historical Society Bibliography
    The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Institute of Historical Research hosts the Bibliography.
  • History Guide
    A Subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in history maintained by a network of German subject gateways in History.
  • Project Gutenberg
    The Gutenberg Project offers over 20,000 well-chosen free full textbooks. Their scanning is generally more accurate than Google full text material.
  • Virtual Library
    Originally founded at the University of Kansas, this excellent guide to history resources is now maintained by the European University in Florence.
  • Center for New Media
    The Center at George Mason University is perhaps the best center whose purpose is to make historical material available electronically for teaching and student research. It has an excellent scholarly reputation and its reviews of historical web sites are first rate.
  • Voice of the Shuttle
    A searchable database of web sites at UC Berkeley.
  • EDSITEment
    The National Endowment for the Humanities peer reviewed lesson plans and resources in the Humanities as well as information on NEH grant opportunities.
  • The World History Association
    This is the association that seeks to make world history world history rather than western civ warmed over. It contains many links useful for teaching and bibliography.
  • China and Europe: 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is 'Modern'?
    An innovative look at the history of economic growth from an Asian perspective.
  • National Council for the Social Studies
    The major professional association for social studies teachers. The site includes annotated lists of books for young readers as well as lesson plan ideas ad resources from the social studies perspective.
  • H-Albion Links
    The links page of H-Albion, a professional discussion group of British historians, has links to research tools in British and Irish history.
  • H-Net Humanities and Social Science on Line
    Edited by academic professionals, there are list-serves for almost every field in history. These list serves are often the first place historians turn to for conferences, book reviews, and professional discussions and opportunities. They offer searchable logs of discussions.
  • The Victorian Web
    George Landow, a pioneer in the theory and practice of hypertext in the humanities, has created in The Victorian Web a splendid teaching and reference tool in the form of a growing encyclopedia of Victorian culture. Visitors to the site will find capsule summaries of many events, movements, and themes, with an emphasis upon Victorian literature and religion, written by leading scholars in the field. This informative and well-designed site, a product of many hands, is by far the most comprehensive and widely praised Victorian resource on the Web.
  • Victoria Research Web
    A collection of resources for scholarly resources on nineteenth century Britain by Patrick Leary at Indiana University's History Department. It includes links to websites across the Internet. A facility for searching the Victoria archives puts at your fingertips many years' worth of scholarly discussion by Victorianists around the world, while other features include a portal to dozens of reviews of books of 19th-century interest and tips for planning a research trip to Britain.
  • History of Economics Resources
    A gateway site for the history of economic thought listing many links to resources for research, including electronic 18th and 19th century economic texts.
  • McMaster University Archive of the History of Economic Thought
    A large archive of important sources for the history of economic thought, which includes many works by British economists during and about the period of industrialization.
  • Economic History Services Site Map
    A gateway for teaching and research in economic history.
  • Modern History Sourcebook
    An extensive collection of historical sources organized by Paul Halsall at Fordham University. It includes a good selection of primary documents on British industrialization and its social consequences.
  • Primary Documents-United Kingdom
    This is the British part of a large collection of Western European primary historical documents. It contains several good sources on the period of industrialization.
  • The Spartacus Encyclopedia of British History, 1700-1960
    This commercial site includes many short but interesting entries on such topics as child labour, entrepreneurs and business leaders, the slave trade, Chartism, the railways, socialism and the labour movement.
  • Internet Library of Early Journals
    Includes such early journals as Blackwoods, the Annual Register, the Gentleman's Magazine, and The Builder. The latter was published during the 1840's and is particularly interesting as a source for economic and social history.
  • Penny Magazine
    Copies of Penny Magazine published between 1832 and 1835 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. These magazines were aimed at the working class and provide a wealth of interesting information on subjects of interest to the English common people.
  • The Peel Web of English History
    Created by Dr. Marjie Bloye, it emphasizes English history during the Age of Peel, 1830-50 but has earlier material. The site contains many primary sources on social history.
  • The Victorian Census Project
    Based at Staffordshire University, the VCP aims to make available to scholars a number of hard-to-find source documents about mid-nineteenth-century British society in computerized form. These include census abstracts, reports of the Poor Law Commissioners, and many others that shed valuable light upon Victorian social history, from health to literacy to employment. The page includes links to such related projects as the Historical GIS Program, with its innovative mapping of nineteenth-century data.
  • Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
    An international group of scholars, at the University of Virginia and University College, London, has assembled a large collection of visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London - the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis.
  • The Workhouse
    Peter Higginbotham, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, created this interesting site. It includes many pictures and documents on workhouses.
  • Images of the Industrial Revolution
    A site created by Laura Nicholls, a participant in my 2002 NEH seminar, that explores images created by artists of the period of Industrial Revolution in Britain.
  • Romantic Circles
    An ambitious site devoted to Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, and "their contemporaries and historical contexts." Designed for scholarly interaction and featuring reliably edited e-texts and other resources.
  • The Blake Archive
    A hypermedia archive of William Blake text and images sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, and other institutions and foundations.
  • Yale Center for British Art
    Yale has the largest collection of British Art in the United States. The site includes a virtual exhibition of representative works and research links to resources for the study of British art.
  • William Morris
    A site devoted to William Morris, the Arts and Craft Movement, and other artists of the period. It includes links to Morris's writings as well as to Victorian culture in general. The William Morris Society maintains it.
  • Iron Bridge Gorge Museums
    The site includes electronic exhibits and a guide and tour of the major museums in the Ironbridge gorge, including the Museum of Iron, Blist Hill Victorian Town and the Coalport China Museum.
  • Timeworks: Made in Sheffield
    A Sheffield City Museum Service site illustrating the history of steelmaking and museum exhibits on waterpower, the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Kelham Island Industrial Museum.
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester
    The museum is in the process of making many of its resources available electronically. The museum includes the first passenger railway station in Britain and a very large collection of steam engines. It also has an excellent textile manufacturing collection.
  • The Industrial Revolution and the Railways
    Created by Dr. Robert Schwartz, History Department, Mount Holyoke College.
  • National Railway Museum
    The National Railway Museum at York has a virtual tour, a photograph collection, and other electronic resources dealing with the history of British railways.
  • Center for Political Song
    This Centre for Political Song at Glasgow Caledonian University studies political song, both contemporary and historical. It contains resources and links to a vibrant tradition of political song, especially in Britain.