Directory of History Resources

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Includes sites with historical information of national importance. Sites with content specific to a county or town should be submitted to United Kingdom/England.

Subcategories

• Academic Departments
• Anglo-Saxon
• By County
• By Region
• Catholic Church
• Civil War
• Monarchy
• Reformation

Resources in This Category

• A Personal Railway History

  http://railwaymemories.8m.com/
  Account by Fred Gibbs, a Birmingham man who worked on the railway between the years 1918 and 1967.

• An Island Story - A History of England for Boys and Girls

  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/marshall/england/england.html
  Full text of the illustrated children's history book written in 1920 by H. E. Marshall.

• Battle Conference of Anglo-Norman Studies

  http://www.battleconference.com/
  An annual event devoted to medieval history and culture. Information on past meetings, and date and location of upcoming meeting.

• Britain Express: Medieval England

  http://www.britainexpress.com/History/medieval_britain_index.htm
  History, culture, and daily life during the Middle Ages.

• Florilegium Urbanum

  http://users.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/flor00.html
  A selection of primary documents, in modern English translation, illustrating aspects of urban society in medieval England.

• Georgian Society for East Yorkshire

  http://www.gsey.org.uk/
  A society for all those in the East Yorkshire area interested in the history and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

• History of England

  http://historyofengland.net/
  General topics arranged in broad time periods.

• Macaulay's History of England, Volume 1

  http://www.strecorsoc.org/macaulay/title.html
  First published in 1849, it covers the English Civil Wars through to the Monmouth Rebellion.

• Magna Carta

  http://www.magnacartaplus.org/magnacarta/
  Translation from the Latin of the original version of the Magna Carta of Great Britain, signed by King John at Runnymede in 1215. With links to glossary and Latin original text.

• North East Fire and Ambulance Services

  http://www.fireambulance.f9.co.uk/
  A history of the services in photographs.

• Old Towns

  http://www.oldtowns.co.uk/
  Contemporary descriptions of English towns and cities written between 1835 and 1848 and published in "The Penny Cyclopedia". Also sells copies of 19th-century engravings showing views of English towns.

• Open Domesday

  http://opendomesday.org/
  Online copy of Domesday Book of 1086: search for a town or village, find population and tax records, and see the original folios.

• Outlaws and Highwaymen

  http://www.outlawsandhighwaymen.com/
  Songs, poems, stories, memoirs, letters, satires, sermons, and other writings from the times are used to tell about the English highwayman from the 14th through the 19th centuries.

• Secret History Stories

  http://englishhistorystories.blogspot.co.uk/
  A selection of unusual stories about English History covering topics as diverse as feuds, nudes, death, disease and disaster from Roman times up to the present day.

• The Battle of Hastings - 1066

  http://www.normaninvasion.info/
  Provides information on the battle between King Harold II of England and Duke William of Normandy that changed the course of history in England. Includes a timeline, biographies and a history quiz.

• The Confederation of the Cinque Ports

  http://www.cinqueports.org/
  Historic association of maritime towns in Kent and Sussex. Includes history, heraldic and ceremonial information, events, contacts and links about the ports and associated towns.

• The Domesday Book and Beyond

  http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maitland/domesday
  Three essays on post-conquest England, by WF Maitland.

• The Making of the English Middle Class

  http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8489p27k
  Full text of Peter Earle's book, subtitled "Business, Society and Family Life in London 1660-1730".

• The Victoria County History

  http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/
  Based at the Institute of Historical Research, the English local history series began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria. Includes information and draft text for counties in progress.

• The Village Labourer 1760-1832

  http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/hammond/village.html
  First published in 1911, this study in the government of England before the Reform Bill takes a detailed look at the consequences of the acts of enclosure, which dramatically changed life in the countryside. Full text available on-line.

• Times of Change in the History of England

  http://awylie.tripod.com/index.html
  A brief history of the periods of transition in England, including the Norman Conquest, the Plague, and the Reformation.

• ViewFinder

  http://viewfinder.historicengland.org.uk/
  Large historical image collection from English Heritage. Profile and image search.

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