British Isles

Features British History Organizations British History Research & Teaching British History by Era Ancient/Medieval (to 1485) Tudor/Stuart (1485-1714) Hanoverian (1714 to 1837) Victorian/Modern (1837 to present) British Isles (or click on map) England Ireland Scotland Wales

British History Organizations

• H-Albion
  (H-Net Discussion Network for British & Irish History, reviews, cfp, etc.)
  • halbion
    (Twitter account for H-Albion)
  • H-Albion Daily
    (news feed)
• Institute of Historical Research
  (conferences, seminars, centers, research tools, reviews)
  • American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research
    (news and use of IHR, charitable organization)
  • British History Online
    (from IHR and History of Parliament - medieval to modern sources, some by subscription)
  • IHR Digital
    (blog and announcements)
• North American Conference on British Studies
  (conferences, fellowships, and funding opportunities, includes The Making of the Working British Historian; publisher of Journal of British Studies - 1961-current; and, formerly, Albion - 1969-2004; and British Studies Intelligencer - 1962-2001)
  • British and Irish Studies Intelligencer
    (blog revives the NACBS Intelligencer)
  • NACBS LinkedIn
  • Regionals
    • Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies
    • Midwest Conference on British Studies
    • North East Conference on British Studies
    • Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
    • Southern Conference on British Studies
    • Western Conference on British Studies
  • British Studies Conferences
    (other conferences and associations of historians and others)

British History Research & Teaching

• Archives Hub
  (gateway to descriptions of archival sources in UK universities and colleges)
• BBC British History in-depth
  (special sections on Civil War and Revolution, Abolition of the Slave Trade, Victorian Britain, etc.)
• British & Irish History Guide
  (University of Washington, includes Primary Sources by Period)
• British Monarchy
  (well-produced official site with history of monarchs, art, and residences)
• Edwin C. Bolles Collection: A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London
  (from Tufts University)
• Digitised Historical Parliamentary Material
  (subject and chronological tables of published Parliamentary material digitised and available by other sites)
• England
  (further History Favorites)
• English Calendar
  (handbooks of dates)
• History of the United Kingdom - Primary Documents
  (chronological links to numerous texts, part of EuroDocs of Brigham Young University)
• History to Herstory
  (Yorkshire women's lives, 1100 to the present; diaries, images, materials)
• IBIS Links
  (Research aids, from Institute for British and Irish Studies, University of Southern California)
• Ireland
  (further History Favorites)
• John Bull and Uncle Sam: four centuries of British-American Relations
  (from Library of Congress and British Library)
• Libraries
  • British Library
    • British Library catalogues
      • Integrated (Print) Catalog
      • Manuscript Catalog
      • Newspapers Catalog
  • Collage
    (Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery, searchable, image database)
  • Hamnet: Folger Library Catalog
    (early modern and modern MS. and pamphlets, Washington, DC)
  • Huntington Library
    (British pamphlets and MS. from 15th century, San Marino, CA)
  • Newberry Library
    (esp. early modern pamphlets, Chicago)
• Maps
  • British History Online
    (from IHR/Parliamentary Trust, includes maps and gazetteers)
  • Great Britain Historical GIS Project
    (gazetteer and map samplers, database of historical databases, and access information)
  • Occupational Structure of Britain 1379-1911
    (includes maps of population densities at county level for England 1600-1801, etc.)
  • Unveiling of Britain
    (over 800 maps from the 9th century onwards, Britain from a world perspective)
  • www.old-maps.co.uk
    (Britain's most extensive digital historical map archive)
• Money
  • Current Values of Old Money
    (set of links, history of money, etc., not just pounds)
  • Purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1264 to 2002
    (calculator)
  • Gross Domestic Product of the UK from 1830
    (and selected earlier years, calculator)
• Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the United Kingdom
  (with organized gallery of historical photographs)
• National Archives
  (formerly known as Public Record Office, includes research materials, database, online 1901 census)
  • Accessions to Repositories
    (yearly updates of accessions to all archives)
  • Documents Online
    (let the selling of history begin!)
  • Family Records Centre
    (births, marriages, and deaths and census returns, includes link to Archives Portal, online database of archives in the UK, National Register of Archives, Manorial Documents Register)
  • PRO, Equity Pleadings Database
• National Portrait Gallery
  (extensive collection covering British historical characters)
• Newspapers
  • British Library Newspaper Library
    • Concise History of the British Newspaper Since 1620
      (timelines, sample news sheets, search catalog)
    • Newspapers Digitisation Project: British Newspapers 1800-1900
• No. 10 Downing Street
  (official site of Prime Minister, includes PMs in History)
• Office Holders in Modern Britain
  (lists of royal households, major and minor officeholders in government and military)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  (50,000 online biographies available by subscription - on-campu link for Eastern Illinois University)
• Parliament
  • Portcullis
    (gateway with search engine to the archives of Parliament)
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography
  (comprehensive bibliography of British and Irish history, linked with London's Past Online)
• Scotland (further History Favorites)
• Society of Genealogists
• United Kingdom Parliament
  (mainly current information [post 1988] and texts, with link to Explore Parliament for teachers)
• ViewFinder
  (20,000 photographs from the National Monuments Record's important collections)
• Vision of Britain Through Time
  (maps, statistics, and other information on Britain and regions from 1801-2001)
  • includes Travellers Tales
    (full text travel writing, from Gerald of Wales in 12th century to George Borrow in the 19th)
• Wales (further History Favorites)

British History by Era

Ancient/Medieval (to 1485)

• Anglo-American Legal Tradition
  (documents from Medieval and early modern England from the National Archives, Henry III to William and Mary)
• Battle of Hastings 1066
  (includes entire Bayeux taestry and commentary)
• Beginner's Latin
• British Isles, 500-1000
• Camelot Project
• Early Medieval Resources for Britain, Ireland and Brittany
• Essential Norman Conquest
• History of the Norman World
• Medieval English Legal History, Year Books, 1268-1535
  (Boston University School of Law)
• Vindolanda Tablets Online
  (excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England)

Tudor/Stuart (1485-1714)

• Anglo-American Legal Tradition
  (documents from Medieval and early modern England from the National Archives, Henry III to William and Mary)
• Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
  (massive collection, fully accessible)
• British Printed Images to 1700
  (1,000s of early modern prints and book illustrations, searchable, with date, technique, producer where known)>
• CERES, the Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service
  (on early modern manuscripts)
• Clergy of Church of England Database
  (ongoing project, search prosopographical database of clegy, c. 1500-1800)
• CPL Database: College of Physicians of London and Irregular Medical Practitioners, 1550-1640
  (thematic and name searchable)
• Digital Quaker Collection
  (17th and 18th century documents, Earlham School of Religion)
• Early English Books Online
  (full facsimile of all printed works before 1700, available by subscripton; link to Eastern Illinois University subscription for those on campus)
• Early Modern Center English Ballad Archive, 1500-1700
  (electronic archive of extant ballads, including the 1,775 ballads in the Samuel Pepys collection, ballad recordings, and related essays, from the English Dept., UC, Santa Barbara)
  • includes links to other ballad sites
• Early Modern History: Useful Links
  (from University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History, not all British history)
• Early Modern Literary Studies
  (refereed journal, links, and electronic texts)
• Early Modern Resources
  (well-categorized, brief, annotated links, including British, Welsh, and regional links)
  • include E-Prints
    (directory of open-access academic papers on early modern subjects)
• John Foxe, Book of Martyrs
  (major project, varorium index)
• Michigan Early Modern English Materials
  (search 55,000 sources for word usage, 16th & 17th centuries)
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1913
  (fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings: 100,000 trials)
• Renascence Editions
  (online repository of works printed in English between 1477 and 1799, part of Luminarium)
• Victoria & Albert Museum, British Galleries
  (material culture, 1500-1900)
• Tudor era
  • Tudor England, 1485-1603
  • Tudor England: Images
  • Tudor History
  • Elizabethan Sites
    • Elizabeth R
    • Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare
    • Philological Museum
      (Humanistic texts, principally British, under the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham, includes, for example,
      • William Camden, Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha, 1615 and 1625, full text chronicle year-by-year of Elizabeth's reign, Latin and English versions)
    • Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603, part of Luminarium)
• Stuart era
  • Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, 3rd ed. (1906)
  • Diary of Samuel Pepys
    (Pepys' blog!)
  • John Stow, The svrvay of London, 3rd ed. (1618)
    (from Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, Penn Library)
  • King James VI & I
    (texts; see also Daemonologie and Newes from Scotland)
  • 1662 Book of Common Prayer
  • Williamite Universe
    (network, conference, bibliography)

Hanoverian (1714 to 1837)

• Act of Union Virtual Library
  (pamphlets, newspapers, parliamentary papers and manuscript material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union between Ireland and Britain - massive, searchable)
• British Empire
  (links)
• The Complete Newgate Calendar, vol. I
• Digital Quaker Collection
  (17th-18th century documents, Earlham School of Religion)
• Eighteenth-Century England
  (student projects, specific issues, Michigan)
• Lewis Walpole Library
  (17th-19th century collections, part of Yale University Libraries)
• Modern Britain, 1688-2000, Research Resources
  (solid, annotated list, by Howard B. Fedrick of King's College, London, updated?)
• Modern History: Useful Links
  (from University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History, not all British history)
• Nineteenth Century Letters from Britain
• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online
  (finding aid to pamphlets which have been digitized; may require subscription to JStor Pamphlets, etc.)
• Office Holders in Modern Britain
  (massive prosopographical tool, with dates of appointment, mainly from 1660 to mid-19th century, including the useful)
  • Court Officers, 1660-1837
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1913
  (fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings: 100,000 trials)
• South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800)
  (Cook's Journals and others, maps, and other resource for the history of European voyaging, from National Library of Australia)
• William Blake Archive
  (search engines for text and images in massive, hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and other institutions)

Victorian/Modern (1837 to present)

• British Empire
  (links)
• Charles Booth Online Archive
  (London poverty maps and survey into life and labor in London, 1886-1903)
• First World War.com
  (multimedia history, mainly but not exclusively British)
• Hansard Digitation Project
  (searchable Hansard parliamentary debates, 1803–2005)
• Hidden Lives Revealed - A Virtual Archive, 1881-1981
  (information on children's homes focusing on the period 1881-1918, and about The Waifs and Strays' Society)
• History of the BBC
• Modern Britain, 1688-2000, Research Resources
  (solid, annotated list, by Howard B. Fedrick of King's College, London, updated?)
• Modern History: Useful Links
  (from University of Oxford, Faculty of Modern History, not all British history)
• Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
  (photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences)
• Newsreel and Film
  • British Pathe
    (film archive, millions of stills, free previews of footage from events in modern history including British)
  • Film Archive
    (from National Archives, footage of 20th century Britain on Film)
  • Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain
    (on documentary on director of "Fires Were Started"
• Nineteenth Century Letters from Britain
• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online
  (finding aid to pamphlets which have been digitized; may require subscription to JStor Pamphlets, etc.)
• Office Holders in Modern Britain
  (massive prosopographical tool, with dates of appointment, mainly from 1660 to mid-19th century, including the useful)
  • Court Officers, 1660-1837
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1913
  (fully searchable digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings: 100,000 trials)
• Periodicals and Serials
  • NCSE, Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition
  • Punch.co.uk
    (materials from Punch, the magazine of humour and satire, from 1841 until its closure in 2002)
  • Punch: A History Project
  • RSVP
    (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals)
• Those Were the Days, 1900-2000
  (timeline with text from Wolverhamton Express and Star newspaper)
• Victoria & Albert Museum
  • British Galleries
    (material culture, 1500-1900)
• Victorian Era
  • Victoria Research Web
    (information on archives, libraries, bibliographies, and research trip tips)
  • Victorian Database Online
    (search 100,000 book, article, and dissertation listings, 1945-2004)
  • Victorian Era
    (History in Focus)
  • Victorian Prose Archive
    (pdf eTexts)
  • Victorian Web
    (includes information on literature, arts, history, technology, gender)
  • Victorian Women Writers Project

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last updated on January 15, 2012