History of Great-Britain  http://britannia.com/history

British History   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ This site is rather for teachers of history than for students and researchers, which explains why it also contains documents in American history (as well as quite a lot of advertising, which finances the site). The opening page is a bit confusing but, once you become accustomed to using the site, you will find that it contains an enormous amount of useful documentation.

This Sceptred Isle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/ Behind this quote from Shakespeare lies a convivial, interactive site produced by the BBC and intended for students just learning British history, from the Romans to the Millenium Dome. There is no deep analysis to be found here but the chronologies are clear and so is the treatment of events.

Pathways To the Past http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/default.htm This learning site is just as convivial as the This Sceptred Isle site but intended for older learners and adults. Sponsored by the National Archives, it offers a number of original documents in its "online exhibitions."

History: American and British http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/history.shtml This site has morphed over time into a "gateway" site consisting of commented links to other history and American/British Studies sites, including primary sources and full-text documents.

Archives of Parliament: this site provides access to the catalogue of the Parliamentary Publications and Archives site which lists the documents available (records of Parliament from 1497 onwards except for the House of Commons which lost most of its records prior to 1834 in a fire) and how to obtain them.

For other history sites (history of the UK, literary history, social and political history, history of ideas, history of science and technology, etc.) consult Intute: Arts and Humanities (ex-Humbul Humanities Hub) (http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/). This "Google for researchers" is the Rolls Royce of webcrawlers, run by the Resource Discovery Network at Oxford University as a service to teachers and researchers in the humanities. A keyword search of Humbul produces considerably fewer references than the general run of webcrawlers but no duplicates, no repeats and few dead links. This is because sites catalogued by the Humbul Hub have been tested and examined by a panel of specialists whose evaluations you may consult if you wish to know more about the site. Dead links can be reported to Oxford University Computing Services (click on Help Desk) who respond rapidly, track down the author of the vagrant site whenever possible and correct the entry when they can. You may also suggest sites to be added.

Florilegium Urbanum http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/florilegium/flor00.html Florilegium Urbanum is a selection of primary source texts illustrative of various aspects of medieval urban life, presented in modern English. This is apparently a privately-maintained site.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Revolution This online sourcebook allows access to primary source documents from the period, either transcribed on the site or via links to other sites.

Industrial Revolution This is an encyclopedic site composed entirely of a list of links to a number of other sites dealing with various aspects of the Industrial Revolution, some with primary source material and others analysis and secondary sources. Since there is no feedback to the webmaster (who is, in fact, the Ramona Unified School District in California), there is no guarantee that this site will remain stable or that the dead links will be corrected or weeded out. However, since it is obviously used as a teaching source, there is a good chance of it remaining trustworthy.

British cartoon prints 1621-1853: the American Library of Congress has a collection of about 10,000 British political and satirical prints published between ca. 1621 and 1853, the bulk of them having been published between 1780 and 1830. About a quarter of the collection is described online and about 500 of the descriptions are accompanied by digital images. Access to the online collection is available at: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cpbrhtml/cpbrback.html.

The British Cartoon Archive is a collection of some 120,000 cartoons maintained by the University of Kent as a research tool for academics and others interested in the history of British political and social cartooning. Most of the cartoons were published within the last century but a few drawings date back to the 18th and early 19th century. Full source information is provided and searchers with specialized knowledge may add comments or identify references. Available at: http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/ccc.py?

The London Gazette Archive is available on the Gazettes Online site for the years 1752 to 1998 (the London, Edinburgh, and Belfast gazettes are the official newspapers of record in the United Kingdom). Access to the archive is free of charge. Since some issues of the newspaper are not yet available on the website, when in doubt researchers should contact the paper (london.gazette@tso.co.uk) with "Archive Query" in the subject line for search help. Available at: http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/ and follow the links under the heading "Archives Online".

The Victorian Web  http://www.victorianweb.org/ This is a well-constructed and very complete site covering all aspects of the period: social and political history, philosophy, economy, everyday life, etc. A few of the links are dead (unfortunately), including the one for Victorian Research Web (see correct link below).

Victoria Research Web: Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research http://www.victorianresearch.org/

Victorian London, City of Shadows  http://cityofshadows.stegenga.net/london.html

Who's Who of Victorian Cinema http://www.victorian-cinema.net/ Includes a biographical guide to the early years of cinema (1871-1901).

Internationalism and the Search for a National Identity: Britain and the Great Exhibition of 1851 http://www.stanford.edu/group/ww1/spring2000/exhibition/paper.htm Paper prepared by John Kemper for a history class on Modern Britain given at Stanford University in 1999-2000 by Prof. Peter Stansky. The students also prepared virtual exhibitions which Stansky put on the web, and the illustrated presentation of the Great Exhibition of 1851 is available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ww1/spring2000/exhibition/start.html

The 1901 Census For England and Wales http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.htm Only searches of the indexed database are free; requests for detailed information on individuals cost from £0.50 to £0.75 with a minimum charge of £5 per session.

London at War 1939-1945 (click here).This site uses material from The Imperial War Museum and was created in cooperation with the IT Learning Exchange at the University of North London. Interactive, convivial and extremely well constructed and documented, it contains a section for teachers to help them exploit the resources of the site.

The Blitz: Sorting the Myth from the Reality (click here).Like the This Sceptred Isle site, this site is a BBC-sponsored production. It consists of a series of seven short, illustrated articles and links to other sites, other articles and other visual documents.

British monarchs http://britannia.com/history/monarchs

British Prime Ministers http://britannia.com/gov/prime

The Churchill Society    http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/index1.html

Concise History of the British Newspaper Since 1620  http://www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html

Travel and exploration: a small number of e-books concerning travel and exploration in Great Britain and Ireland (17th to 19th centuries) are available for reading or download on the website of the library of the University of Adelaide (Australia). http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/themes/travel.html#Britain

Vision of Britain 1801-2001 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp Census reports and maps from the 19th and 20th centuries, travelers' tales from the 12th to the 19th century.

Collect Britain: Putting History in Place http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/ A guide to British collections, sponsored by the British Library.