History Http Reference

This is preliminary and in progress. Please send suggestions.

General

mindless and general. The sort of site where they have Viking-themed pacman games. This link gets me to the BBC main site, from which you can click to the history area. BBC do some decent documentaries, so it is worth a try.
http://bbc.co.uk/history/

also full of interactive hist-base games. Run by a school in the UK, this is geared for children, with parts of the site streamed to particular ages.
http://www.activehistory.co.uk



portal to UK history
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/



http://www.historytoday.com/
opening page of history magazine for general readers - I like the print version.

http://www.historyireland.com/
er, Irish history. Pretty general level. I used to like this print magazine, but it's a bit too mass market these days.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html
historical maps. usually disappointingly blurry on the screen, but not breaking copyright at least.



http://www.vam.ac.uk
Victoria & Albert museum site

http://www.british-museum.ac.uk
British Museum site. Thanks to the centuries of looting that was the British Empire, a lot of worldwide artifacts in the museum.

classic literature scanned to the web
http://www.gutenberg.net/

literature again. British Library. One of the copyright libraries, along with Cambridge University, Trinity College Dublin, and some place in Washington.
http://www.bl.uk/about/ontheweb.html


faces - out of copyright portraits -
quite Euro-centric
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/


(next two sent by PastVoices - thank you )
historical quotes, American emphasis
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/

what not to write:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/

Medieval

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
medieval sourcebook ~ pages of links, hours of fun.

http://www.netserf.org
links ~ pages of links

http://www.medieval-life.net/life_main.htm


http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/orb/text/index.html
on-line reference (hence the O.R.B.) medieval texts. Found while looking for the Paston letters.

http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/portal.htm
manchester uni press pages

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/home.htm
Edward James is a history lecturer. I liked a book of his very much, so I looked for his site on the web.

http://www.lanceandlongbow.com/
medieval, site slanted for reenactment.

http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/
web mag on dark ages. archaeological slant.


http://historymedren.about.com/
encyclopaedic approach



Excellent resource links, courtesy of ElaineElaine
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1986/3/86.03.03.x.html
http://www.medieval-life.net/life_main.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Feudalism_and_Medieval_life.htm
http://www.hyw.com/books/history/1_Help_C.htm
http://www.grossmont.k12.ca.us/mcdowell/history/notes/unit3/feudalismchart.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/castle.html
http://www.newyorkcarver.com/resources.htm

Modern History

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
from reformation onwards, pages of links

Renaissance

http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture4a.html

timeline
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/flemish/timeline.html


links page now
http://www.crrs.ca/new/library/webresources/webresources.htm
http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/renaissance.html#europages




http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance

Tudor

http://www.tudorhistory.org/
page o' links. good starting point

http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Tudor_index.htm
aimed at giving tourists some background

http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/index.html
largly vocabulary aimed at writers and re-enactors

http://www.elizabethi.org/links/
and, from there, a hop and a skip to
http://www.elizabethi.org/links/fashion.htm
yay! ruffs and farthingdales. Also, codpieces.
also a fun RenFaire site on speech
http://www.elizabethi.org/links/language.htm
with some reminders about period dialogue


http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm
Cliff notes of Hamlet, worth visiting for the pictures of various productions alone.

18th century

regency ~ social
http://www.regencylady.com/repository/

http://hal.ucr.edu/~cathy/reg3.html
regency costume - images in thumbnails.


http://www.fashion-era.com/sitemap.htm
clothing from 1800 to 2004. good images here, but an annoying urgency to sell you related books on-line.




Georgian literature scanned
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/

Victorians

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victorians/
magazine level encyclopaedia

http://victorianresearch.org/other.html#sites
list of victorian web site links, many literary/historical



ElaineElaine posted some of these, so thank you to her.