A miscellany of useful and interesting historical websites.<\/p>\n
Anterotesis<\/a> – My other, more general blog. You can also follow me on twitter: @anterotesis<\/a><\/p>\n British History Online<\/a> – Piles of documents; some of which, unfortunately, require a subscription, and most of which, infuriatingly, are very badly curated.<\/p>\n Connected Histories<\/a> – federated search engine for selected historical records, 1500 – 1900.<\/p>\n Early Modern Web<\/a> – Currently unavailable. However, the very useful blog aggregator Early Modern Commons<\/a> is still online.<\/p>\n English Broadside Ballad Archive<\/a> – A comprehensive, very well researched and presented collection of early modern English popular songs and poems, some of which have accompanying recordings.<\/p>\n English Prose Drama Database<\/a> – Over 1,600 plays from 350 authors, from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n Historical Thesaurus of English<\/a> – A ‘test website’ run by Glasgow University, based on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Wikipedia entry<\/a><\/p>\n Locating London’s Past<\/a> – ambitious project mapping London’s records onto Rocque’s map.<\/p>\n London Gazette<\/a> – The official journal of record for the UK, with the entire run dating back to the 1660s digitised, if somewhat unevenly. Wikipedia entry<\/a><\/p>\n London Lives<\/a> – 240 thousand manuscripts relating to London life.<\/p>\n Many Headed Monster<\/a> – Excellent collective blog covering “‘the unruly sort of clowns’ and other early modern peculiarities,” and doign some hard thinking about historiography.<\/p>\n Old Bailey Online<\/a> – “A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.” Best digital history project today; and a frightening time sink if you’ve any interest in London’s people.<\/p>\n Open Library<\/a> – “One web page for every book.’ Indispensable for reference hunting and gathering.<\/p>\n Open Street Map<\/a> – “the free editable map of the whole world”, used here for its London data.<\/p>\n Past Tense<\/a> – “a publishing project based in South London, exploring London radical history.” The core of the South London Radical History Group, with some fine histories-from-below online.<\/p>\n The Statutes Project<\/a> – putting historic British legislation online.<\/p>\n