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Local History The Brandon & Byshottles Parish Archive in County Durham. The Battle of Fulford website -dedicated to the battle near York which took place before the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings in 1066. Explore Swansea - including an historical section. Wymeswold Local History - articles about the village in Leicestershire. New Milton - An Online Record, showing changes from the end of the 19th century to the present day in this Hampshire town. Plymouth Data, an encyclopaedia of history of old Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse. Black Sheep, the Police and World War II indexes, a website containing 125,000 names of policemen and criminals taken from UK newspaper reports between 1850 and 1920, plus 5,000 references to men and women who served in World War II. Curious Fox, a contact site aimed at anybody interested in local history, genealogy and local distinctiveness. Stainforth 2001 covers the history of the little mining village of Stainforth, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Newton le Willows and Earlestown, with a searchable history timeline and lots of local views. David J Wood's Collection of Oral History Jane Smith has set up a website for the history of Cottingham in Northamptonshire, including lots of old photographs and information from the 1841 and 1901 Census returns for the village. My Old House is something like Friends Reunited for houses. It's free to register. Leeds-uk.com, a guide to the city of Leeds, has a history page which features a timeline for Leeds from the 7th century to the present day. The lives, adventures and estates of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. The History of Finmere, Oxfordshire and Little Tingewick, Buckinghamshire. About Jersey is a general site, but it has pages about museums and historic places to visit and local people will be able to post articles about the history of Jersey. East Yorkshire's Local History Website — history and nostalgia from the East Riding of Yorkshire. Exeter Memories — including a selection of first-hand stories about the city, together with photographs, adverts and trivia for each decade of the last century. Milestones Online — recording Britain's roadside milestone heritage for the future. Skelton-in-Cleveland, a village 16km east of Middlesbrough, with pages about its history from the Ice Ages to the 1950. Discover Derbyshire and the Peak District contains a section on towns and villages, including local history information and heritage trails for the area in question. Harold Hill: A People's History celebrates the history of a post-war council estate to the east of Romford in Essex. Bishop's Stortford and Thorley is based around 15 guides to different parts of Bishop Stortford and Thorley in East Hertfordshire. The sites has 150 pages and 750 photographs. Life and Death in Elizabethan Norton is based on research by Jos Kingston in 1990 about this Derbyshire parish now in Sheffield. It includes an analysis of parish registers covering the period 1560-1620, together with evidence from local wills and inventories. Thorpe Mandeville, a brief history of this 'Domesday' village in Northamptonshire. Historic lettering, a website devoted to historic public lettering in Ipswich, Suffolk, including street signs, mileposts and railway bridges. World War I Cemeteries contains photographs and descriptions of over 900 cemeteries from the Great War, in France and Belgium. The Wallingford History Gateway is a way of reaching some of the many local history resources available on the web for this Oxfordshire town. Clackmannanshire from Ice to Glass is a website for children, although adults can enjoy it too. Images of Norris Green is dedicated to the Liverpool suburb of Norris Green from the estate's creation in the inter-war years to the present day. Harold Hill is 'a small town on the north-east edge of Greater London, in the London Borough of Havering'. Tough Times and Grisly Crimes in Northumberland and Durham is dedicated to the book of that name. David Leask's Maddiston Pages are about the history of a small village near Falkirk in central Scotland. A Cornish Sourcebook is an index to the historical placenames of Cornwall, including a bibliography and transcripts of historical texts. The history of Hele Bay, a small village just outisde Ilfracombe in north Devon. Burnage Heritage covers the township of Burnage five miles from Manchester. The Leverstock Green Chronicle traces the history of this Hertfordshire village from prehistory to the present day. Bacup Times is a site about the history of this Lancashire town and its Natural History Museum. Scotland History is a Scottish history and genealogy resource website. Picture Spennymoor History is dedicated to local history and genealogy for Spennymoor and surrounding areas and provides free accessible information, including 9 trade directories covering 1873-1936 which visitors can search. The Abandoned communities web site includes local history, paintings and poetry. Northampton Live is designed for the collection and sharing of historical information about Northamptonshire's towns, villages, people and landmarks. Visitors can comment on and contribute to the site. Old Mersey Times, Liverpool and Merseyside's life and times from old newspaper transcriptions, including deaths, inquests, passenger lists, crimes and history. Bury St Edmunds Go Local — a general information site with some local history and places to visit. Historic Farnborough shows how the town has changed over the last hundred years or so through a virtual tour of local landmarks, an interactive gallery and a memories and family history section. Blanche Parry was Head of Queen Elizabeth I's Privy Chamber, the Queen's confidant for 56 years and the subject of a forthcoming biography by Ruth E Richardson. Simister village in the 20s and 30s was written by Edith Hamilton about her early years in the village in Lancashire. Virtual Brum has sections devoted to famous locals, images of the city and its suburbs from past and present and a lively history section with short articles on a variety of topics. Telling History is Maureen James's site about the services which she offers, using many techniques including living history, role-play, object handling, storytelling and practical activities. Andrew Bethune has created a new 'wiki' site about Liddesdale in Scotland, where anyone with an interest in the history of the area can contribute.
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Beckenham Historical Association Bromley Borough Local History Society Comm@net - the community archive network. Brickendon Local History Group, Hertfordshire. The Desertmartin Local History Group, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Locks, Docks and Beyond, a journey along the Colne Valley canal from Stanedge Tunnel to Titanic mill. A good looking website, altough its extensive use of Flash may annoy some. The Bonsall History Project, from a new local history society in these village in the Derbyshire Dales. The Oakengates Town history pages, about one of the orginal engineering and mining towns of Shropshire, now part of Telford. Follow the history link. The Friends of the Newport Ship have a website about the medieval ship found during building work and saved because of public pressure. The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway. The history of Somersham in Huntingdonshire, including transcriptions of historical documents. The Ards Historical Society, County Down, Northern Ireland, at the northern tip of Strangford Lough. The Pub History Society - including a section on tracing ancestors who worked in pubs. Papplewick Pumping Station in Nottinghamshire is a complete Victorian water pumping station — magnificent when it's under steam and well worth a visit when it reopens after extensive restoration work. Helmdon, Northants - a general site maintained by the local branch of the WEA, but including an historical section with photographs, documents, articles and more. Stafford
Borough Heritage Group, an umbrella organisation of over 20 local
history groups, formed to promote their events. The Hertfordshire Archive includes an index to articles which have appeared in Hertfordshire Past and Present, Hertfordshire's Past and Hertfordshire Countryside. Both hertford.net and wareonline.co.uk are community network sites, but include historical sections. The Brixton Society is a local amenity rather than an historical society, but there is local history information on the site. The Union Makes Us Strong: TUC History Online is a partnership between the London Metropolitan University and the TUC to open up access to the TUC library collections. Highlight of the site is the full unedited manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. The National Federation of Women's Institutes has launched a 61 page history section on their website. GOSH, the Gorleston on Sea Heritage Group, has a community virtual museum website. The Avon Local History Association covers 50 groups within the former county of Avon. Airfield Research Group gives special attention to the history, development and use of airfield buildings in addition to airfield history. Westonzoyland Pumping Station is situated on the Somerset Levels and dates from 1831. Exhibits are run in-steam during the tourist season. Hemel Local History & Museum Society in Hertfordshire. The Rowley Collection — an online gallery of over 500 historic prints of Skipton, Yorkshire, fully indexed. Marsden Local History Group — Marsden is a large village at the head of the Colne valley, in West Yorkshire. Victoria Baths is devoted to the Manchester swimming baths which won the BBC Restoration competition in 2003. Winning was great, but there is still a long way to go before the baths will be fully restored and re-opened. The Ogmore Valley Local History Society, near Bridgend. Hornsey Historical Society, London. The North East Labour History Society is Britain's oldest regional labour history society. Kirtling and Upend, historic English villages in East Cambridgeshire. Heanor History has some 40 pages of information about this area on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. The history of Modbury, South Devon, including a database of historical information, historical photographs and a timeline. Redgrave History is a website about the history of the parish of Redgrave in Suffolk. The Hughes Collection is a online collection of over 2,000 portrait photographs taken by Joseph Hughes of Bromsgove at the turn of the 20th century. Fitzwilliam, a village in West Yorkshire, has an online Archive, which contains a collection of sound and video clips, photographs and personal testimonies. Worthing's Dome Cinema is undergoing a major refurbishment after a time when its future was uncertain. Glanymor & Tyisha History Group is a new society in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, South Wales. Highland History is a new site for Badenoch and Strathspey Local History Society in Scotland. Visitors to the area are very welcome to attend the Society's meetings — the programme is on the website. The Brentham Heritage Society has a website packed with information about Brentham Garden Suburb, a historic housing development in Ealing, London. Ammanford and District Archaeological and History Society, in Carmarthenshire, South Wales, was founded in early 2006. Spital Tongues History Society's well designed website covers an historical area of Newcastle upon Tyne. Langham Village History Group, Rutland. The Skelton Village Trust, Yorkshire, was founded to safeguard the historical character of the village's conservation area and its site has a small but interesting Then and Now photographic section. The Llanteg History Society, which was founded in Prembrokeshire in 1999, has an ever-growing blog about its activities, including 10 books and booklets about the village! Pelsall History Centre, in Staffordshire, was founded in November 2004 by Pelsall Civic Society. It's run by volunteers and is self-funded. Nottingham Labour Movement: random memories is mostly trade union history. Heaton Mersey Village Conservation Group has produced a Heritage Walk leaflet which is available from Stockport Local Heritage Library. Warwickshire Local History Society's website is small, but informative and up to date.
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Cambridge Local History Herefordshire's Sites and Monuments Record. Aberdeen City Council's website now has a section devoted to commemorative plaques in the city. World Wide Wales features over 150 3 to 4 minute videos about a number of historical Welsh subjects. Download times are pretty quick. The Museum of Reading website is informative and a delight to the eye. It also hosts a newly launched website for Huntley & Palmers, the world-famous biscuit company. Both sites are excellent. The history of six London boroughs and their people from the 16th century to the present day is the theme of a new website called Ideal Homes. All the field names in Herefordshire (over 124,000 of them) taken from the 1840 tithe maps are now online at www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk. The new PortCities UK website explores the history of five ports, London, Bristol, Southampton, Hartlespool and Liverpool, the events and people who shaped them and the communities that developed around them. Bristol and the transatlantic slave trade. Tomorrow's History is about the history of the North-East of England. The Huddersfield Narrow Canal tells the history of the canal and the communities through which it passes. The Shropshire Routes to Roots website contains lots of local history information, digitised sources from Shropshire Archives, teachers' resources and links to sources of further information. A website exploring myths, legends and stories from Huddersfield and its surrounding area has been developed by a group of students at Huddersfield University, in conjunction with Kirklees Culture and Leisure Services and Tolson Museum. Wiltshire Community History provides easy access to a wealth of information about some 261 parishes in Wiltshire (but not Swindon), including images, maps, population statistics, local authors, periodicals and thumbnail histories of local schools, churches and parishes. Revolutionary Players is a website covering Midlands history during the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries across Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire. The Chester Image Bank contains over 6,000 images and has an easy to use search facility. The Community Heritage Partnership website is for societies, community groups and individuals with an interest in the heritage of County Durham. The local history pages of Fulford Parish Council's website have an historical account of life in Fulford and surrounding villages in Staffordshire dating back several hundred years.
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Wolverhampton The
Department of English Local History, Leicester University The Quaker Heritage Project includes two online databases, a location register of Quaker collections and a name index. Hull University Brynmor Jones Library, archives and special collections, includes the online database HUMAD2, Hull University Manuscripts and Archives Database. The Old Bailey Online, the proceedings of the Central Criminal Court in London from 1674 to 1834, now scanned, digitised and posted on a fully searchable website. History.uk.com, which describes itself as 'the world's largest free-to-use database of British history', has launched 'Research a Church' in its DIY history section. The Essex Place-name Project now has a searchable, on-line, database containing over 36,000 place-names from historic documents of all kinds. It also includes personal names. The Media Archive for Central England publishes an on-line newsletter in the form of a pdf file. Well I never provides easy access to some 25 history related websites related to the north east of England. An interesting collection of mainly public and academic websites. D
H Lawrence: a guide to sources in the county of Nottingham was launched
in August 2004 as a 'cross domain' online guide to D H Lawrence related
resources in Nottinghamshire. A useful guide can be easily downloaded
via Acrobat Reader.
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History
- publishers of the Yorkshire and Lancashire History Quarterlies. Coventry and Warwickshire's history on the BBC's website, including exclusive online films, never heard before audio clips and many photographs. The Looking at Buildings website has been launched by the Pevsner Architectural Guides as an introduction to understanding and enjoying buildings of all periods and styles. It includes many reference resources including an illustrated architectural glossary. There is also a website which gives information about the Pevsner Guides. The Bucks Free Press has a nostalgia page containing a series of short illustrated articles. Family and Community History is a bi-annual journal which publishes scholarly research in family and community history.
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The Edinburgh History
Shop is promoting historical research through the use of new technologies,
runs computer and internet workshops and provides an information and
reference service for Edinburgh and Scottish history. The Gower Information Centre - including a section on historic sites. Made in Birmingham celebrates the city of 1,000 trades, from milk chocolates to mowers.
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