International sites

The American Association for State and Local History

Labyrinth - George town University's web server for medieval studies.

Living History - an American magazine about historical re-enactment.

The Canadian Heritage Information Network - 'access to millions of records in Canada's National Inventories, to the Guide to Canadian Museums and Galleries, to the research and reference databases and to the Heritage Forum'.

The Route of the Industrial Heritage of the Ruhr - you can choose an English version once the home page has loaded.

The LifeStory Institute - home of LifeStory magazine, 'the writer's workshop for family historians'.

Victoria Research Web - Scholarly resources for Victorian research from Patrick Leary of Indiana University.

World of Old Houses - an Australian site maintained by Ian Evans, including supplier directories for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and USA.

Historic Pittsburgh - a digital collection.

The Cleveland Digital Library.

Old Sturbridge Village - 'where early America comes alive' - a large and handsome site about this museum in Massachusetts.

The Baltimore Museum of Industry

Mystic Seaport - 'The Museum of American and the Sea', Connecticut. The Museum also has a site about the Amistad slave revolt, 1839-1842.

The Jamestown Rediscovery Project run by the Association for the Preservation of Virginian Antiquities.

Learning from London Town - a site about the lost 18th century town of London, Maryland.

Conner Prairie - a large site about a museum in Indiana. Also includes a large selection of historical articles on-line.

Old British Letters — A dip into the past, a site maintained by Eunice and Ron Shanahan in Australia.

The East Tennessee Historical Society

The Chicago Historical Society

Historical Irvinebank — once home to Vulcan, one of the richest and deepest tin mines in Australia.

The Richard III Foundation, Inc

Kerala History, India.

The History Source in the USA.

Brisbane Living Heritage - 'a new development in promoting Brisbane's (Australia) cultural heritage to a wider audience.

Another Holland - not really a history site, but Jan Kersten's personal guide to Eindhoven, Holland and a number of other countries.

Simply Australia -an E-zine on Australian folklore.

Primaryresearch.org is the brainchild of W Dean Eastman, a social studies teacher in Massachusetts, and Kevin McGrath, a high school librarian. It includes extensive coverage of PATH, Project Apprentice to History, in which students are voluntarily involved in out of school activities centred on primary research.

The New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Worldhistory.com - 'what we do is gather up the historical records and organise them into topical timelines that are easy to search or browse'.

Anglo-Saxon Imports - a site primarily for the supply of books about the Anglo Saxon period to US and Canadian education establishments. The latest publication is Four Anglian Kings of Northumbria which can be bought in the UK via Old Yorkshire Publications or Amazon.

Social Security Death Index: Find your ancestors in the social security death index. (USA)

ArchiveGrid — thousands of libraries, museums and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. It's free to consult until 31 May, after which date there will be a subscription charge unless grants or sponsorship can be found.