Web Watch

The newly created Bee Boles Register Database contains 1,370 records and over 1,100 images which can now be accessed free online. The site provides a useful online introduction to beekeeping and how special structures, often walls with recesses, were constructed to house the wicker hives (also known as 'skeps') which were used before the introduction of modern hives in the late nineteenth century. The International Bee Research Association can be contacted c/o 18 North Road, Cardiff CF10 3DT.

Gloucestershire Archives' website has been updated to include a new style calendar and a Friends of Gloucestershire Archives section, which should enable more information about future events to be included.

The League of Welldoers is a 'must visit' for anyone who wants to see a beautifully designed website full of easily accessible and wonderful historic photographs covering the period 1893 to the present day. Many of the pictures were taken by Lee Jones, who founded the Liverpool Food Association in 1893 before finally adopting the name League of Welldoers in 1909. The charity provided food for the destitute and unemployed of Liverpool as well distributing ½d dinners to many local schools. Somehow it has survived, but only now is it beginning to catalogue its collection of photographs. If you don't have access to the web and want to know more, contact League of Welldoers, Lee Jones House, 119-133 Limekiln Road, Liverpool L5 8SN.

The award winning Northamptonshire Black History Project's website now includes an easily searchable database covering over 800 years of Black History in the county.