general resources
websites
resources in local history
The British Association for Local History
publishes The Local Historian magazine
PO Box 1576
Salisbury SP2 8SY
Tel: 01722 332158
Fax: 01722 413242
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/LOCAL_HISTORY/
Local History Magazine
Excellent articles including
How to get started in local history
http://www.local-history.co.uk/
History Today magazine
http://www.historytoday.com/index.cfm
archives
ARCHON is the principal information gateway for UK archivists
and users of manuscript sources for British history
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm
UK archives on the Internet
http://www.archivesinfo.net/uksites.html
Public Libraries on the Web
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html
Public Record Office
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
The British Library
http://portico.bl.uk/
The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
http://www.rchme.gov.uk/
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
genealogy
The UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service (GENUKI)
http://www.genuki.org.uk/
The World GenWeb project
http://www.worldgenweb.org/
England GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~engwgw/index.html
Scotland GenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~sctwgw/
medieval England
medieval English towns
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html
medieval architecture In England
http://info.pitt.edu/~medart/menuengl/maineng.html
pubs and brewing
The National Pub & Brewery History Website
http://www.btinternet.com/~steven.williams1/pubpgintro.htm
The Brewery History Society
Dedicated to The Promotion of Research into
the History of the Brewing Industry in the British Isles
http://www.breworld.com/organisations/bhs.html
organisations
Public Record Office
Ruskin Avenue
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel: 0181 876 3444
Fax: 0181 878 8905
further reading
W. G. Hoskins, Local History in England, Longman, 2nd ed. 1972.
Fieldwork in Local History, Faber, 2nd ed. 1982.
David Hey (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History, Oxford University Press, 1996. |