Useful links

These links are designed to be a resource for London-based teachers and researchers. It is not an exhaustive list but is a result of our principal interests: metropolitan histories; memory/history/fantasy; the promotion of various outreach programmes; and the use and development of archives. They reflect Raphael Samuel’s intellectual legacy and our promiscuous approach to History.

Archives in Tower Hamlets
http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/libraries-leisure/data/libraries/libraries.cfm

Bishopsgate Institute
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk

Bolles Collection on the History of London, Tufts University, USA
Includes full texts of a number of important works on the history of London, including Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, London: A Pilgrimage (1872) and Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (4 vols., 1861), and also has links to various maps etc.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Bolles.html

British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

British Newspaper Library
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html

Centre for Metropolitan History
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html

Centre for Urban History, Leicester
http://www.le.ac.uk/urbanhist/

Charles Booth Online
http://booth.lse.ac.uk

Eastside Community Heritage
http://www.hidden-histories.org/

Genes/s (Resources for Women’s History; see also Women’s Library below)
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/genesis/

Guildhall Library
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Libraries/City_of_London_libraries/guildhall_lib.htm

Historical Manuscripts Commission
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives/hmc_pubs.htm

History Online (IHR)
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/Resources

Institute of Historical Research (IHR; gateway to many resources)
http://www.history.ac.uk

Institute of Romance Studies, University of London
http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/

Local Trade Directories Online
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/

London Boroughs - Archives and Local Studies Libraries
http://homepages.goldsmiths.ac.uk/genuki/LND/boro-lib.htm

London Museum
http://www.museum-london.org.uk

London’s Past Online – a bibliography of London History
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol

Mass Observation
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs

Modern Records Centre
http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk

Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc

Museum in Docklands
http://www.museumindocklands.org.uk

National Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

National Maritime Museum
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/index.php

National Register of Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/default.asp

National Sound Archive
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/cat.html

PortCities UK
http://www.portcities.org.uk/

Ruskin College MA in Public History
http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/course/80/summary

Social History Society
http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/

Villiers Park Educational Trust
http://www.villierspark.org.uk

Women’s Library
http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk

Public History Sites:

BBC History
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/

The East of London Family History Society
http://www.eolfhs.org.uk

English Heritage
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp

History and Policy.

An initiative, in association with the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, to provide a national platform for scholars to communicate the fruits of an historical perspective on contemporary social, economic and political problems to relevant non-academic audiences

http://www.historyandpolicy.org/

History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/

Migration to England
http://www.movinghere.org.uk

For Schoolteachers:

Curriculum Online

Though Curriculum Online is now closed, the link below includes some useful further links

http://www.curriculumonline.gov.uk/

National Archives Learning Curve
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/

Pathe News (video clips for teaching – free to schools)
http://www.britishpathe.com/

Spartacus Schoolnet
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/historywebsites.htm