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Internet links relating to local history

This page provides links to the following archive directories, county societies, online tutorials and local history internet resources.

Websites

• The British Academy Portal for Sources in Early Modern History
  This is a list of links to online primary sources for early modern Britain and the wider world.
• The British Association for Local History
  This website is a useful hub of information for local historians, including links to the websites of 353 local history societies.
• British History Online
  Link to the local history section of this important gateway to online primary sources.
• Clergy of the Church of England Database
  Biographical information for Church of England clergy, 1540-1835.
• The Early Modern Hub Very useful site for early modernists
• The English Place Name Society
  Details of over 80 of the English Place Name Society volumes.
• The Centre for Hearth Tax Research
  Publications on the Hearth Tax and an AHRC project at Roehampton University.
• The Institute of Historical Research
  An important gateway to historical resourecs and the London meeting place for researchers of history.
• Leicestershire History Research Guides Research guides developed by the Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust.
• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  Online biographical essays of 57,000 individuals important to British History.
• State Papers Online, 1509-1714 This important resource gives digital access to the Tudor and Stuart State Papers in The National Archives.
• University of Leicester Library History Subject Room
  A gateway to online resources and the library's holdings in history.
• The UK Battlefields Resource Centre
  Useful information, commentaries and online resources for visiting British Battlefields, provided by the Battlefields Trust.
• The Victoria County History
  The first port of call for researcher sinto English local history, it publishes encyclopaedic volumes, county by county.
• Vision of Britain Through Time
  Online resource for historical maps, landscape history, travel writing and census reports.
• Warwick Network for Parish Research
  This provides a useful bibliography, a guide to parish sources and details of the Warwick Symposium of parish research.

Online primary sources

• British Printed Images to 1700
  A searchable digital library of printed images from early modern Britain.
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  Fully searchable website that contains images page by page of almost every published work in English from 1473 to 1700.
• Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
  Fully searchable database of books, pamphlets, essays and broadsides published in the eighteenth-century.
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs
  Online Digitisation of several editions of Acts and Monuments of the English Church by the Elizabethan martyrologist, John Foxe.
• Old Bailey Records Online, 1674 to 1913
  Fully searchable proceedings of the Old Bailey, relating to 197,745 criminal trials.
• The Records of Earl's Colne, Essex, 1375-1854
  Maps and transcriptions of hundreds of historical documents relating to this parish.
• Revolutionary Players
  Primary sources relating to the Industrial Revolution in the West Midlands from 1700 to 1830.
• The Virtual Norfolk Project
  This website constructed at UEA from 2000-2003 provides archival primary source material for the history of Norfolk, c1400-1800.

Online tutorials in palaeography

• The National Archives online palaeography tutorial
  The National Archives tutorial in reading old handwriting, 1500-1800.
• The National Archives online beginners' latin tutorial
  A guide to latin used in documents from 1086 to 1733.
• University of Cambridge online palaeography tutorial
  This website covers English handwriting from 1500-1700.
• University of Keele latin and palaeography summer schools
  These annual week long summer schools are held in July and directed by Dr Nigel Tringham.

County societies

• The Chetham Society
  List of volumes of primary sources relating to Lancashire and Cheshire published since 1843.
• The Devon and Cornwall Record Society
  Membership details and a list of their publications of primary sources.
• History West Midlands
  Exciting new popular history magazine and website covering Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Derbyshire.
• The Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society
  Leicestershire's main archaeological and historical society.
• Lincoln Record Society
  Published records and documents relating to the county and diocese of Lincoln.
• Norfolk Record Society
  Membership, publications, events and prizes for young researchers.
• Northamptonshire Record Society
  Membership, events, record series and journal.
• Rutland Local History and Record Society
  Includes links to digitised primary sources.
• The Suffolk Records Society
  Details of published volumes of primary sources, including a series of Suffolk charters.
• The Somerset Record Society
  Membership and list of titles of published primary source volumes.
• The Surtees Society
  Published primary resources chiefly relating to Durham, Northumberland and Yorkshire.
• The Thoroton Society
  Nottinghamshire's principal archaeological and historical society.
• The Warwickshire Local History Society
  News, membership and publications.
• The Worcestershire Historical Society
  Publisher of printed primary sources for Worcestershire, with an online shop.
• Yorkshire Archaeological Society
  Publications include a records series, parish register series and occasional papers on Yorkshire history and archaeology.