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FACHRS Link Pages - Community History Research
This section is divided into two parts. Part 1 (this page) deals with mainly with the Academic and Community History Research. Part 2, the second link will take you to the Family Genealogy side of research. In many cases these topics are intertwined so it is worth looking at all subject headings.
All the links or "hyperlinks" will in many cases move you automatically to another web site on the internet, where the author has placed the information.
Community Historical Research
Maintained by the University of Michigan.
Key persons are Karl Longstreth, Timothy Utter, Sharmila Bandekar, Constance Colthorp, Suzanne Gray, Patty Hendricks, Susan Hollar plus from Bath Spa University College Mark Annand.
Formerly of the History Department
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Scholarly
Resources for Victorian Research , a collection of resources assembled by the
founder of the VICTORIA discussion list. Like VICTORIA, the VRW is dedicated to the
scholarly study of nineteenth-century Britain, and to aiding researchers, teachers, and
students in their investigations of any and all aspects of this fascinating period.
VRW is intended to supply a handy set of tips and links to help Victorianists find the
practical information they need, whether it's an archive catalogue, a bibliography, a
listserv address, a sample syllabus, a place to stay in London, or a journal's submission
guidelines.
Created by George P Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University the Victorian Web derives from materials originally developed to assist students at Brown for use in a series of other hypertext environments. Even in days before its appearance on the World Wide Web, independent scholars, students, and faculties of other institutions contributed to it, and since it translation to the Web, the number of contributions from readers in Asia, Australia, and Europe have risen dramatically.
There are (some say) approximately 100 million pages on the Internet, and some experts speculate that 10 times that many documents reside in unindexed databases.
Internets.com is an extensive catalogue of databases on the Web, including archives, libraries, statistical data & research databases. You can search by keyword or by browsing the collection.
The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) has published its unique database of British newsreels as a CD-ROM and online. Between 1910 and 1979 the newsreels, released twice a week in British cinemas, gave millions their picture of national and world events. Such fondly remembered names as Pathe News, Gaumont British News and British Movietone News were seen in every cinema, and have now preserved an
invaluable record of life and news in the twentieth century. They are already regularly used by television companies making historical programmes, and are increasingly used by academics working in a variety of fields, as appreciation grows of their special value as a historical resource.
The BUFVC has maintained and encouraged an interest in newsreel history since the 1970s, and in 1995 initiated the British Universities Newsreel Project, which has resulted in a database of information on 160,000 individual newsreel stories taken from 21 British newsreels and cinemagazines. This has now been published as a website at www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsreels, with free access to all ac.uk addresses and BUFVC
members. The website also includes the history, general information on the newsreels, articles, and a biographical index of cameramen.
The British Universities Newsreel Project website is the first centralised record of British newsreel releases. It will become a major historical resource for students, historians and film researchers, and will help secure the newsreelsą place as a treasure trove of the twentieth century.
You can also license higher resolution copies of the same items for Presentations, Web Publishing or Private Use. All content is free of charge for use by UK Maintained Schools in the classroom.
British
Agricultural History Society
The Society was founded in 1952, to promote the study of agricultural
history and the history of the rural economy and society.
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THE SOCIETY
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BAHS members have also written the Cambridge University Press' prestigious 8-volume Agrarian History of England and Wales which is now nearing completion and covers the period from earliest times to 1939.
Pages created by Simon Fowler to report the July 2000 seminar for the South East branch of the Society on the history of pubs. A very useful summary and worth a visit because there are numerous links to resources of a similar nature.
Just one of the subjects covered in this web site "A description of the journey endured by German POWs by infantryman Kurt Bock who was captured in Holland in 1944"
This web site focuses on the activity of German POW held by the British during WWll. There are also links from this site to Pamela Taylor's website who is the author of the book "Enemies Become Friends" which details the everyday lives of German POWs in Northern England after WWII
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A gateway to a lottery-funded collection of 150 sites supported by the New Opportunities Fund. The collection ranges across culture, history, social and economic development, science and art as well as offering regional and national 'sense of place' websites from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. |
Archaeological Society
| to promote interest in the architecture, archaeology and history of St. Albans and Hertfordshire, |
| to secure the protection of monuments and other features of architectural or archaeological interest in the area, |
| to encourage the preservation of documents and graphic records of historical interest, |
| to promote and participate in archaeological work, and research into local history, |
| to arrange meetings, lectures, exhibitions and visits, |
| to promote the publication of papers, reports and other literature |
