RESOURCES
Wellcome Trust Mapping Britain’s Genealogy
The Wellcome Trust’s map of British Genealogy reveals some fascinating insights into the DNA make up of the British Isles and heralds a whole new area of scientific and historical research. Just how Anglo Saxon are we? Go and see for yourself at The Royal Society’s summer exhibition.
Read MoreGoogle+ and Sharing Your Family History Photos for Free
Use Google+ from single source share and comment on your images,pictures,scans and integrate with all the other benefits of Google+
Read MoreBritain from above project great for historians
An interesting project of aerial photos of Britain, free to use, sign-up collate, curate, share and moree free and well worth a look as aerial photos are not that easy to source. Use them for your history project right now!
Read MoreResearch Notes Citate Curate and Collect
Do you want to use the best FREE tools for the job of managing saving curating collecting and organising lots of data and disparate resources? Whatever your history project, the net and some great tools are there to help you. Toss out the overwhelming …
Read MoreShakespeares Quartos Digitised with full text search
Shakespeares Quartos in high resolution with searchable online text, precious artefacts at your fingertips so that you can virtually touch these priceless resources and harness them in your own historical research…a beacon of light in the field of digital history and humanities…led by the Bodleian Library quite inspiring
Read MoreBeyond the Family Tree
The linear nature of family trees can sometimes constrain us in the way we view the data that we have collected. A system of collecting, curating and geo-mapping data can reveal clusters and patterns not seen before and reveal new connections.
Read MoreA Fresh Approach To Dealing With Data Overload For Family Historians
Collecting and curating data will become an increasing problem to family historians as more and more records become available online. The problem for those of us undertaking a one name study, especially a more common name is even greater. So how do we resolve this problem?
Read MoreGetty Institute Research Portal for Art History
Free and Open Access Unique Portal for Searching Across a Significant library of Online Texts about Art History by the Getty Institute a great resource
Read MoreRoyal Household Staff List Released Online
Royal Household staff list released online
Read MoreStatute Punishment of Beggars and Vagabonds 1531
Was Henry VIII and his rule kind to Beggars? How does this act reflect the longer timeline of legislative events that lead to our current day Welfare State and how far back do the roots go, a snippet in a series of linked posts, designed to piece together the evidence that led to the British Welfare State. With great relevance and resonance with our current and hard pressed economic climate…
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