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Anyone know of any good history websites?

I wanna have a look at a few periods before I opt to study them. If anyone knows of any good websites with this kind of info, please post them here :smile:

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Reply 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

And i'm not kidding. :smile:

Reply 2

Tomber

Medieval and specifically early medieval stuff, Simon Keynes' page at Cambridge gives you tonnes of links to lots of websites.

http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html#links

Here's a few links from my departments site, linking you to all sorts of history related websites from medieval through to modern history.

Medieval - http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/med.html

Early Modern - http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/earlymod.html

Modern - http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/mod.html

Hope you find these of some use :smile:

If you want to search a wider range of library resources, use the bibliography at the RHS, and then a catalogue search like COPAC.

Reply 3

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3232

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

And i'm not kidding. :smile:

^^^ Wot he said. I often go onto Wikipedia to get general background on topics, and also update and better pages on things I've studied in depth.

Reply 4

Tomber

I used editing wikipedia as revision for an exam in the first year haha.

Reply 5

Chess Piece Face

I think that http://www.bbc.co.uk/history is very good.

Reply 6

apotoftea

Urgh no not wikipedia - we were threatened on pain of death by our head of school if we ever used it! Let alone reference it.

Mid to late 19th century - http://www.victorianweb.org/

Warwick's History department website is pretty good regarding overview reading for a wide range of modules - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/

Reply 7

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vickytoria77

Urgh no not wikipedia - we were threatened on pain of death by our head of school if we ever used it! Let alone reference it.

Think outside the box! :wink:

Don't necessarily reference it, but it's fine for background stuff.

THe reason why it's innaccurate in places is because the knowledgeable people don't necessarily contribute everything they might! Editing a page and bettering it really does make you think about the historical debates from either side, and it really is good for revision.

Mid to late 19th century - http://www.victorianweb.org/

Warwick's History department website is pretty good regarding overview reading for a wide range of modules - http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/

I've used VictorianWeb a bit- it's ace. :smile:

Reply 8

apotoftea

This should help too: http://www.history.ac.uk/guides/internet_historians.pdf

And this: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Reply 9

Chess Piece Face

I've got a really good one that I think you will thank me for. It's widely recognised as a useful website, I hope you find it useful: http://www.besthistorysites.net/