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A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan's grandson demanding homage from the pope is among a collection of documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives that has been published for the first time.

"This is the website of a major research project funded by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council dealing with concentration camps in Nazi Germany in the pre-war period. The website has a special section with primary sources: "The absence of accessible documentary material has contributed greatly to the widespread lack of knowledge about the pre-war Nazi concentration camps. Key documents are scattered across archives throughout the world, while most published survivors' memoirs have long been forgotten or gone out of print. This website brings together a selection of documents about the pre-war camps, drawn from various archives and libraries. These sources shed light on the SS camps between 1933 and 1939. Documents have been divided into six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the SS camps, from their emergence (1) and later consolidation (2) under a professional corps of SS men (3), to the conditions inside the camps (4) for different inmate groups (5), as well as the public face of the camps (6). All the documents - as well as several hundred others - appear in: Christian Goeschel and Nikolaus Wachsmann (eds), Before the Holocaust: Documents from the Nazi Camps, 1933-1939 (Lincoln, NE: Nebraska University Press, forthcoming) All documents are translated into English (translation: Ewald Osers). In addition, some documents are available in the German original." "

"O projeto de digitalização de jornais históricos do Google vai chegar ao fim, segundo o site Google Search Engine Land. O projeto, chamado de Google Archive Search, foi lançado em 2008 e já havia digitalizado mais de dois mil jornais. De acordo com o site, já estavam circulando alguns rumores sobre o fechamento do serviço, mas a declaração do porta-voz da empresa confirmou que o projeto será finalizado. "Usuários poderão continuar buscando por jornais digitalizados no site, mas não temos mais planos de introduzir novas ferramentas ou funcionalidades do Google News Archive e nem aceitaremos mais novas digitalizações", disse."

Welcome to European History Primary Sources (EHPS), an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitised primary sources on the history of Europe. The websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources but also include invented archives and born digital sources. Each website that is listed in EHPS has a short description and is categorised according to country, language, period, subject and type of source. The portal can be searched in a variety of ways. The listed websites can be accessed for free, though sometimes a registration is required. EHPS is a work in progress and new content is regularly added. In order to stay updated on new entries or specific categories in which you are interested it is possible to subscribe to RSS feeds or to follow EHPS on Twitter.

A rare volume of explicit Gillray cartoons, which sexually lampooned 18th-century establishment figures and were seized by a Victorian vice squad, has been handed to the Victoria & Albert museum after lying undiscovered in Home Office archives for more than a century. The edition of the "Suppressed Plates", sold under the counter when published in the 1840s due to what the V&A called their "scurrilous" and "offensive" content for the period, was found bound in a bin liner and wedged between a cabinet and a desk as staff at the criminal law policy unit of the Ministry of Justice moved offices.

The website of the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP) makes available online the transcripts of the BDOHP interviews. The original material is conserved at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. "The BDOHP interviews former diplomats or other officials who have played a significant role in events bearing on international relations. The tendency towards greater openness in government has strengthened in recent years. Interviewees are encouraged by their interviewers to be candid and not to allow their instinctive respect for confidentiality to inhibit a frank description of what it is they have contributed to British diplomacy. They are however assured that what they say will not be published or put into the public domain without their permission or prior FCO clearance.

"The Hollywood Walk of Fame celebrates its 50-year anniversary this week. Although a big block-party-style bash is scheduled for later this summer after some much-needed renovations are complete, the actual construction kickoff happened on February 8, 1960, with the star ceremony taking place the following day. Since Hollywood's celebration is still a few months away, we thought we'd help celebrate the official day in our own meager way - by featuring the WoF in a Q10."

"El Servicio de Seguridad de Ucrania (SSU) ha abierto los archivos de la época soviética al público nacional y extranjero, investigadores o curiosos sin más, que pueden acudir sin trámites a 26 centros de lectura electrónica ubicados en otras tantas ciudades del país."

The French president received a "handbagging" from Lady Thatcher over Britain's funding of Europe within weeks of her entering Downing Street.

A ex-primeira-ministra britânica Margaret Thatcher rejeitou a proteção de uma escolta de 20 mulheres caratecas durante uma cúpula econômica realizada em junho de 1979, em Tóquio, um mês após ganhar suas primeiras eleições gerais. Segundo documentos desclassificados hoje pelos Arquivos Nacionais do Reino Unido, Thatcher, conhecida como a "dama de ferro", queria ser tratada como seus colegas homens.

"Oi, meu nome é Dick Craddock, e sou o Gerente de Programa de Grupo do Windows Live Hotmail. "Gerente de Programa de Grupo" é só um jeito chique de dizer que eu gerencio a equipe de Gerentes de Programa do Hotmail. Nosso trabalho é planejar cada versão do Hotmail e gerenciar essa versão do início ao fim. Nós escolhemos que recursos vão entrar e escrevemos as especificações desses recursos. Também gerenciamos o cronograma e trabalhamos em conjunto com as equipes de Desenvolvimento e Teste, para garantir que o software saia no prazo e tenha qualidade, desempenho, segurança e confiabilidade. Já que este é o primeiro de vários posts sobre o Hotmail que eu planejo fazer nas próximas semanas, eu gostaria de contar um pouco da história do Hotmail - como ele surgiu e como ele mudou, com o passar do tempo. História O Hotmail nasceu em 4 de julho de 1996, criado por uma startup fundada por Sabeer Bhatia e Jack Smith no Vale do Silício. Ele foi um dos primeiríssimos serviços a oferecer email gratuito baseado na web. Originalmente, Hotmail era escrito "HoTMaiL", para enfatizar que ele usava HTML na interface do usuário na web. O Hotmail rapidamente se tornou popular e, no final de 1997, já tinha milhões de usuários. No final de 1997, a Microsoft adquiriu o Hotmail e, posteriormente, o integrou a outra aquisição, o Jump, um serviço de calendários baseado na web. O Hotmail continuou a crescer muito rápido - alcançando dezenas de milhões de usuários em apenas alguns anos. Hoje, o Hotmail já ofereceu mais de um bilhão de caixas de entrada e tem várias centenas de milhares de usuários ativos no mundo."