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Kay Cunningham

BBC - History - British History in depth: British History Timeline - 1 views

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  • Kay Cunningham on 26 Mar 10
     
    Flash and non-Flash timelines of British history
Ed Webb

British have invaded nine out of ten countries - so look out Luxembourg - Telegraph - 9 views

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  • "Other countries could write similar books – but they would be much shorter. I don't think anyone could match this, although the Americans had a later start and have been working hard on it in the twentieth century."
  • The only other nation which has achieved anything approaching the British total, Mr Laycock said, is France – which also holds the unfortunate record for having endured the most British invasions.
  • Mr Laycock added: "One one level, for the British, it is quite amazing and quite humbling, that this is all part of our history, but clearly there are parts of our history that we are less proud of. The book is not intended as any kind of moral judgment on our history or our empire. It is meant as a light-hearted bit of fun." The countries never invaded by the British: Andorra Belarus Bolivia Burundi Central African Republic Chad Congo, Republic of Guatemala Ivory Coast Kyrgyzstan Liechtenstein Luxembourg Mali Marshall Islands Monaco Mongolia Paraguay Sao Tome and Principe Sweden Tajikistan Uzbekistan Vatican City
David Hilton

British History Online - 0 views

www.british-history.ac.uk

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  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    " British History Online British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research." Syas it all, really.
David Hilton

Archives - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    "The collections held in the archives cover modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to economics and social anthropology, and the history of the London School of Economics & Political Science. The material dates mainly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present day."
  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    The collections held in the archives cover modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to economics and social anthropology, and the history of the London School of Economics & Political Science. The material dates mainly from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Kay Cunningham

BBC - History: British History in-depth - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/british

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  • Kay Cunningham on 26 Mar 10
     
    Essays and imagery from the BBC, on British History from the Norman period to the present. Sections include Middle Ages, Tudors, Civil War and Revolution, Empire and Sea Power, Victorian Britain, and more.
Kay Cunningham

Turning the Pages™, the British Library - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 20 Jul 09
     
    How awesome! You can use Adobe Shockwave (it's free) to view these medieval and early modern texts from the British Library. Makes you wonder if one day we'll be able to see this stuff in 3D while sitting at home.
  • Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10
     
    Digital versions of significant manuscripts in the collection of the British Library. Includes Austen Juvenilia, Mercator's first Atlas of Mercator, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, Leonardo's sketch book, Vesalius' anatomy, the original Alice, Blake's notebook, the Lisbon Hebrew Bible, Baybar's Qur'an, and Mozart's musical diary. See "Terms of Use" for permissions. Requires Adobe Shockwave; alternative versions with static images also available.
Eric Beckman

The East India Company: How a trading corporation became an imperial ruler | History Extra - 3 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 19 Feb 17
     
    Magazine article on the British East India Company
David Hilton

Welcome to the RHS Bibliography - 0 views

www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl

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  • David Hilton on 01 Aug 09
     
    "The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London." How nice of them.
  • David Hilton on 01 Aug 09
     
    The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London.
David Hilton

Browse by classification | British History Online - 3 views

www.british-history.ac.uk/browse.aspx

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  • David Hilton on 01 Oct 09
     
    Has a massive and easily searchable bank of primary documents on British history. Quite amazing some of the stuff in there, especially primary documents on that Empire (capital 'E') that the sun was never going to set on... Forgive my impertinent colonial humour. I've got Irish blood.
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

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  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
Kay Cunningham

BBC - History: Ancient History in-depth - 3 views

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    Sections on Egypt, Greece, British prehistory, Rome, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Ancient India, from the BBC. Includes essays, images, etc.
David Hilton

http://www.bsrdigitalcollections.it - 4 views

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  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...
Eric Beckman

"Benefits of British Rule" - 3 views

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    1871 speech by an Indian politician in Britain addressing pros and cons of the British Raj as he sees them
David Hilton

British History Sources - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 06 Jul 09
     
    An excellent collection of sites by those awesome librarians at the University of Washington about British and Irish history. Well-organised and good quality.
Kay Cunningham

Home | The British Newspaper Archive - 8 views

www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

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  • Kay Cunningham on 29 Nov 11
     
    Search historic British newspapers
David Hilton

History Data Service - Great Britain Historical Database Online - 0 views

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  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    "The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. A significant amount of work has gone into integrating the referencing of spatial units, and where practical assembling data for different dates into single tables." You can use it for free, with some limitations on the amount of information you can retrieve. Very valuable though as in my experience it's hard to get a hold of historical statistics.
  • David Hilton on 07 Jul 09
     
    The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of British nineteenth and twentieth-century statistics. A significant amount of work has gone into integrating the referencing of spatial units, and where practical assembling data for different dates into single tables.
David Hilton

A History of the World in 100 objects › The British Museum - 15 views

www.britishmuseum.org/ahistoryoftheworld

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  • David Hilton on 23 Oct 10
     
    This interesting series from the British Museum has an accompanying podcast easily downloadable on iTunes. 
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