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Ed Webb

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

  • "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
Kay Cunningham

The British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - 4 views

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    Search for and view images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library. Detailed descriptions and bibliographies also included for each image. "Images can be accessed, printed and downloaded in unaltered form with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal study"--See the British Library's copyright notice for more details.
Kay Cunningham

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

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    Flash and non-Flash timelines of British history
Kay Cunningham

Turning the Pages™, the British Library - 0 views

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    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.
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    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.
David Hilton

British History Online - 0 views

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    " 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.
TK Sand

Maps from British Atlantic, American Frontier, Canadian-American Center - 5 views

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    Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It covers in detail not only the American eastern seaboard, but also eastern Canada and the West Indies, as well as the trans-Atlantic links to Western Europe and West Africa.
Rob Jacklin

Print Story: British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs - Yahoo! News - 4 views

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    "British spy files shed light on Nazi saboteurs"
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    Declassified British intelligence files describe how the men were part of Nazi sabotage teams sent to the U.S. in June 1942 to undermine the American war effort
Kay Cunningham

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

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    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.
Eric Beckman

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

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    Magazine article on the British East India Company
Kay Cunningham

Home | The British Newspaper Archive - 8 views

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    Search historic British newspapers
David Hilton

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

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    "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.
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    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

Archives - 1 views

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    "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."
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    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

Welcome to the RHS Bibliography - 0 views

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    "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.
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    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

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    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.
David Hilton

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

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

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

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    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."
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    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...
HistoryGrl14 .

Harry Potter British/American text comparison - 15 views

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    Probably kind of out there, but if you teach AP Human Geography and need a current visual for comparing British to American English for the "Language" chapter - this site has a comparison of the British and American Versions of the first Harry Potter novel (so it's current for the kids and something they have a connection to)
Kay Cunningham

British Newspapers - Home - 5 views

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    Online index to British newspapers of the 19th century. Includes 49 local and national titles.
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
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