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Centred mainly on British and European history in the C20th. Quite a few podcasts there on medicine in the C20th.

A group of digital collections focussing mainly on audio recordings from the C20th, medieval manuscripts & images, pamphlets & drawings, photos and songs from World War II.

A collection of documents for American history C18 to the C20th, provided by the Library of Congress.

A collection of primary source materials on some of the key decisions of the C20th & C21st. Also contains information on voting records and also humanitarian records.

Has some very large files containing images and documents related to medical history in the US in C19th and C20th.

A collection of photos of child labour in the USA, mainly I think in the C19th and early C20th.

Set of collections focussing mainly on US and Ohio history in the C20th.

"The twentieth century has been a century of war. It began with the Boer War in South Africa and ended with the Gulf War in Kuwait and Iraq. This tragic legacy suggests that citizens of the twenty-first century have a shared responsibility to attempt to understand how and why these conflicts occurred and to discover how peace efforts contributed to the resolution of international conflicts. "

Primary sources devoted to helping people understand why the C20th was a time of such visceral conflict. If you believe Niall Ferguson it had to do with ethnic diversity in regions of deteriorating economic conditions and declining imperial control. My high school history teacher reckoned it was ideologies. Many of you will no doubt have other ideas...

Collections focussing mainly on medieval and early C20th European history in the US and Europe.

* Lawrence Royal & Cabinet Collections The Lawrence Collection consists of 40,000 glass plate negatives from 1870-1914. The images were produced commercially and capture topographical scenes of that period throughout Ireland. The entire Lawrence Royal collection (10,784 plates) and part of the Lawrence Cabinet collection (2,040 plates) are available here to view online. * Poole Whole Plate Collection The Poole collection comprises 65,000 glass plate negatives and was created by the family firm of A.H. Poole in Waterford between 1884-1954. The majority of images in the collection are studio portraits but the Poole Whole Plate subset which consists of 5,119 images, reflects the diversity of the collection with studio portraits, social and political events and also images of architecture and industry in the south east of Ireland. * Independent H Collection The Independent Newspaper collection of some 300,000 images, is made up of glass plates, plastic negatives and a small number of prints. The Independent H collection is a subset of the collection and contains 3,250 glass plates negatives dating from 1912-1936. It provides a record of many aspects of 20th century Irish life, and is particularly strong in the coverage of politics and sport in Ireland.

A wide collection of images and documents (mainly newspapers, I think) on Irish life in the C19th and C20th.

How cool! The New York Times is putting historical issues of their paper online. They are still in the process of digitising them, but they already have the Civil War and some early C20th stuff on there.

Great documents...even includes recipes from the war!!! Could be fun to make some with the substitutes suggested during war to save Sugar and discuss rationing!

"Cartoonist for a Day"

Visualising China- Archive of 8000 photographs from China's history

You can purchase Punch cartoons.

Self-explanatory, really.

Fantastic Resource for teaching units on Nazi Germany

Put together by the HTAA. Great for Australian history teachers.