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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."

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.

"WikiArc is intended as an online toolkit for professionals, students and other people interested in the fields of archaeology, classical antiquity, palaeoanthropology, forensic anthropology, cultural heritage studies, and Quaternary sciences."

Has a searchable database of open-access journals to do with archaeology, anthropology and ancient history.

Contains historical sources and images as well as geographic and anthropologic information on all the regions of the world. The search function is tailored more for someone interested in anthropology, however the results contain many historical sources.

This is the anthropological artfefacts databast at the Smithsonian Museum. Seems to especially cover the Americas and Egypt, although probably has stuff from all over the place and you'd expect it to be well-organised. Over 2 million artefacts.

'A decade after Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness first depicted the mysteries and agonies of the area, Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the northeastern Belgian Congo. They knew they were launching an extraordinary adventure, but they could not have imagined what those years would hold. By the time they sailed home five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day'

"The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers."

This site may require membership yet seems to have some free stuff. Good for anything related to archaeology.

A secondary source which might be good for initial student research or for a teacher reading up on something outside their main areas of expertise (which as we all know is not uncommon...).