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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.
Deven Black

The Battle of Britain - Overview - 6 views

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    The Battle of Britain from the UK's Imperial War Museum
David Hilton

Flickr: Wessex Archaeology's Photostream - 0 views

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    This photostream from flickr is maintained by Wessex Archaeology in Britain. It contains images of their excavations and the artefacts they've recovered. Useful for investigations of pre-modern Britain, I would imagine.
David Hilton

History of Britain - 13 views

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    Interesting little interactive map of Britain. 
Ed Webb

Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes | UK news | The Guardian - 8 views

  • The documents show that colonial officials were instructed to separate those papers to be left in place after independence – usually known as "Legacy files" – from those that were to be selected for destruction or removal to the UK. In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W.
  • The documents show that colonial officials were instructed to separate those papers to be left in place after independence – usually known as "Legacy files" – from those that were to be selected for destruction or removal to the UK. In many colonies, these were described as watch files, and stamped with a red letter W.
  • As independence grew closer, large caches of files were removed from colonial ministries to governors' offices, where new safes were installed.In Uganda, the process was codenamed Operation Legacy. In Kenya, a vetting process, described as "a thorough purge", was overseen by colonial Special Branch officers.
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  • Clear instructions were issued that no Africans were to be involved: only an individual who was "a servant of the Kenya government who is a British subject of European descent" could participate in the purge.
  • Many of the watch files ended up at Hanslope Park. They came from 37 different former colonies, and filled 200 metres of shelving. But it is becoming clear that much of the most damning material was probably destroyed. Officials in some colonies, such as Kenya, were told that there should be a presumption in favour of disposal of documents rather than removal to the UK – "emphasis is placed upon destruction" – and that no trace of either the documents or their incineration should remain.
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    They say this was one of the major differences between the British and French handling of withdrawal from empire - not only criminal records, but historical and legal documents of many kinds.
David Korfhage

Spinning the Web - 16 views

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    A site on the history of the industrial revolution in Britain.  Includes activities and primary sources.
David Hilton

Wessex Archaeology - 0 views

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    This site is quite specialised but if you're doing research or looking for resources on archaeology in prehistoric, ancient or medieval Britain then this is the place for you. Lots of neat images - they have a link to their photostream on flickr.
Brian Peoples

A Vision of Britain through Time | Your national on-line library for local history | Ma... - 5 views

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    An excellent collection of historical maps, statistics and descriptions of British locales back in those old glory days when they still had an empire.
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    A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
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    data drawn from data historical maps, census records, descriptive gazetteers, and election results
David Hilton

HISTPOP.ORG - Home - 0 views

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    The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937. The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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.
David Hilton

Vindolanda Tablets Online | Welcome - 0 views

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    Black-and-white images of the writing tablets from Vindolanda, in Roman Britain. Contains translations and descriptions.
Mr Stacey

Secret Britain - Today's Story - 4 views

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    extracts from 'Secret Britain' - available as text and audio
David Hilton

Heritage Explorer - Images By Theme - 2 views

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    A collection of images maintained by English Heritage. They cover Britain across the ancient, medieval and modern periods and are arranged by themes.
Eric Beckman

'But what about the railways ...?' ​​The myth of Britain's gifts to India | W... - 2 views

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    Describes the many ways in which Britain impoverished and divided India
Kay Cunningham

Calisphere - JARDA - 2 views

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    'On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States.'
David Hilton

Internet Mission Photography Archive - 0 views

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    A valuable collection for a sad, complex issue.
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    The Internet Mission Photography Archive offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean
David Hilton

Archaeology in Europe Educational Resources - 0 views

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    Has some small excerpts from medieval texts with accompanying translation and explanation. Not a whole lot there (unless you pay for premium access...) but would be useful for student research into medieval Britain/Constantinople/Vikings). Some pretty images for classroom resources there, too.
David Hilton

Romans in Sussex - 0 views

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    A database maintained by the Sussex Archaeological Society of Roman artefacts found in Sussex. Has a good search function.
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