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An excellent collection of sites useful for Medieval research. Has plenty of primary source sites.

There's a lot of rubbish on this site but some good stuff too if you're patient. This fella has some quality powerpoints for use in the classroom; I've found the Flow of History powerpoints better but still use these sometimes. Not sure if you can download them.

This is the modern history sourcebook. Just as good as the medieval and ancient, it's a must for anyone researching the modern period. Excellent collection and wonderfully organised.

Collection of primary sources on the c18th.

Contains a few useful links and is often updated so will just get better and better! (Please forgive my cheerfulness - holidays just started).

Contains an extensive collection of primary documents primarily relating to American political history. An excellent resource for US history.

Pretty self-explanatory, really.

Massive number of history sites.

2292 sources of C19th wisdom. That's a good question for the forum - can we learn from history? I might start a thread... I really need a life.

Got sick of looking at this site in my tabs. I'll go back and add them individually. One day. There are nearly 2000 sites there related to medieval history. Guess someone had no life...

I'm being lazy. I've been going through and saving these sites individually but I'm sick of looking at them. I'll come back later and finish the job. There are heaps of sites there on ancient history.

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."

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...

"The LBC/IRN Audio Archive, (London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive) consists of 7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in a collection that runs from 1973 to the mid-1990s. It is the most important commercial radio archive in the UK and provides a unique audio history of the period. This digitised collection focuses on the most noteworthy content - approximately 3,000 hours of recordings relating to news and current affairs. The digitised archive contains invaluable recordings of a wide range of broadcasts including coverage of the Falklands war, the miners' strike, Northern Ireland, the whole of the Thatcher period of government and recordings of the first hour of UK commercial radio including the first commercial radio news bulletin."

You can only listen if you are part of a tertiary institution which has a paid subscription through the Athens ID system (v. annoying!) however you're able to read the transcripts for free.

Very cool! You can download free audiobooks (and for once not all of them are C19th originals; some are quite recent) in a format that plays through iTunes and on your iPod/iPhone. For those of us who use iTunes to get our podcasts/lectures/etc this is good news indeed!

Enormous number of links to portraits in the UK National Portrait Gallery.

This is the site of a textbook and lesson material company based in the UK.