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A great site; giving a very large number of database links which do not necessarily show up on a standard google or yahoo search (because they're databases). It also indicates which databases are pay-to-view/subscription. Some of the links, however, seem to be dead - and each database will need to be searched independently once you are there, obviously.

"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.

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.

Many databases from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Includes Trademark Electronic Search System with 3 million+ pending, registered, and dead federal trademarks; electronic Official Trademark Gazette, available for the most recent 5 weeks; electronic Official Patent Gazette, available for the most recent 52 weeks; online Manual of Patent Classification; Patent Full-text and Full Page Image Database: page images, 1790- (searchable only by classification or patent number); full-text, 1976- (fully searchable).

"The database currently contains details of over 4,400 different aerial propaganda leaflets and other PSYOP printed product from WWI to the present day. It is very much work-in-progress and is constantly updated with new illustrations, data, and English translations." Cool!

The database currently contains details of over 4,400 different aerial propaganda leaflets and other PSYOP printed product from WWI to the present day. It is very much work-in-progress and is constantly updated with new illustrations, data, and English translations.

Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database.

"Fire destroyed the office of the War Department and all its files in 1800, and for decades historians believed that the collection, and the window it provided into the workings of the early federal government, was lost forever. Thanks to a decade-long effort to retrieve copies of the files scattered in archives across the country, the collection has been reconstituted and is offered here as a fully-searchable digital database." Isn't that cool?

A searchable database of full-text periodicals from the C18th and C19th US.

Accessible Archives © was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy

"This website is an illustrated searchable online catalog of historical information viewed through the filter of roadside and other permanent outdoor markers, monuments, and plaques. It contains photographs, inscription transcriptions, marker locations, maps, additional information and commentary, and links to more information. Anyone can add new markers to the database and update existing marker pages with new photographs, links, information and commentary."

The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.

"The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."

As requested by David - here's the medieval manuscript database link for Syracuse University...

Thanks mate.

A database with descriptions of women's history collections from museums, libraries and archives in the United Kingdom

I just had a look at the month-long free trial and this looks like a great resource for lessons or student research on history and geography. I'm waiting to receive a quote on how much an annual subscription costs. Subscriptions like this, I believe, can become excellent substitutes for textbooks.

My school has I believe all the ABC-CLIO Databases and I recommend them highly. They come out of our library budget. All teachers should at least try a free trial.

The online collection from the Australian War Memorial.

A site maintained by a bloke called Peter Chen whose hobby is collecting images and sources on World War II. What a legend!

A thorough and growing database on aspects of World War II.

'The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.'

Might be useful for lesson activities or research practice.

"The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd), launched in 1999 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century.

Contains a wealth of information on the local level of Church operations in England from the period.

'Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.'

This is where the age of hyperdata is going. This map allows users to scroll through the city and zoom in on building. Clicking on a building will give detailed data of the builder, size and history. Civil War buffs can look for Mary Surratt's boarding house or the "F" street mess of southern senators. Or the Watergate hotel - the list goes on and on.

This is where the age of hyperdata is going. This map allows users to scroll through the city and zoom in on building. Clicking on a building will give detailed data of the builder, size and history. Civil War buffs can look for Mary Surratt's boarding house or the "F" street mess of southern senators. Or the Watergate hotel - the list goes on and on.

Thanks for this site, Nate. Excellent resource for a historical investigation into the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages

Over 125 free history games.

A database of archaeological sites in the UK.