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David Hilton

Victorian Social History: An Overview - 0 views

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    This site is maintained by a professor at some university or other. It's essentially just a massive collection of articles on the Victorian period. Would be useful for student (or teacher?? research on the topic. Seems comprehensive. Couldn't find any primary sources there.
David Hilton

The Victorian Web: An Overview - 1 views

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    An enormous amount of sources on a wide variety of everything to do with the Victorian period.
melanie Hurd

The Victorian Period - Musée McCord Museum - 0 views

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    Fun Victorian life simulation
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

Charles Booth Online Archive - 0 views

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    An online archive of the survey into poverty and work in Victorian London done by Charles Booth. Has maps and documents and other stuff.
David Hilton

PROVcommunity - promoting research using records from the Victorian state archives - 5 views

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    A Ning set up by someone at the Victorian State Archives. Definitely worth a look for anyone teaching history in Australia, I reckon.
Ed Webb

Tesla's Revenge: Filmmakers Kickstart Electrifying Docudrama About Cult Genius | Underw... - 3 views

  • The movie will feature dramatic re-enactments, interviews, vintage film sequences and archival photographs filmed in slow-panning “Ken Burns style,” according to project rep Zach Taiji. Kickstarter funders can snag cool swag including Nikola Tesla action figures.
  • David Bowie’s portrayal of Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s Victorian-era science thriller The Prestige will be hard to beat, and God only knows what it’ll look like if Christian Bale decides to portray Tesla in Tesla, Ruler of the World, now in discussions.
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    History of science is hip!
Kay Bear

Mobile Museum Service - 6 views

I am conducting some general Market Research in relation to launching a new National mobile Museum Service that will provide a dynamic and flexible on-line and remotely accessible Museum service to...

started by Kay Bear on 15 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
David Hilton

Yale University Library - The Map Collection / Online Maps - 1 views

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    A collection of online maps provided by Yale University Library. It seems it might require a plug-in to view them. It seems they are in the process of digitising even further so the collection should grow.
David Hilton

Boothºs 1889 London Poverty Map - 0 views

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    An interesting site. Someone has scanned in Charles Booth's 1889 map showing London poverty. You can zoom in to street level and see which are vicious, poor areas and which are stable, middle-class ones. Fascinating.
Van Weringh

Skills:History - 2 views

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    Thanks for this one Jess. It's a guide on history writing provided for Victorian high school students.
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    Links to essay writing resources, info about formulating research questions, specific to History
David Hilton

Mercurius Politicus - 0 views

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    This blog is devoted to the early modern period and seems to have some interesting links to primary sources.
David Hilton

All virtual books - 1 views

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    Good quality images and text from items held at the British Library. Great for research.
David Hilton

Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court - 1 views

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    This is a record of the proceedings of the Old Bailey in London from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. Very useful for a study of poverty and crime in Britain during the Empire or even the convicts that every single Australian believes they are descended from.
David Hilton

CCEd: Home - 1 views

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