mcchistory

collection of copyright-free images of English sites

The British Pathé site is the first digital news archive available online. Launched in July 2002, and substantially updated in November 2002, it offers access to 3,500 hours of news footage spanning almost a century, from 1896 until 1970, including footage from Pathé's famous bi-weekly newsreel, the Pathe Gazette. Can be viewed with markup to purchase, and embedded with the same ad across the video.

The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent's Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

This site forms part of the larger EuroDocs site, created by Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University. The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. The documents have been chosen on the grounds that they relate to key historical events. The documents linked to on the site include, for example, Ruthwell Cross runic inscriptions, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The Statutes of William the Conqueror, the Magna Carta, The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, Proclamation of Rebellion 1775 and documents from WWI and WWII. The documents are available as transcriptions or facsimiles of the originals.

This is an attempt to collect as many possible early and medieval texts produced in the "Celtic" countries, or on Celtic themes (hence the inclusion of Continental Arthurian works). Some works are actually links off-site; others are provided here at the CLC. I should note that most of the translations are old--often seventy-five years and older. The older the translation, the worse it seems to be, especially the Welsh. However, given the copyright laws, I cannot give anything more recent (or more accurate) without running into trouble. Even if a book is out of print, that doesn't mean its copyright has run out. There are a few exceptions, namely James Clancy's translation of "Y Gododdin", used with the (after-the-fact) permission of his son. The other is Dell Skeel's translation of the Didot Perceval text, from the 1960s; again, I'd like to thank both Mr. Skeel and Thomas Clancy for allowing me to provide these translations to the public.

Huge collection of properly documented artworks, by artist and movement.

has lots of art works as primary sources

Only a few artworks, but properly cited with great commentary.

huge collection of artworks

New way to search the huge archives.

Huge selection of art and objects at the Smithsonian.

archives back to 1851

"Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away -- or back." (2010)