Kay Cunningham's List: History

'The University of Virginia Law Library provides a new portal to investigate the IMTFE through the Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., Tokyo War Crimes Trial Collection. Over 20,000 pages housed in 26 boxes comprise this archive of Tavenner’s personal papers regarding the International Prosecution Section (IPS) of the IMTFE. Charged with prosecuting 28 accused Japanese individuals, the IPS carefully constructed legal arguments to prove war criminal acts. Tavenner, serving as the Acting Chief Prosecutor during the time Joseph B. Keenan was in the United States, acted as a leader in the development of the prosecution’s case.'

'Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War – a substantial digital collection of material from national library collections of ten libraries and other partners in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict.'

'Our aim is to locate, document, digitise, and provide access to all archival materials related to Nelson Mandela.'

press release announcing 'a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past, revolutionising our understanding of London’s history '

'a transcultural history of Europe on the Internet. The project investigates processes of intercultural exchange in European history whose impact extended beyond state, national and cultural borders. EGO describes Europe as a constantly changing communicative space which witnessed extremely varied processes of interaction, circulation, overlapping and entanglement, of exchange and transfer, but also confrontation, resistance and demarcation.'

'Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and combining King’s College London’s Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities with The National Archives and Canterbury Christ Church University, The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is a unique and pioneering enterprise which democratises the rolls by making them freely available in English translation with a sophisticated electronic search engine, the first medieval source to be treated in this way.'

'collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment.'

data drawn from data historical maps, census records, descriptive gazetteers, and election results

'an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to digitised primary sources on the history of Europe. The websites listed on EHPS are not only meta-sources but also include invented archives and born digital sources.'

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

'View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $1.97 (Consumer); $30 (Pro).

'"The Twitter digital archive has extraordinary potential for research into our contemporary way of life," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "This information provides detailed evidence about how technology-based social networks form and evolve over time. The collection also documents a remarkable range of social trends. Anyone who wants to understand how an ever-broadening public is using social media to engage in an ongoing debate regarding social and cultural issues will have need of this material.”'

Information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages

'These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.'

"Once the economy begins to recover, which may take much longer than people expect, we'll face the real challenge: sustaining the expanded public investment as a centerpiece of the new economy we build out of the collapse of the old."\n\nBy Robert L. Borosa

"As you'll see, on that latter issue, Fox News is starting its campaign to stop Obama's big spending plan by stating - as assumed fact - that "historians pretty much agree" that Franklin Roosevelt prolonged the Great Depression, and that therefore, Obama

'This exhibition ran in early 2004. The title comes from the expression popularly given in the 17th century to the ecclesiastical courts, which were seen to focus particularly on the moral lapses of ordinary people. '

Flash and non-Flash timelines of British history

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.