This interactive timeline will allow you to explore British Library collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses of everyday life (handbills, posters, letters, diaries), remnants of political events (charters, speeches, campaign leaflets), and the writings of some of our best known historical and literary figures.
A web site from the Great Britain Historical GIS Project which is based at the Dept. of Geography at the University of Portsmouth. Using censuses, maps and other sources it attempts to create an idea of life in Britain over the last 200 years. It is searchable by place name or postcode.
This page, part of Free Oxford DNB, was kindly created for us by Oxford University Press to showcase some famous Lancastrians featured in the Dictionary of National Biography. You can view their stories for free. There all also links to explore other historical figures with links to the Red Rose County and a guide to using the DNB for local history research. Use your Lancashire Library membership login to explore these links.
The online versions of Old Maps of Lancashire were produced by The Environment Directorate's Archaeology Service. Part of the remit of this service is to educate and inform the public about Lancashire's historic environment.
This web site has all the County series first edition 6" to mile Ordnance Survey maps, 1840's to 1890's for the whole country. It is possible to take an A4 print, which comes out quite well, but read the 'Terms and Conditions'
How much was a pound worth in...? This site enables you to calculate relative values and purchasing powers of the pound sterling (and other currencies) across the centuries and look at what people earned in times past.
Keesing's was founded in 1931 with the intention of creating a lasting archive of original, accurate, and objective articles on the world's political, social, and economic events. The free search will produce a lists of articles and the introductory portion of each may be viewed. However, there is a charge to view the full article. Some libraries stock 'hard copies' of back issues of Keesings.
A multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives. An online archive of European culture to which more than 1,000 European national libraries, museums and institutions have contributed content.
Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis. A fully searchable archive of 240,000 manuscripts giving access to 3.35 million names.
Show Me is the children's section of the web site 24 Hour Museum. It provides links to all kinds of stuff for kids. The "Pick a Topic" link provides games to play, stories to read, ideas for stuff to do at home and web links.
A site produced by the Museums, Libraries and Archive Council. It is an online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries.
This 'Maps of War' has a library of animated maps from a variety of sources (including the BBC) featuring the history of war, politics and religion from prehistory to the present day.
Use ViewFinder to find historic photographs of England. The photographs on ViewFinder are all held by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of Historic England dating from the 1850s
Victorian Times is a digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901). Their website covers a range of subjects such as Health, Tansport etc and provides information and digitised copies of original documents for pupils and students at different stages in the education system. All the resources are available without charge.
This 12 lesson tutorial from the National Archives website is a beginners' guide to the Latin used in documents between 1086 and 1733. It is the first online tutorial to help you learn the Latin from this period.
Part of the Woodlands Junior School website these pages have links to life in the war, the role of women, the blackout, the blitz, timelines and loads more.
StoryVault brings oral history and traditional story telling into the digital age. Record and Share your memories and those of your friends and family, whether they are personal and communal or concern events of historical significance. You can view videos of the survivors of many events (World War veterans or Titanic survivors) or upload your own.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, a free fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
This is an independent site produced by Andrew Field, a history teacher from Cambridgeshire. It provides free access to a range of history resources which link in with the academic years and key stages
Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. It is published by the National Archives.