Suggestions for additional links should be sent to the Web Editor.

Please note that some of these resources are subscription-based, and will be restricted to members of the University of Oxford. See also Other libraries of use to Historians.

For those new to the Web, The Internet for Historians is a tutorial for History students and academics, built by Humanities Computing Unit, an excellent introduction to on-line resources.

• Oxford Libraries' electronic resources (including OLIS, OxLIP)
• Oxford English Dictionary

History Gateways

• BUBL Information Service
• HUMBUL Humanities Hub: History
• Institute of Historical Research
• The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• NISS
• OxLIP on the web
• The Virtual Library
• WWW-VL History

Teaching and Learning

• History Courseware Consortium
• Institute for the Advancement of University Learning
• The Subject Centre for History, Archaeology and Classics

Oxford Research Centres, Projects and Clusters

• History Faculty Research
• Centre for International Studies

Other research information

• Theses completed and in progress in the UK
• University Research Services Office

Archives

• British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
• The National Archives
• Public Record Office
• International Archival Resources on the Internet

On-line Texts

• History Sourcebooks Project
• The Online Books Page - a huge collection of free on-line texts and text indexes
• Athena - a large collection of texts from Ancient Greece to the present, with a French/Swiss emphasis.
• Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
• History Sourcebooks Project
• Project Gutenberg - An extensive on-line collection of texts.
• Western European Literature
• Bibliotheca Augustana Latin

Bibliographical Resources

• Zetoc Electronic Table of Contents from the British Library. Requires an Athens username.

Details of the Athens scheme; How to get an Athens password from OUCS

• Dissertation Abstracts, guests have access to last two years, fully searchable.
• Web of Science

Journals

• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• Electronic journals available at Oxford

Museums

• The British Museum
• The Louvre

Image archives

• National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• Images of England (England's listed buildings)
• EuroGallery (European on-line image databases)
• The Grove Dictionary of Art

Maps

• Great Britain Historical GIS Programme
• John R. Borchert Map Library
• Renaissance maps, 1500-1700
• The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Bodleian Library Map Room Links
• Greenwood's map of London 1827
• Historical and cultural atlas
• Reynolds's map of London divided into quarter mile sections (1857)
• Virtual Library: History Maps

Genealogical resources

• Genuki
• FamilySearch
• Familia: Family History Resources in Public Libraries in Britain & Ireland

Computing Resources

• Arts and Humanities Data Service
• The Data Archive
• Oxford Text Archive

Professional Associations for historians

• The British Academy
• The Historical Association
• Royal Historical Society

Funding Bodies

• University Research Services Office
• Arts and Humanities Research Board
• The British Academy
• Economic and Social Research Council
• The Leverhulme Trust
• Association of Theological Schools (American-orientated list of grants)

Government Departments and Higher Education Regulatory Bodies

• Department for Education and Employment
• Higher Education Funding Council
• The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

Finding Other History Departments

• UK Universities
• University of Wolverhampton UK Sensitive Maps
• Center for History and New Media: Finding History Departments Around the World

Finding Other Historians

• Teachers of history in the UK
• Meta Email Search Agent (Mesa) - search for email addresses

Public History

• English Heritage
• History Today
• National Trust
• BBC On-Line

News, on-line groups and societies

• History News Service - an informal network of historians devoted to informing the public about developments in the discipline.
• The Local-history Jiscmail List - an active mailing list, promoted by the British Association for Local History
• H-Net - is an information and discussion centre for humanities and social science scholars, hosted by Michigan State University
• The Scholarly Societies Project - a searchable catalogue of Web pages by and for scholarly societies
• Mailbase - electronic discussion lists for the UK higher education and research community

Academic Vacancies

• Jobs.ac.uk
• Vacancies at Oxford University

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