British Studies ‘Gathering Music’

The British Studies ‘Gathering Music’ (pdf 23kb) consists of a series of recordings designed to complement the chronological and thematic trajectory of the lecture series.

Bibliographies

Royal Historical Society Bibliography: www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/

Journal Articles

JSTOR: www.jstor.org

EBSCO: www.ebscohost.com

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: www.oxforddnb.com

Libraries and Archives

Bodleian Library, Oxford: www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley

British Library: www.bl.uk

National Archives: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

National Library of Ireland: www.nli.ie

National Library of Scotland: www.nls.uk

National Library of Wales: www.llgc.org.uk/

Sources: Primary and Secondary

British History Online: www.british-story.ac.uk
A digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.

Googlebooks: www.books.google.com/

Internet Medieval Sourcebook: www.fordham.edu/halsall/Sbook.html

Internet Modern Sourcebook: www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Internet Text Archive: www.archive.org/details/texts

Old Bailey Online: www.oldbaileyonline.org/ 
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913. A searchable edition of the largest texts detailing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.

Records of the Parliament of Scotland: www.rps.ac.uk/  
A fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

World Digital Library: www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/index.html

Academic Societies

British Academy: www.britac.ac.uk

British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies: www.bsecs.org.uk

Caribbean Studies, Black and Asian History: www.casbah.ac.uk

Council for British Archaeology: www.britarch.ac.uk

Harlaxton Medieval Symposium: www.harlaxton.org.uk/

H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Net): www.h-net.org  
Edited lists and associated sites including peer reviewed essays, multimedia and discussion materials.

Institute of Historical Research: www.history.ac.uk

North American Conference on British Studies: www.nacbs.org

Royal Historical Society: www.rhs.ac.uk

Royal Society: www.royalsociety.ac.uk

British Studies Research Centres and University Websites

Center for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley: www.ies.berkeley.edu/cbs/index.html

Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin:  www2.hu-berlin.de/gbz/

Centre for Contemporary British History: www.ccbh.ac.uk/home.php

Centre for Metropolitan History: www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html

Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago: www.british.uchicago.edu/about.html

University of Warwick Eighteenth Century Centre: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/

Yale Center for British Art: www.ycba.yale.edu

Heritage Organisations

Cadw: www.cadw.wales.gov.uk

English Heritage: www.english-heritage.org.uk

Heritage Ireland: www.heritageireland.ie/en/

Historic Scotland: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

National Trust: www.nationaltrust.org.uk

Museums and Galleries

British Museum: www.britishmuseum.org

Historic Royal Palaces www.hrp.org.uk/
Tower of London, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, the Banqueting House and Kew Palace.

Imperial War Museum www.iwm.org.uk/

National Gallery: www.nationalgallery.org.uk

National Portrait Gallery www.npg.org.uk

Royal Armouries: www.royalarmouries.org 
Home to the UK’s national collection of arms and armour, including artillery.

Irish Buildings and Architecture

Architecture of Ireland: www.ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/

Buildings of Ireland: www.buildingsofireland.ie/

Dictionary of Irish Architects: www.dia.ie/