History

General resources

• History Lab (Institute of Historical Research)
  A current awareness network for postgraduate students and new researchers in history and related disciplines. Membership is free for postgraduate students
• History Online (Institute of Historical Research)
  Includes details of lecturers, digital history projects, new books and journals, and current and past research (theses). Users can cross-search or browse all the above categories.
• Historiography of world history
  Provides access to a variety of different types of material relating to historiography, mainly concentrating on collecting debates from e-mail lists, but also has press reports, bibliographies and essays written by the creator of the website
• Making sense of oral history
  An interactive guide from the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (City University, New York) that explains how to use oral history interviews
• Political discourse: theories of colonialism and postcolonialism
  Part of a larger web site dealing with English postcolonial and post-imperial literature. This is a useful reference guide for those studying post colonialism and imperial history.
• Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research)
  Searchable collection of book reviews on recent publications in all fields of history by academics or specialists in the field. Links to book reviews in other digital media.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
  Portal to websites, document collections and other information sources on Asia, Africa
• Photorientalist
  Showcases 19th and early 20th century photography from across the Middle East and North Africa in a selection of themed "exhibitions" - includes glass lantern slides, stereo-views, postcards and other photographic formats, and the RetroFocus blog on related themes