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A detailed historical resource on Victorian-era union workhouses in England, covering what they were, the harsh conditions inside, and specific institutions across the country. Started in 1998 as one of the first online references on the subject, the site includes a reading list, poetry, and information on individual workhouses from Sheffield to Somerset.

Published by Peter Damerow and Jürgen Renn of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, this page presents an electronic representation of Galileo's complete handwritten notes on motion and mechanics spanning roughly 30 years of his career. The project digitizes approximately 200 loose manuscript sheets tracing the transition from Aristotelian to classical physics, making them accessible as a collaborative research environment for historians of science.

A site dedicated to the history and culture of Manchester, offering a local perspective on one of England's most storied cities. The focus on historical content makes it a useful reference for anyone researching Manchester's past and community heritage.

Ray shares firsthand accounts and witnessed tales from his time serving in the British Army, covering training, exercises, vehicles, NBC drills, and unexploded ordnance incidents. The collection of military anecdotes is presented with personal commentary, making it a candid and entertaining look at life in HM Forces.

The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America is a hereditary lineage society founded in 1911, dedicated to researching and preserving the history of patroonships, seigneuries, and manors in Colonial North America. Membership is by invitation only, open to descendants of recognized Patroons, Seigneurs, or Lords of Manors from New Netherland, colonial New York, Maryland, and New France.

Created by Jeffrey L. Thomas in 1996, The Castles of Wales is a comprehensive reference covering over 400 Welsh castles with high-quality photographs, historical essays, and profiles of the principal castle builders. Celebrating 30 years online, it features both famous fortifications like Chepstow and Beaumaris alongside lesser-known gems, contributed by historians, published authors, and castle enthusiasts alike.

The Digital Library on American Slavery, hosted at UNC Greensboro, is a centralized scholarly database compiling tens of thousands of primary source documents related to enslavement in the American South, including bills of sale, runaway slave notices, legislative petitions, and trans-Atlantic slave trade records. With over 200,000 named individuals searchable by name, keyword, and state, it serves as an indispensable research tool for historians, genealogists, and anyone studying the history of American slavery.

This is a digitized academic thesis by Sigrid Dehaeck, submitted to Ghent University in 1998-1999, examining food consumption in medieval Bruges between 1280 and 1470 through case studies of the Sint-Janshospitaal and the Potterie hospital. The work covers grain sources, dietary patterns, hospital accounting records, and comparisons between patient, staff, and military food rations, making it a rare window into late medieval Flemish nutrition and institutional life.

A scholarly reference on Anglo-Norman personal names from medieval England, tracing naming trends from the Norman Conquest through the fourteenth century with detailed lists of male and female names. Written by Susan Carroll-Clark, this page challenges the assumption that medieval naming was limited, offering rich historical context alongside Gothic and Carolingian name tables.

Run by Phil Gyford, this site publishes Samuel Pepys' famous 17th-century London diary one entry per day, exactly as it was written, complete with reader annotations, an encyclopedia, letters, maps, and a family tree. It's an extraordinarily rich resource for anyone interested in Restoration-era England, offering years of daily entries alongside community discussion and in-depth articles.