Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://workhouses.org.uk/
Peter Higginbotham's exhaustive reference site chronicles the history of the British workhouse system, covering Poor Laws from 1601 through the end of the workhouse era with detailed entries on hundreds of individual Poor Law Unions across England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Visitors will find full texts of historic legislation, location guides, photographs, records of workhouse life, and deeply researched articles on topics ranging from bastardy laws to oakum picking.
https://scourgescloset.neocities.org/
A personal page belonging to someone who participated in the selfship webring, a community centered around the hobby of self-shipping with fictional characters. The site is image-heavy and minimal in text, giving it the feel of a small personal corner of the old web.
https://yourghoststories.com/
Your Ghost Stories is a community-driven archive where visitors submit and read firsthand accounts of paranormal encounters, hauntings, and ghost sightings from around the world. The site features famous haunting profiles, paranormal investigator directories, ghost tour listings, and a rich archive of user-submitted experiences dating back to 2006.
http://onlinedirectorysite.blogspot.com/
Miriam Robbins runs this genealogy blog dedicated to historical city directories as a research tool for tracing ancestors across the United States and beyond. Posts cover topics like using the Green Book to research African-American roots, finding rural ancestors in small-town directories, and navigating digitized resources by state and province.
http://evprecording.blogspot.com/
Run by RegManabq, this blog chronicles one person's hands-on investigations into Electronic Voice Phenomenon, the practice of recording supposed ghost voices as explored in the film White Noise. Posts cover EVP recordings, community members like Darren Blanchard's EVP Society, and discussions around the ethics and methods of paranormal audio research.
https://charophyte.neocities.org/
Aegann/Ash's personal selfship site documents their long-running self-shipping practice with characters from JJBA, Dorohedoro, Steven Universe, and Hades 2, complete with custom self-insert personas for each pairing. A niche corner of the internet dedicated to the selfship community, with plans for expanded character pages and a connected art gallery.
https://bdsweb.tripod.com/ru/index.htm
BDSвеб is a comprehensive Russian-language resource dedicated to the Dutch rationalist philosopher Baruch Spinoza, offering full texts of his major works in Latin, Russian, English, German, and French. The site includes translations of the Ethics, Tractatus Politicus, and other writings, alongside encyclopedic articles, research on Spinoza's philosophical system, a bibliography, and links to Spinoza societies.
https://soapbubbleseal.net/
Elly, aka soapbubbleseal, is a married adult living in Japan who documents her eclectic passions including lolita fashion, 2000s electronics, Japanese collector dolls, model kits, and fiber crafts. The site is a lovingly maintained personal corner of the web with dedicated pages for lolita wardrobes and coordinates, Pokemon, Sylvanian Families, a minidisc gallery, and even an archival section for Angelic Pretty store flyers.
https://calculatingempires.net/
Calculating Empires is a sweeping large-scale research visualization by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler tracing how technology and power have co-evolved since 1500, spanning topics from computation and surveillance to colonialism and military systems. The interactive map invites deep exploration of the interconnected genealogies of technical and social structures across five centuries, making it a remarkable scholarly artifact for anyone interested in the history of technology and empire.
https://tilde.club/~ben
Ben is one of the admins of tilde.club and founder of tilde.team, sharing his involvement in the tilde community and its revival as a collaborative internet experiment. The page reflects the old-web tilde culture ethos, with links to the tildeverse zine and notes on building sites from markdown source.