Society & Culture
883 sites
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- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
http://furniturestyles.net/european/english/thomas-sheraton.html
FurnitureStyles.net offers a detailed biography of Thomas Sheraton, the celebrated 18th-century English furniture designer whose neoclassical style rivaled that of Chippendale and Hepplewhite. Part of a larger reference site covering European furniture history, this page traces Sheraton's life from his humble origins in Stockton-on-Tees to his lasting influence on the Golden Age of English cabinet-making.
https://toriii.neocities.org/
Tori's Corner is the personal homepage of Tori Alex Hall, a self-described queer and trans space built mostly from scratch with custom navigation and a chatbox for visitors. The site features a microblog, webrings, and a welcoming community feel, though it has been deprecated in favor of a newer project.
https://union.nj.genwebs.org/communities/plainfield
Part of the NJGenWeb project, this page focuses on genealogical resources for Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, including cemetery listings, historical newspapers, church records, and local history collections. Volunteer coordinator Leilani Cummings maintains this community hub for researchers tracing family roots in the Plainfield area.
https://2010s.neocities.org/
A personal Neocities site dedicated to 2010s nostalgia, featuring shrines for artists like Frank Ocean and Panchiko, film dedications like Ginger Snaps, and opinion pages. The webmaster is actively building out a cozy corner of the old web with themed pages and coding experiments.
https://members.tripod.com/~do_you_believe/links.html
A curated links page from the early web era, gathering resources around paranormal topics, mystical and angelic content, poetry, and senior-friendly sites. Notable listings include ghost and haunting pages, mystical and magical home pages, and angel story collections, giving the directory a distinctly spiritual and paranormal flavor.
https://lsr-projekt.de/poly/en.html
Created by Bernd A. Laska, this paraphilosophical project explores the lives and ideas of three Enlightenment thinkers: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Max Stirner, and Wilhelm Reich, presenting them as visionary dissidents ahead of their time. The site offers extensive bibliographies, essays, and multilingual surveys covering topics like Stirner's radical individualism, Reich's sexology, and La Mettrie's materialist philosophy.
http://openhymnal.org/
The Open Hymnal Project is a freely distributable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music available for download as PDFs, MIDI files, MP3s, and ABC Plus source files. With multiple seasonal editions including Christmas, Lent/Easter, and a Visitation Edition designed for bringing music to the sick, this is a remarkable labor of love for congregations and musicians seeking open-source hymnody.
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
The Roman Provincial Coinage (RPC) project is an authoritative academic database cataloguing over 71,000 coin types minted in the provinces of the Roman Empire, published jointly by the British Museum Press and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Hosted by the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, it offers searchable records by magistrate, city, countermark, and ruler, making it an essential reference for numismatists, historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists studying ancient Rome.
https://zephyrscoolweb-site.nekoweb.org/home.html
Zephyr's personal homepage on Nekoweb features a Windows XP aesthetic complete with installation music and dialog box imagery, reflecting the old-web revival style. The creator shares their pronouns, anarcho-pacifist identity, and colorful personality in a minimalist but charming retro-web format.
https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/
Discovering Bristol is an educational online resource exploring the port city's rich and complex history, with deep focus on Bristol's role in the transatlantic slave trade and its remarkable collection of Chinese glass artifacts. Part of the PortCities network, it offers timelines, glossaries, learning journeys, and exhibition information tied to Bristol's museums and galleries.