Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm
Malcolm Austen, an IT staff member at Oxford University, dedicates a significant portion of his homepage to his deep involvement in genealogy, including maintaining GenUKI pages for Kent and Oxfordshire and serving in leadership roles for multiple family history societies. His interests extend to Scottish dancing, Morris dancing, and amateur radio, but genealogy clearly dominates the page with extensive links to societies and resources.
https://markmarijnissen.com/
Mark Marijnissen's personal blog and zettelkasten covers his work in leadership and organizational development, bioregional action research, compassionate communication, and visual facilitation. The site serves as a hub connecting his multiple professional projects and offers articles, topics, and interconnected ideas for those interested in sustainability, inner work, and systemic change.
https://phocks.org/stumble/creepy
A curated list of 136 unsettling Wikipedia articles spanning urban legends, historical atrocities, medical oddities, mysterious phenomena, and strange deaths. Compiled by phocks, this page serves as a rabbit-hole guide for anyone who enjoys the darker and stranger corners of human knowledge.
http://horus.mafdet.com/
A fanlisting dedicated to Horus, the ancient Egyptian sky god, listed under the Mythology/Religion category at The Fanlistings network. Owned by Carol and opened in 2009, it invites fans of this iconic deity to join a growing community of members.
http://simister.shibbs.co.uk/
Created by Edith Oughton, this site paints a vivid picture of life in the English village of Simister during the 1920s and 1930s, covering everyday characters, local trades, farms, and community events. Featuring sections on school days, Whitsun parades, pub life, and farm life, it preserves a slice of rural Lancashire history through personal storytelling and period imagery.
https://mally.stanford.edu/frege.html
Hosted on Stanford's servers and authored by Edward N. Zalta, this reference page documents the life, principal works, and secondary literature of the influential German philosopher and logician Gottlob Frege (1848-1925). It serves as a concise scholarly gateway to Frege's foundational contributions to logic, mathematics, and the philosophy of language, with links to related Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries.
http://givinggladly.com/
Julia Wise's blog explores effective altruism, charitable giving, and the ethics of balancing personal life with pursuing global impact. Posts range from practical giving advice and GiveWell recommendations to thoughtful reflections on how to live a values-driven life without burning out.
https://cult.ist/
Cult.ist presents itself as 'the web's last sanctuary,' a moody, esoteric personal site with articles, an archive, and a guestbook that leans into themes of impermanence and digital mysticism. The Latin meta description ('remember you will die, for you are dust and to dust you shall return') and keywords like 'enigmatic spaces' and 'philosophical explorations' signal a site built around introspective, philosophical content.
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
Unenumerated is Nick Szabo's long-running intellectual blog covering an unusually wide range of topics including monetary history, cryptography, law, and the origins of Bitcoin. Posts like the multi-part series on non-governmental money reveal deep historical research and original thinking that has influenced cryptocurrency discourse for years.
http://sihope.com/~tipi
Tipi's Retreat is a sprawling personal site by a Montana-based couple covering an eclectic mix of content including WWII memoirs, wildlife photography, crafts, and tributes to missing-in-action soldiers. The site won a Site Fights Championship and features sections on the Forgotten Battalion, WWII reunions, nature galleries, quilts, and even a pets section, making it a rich time capsule of late-1990s personal web culture.