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://home.onego.ru/~kaf
Alexei Komitchev, a Russian-born man who relocated to Helsingborg, Sweden in 2003, shares a brief autobiographical sketch covering his time in the Russian Navy, a career in telecommunications, and his love of travel, cars, music, and meeting new people. A snapshot of early 2000s personal homepages, it offers a charming self-introduction from someone whose life took him from northern Russia to Scandinavia.
https://objectum-media.neocities.org/links/affiliates
Objectum Media is a digital hub and media recommendation resource dedicated to the objectum and POSIC communities, covering people who experience attraction to or relationships with objects. The site maintains a media directory, queue, and affiliate network connecting community members who create their own websites.
https://vinceimbat.com/
Vince Imbat is a Los Baños-based Filipino writer and photographer whose essays and poems explore godless, creative, and liberative spirituality rooted in walking and contemplation. His site features an online journal active since 2014, a digital archive called 'talahardin,' and a Substack newsletter engaging with free spirituality (Jiyū Shūkyō) and philosophical inquiry in a Philippine context.
https://necronomi.com/
Necronomi.com is a personal site with an occult-themed aesthetic, hinting at dark and esoteric content through its 'forbidden pages' branding. The site is currently transitioning to version 2.0 and directing visitors to the creator's new blog at sorcerer.blog.
https://the-orb.arlima.net/
ORB (Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies) is an academic encyclopedia and reference site written and maintained by medieval scholars for instructors and serious students. It offers an encyclopedia, textbook library, teaching resources, e-texts, and a reference shelf covering the breadth of medieval history and culture.
https://hiski.genealogia.fi/historia/indexe.htm
The HisKi project, maintained by the Genealogical Society of Finland, offers a searchable database of historical parish records including christenings, marriages, burials, and moves. It is an invaluable tool for tracing Finnish family history, with ongoing additions of new parishes as data is digitized.
https://philkon.tripod.com/ring.html
The History Ring, maintained by Phil Konstantin of San Diego, is a webring connecting internet sites dedicated to historical information from any period or historical figure. It serves as a discovery tool for history enthusiasts, linking member pages together and offering keyword search across all ring sites, with a notable focus on North American Indian history resources.
http://medievalgenealogy.org.uk/vch/index.shtml
A comprehensive place index for the Victoria County History, an ongoing century-long project to publish detailed histories of every English county. Researchers into medieval English genealogy, family history, and local history will find this an invaluable reference for navigating over 200 published volumes organized by county and parish.
https://mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/texts/Galileo.Nuncius.html
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.
http://rri.chat.ru/
A Russian-language directory of philosophical resources on the Internet, curating links to electronic texts, philosopher profiles, and discussion forums for both Russian and international audiences. Supported by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Institute, this bilingual catalog offers a rare window into late-1990s Russian academic philosophy online.