Society & Culture
883 sites
Subcategories:
- Genealogy & Family History (140)
- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://familyhistorian.blogspot.com/index.html
Lori Thornton, a genealogist and librarian living near the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, shares musings on family history, regional history, and book reviews spanning back to 2004. The blog blends genealogical research with reviews of mystery and historical fiction titles, making it a rich resource for anyone interested in Southern Appalachian heritage.
https://bloggingbrits.co.uk/
Blogging Brits is an anonymous British blogger's musings on what it means to be British, covering topics like Brexit, national identity, pubs, and the quirks of British culture. The site also reflects on the nature of blogging itself, exploring why people feel compelled to share their thoughts publicly in a digital age.
https://melonsoda.nekoweb.org/
Melonsoda's self-described 'tropical paradise' is an adult personal site with a bold, irreverent aesthetic and explicit content warnings for mature, kink-friendly, and NSFW material. The landing page sets clear community boundaries and a deliberately provocative tone, signaling a site built for a specific adult subculture audience.
http://warship.org/
The International Naval Research Organization (INRO) is a non-profit dedicated to the study of naval vessels and their histories, focusing on the iron and steel warship era from roughly 1860 to the present. For over 50 years, INRO has published 'Warship International,' a quarterly journal recognized globally as the most authoritative publication in the field of warship research.
https://beelzebabe.neocities.org/
Beelzebabe's 'Esoteric Stupidity' is a digital curiosity cabinet featuring pixel art, chaos magick resources, stamps, pixel dolls, and eclectic occult oddities. The site blends old-web aesthetics with esoteric subject matter, making it a quirky destination for those drawn to the intersection of internet craft and the occult.
https://johnmacfarlane.net/
John MacFarlane is a philosopher at UC Berkeley whose homepage presents his academic work in the philosophy of logic, language, metaphysics, and epistemology, with links to papers, books, talks, and courses. Notable for its ASCII art header and the breadth of his research interests, the site also highlights his open-source tools including the widely-used document converter Pandoc.
http://www.larsdatter.com/
Karen Larsdatter has assembled an extensive collection of curated links exploring the material culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, covering clothing, tools, occupations, animals, eating utensils, and more. The site connects visitors to museum images, artifact descriptions, and book recommendations that illuminate how medieval people actually lived and worked.
https://bodyetal.site/
Body et al. is a plural collective running community resources, zines, and educational writing centered on plurality and Dissociative Identity Disorder. The site organizes in-person meetup groups in the DC/Maryland/Virginia area, links to guides for running plural communities, and hosts academic-style writing on DID etiology and subsystems.
https://tilde.town/~emiltayl
A tilde.town member page built around 'Haikumon,' a whimsical script-generated haiku creature concept with an archive and random generator. The site is minimal but charming, offering a glimpse into the playful creative experiments that define the tilde community culture.
https://niplav.site/
Niplav's sprawling intellectual website covers forecasting, AI alignment, existential risk, mathematics, philosophy, and quantified self experiments in long-form essays that resist the blog format entirely. The site reads like a personal research compendium, with best-of lists, translations, transcriptions, media consumption logs, and original analysis across a wide range of rationalist and effective-altruism-adjacent topics.