General History

Schools and Education

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/legislation.htm Education acts – history & politicians

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_England History of State Education

Museums and Galleries

• http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/main.php3 Museum of The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - Salisbury

• http://www.beamish.org.uk/ Open air museum,at Beamish, Couty Durham, reflecting Northern life in 1800’s and early 1900’s

• http://www.edencamp.co.uk/ Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire - Theme museum, centred on the history of WW2

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/sense_of_place/saltaire.shtml Saltaire, Bradford – factory and village, built by millowner & philanthropist Sir Titus Salt.

• http://www.saltsmill.org.uk/ Village includes Salts Mill – houses the David Hockney exhibition

Work and Trade Assosciations / Unions

• http://www.historyshelf.org/shelf/friend/06.php Friendly Societies - a brief overview, with links to some specifiic societies

• http://www.unionancestors.co.uk/index.htm Trade Union Ancestors

Political Parties and Movements

The Suffragettes

• http://www.cjbooks.demon.co.uk/suffrage.htm

• http://www.romanbritain.freeserve.co.uk/SUFFRAGETTES.HTM

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whunger.htm

• http://www.johndclare.net/Women1_SuffragetteActions_Rosen.htm

Hospitals, Asylums and Sanitoriums

• http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/MAB/MAB.shtml Establishment of hospitals, asylums, hospital ships, smallpox & TB

• http://www.institutions.org.uk/asylums/england/english_asylums.htm Asylum information

• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/search.asp TNA's Hospital Database search facility

• http://www.coram.org.uk/heritage.htm CORAM Foundling Hospital Association

The Industrial Revolution

• http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Leeds industrial museum, which includes a history of industrialisation

• http://www.spinningtheweb.org.uk/ A useful site for the cotton spinning and weaving industry

• http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm Industrial History

American History

• http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets2.html Women in the American civil war, with links to other related sites

• http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm America in World War One

Irish Political and Social History

The Potato Famine

• http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html

• http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html

• http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/index.htm

Catholic Emancipation

• http://www.victorianweb.org/history/emancipation2.html

• http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcatholic.htm

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Emancipation

• http://www.historyhome.co.uk/peel/ireland/peelcema.htm

Easter Rising 1916

• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1916_easter_rising.htm

• http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/history/east1916.html

• http://www.irelandforvisitors.com/articles/easter1916.htm

Misc.

• http://www2.cruzio.com/~sbarrett/mcollins.htm Michael Collins

• http://www.proni.gov.uk/ulstercovenant/index.html Ulster Covenant - Nearly half a million signatures and addresses of protestant men and women, who signed on the 28th of September 1912 in an objection to giving Ireland home rule.