Historical Archives
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BFI Original Movie Posters and Film Stills
An excellent resource for the history of the cinema, the archive of the British Film Institute holds a vast collection of original movie posters and film stills. more...
Historical Movies and World War Images
The Film and Video Archive of the Imperial War Museum in London offers online access to over 23,000 movie records from WWI and WWII. more...
Charles Dickens Manuscript Collection
Charles Dickens' use of iron gall ink threatened the existence of his manuscripts. more...
Dickens Picture Library & Photographic Archive
The only surviving house of the famous Victorian novelist, the Charles Dickens House Museum is home to an important picture library and historical photographic archive. more...
Criminal Registers Published by Ancestry
The first UK collection to be indexed by the Ancestry World Archives Project, the Criminal Registers, are invaluable to researchers of family, social and legal history. more...
Online Historical and Architecture Images
With 1.5 million images of architecture, the photo collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects is one of the most important in the world. more...
History of 18th and 19th Century London Poor
First founded to provide relief to the poor, the Workhouse became a dreaded institution where only the desperate would willingly enter. more...
All feature articles in Historical Archives
By: Dave McFadzean
Find out how life really was in days gone by for folk living in a remote valley in the shadow of the backbone of northern England. more...
Trouble at the US National Archives
By: Jeremy Mangum
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is missing dozens of historical documents and items, and no one knows where they are or how they disappeared. more...
Google Books is a Goldmine for Genealogists
By: Katrina Haney
Google books is an amazing resource for finding books on any topic of interest. Many out of print and out of copyright books are being made available for download. more...
By: Robyn Gillam
A bold new online venture by a consortium of museums, libraries and other cultural providers in the European Union has been compared to the ancient library of Alexandria. more...
Columbus, the Flat Earth Theory, and Other Myths
By:
Michael Streich
From Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty" speech to Equiano's autobiographical narrative, historians attempt to correct the record by questioning long held assumptions. more...
By: Emma Clarke
A critical revue and visitor perspective of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's inspirational spectacle of Victorian ship engineering, the SS Great Britain. more...
Accessing UFO Files in UK Archives
By: Susan Morris
The Ministry of Defence in the UK are now offering open access via the National Archives website to declassified documents on UFO sightings in the UK from 1978 to 2002 more...
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