International History Links

Just a taste of what is available - please let us know if your favourite site isn't included and we'll add it to the list.

Encyclopaedia Britannica internet guide. Contains very useful graded links to some of the best international history sites on the web. Now run on a subscription basis.
Library of Congress - excellent site full of online exhibitions and research information relating to American history.
Electronic Journal of Australian and NZ History. Includes some articles, primary documents and information on the H-ANZAU and e-mail based discussion group. Site established by the School of History and Politics, James Cook University, and the Department of History, Melbourne University.
H-Net - get lost in this well-known web-orientated humanitites site run by Michigan State University - full of excellent links, articles and reviews of the latest publications.
Professional Historians Association NSW
Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink - hosted by the University of Adelaide, South Australia - includes a link to the fascinating Medieval Renaissance Food homepage
Australian Libraries Gateway - includes comprehensive links to Australian libraries (including OPACs) and to online exhibitions developed and maintained by libraries throughout Australia - lots of good stuff to explore.
The Valley of the Shadow - University of Virginia research project about two communities during the American Civil War. An excellent example of how to produce history on the web.
The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory. Produced by the Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University. A good example of how images, historical argument and sources can be given equal value on the internet.
Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. Provides access to their library and resources, including email history seminars and book reviews, info on UK tertiary history teachers, theses in progress, conferences, as well as links to other institutions and libraries, British, European and international.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project. A major source for international history. Huge collection of information and links presented through a well designed series of sites. Hosted by Fordham University, New York. Site develped by Paul Halsall
The State Library of NSW now provides Internet access from its home page to all its electronic catalogues, including the Sydney Morning Herald index 1988+, the Koori Mail, Picam and Manuscript Guides.
Australia's Cultural Network - 'the online gateway to Australian cultural resources'.
Public History Review webpage, linked from the PHA NSW site
Fairfax Photosales site - shows Sydney Morning Herald photographs form the 1930s-1960s, copies of which can be ordered on-line.
James Cook University's Pictures of Health site - includes topics such as 'The Health of the Body Politic' and 'Populate or Perish'.
The Journal for MultiMedia History vol2 - an American online journal which includes ground breaking work in the use of oral histories for web-based exhibitions and an essay on director Frank Capra (including film clips).
Web reference engine - xrefer.com's new reference engine makes over 500,000 individual factual entries from 50 high-quality reference titles freely available on the web. The site brings together and interlinks reference works from some of the UK's leading publishers. First release content partners Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press, Macmillan and Penguin have provided an encyclopedia, dictionaries, a thesaurus, books of quotations and other reference books for inclusion. According to it's developers refer.com is aimed at anyone who has used the web to find a fact, word, concept, person, place, quotation or saying. We tried it and found over 200 hits for a search on 'New Zealand'.
The Institute of Official Cheer. An American website 'where old pop culture is subjected to our patented Re-Ironization Process, and converted into chipper, spiffy, feather-lite postmodern commentary on modern culture'. Warning this site is highly amusing and addictive and should not be approached during normal work hours (unless you happen to be an historian of popular culture...)
Making of America – a collaborative effort initiated by Cornell University and the University of Michigan. Contains a digitised, fully searchable collection of 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles almost 11,000,000 pages in total—from the 1815–1926 period in American history. (A search for 'New Zealand' brought back 3,043 matches in 1478 works.)
Complete list of British Empire and Commonwealth Games medal winners - UK site run by Martin Rix
History Today.Online version of the well-known international journal. Contains lots of articles and reviews – we particularly like their October 2000 site of the month......
Australian Federation Centenary - the official site of the National Council for the Centenary of the Federation. Contains lots of historical information, including a brief mention of New Zealand's part (we decided not to join the Federation, but did send representatives over to take part in the 1901 celebrations).
HistoryLink - online encyclopedia-type site of Seattle and King County. A wealth of material presented in some interesting and novel ways.
HistoryWired - HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things is an experimental program through which you can take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History - a surfer's paradise!
The History Channel - entertaining UK site - includes quizzes, a discussion area and lots of interesting material. Best viewed with Flash.
The British Library Sound Archive - contains details about their oral history collections, access to the online catalogue, useful reading, and general information about oral history methods.
History of the World - quick facts and information arranged by countries. Site run by Adam Dicker.