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www.ta100.co.uk was launched on 1 April 2008 as part of a year of celebration to mark the centenary of the of Territorial Army and includes a potted history of the service and a timeline. www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/. The Clergy of the Church of England Database brought together scholars from King's College London, the University of Kent and the University of Reading to create a database documenting the careers of all Church of England clergymen between 1540 and 1835. It can be searched in a number of ways, including name and location. www.theoriginalrecord.com has ‘scans of historical books and documents containing over 10 million entries relating to families in the British Isles and colonies’ and regularly sends us emails of all the latest additions to their online records. Any search you do will prompt a message similar to one I received after typing in my surname: ‘Buying all 1,403 results would cost £7,954.00. But you can have free access to all 1,403 records for a year, to view, to save and print, for £100, including free notification and updates of all new entries found matching this search within the year.’ Given that you can access all these documents in your own home when you want then £100 may be a price you are willing to pay. www.ukhistorystore.com ‘specialises in local history or nostalgia products of towns and cities in the UK’. They seem to specialise in remaindered books and DVDs. You can search the site by towns as well as titles. www.originsnetwork.com/ is another online history store and claims to have ‘over 3000 books and CDs, covering a vast range of topics’ on offer. http://postalheritage.org.uk/history/ is the website of The British Postal Museum & Archive which cares for the visual, written and physical records of over 400 years of postal development. It has online catalogues and a special section devoted to local history. http://inamidst.com/topic/edwardboxes is a list of the known locations of 57 of 271 letter boxes cast during the short reign of Edward VIII. The site says another 70 or so are still in situ, but have yet to be found so they can be included in the list. A website that can fairly be described as eclectic. |
17 June 2008 |
