Online sources thread

brianthebard

Ok what I want to do here is collect together a bunch of free, easily accessed, legitimate e-resources that will be made into a sticky. This will be a collection of pre-approved, accurate sources that may be used as a source when asked for a reference in a thread for example. Or if someone comes into the forum with a question it can be used as a starting point for investigation. It will also open up possibilities for people who may be used to wiki as their principle source for history, or simply broaden ones horizons in terms of historical material that is on offer online. There might also be a short description of each source, what its good for, etc.
If anyone has suggestions for the sticky, please post them here, and I'll put the sticky together in a few weeks when I've collected all the best sources. I hope this is clear, if anyone has questions don't hesitate to ask.
First source that I'm going to add;

http://www.ucc.ie/celt/

Celt. This is a website run by UCC (as you can see) and has a huge amount of texts relating to Irish history. Its a great start for any student, and easily accessible for any user. If you are interested in history then its a must.
Lots of colleges have websites like this, so if you know of any, post them up.

brianthebard

Hartford web publishing;

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/

A fairly new (afaik) website that collects a lot of different texts from history and also sociology, picture galleries, etc. I've used this site as a reference in essays so its prefectly legitimate.

claire h

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/

Diderot's Encyclopédie in translation, a work in progress but still very useful.

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http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Gallica (BNF) - original source material in French.

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http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/

CAIN - Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland, useful for articles, book reviews and recommendations, and original source material.

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http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/home.do

House of Commons parliamentary papers (British).

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http://www.cartoons.ac.uk/

British Cartoon Archives.

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http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wh/

Women's History Project at the Irish National Archives, useful links to sources and plenty of material.

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(Am I right in thinking Eighteenth Century Collections Online is subscription-only?)

brianthebard

Excellent work clair, thanks. I've seen a few of those before, will look at the others in time. do mean this one? http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/ecco.html
It appears to be for pittsburgh students only.

claire h

brianthebard wrote: »

Excellent work clair, thanks. I've seen a few of those before, will look at the others in time. do mean this one? http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/database_info/ecco.html
It appears to be for pittsburgh students only.

Yep, that's it. Not just for Pittsburgh students though - but you do seem to need a university subscription to it (I've used it via TCD). Darn, it's an amazing resource for 18th century stuff.

Also...

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http://meta.montclair.edu/spectator/index.html

The Spectator Project - for those working on 18th century British periodicals. Includes complete editions of the Spectator, the Female Spectator, the Tatler, and more.

Ostrom

National photographic archive

http://hip.nli.ie/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=fi

Always useful, and large proportion available direct online.

Complete Welch collection. Type CDB in the call number field for full Congested Districts Board entries

brianthebard

http://www.nationalarchives.ie/

national archives site (obv I guess)

http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp?docID=243

Bunreacht na hÉireann (always handy)

Dail debates archive

http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/

One should note that this can be hell to search through, so unless you have a fairly good idea of the year and speaker and everything, don't go browsing it, it'll take more time than its worth.

Joe1919

Here's my old list.

Internet History Sourcebooks Project
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website (Irish census information e.g 1841)
http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/

Irish Archaeology on the Internet
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/links.html

o Ordnance Survey, National Archives of Ireland, http://www.nationalarchives.ie/;
o http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ (research guides, example of OS)
o Map Room, British Library, integrated catalogue, http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/maps.html
o http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
o The University of Edinburgh, 'Charting the nation' http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/charting
o Library of Congress, Washington D.C. http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/catalog
o Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris http://www.bnf.fr/
o Bodleian Library, Oxford http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ (and map links)
o National Archives of Ireland http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
o National Library of Ireland http://www.nli.ie/
o Royal Irish Academy http://www.ria.ie

o British Library: http://www.bl.uk
o National Library of Scotland: http://www.nls.uk/
o British Museum: http://www.British-museum.ac.uk
o National Library of Wales http://www.llgc.org.uk/
o Newberry Library, Chicago (John Smith map collection) http://www.newberry.org/
o http://britannia.com/history/herefords/mm-exhib.html
o National Register of Archives Web Sites: www.hmc.gov.uk/, while an easy entry point to a variety of museums (including the British Library and the British Museum) is the www.24hourmuseum.org.uk

brianthebard

thanks joe! that's a great list.

Joe1919

The Irish poor law enquiry 1835 is also available on line at http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/ House of Commons parliamentary papers (British). but restricted to universities and certain libraries etc. It gives great information about particular parishes and counties etc. Not every parish or county was surveyed.It suprising what the Irish were up to in 1835. It can be downloaded and put on a flash key as a huge pdf file (320mb) if you can get to university or library with permission to ascess.

brianthebard

www.marxists.org is great for a huge variety of texts, not just confined to marxism. They have Adam smith and loads of other texts not related/sympathetic to marxism on it. again I've used it in essays with no problems so I know its legit.

conchubhar1

general ones like bbc?

rté have some good stuff - mainly audio discussions

jstor?

pinkypinky

The Mormon church's site with all the birth, death and marriage indexes for Ireland:

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable

Dates covered:
CoI marriages 1845 - 1958;
All other religions marriages: 1864 - 1958
Births 1864-1958,
Deaths 1864-1958.
1922 - 1958 is the Free State/Republic of Ireland counties only.

1911 Census online: www.census.nationalarchives.ie

www.dublinheritage.ie has an incomplete index of parish registers for Dublin as well as some electoral registers. The full details can be accessed in Pearse St library.

http://www.limerickcity.ie/Library/LocalStudies/
A lot of Limerick genealogy resources including 1901/1911 census head of households index, electoral registers, obituaries from the Limerick Chronicle.

http://griffiths.askaboutireland.ie/gv4/gv_start.php
Free version of Griffith's Valuation of Ireland. It's been listed as a beta site for quite some time. There's a completed and superior version on:

http://www.irishorigins.com/ along with some trade directories and other census fragments but this is a subscription site.

http://www.seanruad.com/
An online version of the 1851 townlands index of Ireland. Very useful site if you know the name of a place but not where it is.

brianthebard

conchubhar1 wrote: »

general ones like bbc?

rté have some good stuff - mainly audio discussions

jstor?

jstor is great and all but I'm looking to compile a list freely accessible to everyone, not just people with subscriptions. Good call on rte and bbc though, there are also history magazines like history Ireland that might have sites, I'll have to look into that. keep 'em coming people!

BossArky

Excellent stuff in here. Looking forward to seeing the combined list.

Ponster

Can the same thing be done for Family Tree/History research ?

brianthebard

I was thinking something similar, good call.

Ponster

brianthebard wrote: »

I was thinking something similar, good call.

Not mine really

pinkypinky

I'm still happy to assist.

brianthebard

Anyone any ideas for online sources on Ireland and WWI figures and archives?