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History / Heritage : RESOURCE LIST

  • 14-05-2003 10:03am
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    Note: Mark/PHB you might like to sticky this thread (last one got merged with "Recommended Visiting" thread which wasn't the best idea, tbh... my fault)

    www.historicalinsights.ie
    - Historical Walking Tours of Dublin. In just 2 hours, this award-winning and entertaining 'seminar on the street' explores Dublin's development, the influence of the American and French Revolutions, the Potato Famine, the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, partition - and the current peace process. Highly recommended.

    www.historychannel.com
    - including Today In History - this is the web site for "The History Channel" on TV. Huge amounts of historical facts and figures available.

    www.thehistorynet.com
    - provides numerous articles on World War II, Wild West, American History, Civil War, British Heritage, Military History, Aviation History and more...

    wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/irehist.html
    - Irish History On The Web. - Large index of Irish History resources.

    www.history.org
    - Colonial Williamsburg. Exploring the history of the American nation.

    www.nhm.ac.uk
    - British Museum of Natural History

    www.amnh.org
    - American Museum of Natural History

    www.mnh.si.edu
    - The Smithsonian Institute Museum of Natural History

    www.english-heritage.org.uk
    - English Heritage web site. Maintaining and caring for the historic environment of England.

    www.irishheritagetrail.com
    - Irish Heritage Trail. not a tour anywhere in Ireland, but a self-guided, three mile walking tour that takes you through the downtown, North End, Beacon Hill and Back Bay of Boston, MA.

    www.irishroots.net
    - Irish Family History Foundation. - The co-ordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centres in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland which have computerised tens of millions of Irish ancestral records of different types.

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    Any more?


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