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Local history resources for schools from the Victoria County History: The Bristol Slavery Trail, Travelling through Codford and Warter...living in an estate village.

Covers many history topics up to advanced level. Part of the Association of Teachers' Websites.

A large collection of primary sources on British history.

A searchable directory of over 25,000 venues, organizations, and experts in the UK, as well news, features and a timeline of UK history from 10,000 BC to the present.

A collection of concise histories of towns and cities in the UK and Ireland by Timothy Lambert. Also timelines of English and Irish history.

British historical diary.

An online image archive of old UK photographs, postcards and pictures. Image submissions welcome.

A searchable online edition, detailing the lives of ordinary people, containing accounts of over 100,000 trials held at London's central criminal court.

British social history through Punch cartoons 1881-1914.

The history of the Public Telephone Call Box from 1884 to the present day. Site by British Telecom.

Founded in 1717. Its elected members are concerned with the antiquities and history of the UK and other countries. Information on its library, grants, publications.

A comprehensive reference being produced for the National Grid of Learning as a free resource for students, with numerous articles and images presenting multiple points of view of figures and events in the history of the UK.

Articles on a myriad of topics from the French Revolution to Tony Blair, mainly focusing on the period between 1830 and 1945. Also has monthly reviews of books in British history.

Suite 101's section on UK history, providing bulletins, articles and discussions.

Articles on the social history of the British, including their daily lives, their culture, the different influences on different eras of the arts and the fashions and styles of different eras.

A moderated discussion board for history and archaeology with a core interest in the past of the British Isles.

Black British history and news.

BBTI is a searchable index of names, brief biographical and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and were trading by 1851.

A chronicle in words, maps and graphics of all major events, wars etc from 1500AD to 1947 AD.

Transcribes, prints and publishes the heraldic visitations and manuscripts relating to genealogy and heraldry. Site includes the Society's history.

A satellite/cable/digital channel dealing with world history and the history of the United Kingdom.

Gordon Wilkie's essays on a variety of topics and eras, starting with Celtic Britain.

Virtual museum provided by the Public Record Office offering access to landmark documents spanning the past 1,000 years of British history.

A national centre for the study of development in agriculture, the countryside and food, with major library, object, archive and photograph collections.

The one thing Bletchley Park could not decode were the signals that it did not receive. The Radio Security Service - Voluntary Interceptors or 'the Secret Listeners' were the people who got the signals for Bletchley Park during WWII.