Herewith a summary of some useful websites recently bookmarked on the HFL Delicious site:
Judaica Europeana
http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/
Hannukkah postcard 1920s, Hungarian Jewish Archive
Judaica Europeana works with cultural institutions to identify and provide access online to content which documents the Jewish presence and heritage in the cities of Europe.
Since its launch in 2010, Judaica Europeana partners have digitized and uploaded over 3.5 million items from their collections. They include 3,459,000 pages from books, newspapers and archives; 31,600 photographs, postcards and other images; 18,300 sound files of music and oral history; 2,000 moving image files. This content will continue to grow as associate partners provide access to their digital collections to be integrated in Europeana.
Old Maps Online
http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.
It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.
Searches the following map collections
- A Vision of Britain through Time, Historical Map Library
- British Library, Map Library
- Cartography Associates, the David Rumsey Map Collection
- Moravian Library, Mollova mapová sbírka
- National Library of Scotland, Maps of Scotland
OldMapsOnline has been created by a collaboration between The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at The University of Portsmouth, UK and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland.
Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/causepapers/
Notarial sign circle
A searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York. The original records are held in the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, and are the most extensive records of their type in the United Kingdom. They offer an extremely valuable resource for family and local historians and scholars interested in social, ecclesiastical, economic and legal history.
Index to Rolls Series (ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies)
http://www.the-orb.net/rolls.html
An index to the Rolls Series. The official title of the Rolls Series is: Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores or The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages.
The Rolls Series is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources, published in the second half of the 19th century. Some 255 volumes, representing 99 separate works, were published. Many volumes are available via Google Books, archive.org or in MEMSO (Oxford users only).
Archival Sound Recordings (British Library)
http://sounds.bl.uk/
King George V – Silver Jubilee Message to the Empire 1935
Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
Of particular interest to historians are:
Accents & dialects
Oral history
Sound recording history
Sound maps
Biographieportal
http://www.biographie-portal.eu/search
A German meta search engine which searches 4 biographical databases for German-speaking countries simultaneously:
- Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB)
- Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)
- Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL)
- Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS)
So Pretty – Till they burst (1929), CPA, Bodleian Library
Conservative Party Election posters, 1909-2007
http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/ODLodl~6~6
Posters from the Conservative Party Archive representing election publicity throughout the 20th century up to recent times. The archive is held in the Bodleian Library.
