Guides to the United Kingdom
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Britannia
http://www.britannia.com/
your online gateway to all things British
Lifestyle UK
http://www.lifestyle.co.uk/
hundreds of categories divided into seven main sections: Leisure, News, Real Life, Sports, Business, Net Life, Private Life.
UK Index
http://www.ukindex.co.uk/
fully searchable index using both free text and category combinations with UK Index Quick Reference, The Beginners Guide to the Net, The Data Protection Act and The Net, Sites new to the UK Index this week
History and Politics
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Archives, Museums, Libraries
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/
Bodleian Library
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
British Library
http://portico.bl.uk/
Early Modern England Source
http://www.quelle.org/emes/emes.html
Essex Social Science Data Archives
http://www.essex.ac.uk/
major British data archive with historical data
Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
William III and James II
http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/orange.html
University of London Library
http://www.ull.ac.uk/
Oxfordshire Museums
http://archive.comlab.ox.ac.uk/other/museums/oxon.html
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
http://www.hmc.gov.uk/index.html
Virtual Manchester
http://www.manchester.com/
Rochdale Pioneers Museum
http://museum.co-op.ac.uk/
History - Post Mediaeval
Guy Fawkes/Gunpowder Plot Web Pages
http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/main.html
This page includes a history of the plot in detail and folklore of the celebration of the 5th with a detailed tour route of the course of the plot and a contemporary set of directions for driving.
Guy Fawkes
http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/fawkes/
17th Century London Gazette Online
http://www.history.rochester.edu/London_Gazette/
"The London Gazette" with its first appearance on February 5, 1666
Journal of Victorian Culture
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/jvc.html
Society for the Study of 19th-Century Ireland
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/socs/ssnci.html
Rural History Centre at the University of Reading
http://www.rdg.ac.uk./rhc/index.html
Universities and Education
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UK Graduate Careers Centre
http://ukcareers.hobsons.com/index.jsp
UK University UKERNA
http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
http://www.aber.ac.uk
University of Bradford
http://www.brad.ac.uk/external/
University of Cambridge
http://www.cam.ac.uk/
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/
Places
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England
Bath, England
http://www.cityofbath.co.uk/
Durham Cathedral
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Law/c_tour/tour.html
The City of Liverpool
http://www.liverpool.gov.uk/
Isle of Mann Crime
http://www.isleofman.com/
OXLink
http://www.oxtowns.co.uk/
The Oxford shire site provides a home for a wealth of information about the region and its businesses for the tourist, visitor and businessman.
Scotland
Historic Scotland
http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html
Dunvegan Castle
http://www.dunvegancastle.com/
The Ultimate Guide To Edinburgh
http://www.btinternet.com/~kerrin.sheldrake/edin1.htm
Ulster
Cruithni Ulster History
http://www.cruithni.org.uk/
book reviews, notes and references on the history of Ulster, Ireland and the British Isles
Irish History on the Web
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/library/arts/historyireland.htm
soc.culture.celtic FAQ
http://www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/sccfaq.html
also applies to Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Britannya
The Ulster Society
http://www.ulstersociety.org/
The Ulster Society, which was established 10 years ago to promote British-Ulster culture, has a wide range of literature currently available on this site.
Wales - Cornwall
The Castles of Wales
http://www.ulstersociety.org/
This site gathers together a comprehensive collection of photos and historical perspectives on castles in Wales.
Data Wales
http://www.data-wales.co.uk/index.htm
Museum of the University of Wales at Swansea
http://www.swan.ac.uk/classics/mushp.htm
South Wales Miners Library
http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/library_services/swml.asp
People
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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley
http://www.glyphs.com/art/beardsley/
a gallery of his drawings
Robert Burns
http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/burns.html
Charles Dodgson
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bhs2u/carroll/dodgson.html
Lewis Carroll Society of North America
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
The Snark Club Cambridge 1934
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/snarks.html
Sir Winston Churchill
http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_churchill.html
The Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/home.shtml
The Churchill Society of London
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/
The Dickens Page
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
The Hartlib Papers Project: Samuel Hartlib (c.1660-1662)
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~hpp/index.html
Kipling - How the Leopard Got His Spots
http://www.sff.net/people//karawynn/justso/leopard.htp
Royal Shakespeare Company
http://www.rsc.org.uk/home/index.asp
Stratford-Upon-Avon
http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/
The Complete Works of Shakespeare On-line
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Francis Bacon as Shake-speare
http://home.hiwaay.net/~paul/
There have historically been many doubts about the authorship of Shakespeare's Works. This site presents cryptological proof that Francis Bacon wrote the Works.
Penn Leary's Cryptographic Shakespeare
http://home.att.net/~tleary/
Renascence Editions
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/