Understanding how archives are created and arranged is an essential part of historical research, and there are similar considerations for their online equivalent. How were they collected? Why were they selected? Where did they come from? Who pays for it? What's been left out? What are the differences between the physical records and their online representation? What shortcuts sneak into our methods that may undermine the rigour of our overall argument? Like all sources, online materials have their own history and pose challenges and questions for historians and other researchers. The full spreadsheet of suggestions might also be useful to review and search. We are pleased to hear about suggestions, either by emailing or through a short online suggestions box. Some of the material has been selected by IHR librarians and colleagues in the institute, while others have been suggested by others. Your library will also be able to advise on what is available for you behind paywalls. There are also numerous online guides and bibliographies, both general and specialised, that will give further suggestions, these include Wikipedia's list of digitised newspapers. You will know more about what is available in your own area of specialism, and Google, DuckDuckGo or Ecosia will uncover more. This is of course simply a small selection of the vast amount of material that is out there. Some key subject or perhaps unexpected formats have also been included, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (why not, for example, visit relevant historical sites around the world via Google Streetview?). This is always something of an arbitrary exercise, and there will be some duplication. We have organised the material by period.
From digitised archives to oral histories, newspapers, maps and printed collections, we hope that there will some material that can help with your work or with supporting your students. This webpage contains a selection of curated links to online research resources that can be used for historical research of all kinds.
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