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The latest useful website we hear about is from UK: The History of Parliament for some very useful biographical material: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/

Notes 1) For sets of hyperlinks relevant to this website's concerns, see Dan Byrnes' website, The Blackheath Connection. (Those links are now also given below) These links concern the London suburb, Blackheath and matters connected from about 1780.
Or, Dan Byrnes' collections of hyperlinks on his domain at his Links Garden, (which are also now given below) on genealogy, or history. (On those websites, you probably will not find a hyperlink back to this webpage, so keep a bookmark of this page.)

Below are various links sent us by e-mailers. Not all the links have been tested, which is why they are not yet hyperlinked, and some might return an error message - 404, not found - Sorry, Ed

Below are various links sent us by e-mailers. Not all the links have been tested, which is why they are not yet hyperlinked, and some might return an error message - 404, not found - Sorry, Ed

news item - NEW YORK, 13 November 2006 /Christian Newswire/ --  WilberforceCentral.Org announces forthcoming events and activities now planned for the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the British and the American slave trade. (www.wilberforcecentral.org) 

Wilberforce Central is a coalition formed to introduce the media and the American public to the numerous events surrounding the bicentenary of the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, with particular focus on the inspiration and impact that 18th-century British parliamentarian William Wilberforce brought to that historic accomplishment. The British Act was approved by Royal Assent on March 25, 1807 and the U.S. Act was signed by President Thomas Jefferson on March 2, 1807. 

Full report on public awarness by early 2007 of slavery issues had been at website: http://www.setallfree.net/downloads/mori_report.pdf

"There is some limited awareness of the significance of the 2007 in relation to the abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act, and one in ten can name the exact year when the act was [established.] However, few people are able to identify prominent abolitionists from a list, indicating that although there is a basis upon which to build awareness for next year's bicentenary, there is some way to go to raise awareness and knowledge in this area. Results also reveal the public's limited understanding of what slavery in the 21st century involves. Even the most widely recognized form of modern slavery, trafficking for sexual exploitation is identified by only 35% of people.” 

15 February, 2007: 4:30 p.m. Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University
A Colony of Citizens Book Talk and Discussion with the Author
Laurent Dubois, Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, discusses his 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize-winning book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, which positions events in Guadeloupe within a larger framework and suggests the complex fruits of emancipation in the French Caribbean and the Atlantic World. http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/index.htm

23 February, 2007: Bristol Bay Productions releases motion picture “Amazing Grace” in U.S. theaters, starring Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce and Albert Finney as John Newton.  See www.amazinggracemovie.com

23-24 February, 2007: The Victoria & Albert Museum will be holding a two-day conference: From Cane Field to Tea-Cup: The Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Art, to commemorate the 1807 anniversary. The conference will look at the links between the trade, slaves and slavery and the production and collection of domestic and decorative artifacts, including furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, sculpture, architecture, prints and paintings. (dates to be determined)  Also currently on display: Asante Goldweights from Ghana (Metalware, Room 116) which mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade and 50 years of independence of Ghana.  www.vam.ac.uk/

Bristol Bay Productions releases motion picture “Amazing Grace” in theaters in the United Kingdom, starring Ioan Gruffudd as William Wilberforce and Albert Finney as John Newton. (U.K. date to be determined)  See www.amazinggracemovie.com

BBC – season of programs on BBC channels on the abolition of slave trade. www.bbc.co.uk

William Wilberforce’s famous abolitionist speech to Parliament, along with other selected texts, will be performed in central London, sponsored by the Commission for Racial Equality.  www.cre.gov.uk

5-6 March, 2007: Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University.  Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and its Abolition. The Third Annual David Brion Davis Lecture Series on the History of Slavery, Race, and Their Legacies.  P. David Richardson, Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation presents a three-part lecture series commemorating the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade. Monday, March 5: lecture and opening reception at the Beinecke Mezzanine, "Growth and Expansion of the British Slave Trade, 1660-1807." Tuesday, March 6: lecture location TBD, "African Agency in the Slave Trade." Wednesday, March 7: lecture location TBD, "Ideology, Politics, and British Abolitionism, c.1780-1807." http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/index.htm

25 March. 2007: (Anniversary of Abolition of Slavery in Britain) 
Birmingham Bicentenary Sunday Service, led by the Council of Black Led Churches, organized by Birmingham Churches Together, at 6 p.m. in the Bethel Convention Center, West Bromwich, England. Seating reservations needed. Contact: dking@christian-aid.org

25 March, 2007: Grand re-opening of Wilberforce House Museum. The historic home of William Wilberforce is being upgraded and all new exhibitions will be introduced. The Council owned Wilberforce House Museum, the first Museum in Britain to tackle the subject of Slavery and Abolition, is 100 years old in 2006 and was last updated in 1983 (for the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation). New displays expanding the history of slavery, the role of Wilberforce and contemporary issues relating to the subject of slavery are all dealt with in the new development. Contact vanessa.salter@hullcc.uk

27 March, 2007 - National Commemorative Service at Westminster Abbey at 12 noon.  Invitation only; sponsored by Set All Free (now defunct) at: http://www.setallfree.net/; www.westminster-abbey.org

In May 2007: TELEVISION RELEASE for documentary film The Better Hour. William Wilberforce: A Man of Character Who Changed the World.  (Date to be determined) www.thebetterhour.com

July 2007: Breaking the Chains Walkathon- communities all over the UK will walk to show their respect to those men, women and children that lived and died in bondage. http://www.blackhistoryfoundation.com/

Australian Dictionary of Biography - a first port of call for Australians! At: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/Australian Dictionary of Biographyetc etc.

Interesting material on the transatlantic slave trade by people who know what they are talking about.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/Trade.html Slave Trade, transAtlantic

The second URL here contains a large number of digital images, at:
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

British Navy: Ships of the Old Navy [from Phillips] at: http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/INTRO.HTM

Brooks, Richard - Last found as Error 500 - can't connect - Brooks: On Captain Richard Brooks, see a website from Christine Maher (Australia) at: http://www.soc.murdoch.edu.au/cfis/abs/maher.html - -

Georgian Society of Jamaica (photographs of sectors in historical Jamaica worthy of historical preservation-conservation) at: http://www.jamaica-georgian.org.uk/ Historical Photos, Jamaica

Examine more on Medical Pioneers (a website from Australia?) at: http://www.medicalpioneers.com/ Medical pioneers, Australia

September 2006 Maritime History conference at Exeter, UK at: http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/history/research/maritime/events.php

UK Smuggling History at: http://www.smuggling.co.uk/history.html UK smuggling history - has good illustrations copyrighted to an author who is willing to allow people to use in exchange for a live link to his website.

For a good selection of downloadable current papers on the Asia-Pacific region. See: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/css/pages/papers/working.aspx

For more historical material re Asia, see the archive newsletters: http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/newslet.html

On historical and literary diaries, see http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.htmlDiaries, historical -

Timeline Index: Very helpful, with links to timelines on basic chronology, people, places, subjects, events, locations, plus other matters of searchableness, at: http://www.timelineindex.com/Timeline Index

Museum Activities – A number of museums in the U.S. and U.K. will have exhibits on slavery in 2007 including – see www.wilberforcecentral.org/wfc/Museums/index.htm

[Note: Coalition members in WilberforceCentral.org include: 

• Wilberforce University, the first black university in America 
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University 
• Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull in England 
• Walden Media, which recently produced the successful film "The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe," and will be releasing through Bristol Bay Production on February 23, 2007 "Amazing Grace," a motion picture on the life of William Wilberforce; 
• The Wilberforce Project, sponsor of www.wilberforcecentral.org.
• Set All Free, a coalition of churches in England focused on the abolition of modern slavery 
• The Wilberforce House Museum, a project on Wilberforce and the Transatlantic Slave-Trade, with a new focus on the African perspective and contemporary themes; 
• The Wilberforce Forum, a division of Prison Fellowship that focuses on issues which Wilberforce would be concerned with today, ranging from physical slavery in the Sudan to conditions in prisons around the world 
• The Trinity Forum, an educational organization that hosts meetings for business leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia on such issues as character and philanthropy.

WilberforceCentral.org allows for other groups to join and participate with self-registry of their events as a "Co-operating Group.]

On a convict sent to America, Isaac Liptrap (website cites The Blackheath Connection by Dan Byrnes), at: http://jliptrap.us/gen.isaac.htmIsaac Liptrap, website

On smuggling in C18th and C19th Britain, treating more than 850 smugglers' haunts: http://www.smuggling.co.uk/index.htmlSmuggling, Britain

 Below are links from Dan Byrnes' website, The Blackheath Connection - 

Archives Authority of NSW
Historically yours
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/othrlinks.htm/ Archives Authority of NSW
Links, etc (broken link)

Archives of Australia
Useful
http://www.aa.gov.au

http://www.nla.gov.au/AA-WWW/AA-Home-Page.html/ Archives of Australia

Barani
Indigenous History of Sydney, from first contacts
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani

Biographies
General, listed alphabetically
http://www.biography.com

http://www.eb.com/bio.html/ Biography
Britannica's Lives (broken link)

http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/jefferson.html/ Biography - Thomas Jefferson
Interesting (but broken link?)

Blackheath - London
Website maintained by local historian, Neil Rhind, now writing his third book.
http://www.blackheath.org

http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Concourse/1364/ Blackheath whaler, Daniel Bennet
Sailing for Bennet in the Pacific is Capt. Morgan here (but a broken link)

Blackheath, London
Interesting essays of wide interest - Black Studies (but broken link?)
http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/council/publicservices/blackhist.htm

Lastfound as Error 500 - can't connect - Bligh - Betham>
For a little more on father-in-law of William Bligh, Richard Betham. A site on Manx history from Frances Coakley
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/catalog/g088_b.htm

Part Three

Meanwhile, an emailer has sent the below items after noticing them in a newsletter.

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AMERICAN NOTES: TRAVELS IN AMERICA, 1750-1920 Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. And much more. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html

COLLECT BRITAIN - PUTTING HISTORY IN ITS PLACE Travel through time and place with Collect Britain's panorama of images from the British Library's famous collections. Maps, prints and drawings, photographs and documents, rare early sound recordings from around the globe - you'll find them all here....Explore the specially selected collections, take a themed tour or visit a virtual exhibition. http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/

KING COUNTY SNAPSHOTS King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the county's urban, suburban, and rural communities. http://www.kcsnapshots.org/

REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS This site, a companion to The Library of America's Reporting Civil Rights, presents the reporters and journalism of the American Civil Rights Movement. http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/

THE UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Technical assistance furnished by the Library of Congress. http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html

Below are links from Dan Byrnes' website - Merchants and Bankers Listings -

1000AD - Greenland - Norse settlers
Circa 1000AD, with Leif Erickson
http://www.greenland-guide.gl/leif2000
Family - Daniel Morgan's Genealogy Pages
Very useful website
http://www.mit.edu/~dfm/genealogy

Family - Impey
Useful
http://genforum.genealogy.com/impey/messages/25.html

Family - Search Malta: Society And Culture: Genealogy
Useful - Mediterranean
http://www.searchmalta.com/genealogy/index.shtml

Family history/genealogy information available from
The Mormon Church
http://www.familysearch.org

London Ancestor
1794 Kent's Directory of business names/addresses
http://www.londonancestor.com

Marconi Sampler
Celebrating centenary of Marconi and his first radio broadcast
http://www.tuningtheworld.com

Maximilian Genealogy - New Main Index 2001
Useful
http://www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk/index2.html

Rootsweb
Quite a big reputation
http://www.rootsweb.com

Royalty - Aristocracy - The Theroff Files (now defunct): http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/

Wealth - American
Classifications of wealthy American families, with genealogy (pay site)
http://www.raken.com/american_wealth/encyclopedia

Ancestry
Site for genealogy charts and forms (last found as 404 Not Found) at:
http://www.ancestry.com/download/forms.htm -

British Genealogy especially (a site recommended by Editor) at www.stirnet.com

Family history/genealogy information available from
The Mormon Church
http://www.familysearch.org

Family Tree Maker Online
Useful
http://www.familytreemaker.com

GED4WEB
Put your family history on the Net - a four-minute download
http://www.ged4web.com
Society of Australian Genealogists (now defunct): http://www.sag.org.au/
Last found as error 500 (can't connect) - http://www.southernx.com.au/ - Genealogy - Southern Cross Genealogy - Australia -

Genealogy Online Fifth edition by Elizabeth Powell Crowe is $44.95 from: www.osborne.com/

Genealogy Data
Useful
http://www.pwestern.f9.co.uk

The princely House of Liechtenstein at: www.fuerstenhaus.li/index-e.html/

Genealogy - Royal Hashemite House of Jordan and King Abdullah II at: www.kingabdullah.gov.jo/

UK and Royal Insight on the British Royal Family at: www.royalinsight.gov.uk/

Royal Court of Sweden at: www.royalcourt.se/eng/

History of Russian Tsars: Alexander Palace Time Machine at: www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/

The Saud Dynasty of the Arabian Peninsula, at: www.saudinfo.com.au/saudi_arabia/dynasty.html/

The Dutch Royal House at: www.koninklijkhuis.nl/UK/welcome.html/

Check Royal Scandals at: www.discovery.com/area/history/royal/royal1.html/

Rootsweb
Quite a big reputation
http://www.rootsweb.com

Royalty in History at: Last found as Error 404 - not found - http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/kings.htm/

Fantasy Royalist, a record of imposters, fraudsters, lunatics and other weirdos who claim royal blood at: www.chivalricorder.org/royalty/fantasy/fantasy.htm/

Below is a set of links on "history in general"

1000AD - Greenland - Norse settlers
Circa 1000AD, with Leif Erickson
http://www.greenland-guide.gl/leif2000

Antiquity - Sites
Useful
http://www.ancientsites.com

ANZAC
French site honours diggers
http://www.anzac.org

Archives Authority of NSW
Historically yours
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au

Astronauts
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
http://www.kosmonaut.se/gagarin

Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima Bomb Memorial
" Archives of Australia http://www.nla.gov.au/AA-WWW/AA-Home-Page.html " History and science of the atomic bomb
http://www.atomicarchive.com

Australia Street
Snapshots 1994-1995 in Sydney/Adelaide from Institute for Interactive Multimedia and Australian Museum
http://www.australiast.uts.edu.au

Australian Battlefields of World War One
France - website from Robert Crane, with maps [was once at]: http://www.ciaops.com/guides/battle/

Australian Institute of Maritime Archaeology
With Australian National Shipwreck Database
http://aima.iinet.net.au

Australian Society of World War One Aero Historians : Articles on aviation dating back to 1964: (Now defunct): http://asww1ah.topcities.com/

(Gets timeout) - http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/ - Australians in France - In 1918 -

Aviation - 460 Squadron RAAF
World War Two experiences. (Another website by Joel Byrnes)
http://www.460squadronraaf.com

Biographies
General, listed alphabetically
http://www.biography.com

Brooks, Richard: On Captain Richard Brooks, see from Christine Maher (Australia, if the site still works) at: http://www.soc.murdoch.edu.au/cfis/abs/maher.html -

Last found as error 403 (forbidden) - http://www.burkeandwills.net/ - Australian explorers, Burke and Wills - Terra Incognita -
Error 403 forbidden at: http://www.canberrahouse.com.au/ - Canberra - Architecture - Work of leading architects in a young city

Error 500 - can't connect - Conspire.com
Conspiracy theories as collected by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, authors of The 60 Greatest Conspiracy Theories
http://www.conspire.com

Convict Creations
Assessing the legacy of convictism (Australia)
http://www.convictcreations.com

Domesday Book - England: Error 500 - can't connect -
With all the original 13,418 entries.
http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk

Economic History Services
Interesting
http://cs.muohio.edu
Evolution
From time of Charles Darwin and including religious debates
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution

Family - Archives Authority of NSW
History, also
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au

Flagsonline
Said to be a definitive database
http://www.flagsonline.net

Founding Documents
Treats significant documents 1768-to the present
http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au

France - The Maginot Line
Major line of defence in France
http://www.maginot-line.com

Gallipoli - Anzac Day
A notable Anzac site
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au

Genealogy: Carey of Guernsey, Channel Islands (early on, privateers), who married with the Dobrees and the Le Mesuriers, at: http://www.careyroots.com/hi19.html

Military
Australians at War
http://www.australiansatwar.gov.au

Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (now defunct): http://www.halloffame.mining.ca/

Napoleon
Useful
http://www.napoleon.org

NSW Historic Houses Trust of NSW
Architecturally yours
http://www.hht.nsw.gov.au

Old web pages, archived
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org

Pett shipbuilders of London via Stepney Folk Website was once at: http://website.lineone.net/~fight/Stepney/pett.htm

Pett shipbuilders of London, their entry on Wikipedia at: (gets Error 403, forbidden) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pett_dynasty -

Picture Australia
Historic photographs, etc.
http://www.pictureaustralia.org

Error 403 - forbidden - Pioneers
The American West
http://grounder.freeyellow.com

Pompeii - Vesuvius
AD 79 - and after Pompeii is buried
http://harcourtschool.com/activity/pompeii/pmpVesu.html

Secrets of War
On Second World War
http://www.secretsofwar.com

Space Race
History of the Space Race
http://www.spacefrontier87.homestead.com

St Valentine's Day, History of
Romance and the other
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine

Surf History
Mostly on US experience
http://www.surfhistory.com

Error 404 - not found - Sydney Archives Project
Reviewer is impressed with the work on Newtown, Sydney
http://www.sydneyarchives.info/newtown

The History Channel
Interesting on this day
http://www.historychannel.com/thisday

The WWI Trenches on the Web
Useful
http://www.worldwar1.com

Timelines various below

Asia: Chronology of Asian Maritime History at: http://www.maritimeasia.ws/topic/chronology.html

Now 404 - not found - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/20cvox/ UK - Twentieth Century Vox
Archive of oral history from the BBC -

US - Cowboy Life
Every aspect of cowboy culture
http://www.cowboylife.com

Last found as error 404 (not found) - http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/warhero.htm/ - US - History Place JFK - photo history -

UK: Isle of Man (oncce a very good site but now defunct): http://www.isle-of-man.com/

UK: Social history website on Georgian period, the Georgian Index at: http://www.georgianindex.net/

Error 500 - can't connect - US Army Centre of Military History
Texts, photos, art, bibliographies
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/

US History - Al Capone Museum was once at: http://www.alcaponemuseum.com/

Vikings in the North Atlantic
Has Quicktime VR, good review
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings

American Wild West: Last found as error 500 (can't connect) - http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/ - West - Wild West - Billy the Kid, Outlaw -

World War I Document Archive
Good review
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi

WorldWar1.com
Billed as the ultimate WWI website
http://www.worldwar1.com

Below are items still uncollected:

British Online Resources, various, at: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/Default.aspx

Currency converter for British pounds/US dollars: Find out the relative value of British pounds/US dollars and other financial indicators at any given time in history: From Economic History Services At: http://eh.het.hmit/

For Oz genealogy, best website yet found by Dec 2007 is http by Robert Mote at http://www.search4ancestors.net/

Privateers (American) during American Revolution, at: http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html

Timeline Index: Very helpful, with links to timelines on basic chronology, people, places, subjects, events, locations, plus other matters of searchableness, at: http://www.timelineindex.com/

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