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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/
8-12 August, 2007: Major international conference in Ghana, West Africa. Co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/glc/) as well as the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation at University of Hull in England (had been at: http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/2007.html)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:
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
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http://www.archaeology.org.online/features/pandora/ Bligh -
Bounty - Pandora British-India |
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Last found as Error 404 - not found -
http://www.regiments.org/milhist/southasia/india.htm -
British-India http://www.ozemail.com.au/jsnelson/convict.html/
Convicts - The Southern Cross Genealogy Page |
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http://www.ccsna.org/ Family - Clan Campbell Society of North
America (Now defunct) Family - Money, General genealogy: http://members.tripod.co.uk/Adrian_Money/william.htm Broken link - http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bdm/">Family - NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Useful http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bdm http://www.cableone.net/palmer/palmer-l/palmbook.htm/ Family - Palmer Family Books & Other Resources (broken link) http://pattle.webprovider.com/ Family - Pattle One of several sites on Pattles http://home.pix.za/ms/ms73/0757.htm/ Family - Pattle at
Scott's End http://www.interfusion.net.au/~shazzac/IRDP.html/ Family
History from British India |
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Genealogy -
Australian Genealogy Forum |
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Irish
ancestry search Library -
US Library of Congress |
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http://rims.k12.ca.us/ugr/index1999.html/
Slavery - Footsteps to Freedom |
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Part Three
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Gould's Books
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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
Heritage - Teaching Heritage
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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