Browse Website Reviews

Discover quality websites on a range of topics and time periods. If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.

Missionaries and local Christians New Year's Meeting

Church Missionary Society Periodicals

Church Missionary Society Periodicals illustrates Anglican evangelical missionary work between 1804 and 2009 through an online collection of the publications of the Church Missionary Society (CMS).
The picture of immigrants on the ship which arrived to the harbor

Migration to New Worlds

Migration to New Worlds is a multi-archive collection that provides an in-depth look at the history of migration to the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, mainly from 1800 to 1924.
Mass Observation Observer Meeting

Mass Observation Online

Mass Observation Online (MOO) is derived from the digitized archive of the organization Mass-Observation, a United Kingdom social research organization founded in 1937, the aim was to document the social history of Britain.
A Picture of Medieval day life

Medieval Family Life

Medieval Family Life (MFL) is a collection of letters and documents from the four major 15th-century English family collections, which reveal the details of medieval life in the areas of business, politics, community, family affairs, and relationships.
A picture of a woman in medieval age

Perdita Manuscripts

Perdita Manuscripts, based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University, is a digital collection of the complete images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries.
A picture of anti-slavery

Slavery and Anti-Slavery:A Transnational Archive

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive is the world’s largest archive on the history of slavery, which is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective.
Ally Sloper's comic kalender

London Low Life

London Low Life is a full-text searchable electronic resource, it has the potential to encourage some overdue rethinking of the way in which we conceptualize the Victorians, especially the line between different classes.
A picture of an American woman travelled in Cambodia

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History (TWSWH) is a digitized collection of travel sources created by 19th- and 20th-century American women.
A picture of Circus

Victorian Popular Culture

Victorian Popular Culture (VPC) is an engaging digital collection of unique primary sources describing popular entertainment in the US, the UK, and Europe from 1779 to 1930.
A Picture of Fairs

The World's Fairs

The World's Fairs archive is a treasure which offers information on all aspects of the World Fairs and Expositions spanning 1851-2015.
A poster for propaganda

The First World War

The First World War is a wonderful collection of primary source documents which offers a remarkable window on the lives and experiences of people during the First World War.
This picture shows how westerners draws the gods of China

China: Culture and Society

China: Culture and Society is a collection of pamphlets digitized from the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University, the materials in this collection depict Chinese history and culture from a primarily Western
An advertisement about the tour of all America and Both Worlds Fairs, it also include a map of all destinations of the tour.

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture – The History of Tourism

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture – The History of Tourism is an online archive of tourism resources, which allows students and researchers to gain a broader understanding of the cultural and social history of mass tourism.
Notebooks of Keigan, c.1804, re. Raku

Meiji Japan

Meiji Japan is an excellent resource that shows how Edward Morse devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.
Jewish Life in America is a rich collection of archival materials and primary sources documenting the history of Jewish settlement and life in the US from colonial times through the mid-twentieth century.

Jewish Life in America

The archive brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, while tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Lyn Cooper wearing "I Am A Lesbian" t-shirt, Adelaide, South Australia, c. 1973.

Wearing Gay History

The project uses the t-shirt, to uncover and make available often unknown narratives regarding LGBTQIA history, defeating coastal biases and exhibiting the diversity of the queer community.
Teaching Central America: A Project of Teaching for Change

Teaching Central America

Teaching Central America provides educational materials for K-12 educators with the goal of centering Central American history and culture in primary and secondary classrooms.
Teaching LGBTQ History website homepage with a collage of images from the archive behind the title.

Teaching LGBTQ History

Teaching LGBTQ History is an organized and quality social-justice oriented educational resource that provides a wide diversity of adaptable lesson plans and connection to outside community-based and digital online resources.
Girl Museum Logo, Celebrating 15 years, 2009-2014

Girl Museum

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.
Logo says "Archives Portal Europe" with magnifying glass icon

Archives Portal Europe

This website presents records from dozens of countries, in over 20 languages, and from around 7000 diverse archival institutions total including the national archives of dozens of countries and other smaller institutions.