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[|World Atlases]

[|Holt Rinehart & Winston Researcher]

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

The World mapped as you've never seen it before! Visually proportional according to the category you choose e.g. religion or language.

**Interactive History Timeline**

This new interactive history timeline allows students and teachers to explore collection items from the British Library chronologically. 800 years of diverse historical texts are displayed through a fun and engaging timeline interface, making //Timelines// a fantastic resource for students and teachers of history. **Highlights of the timeline include:**
 * Manuscripts by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Mozart, Beethoven, Wordsworth, Florence Nightingale and Dickens
 * Original records from the Black Death and the Great Fire to the French Revolution and the abolition of the slave trade
 * The first printed book of the western world, the first cookery manuscript, the first English bible and the first postage stamp
 * Posters, advertisements and illustrations documenting everything from public executions and magic shows to plague cures and séances

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British Library: Collection research http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/index.html

British Museum Research Collection http://www.britishmuseum.org/research.aspx

Corbis Images: a great database for finding photographic and illustrative sources http://www.corbisimages.com/

Imperial War Museum: Collections & Research http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections-research

Internet History Sourcebooks Project: a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented for educational use. Modern http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.asp Ancient http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/asbook.asp General http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/sbook.asp

Mary Evans Picture Library: fantastic database for photographic, illustration, magazine sources from 19c to modern day. http://www.maryevans.com/

Migration Histories http://www.movingpeoplechangingplaces.org/migration-histories.html

Museum of London: Collections & Research http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/Collections-Research/

National Archives Education Online http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/default1750.htm

Newspaper Archive (British) http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

Old Bailey Online Archive: The Proceedings of London's Central Criminal Court 1674-1913. Searchable database. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

The Women’s Library http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/

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