Useful links for using primary sources

Remember - most archives and historic printed materials are NOT available online!

These sites provide links to further information, to catalogues and (less often) to digital images or transcriptions or original material.

General portals and gateways

• Archives Hub: Archive Catalogues in UK Universities
• Humbul Humanities Hub
• the Institute of Historical Research produces a very helpful list at http://www.history.ac.uk/sites/history.ac.uk/files/IHR_guide_Internet_resources.pdf
• National Register of Archives
• UK Archives network: Access to Archives

Specialist subjects - portals include

• CASBAH (Black/Asian)
• Cecilia (music)
• Connected Histories (sources for the period 1500-1900)
• Genesis: sources for women's history
• The Labyrinth (medieval)
• British History Online (politics)
• Images of England
• National Monuments Record
• VADS (visual arts)

Other repositories

• ARCHON - contact directory for UK archives services
• Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
• British Library
• Charles Booth Online Archive
• Data Archive
• Leeds University Archives
• The National Archives
• Sheffield University Archives
• The Women's Library
• West Yorkshire Archive Service

Local history

• History of Nursing in Huddersfield
• Kirklees Image Archive
• Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group

Online tutorials for using archives

• Using archives from Intute
• Latin and Palaeography tutorials - from the National Archives

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