Recommended History Web Links 

The web is an excellent compliment to using the normal methods of historical research: books and journals. I always start by searching for the topic I want using Google, the most effective search engine by a significant margin. I also use:

• The Britannica website for its articles and its links.
• Microsoft Encarta articles and links
• The retailers Amazon and Barnes & Noble have comments and reviews on History books
• The electronic journal services Bids and Uncover

Apprenticeship 

• http://www.mailbag.com/users/jswatson/Apprenticeship.htm Apprenticeship and Nurture

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1248apprentice-barber.htmlMedieval Sourcebook:
  Apprenticeship Agreements: To a Barber, 1248

• http://www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol12/12ch1.html Barbara A. Hanawalt  Narratives of a Nurturing Culture: Parents and Neighbours in Medieval England.

• http://www.britannica.com/bcom/magazine/article/0,5744,7397,00.html?query=medieval%20apprenticeship C. Dyer, How Urban Was Medieval England? From History Today, January 1997. A

• http://www.ukans.edu/~medieval/melcher/matthias/t90/0335.html Lynn H. Nelson ‘Apprenticeship as a way of raising children’.

• http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/bus/A0804422.html Apprenticeship Article. Accessed 7/10/2000

• http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/medsoc/town.htm Organisation of Medieval Society: The Towns.

• http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/text/marketplace.html Evolution of Trade and Apprenticeship.

• http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/corehistorians/migrate/Text/shampc.htm Online reproduction of the calendar of Southampton apprenticeship registers, 1609-1740

Spanish Civil War

• http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/spancivwar/Spanishcivilwar.html - accessed 1/3/00 
• http://www.eb.com  - accessed 1/3/00

18th Century British History

• http://brithistory.homepage.com/williamandmary.html James Paterson's British History Site: The Glorious Revolution and the Reign of William and Mary. Accessed 9/10/2000
• http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ENGLAND.HTM ‘The case of revolutionary England in the European Enlightenment’. Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://www.cyberplexafrica.com/fingaz/99/stage/archive/991013/public-index.html ‘The prospects for a glorious revolution’ by Masipula Sithole. Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/~glorious The Glorious Revolution Of 1688 Website.  Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://www.eb.com Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Glorious Revolution articles. Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/history/Glorious_Revolution.html The ‘Glorious Revolution’ David Cody, Associate Professor of English, Hartwick College. Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~3do5/protect.html England in the 17^th century: The Protectorate, Restoration and "Glorious Revolution". Accessed 9/10/2000

• http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~jdana/history/unionhist.html Irish History on the web: Unionist History. Accessed 9/10/2000

World History

• http://encarta.msn.com - articles on the river Tigris, population, Baghdad and al-Mansur http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Islam/Abbasid.html

• http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~lskinner/peru.html 
• http://www.amazon.com/ - Plagues and Peoples by McNeil (1976) chapter one
• http://www.tcr.org/mexico.html Concorde review web page: End of an empire: The Spanish conquest of Mexico by Ben Hulse 
• http://www.eb.com/ Britanninica Encyclopaedia on-line 
• http:\\www.umt.edu/nas University of New Mexico Native American Studies  

• http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/icheard.html 
  'The Song of the Husbandman'

• Peasants from http://www.eb.com 8/02/00

• http://www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/duncan/medfem/icheard.html 17/02/00

• http://www.bookwire.com/bbr/poetry/collected-langston-hughes.html Accessed 4/3/00

• http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/lhughfst.htm Accessed 4/3/00

• http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/life.htm Accessed 4/3/00

• http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/3/91.03.01.x.html Accessed 26/3/00

• http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/america.htm Accessed 26/3/00

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/poet/hughes.html Accessed 26/3/00

• http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nick/e309k/texts/hughes/hughes-bio.htmls Accessed 17/400

• http://www.ascd.org/pubs/el/apr99/exthalford.html Accessed 17/400

• Understanding Race, Class, and Culture: Ronald Takaki

• http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/3/91.03.01.x.html

• http://www.lucknow.com/horus/etexts/thewest2.html# Introduction

• http://www.arabacademy.com/cgi-bin/library_courses/Faq_e.htm The Value Of Arabic. Accessed 1/3/01.

• http://www.magma.ca/~omcc/jun1998.html The Structure Of The Ummayyad Bureaucracy. Accessed 1/3/01.

• Encyclopedia Britannica articles on: Marwan II, Bureaucracy, Islam, Moguhl Empire, The Islamic World and Writing. Accessed 1/3/01

• http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h08is.htm ‘Islam And Fragmentation (670-1200)’. Accessed 1/3/01

• http://islamicweb.com/history/hist_Umayyad.htm The History Of The Ummayyads. Accessed 1/3/01

• http://islam.org/mosque/ihame/Sec4.htm The Secular Concerns Of The Ummayyads. Accessed 1/3/01.

The Cold War (nato essay)

• http://www.nato.int/ 28/3/00 Offical NATO website

• http://www.omnibusol.com/wcessay4.html

  • ‘Stalin's Acquisitions: A Little Design, A Lot of Luck’
  • ‘Stalin as Kidnapper; Eastern Europe as Child; the West as Neglectful Parent’
  • ‘Stalin Design, Western Ignorance: A Fatal Mistake Due to Expert Manipulation and Idealism and Ignorance
  • ‘Stalin and the Allies: The Seduction of a Kremlin Leader Gone Wrong’

• http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/stalin/lectures/ColdWar.html 15/2/00 Professor Gerhard Rempel

• http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.htm 17/2/00 United States library of congress archives

• http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm

• http://ac.acusd.edu/History/20th/coldwar0.html

• http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/soviet.exhibit/soviet.archive.html   28/3/00 Soviet primary sources’ museum exhibition

China (Mongol influence and early ideas about women)

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/hankoongtsu.html Full text of a play about the threat of the Mongols to the Chinese empire, and the use of a marriage strategy to avoid conflict.  Accessed 17/10/00

• http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/v010/10.2wang.html History, Space, and Ethnicity: The Chinese Worldview by Q. Edward Wang. Accessed 6/10/00

• http://www.stapleshigh.net/research/china_dynasties/Yüan.html Research Paper On the Yuan dynasty Accessed 24/10/00

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mpolo44-46.html Direct Translation Of Marco Polo’s writings Accessed 17/10/00

• http://www.tk421.net/essays/polo.shtml Essay on Marco Polo. Accessed 17/10/00

• http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~anth220/thepast.html Article: ‘The effect of the past on China’s Present’. Accessed 24/10/00

• http://www.haoyah.com/English/culture/history4.asp#11 Extent of the Mongols’ sinicisation. Accessed 24/10/00

• http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/studentprojects/japan/1997b/app1.htm Sinicisation. Accessed 7/11/00

• http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/culture.html

• http://www.aasianst.org/absts/1995abst/china/csess7.htm

• http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0,5716,127719+6+117321,00.html Encyclopaedia Britannica article on the Yuan dynasty economy. Accessed 9/10/00

• http://fractal.umd.edu/history/part2 Accessed 10/10/00

• http://www.enteract.com/~geenius/kongfuzi/ Confucius the master. Accessed 22/11/00
• http://www.san.beck.org/EC15-Taoism.html      The Ethics of Taoism. Accessed 22/11/00
• http://www.sasinschool.com/resource/pages/weblessons_handout.shtml Comparing Confucianism and Taoism. Accessed 12/12/00         
• http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson3.html            40 Women and Confucianism, Collection of Confucian sayings. Accessed 12/12/00
• http://www.anth.uconn.edu/classes/anth298_s98/Week8.html Women and Religion: Taoism & Confucianism. Accessed 12/12/00
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04223b.htm Charles F. Aitken: The fundamental virtues of Confucianism. Accessed 3/1/01
• http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/guides/TMGID.html The Taoist Tradition: A Historical Outline. Russell Kirkland, Professor of Religion, University of Georgia Accessed 2/1/01

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