Victoria County History

Victoria County History of  Wiltshire
Victoria County History of Gloucestershire
Victoria County History of Somerset
National Victoria County History

Other Regional History Centres

Manchester Centre for Regional History, at Manchester Metropolitan University.
East Anglian Studies Centre at UEA Norwich
Centre for Urban History at University of Leicester
Centre for Northern Studies at the University of Northumbria
Centre for North- West Regional Studies at the University of Lancaster
Centre for Metropolitan History at the IHR
AHRC Centre for North-East England History at University of Durham
AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies Universities of Aberdeen, Queen's Belfast and Trinity Dublin
Centre for Local History at the University of Keele

Local History Societies

Avon Local History Association	Nailsea and District Local History Society
Bristol and Avon Family History Society	Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society	Somerset and Dorset Family History Society
Fishponds Local History Society Web site	Somerset Local History Societies
Gloucestershire Family History Society	Somerton Web Museum
Living Easton	Wiltshire Family History Society

Archives

Access to Archives (A2A) Wiltshire archivists have joined a nation wide initiative to convert the catalogues of historic archives held by record offices, museums and libraries in the region into electronic format. The project aims to make all catalogues available on the internet in a searchable form. The current project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Treasury. By the end of March 2002 it should be possible to see all the catalogues of church and school records from South-West England by logging on to www.a2a.pro.gov.uk

From History to Her Story . This is a lottery funded project which is converting archival sources on the lives of Yorkshire women into electronic form.

Genesis is an RSLP-funded project to develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles, based at The Women's Library in London. There are two main strands of the project:
1. A web-accessible database of library, museum and archive collection descriptions, available freely to anyone with Internet access. This database will be available from June 2002.
2. The Guide to Sources - a comprehensive list of web resources relating to the study of women's history, including British and International sites.

Reece Winstone Archive Reece Winstone FRPS, 1909-1991, was a freelance photographer all his life and built up his own photo-library of Beautiful Britain. He was a Bristolian, who recorded the city from 1930 to 1975. Post-war he began collecting historic photographs of the city, and was the first person to publish serial books of historic photographs, in 1957. This corpus is now all termed the Reece Winstone Archive.

The Women's Archive of Wales rescues and preserves the unique experience of women in Wales and hosts an archive of women's letters, diaries, minute books, accounts, newspaper cuttings, newsletters, photographs, scrapbooks and other material. Visit their website at www.womensarchivewales.org for more details.

Other Links

Digital Stroud aims to give you a flavour of Stroud's past, present and future. 

The Institute of Historical Research

British History Online

The above two sites contain West Country Victoria County History volumes among other very useful resources.

 These web pages are maintained by Dr James Lee. Please email comments to James5.Lee@uwe.ac.uk