Digital history
'Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting The Past on The Web' (2005) is a free ebook, published online by the Center for History and New Media. The book is cleanly designed in HTML, and is easy to navigate. Chapters include: 'Designing for the History Web'; 'Building an Audience'; 'Collecting History Online'; 'Owning the Past?' and 'Preserving Digital History', among others. A 355-page print version of the book (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) is also availabl
Latin American theatre review
Latin American Theatre Review is a full-text ejournal. The website of the Latin American Theatre Review offers free access to full-text back-issues from 1967-2004, and thereafter abstracts or more recent articles. The journal is published twice each year, from the University of Kansas in the U.S.A. Articles are freely available as PDF files, and articles are either in Spanish or English. Example full-text article titles are: 'The House of Pretension: Space and Performance in Miguel Pinero's Thea
Cadernos de história da educação
'Cadernos de história da educação' is an online scholarly journal published in Portuguese addressing itself to educational history in Brazil. It is published by the Educational History Unit of the Faculty of Education at the Universidade Federal da Uberlândia. It first came out in 2002, already in an electronic format in addition to the printed one. Its annual volumes originally focused upon the history of education in one particular state of Brazil, but later issues also embrace wider issu
Revista Ideação
Ideação is a scholarly e-journal published by the Centre of Education and Letters of the Universidade Unioeste in Brazil, focusing on education, letters and humanities. First lauched in 1999, it became online accessible journal from volume 5 (2003). The original annual publication became a biannual publication in 2006; and each article in these volume is available in pdf format. The issues are subdivided into different sections: articles, essays, interviews, reviews. They take their subject m
Textos e pretextos
Textos e pretextos is a literary journal published by the Camões Institute, Lisbon, with the aim of providing an outlet for academic criticism on the most important characters of Lusophone authors. First launched in 2002, it has brought out bi-annual volumes focusing upon either individual authors or important theoretical concepts. Issue number 2 (2003) focuses on the concept of the mirror, while number 7 (2005) discusses the work of Chico Buarque. Each issue assists study by a detaile
Onomázein : Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Translation
'Onomázein' is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal of linguistics, philology and translation by the Faculty of Humanities at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It publishes articles, reviews, and interviews in Spanish, English, and French within the field, although contributions in Spanish feature more often. In any case, an English version of the title and the abstract are provided. Likewise, although the study of the Spanish language has been widely covered by the journal, editors a
Revistas Colegio de México
The 'Colegio de México' has made available a portal which brings together all its academic periodic publications. Although subscriptions to hard copy versions are still an option, full-text electronic contents for all journals can be accessed and downloaded for free here. Contributions have occasionally been published in English, but users should bear in mind most of the contents are in Spanish only. Free text searches are available (within the whole collection or just one journal at a time). P
Fondos digitalizados : Universidad de Sevilla
The electronic collection of the University of Seville acts as a digital repository of historical photographs; PhD theses; and digitised version of old printed books, journals and manuscripts. The collection is divided in three clear sections for each type of materials. The electronic collection of ancient and rare materials includes books, newspapers and manuscripts from the 15th to the 20th century. It can be browsed by subject and date of publication; or the user may alternatively perform a f
Court rolls of Ramsey, Hepmangrove and Bury, 1268-1600
This website, from the Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan, provides free online access to the court rolls of Ramsey, Hepmangrove and Bury from 1268-1600. The rolls were originally published as microfiche but are now available online through this fantastic resource. The rolls are an excellent primary source resource for those interested in the lives of ordinary people in the Midlands of England during this period. Users can either browse through the entire list (publishe
[ROYAL: Illuminated manuscripts of the Kings and Queens of England]
This Web page reports on an AHRC-funded project centred around research into the British Library's collection of 1,950 manuscripts donated by King George II in 1757. Maintained as a collection (labelled 'ROYAL') since this time, they represent the largest surviving collection of medieval illumination and painting owned by English monarchs. The grant will enable the first ever major research project into the collection, resulting in an exhibition in 2011, as well as being added to the Library's o
Art Israel
'Art Israel' is an online arts magazine/directory published by the Contemporary Israeli Art Fund and run by Artis. Art Israel is produced in English, and is free. At April 2009 there are 13 artist profiles and short interviews. The website lists exhibitions and events in Israel, New York, and elsewhere. There is a useful 'Israeli Art Guide' page with details of art galleries in Israel, accompanied by a map and external links to websites. The 'News' page tracks and links to profiles and interview
Dictionary of African Christian biography
The Dictionary of African Christian Biography (DACB) is a free online reference resource aiming to record the untold stories of African Christians who have impacted the history of the African church, and of Christianity more widely. Presented as an electronic database browsable by name of subject or region, it covers all denominations and branches of African Christianity, including the missionary movement, from earliest times to the present. The DACB aims to foster an understanding of African Ch
2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
This initiative is being run by the European Commission (Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities directorate). The year aims to raise awareness of poverty in the European Union, where apparently 17% of people live below the poverty line. This will involve governments and social partners, plus the public. A number of activities will be held, usually decentralised, and a euro17 million budget will support these. Ambassadors will be appointed. A calendar of events can be viewed and
Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju
The website Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju (Annual for Social History) is the online presence of this annual published in Belgrade, Serbia since 1994 by the Association for Social History. The publication focuses on social history issues of Serbia and the Balkans from the medieval period onward and appears in three issues per annum. The language of the annual is Serbian, although some articles are in English. Articles have English language abstracts. The annual publishes research articles, bo
Archives of Maryland online
This website, the Archives of Maryland Online, 'provides access [as of October 2009] to over 471,000 historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government'. The simple to use website is split into several subcategories (including, but not limited to, slavery commission, session laws, fiscal records, judicial records, constitutional records, and so on) aims to provide researchers, scholars and interested amateurs with t
V&A online journal
This Web page gives access to all issues of the 'V&A Online Journal', a free full-text research journal. This annual ejournal is published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At December 2009 there are two issues online, with articles published as HTML pages. Example scholarly articles include: 'James "Athenian" Stuart: The Architect as Landscape Painter'; 'Doing Time: Patchwork as a Tool of Social Rehabilitation in British Prisons'; 'Computer Art at the V&A'; and 'The Film Work of Sta
In the footsteps of Marco Polo
The website "In the footsteps of Marco Polo" was produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum in 2002-2003. An interactive map shows the route Marco Polo (1254-1323?) took, having departed Venice in 1271. Users can retrace the journey, which lasted twenty-four years and took the Venetian merchant to China, which he called Cathay, and to the Court of Khubilai Khan. Some places visited by Marco Polo are described in detail - taking in
Argumentum : the peer-reviewed electronic journal of the graduate school for linguistics, University
This is the home page of the "Argumentum", the peer-reviewed e-journal published by the Graduate School for Linguistics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. The site is bilingual, Hungarian and English, thus being available to a wide scholarly audience. However, the introduction and the guidelines for submissions of articles are written only in Hungarian. The English version of these can be read under the "technical guide". Argumentum is published once a year. The articles in the review are w
Michel Faber : Interview
This interview with the Dutch novelist and short story writer Michel Faber (1960- ) is published by January Magazine, an online arts journal edited by Linda L. Richards. The lengthy interview, conducted by Richards in November 2002, is preceded by a short biography and a review, by David Abrams, of Faber's remarkable novel, set in Victorian England, 'The Crimson Petal and the White' (Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, 2002). It is concerned mostly about the writing of that novel which, apparently,
Austrian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
The Austrian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies is a research website devoted to interdisciplinary research on the Hasburg Monarchy of the 18th century. Established in 1982, the Society specializes in a range of humanities disciplines, including history, philology, history of art, musicology, cultural history, and the history of education. There is information here on the Society's publications, yearbooks, seminars, conferences and workshops, as well as the Franz Stephan Prize, named for F
