http://netvouz.com/madelvic/tag/history?feed=rss madelvic's bookmarks tagged "history" on Netvouz http://www.abandonedcommunities.co.uk/index.html "Since the Middle Ages thousands of towns, villages, and other human communities in Great Britain have been abandoned [...] This website commemorates all abandoned communities..." madelvic Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:25 GMT http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/ AddressingHistory combines data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps. In the first instance AddressingHistory focuses on three eras of Edinburgh mapping and Post Office Directories (1784-5; 1865; 1905-6). madelvic Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:44:44 GMT http://discover.nls.uk/ madelvic Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:19:04 GMT http://archiveshub.ac.uk/ "...search across a wealth of archives held at nearly 200 UK institutions..." madelvic Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:58:30 GMT http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk Gateway to almost 20,000 descriptions of archives of over 150 UK universities and colleges. Complete catalogue descriptions provided where available. madelvic Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:01:14 GMT http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/argyllmc.html Records of Argyll Motor Co. held by Glasgow University. madelvic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:23:11 GMT http://www.argyllmotors.co.uk/index.html Source of 'Argyll Motors : The Story of Supreme Success and Dismal Failure' and 'A Brief History of the Argyll Motor Car'. Also contains 'The Story of the Single-Sleeve Valve Engine' (1927 article recording the development of the Burt-McCollum engine) and 'The Single Sleeve Valve Engine' (paper presented to the S.A.E. in 1926). madelvic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:21:42 GMT http://www.ballasttrust.org.uk/ "The Ballast Trust is a charitable foundation that provides a rescue, sorting and cataloguing service for business archives with an emphasis on technical records such as shipbuilding, railway and engineering plans, drawings and photographs..." madelvic Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:45:04 GMT http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/scotlandonfilm/media_clips/index_topic.shtml?topic=transport&subtopic=land Videos: 'The George Bennie System of Transport' (the launch of the Bennie Railplane, 1920) and 'Young in Heart' (the story of the manufacture of the Hillman Imp). madelvic Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:26:27 GMT http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/beginners/default.htm A beginners' online tutorial for Latin from the period 1086–1733. madelvic Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:57:16 GMT