History is Awesome!

Northwest History has a post up: Exploring turn-of-the century social history via wax cylinders that points at the totally awesome Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, which is now my new favourite primary source.

I'm enjoying listening to music about prohibition. You should totally have liquor hidden in your cellar to get all the beautiful girls!

I wanted to call people's attention to a relatively-new blog, Voyage of the Vampire.

The Vampire diary was received as part of a collection donated to the Heritage Hub by Ian Abernethy in 2008. It is one highlight from a rich collection of diaries and papers from Sir George and the wider family.

The idea developed that presenting the diary as a blog would be a way to showcase its potential and provide access to a wider audience. Entries are set up to appear in “real time” so it is as if we are really following George on his Voyage of the Vampire between 1 April 1846 and January 1847.

I am lousy at tagging (you should see my delicious).

What sort of tags do people think there should be? What would make tags user-friendly for people?

Hi All,

I am putting together a list of primary sources that are available for free on the internet.

[My prof, bless her wee cotton socks, thinks "history on the internet" is limited to Wikipedia.]

What are you favourite primary source websites?

( my list is behind the cut )