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Links as featured in 'British Studies Now', issue 12 Complete links archive (updated)Search enginesHow the sites were chosen Sites had to satisfy at least one of these criteria:
Please email us if you have any problems finding these sites. All links were last updated in January 2002.
Links featured in BSN 12Childhood The
Centre for International Research in Childhood (postgraduate
courses) Young
Book Trust Contains information about this organisation's many useful publications and resources including 100 best books, an annual compilation of ‘the pick of the paperback stories for children from babies to teenagers’ published during a given year. The 1999 edition costs £2.20 (ISBN: 0853534799). Editions for 1997 and 1998 are still in print. Useful for libraries, parents and teachers. Bethnal
Green Museum of Childhood Basic information on the major UK collection at East London’s Bethnal Green Museum The
New Child Very informative guide to a 1995 exhibition of painting, The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood with considerable background on the social history of the subject.
The University of Virginia’s electronic text centre’s collection of on-line out of copyright children’s literature Centre for the Social
Study of Childhood Details of a new multi-disciplinary research centre based in the School of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Hull - applying social theory to childhood and carrying out empirical studies of children's lives. The
Realbook Web Site A very useful site for those teaching English to young learners. General sites Aviator
project Fascinating searchable collection on neologisms sampled by the Research and Development Unit for English Studies at the University of Liverpool. Each list contains ‘new' words from the Independent between the period January 1989 to December 1995. The words have been identified as being new by filtering software developed by the Unit during their AVIATOR Project, 1990 – 1993. Each word is given in surrounding context providing a commentary of sorts on social change. At random: clausefourphobia, sleepover, meatlessness. Asian
Online A index of British Asian community resources including news, business, cuisine, fashion and marriage. British Association
of Toy Retailers An excellent website including a list of top selling toys each year from 1965. Fairy
Stories on the Web Edition six of the British Council Poland's British Studies web pages is devoted to 'Myths, Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales'. They are designed for teachers and learners of English in secondary schools and Teacher Training Colleges and can be adapted or used for self-study. Concordance
to Beatrix Potter Search a concordance to the text of all the Beatrix Potter stories to test your theories: the verb 'escape' is never used although pie(s) feature quite frequently. You can also search more than eighty classics (i.e. out of copyright works) on this site created by Bill Williams, including all the Sherlock Holmes stories to prove Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson'. The
Tale of Peter Rabbit The whole story, one page at a time with full-colour original illustration. Complete links archive: Art | British Council | British Council | Education | Film | General | History | Newspapers | Politics | Recommended search engines | Discussion group Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London The homepages of Britain's leading centre for the contemporary arts currently undergoing a major redesign. Features in the past have included selected talk transcripts including Jean Baudrillard's 1997 lecture, selected archives from the last 50 years and a complete catalogue of their very reasonably priced and unique range of video and audio tapes. Set a web robot such as netmind (see below) to watch the sight and inform you of changes. British
Council pages This is where you are now. There are plenty of guides to information about the UK's resources in Education, Governance, Science and the Arts available from the main home page. Several country sites are maintaining dedicated British Studies pages, a selection of which you can find below. The British Studies homepages edited in Britain (http://www.britishcouncil.org/studies) contain an on-line bibliography, key articles, events listings, conference proceedings, frequently asked questions, British Council publications including selected themes on-line from the British Studies Now newsletter and how to join the British Studies discussion group, EDBRITS-L . France English Language Teachers Contacts Scheme (ELTECS) - English - The British Council United Kingdom The
British Council: LanguageAssistantant UK
Universities An alphabetical listing
of sites hosted by the University of Birmingham. (There is also a very useful world listing at http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html) The Languages, Lingusitics
and Area Studies Subject Centre's site has an email
discussion list and a link to The Independent's
A-Z of degrees at: The
Internet movie database A model on-line database holding cross-references information on films, cast, actors, directors, awards etc. If you're running a film club, very useful for checking film formats, and checking the degree to which a film is British (over 7,000 are listed). Transnational
Communities The Economic and Social Research Council has commissioned a £3.8 million national research programme into aspects of emerging transnationalism which will run until 2002. The initiative is directed by Steve Vertovec at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Anthropology and Geography. The programme's projects will 'broaden our understanding of the new and increasingly significant place of globe-spanning social networks in labour, business and commodity markets, political movements and cultural flows. The programme will concentrate on an actor-directed view of globalisation - 'globalisation from below''. The programme has many projects; Axial Writing, co-ordinated by Tom Cheesman in the Department of German at University of Wales, Swansea, is one which looks at the issues of cultural policy and practice for film-makers and writers in this context. British
Official Publications Current Awareness Service (BOPCAS) Formerly 'UK official publications on-line' (NUKOP) - BOPCAS is the UK's grey literature homepages, which at October 1999 contained bibliographic details of more than 14,000 official publications from government and government bodies . The site offers a set of current awareness services including abstracts, special interest e-mail groups, on-line searching and hypertext links which offered by paid subscription. However the free services provide browsing access to material published in the last 6 months and an on-line ordering system through Dandy Booksellers. There is a reduced subsription charge to registered charities. NYRIS -
Nordic youth research information Wonderful site for social science research into Youth Europe-wide. The site takes you to NYR Symposia with proceedings and the on-line journal Young, the Nordic Journal of Youth Research: don't miss papers from Paul Gilroy and Angela McRobbie in Vol 1 No 2 (http://www.alli.fi/nyri/young/yovol1.htm) The
Victorian web Very good interdisciplinary overview of the Victorian period. Attractive easily navigable site especially suited to survey courses looking at Empire and the antecedents of British 20th Century Culture The
Institute of contemporary British history If you are not familiar with the resources of this institute based in the University of London, then its resources will be a revelation. Its publications and events make the key contribution to the study of British post-War history and culture. The huge database of Teachers of History in the Universities of the UK on the adjoining site of the Institute of Historical research must be one of the best kept secrets on the web. The Times, Sunday
Times, Times Literary, Education and Higher Education Supplements
(TLS, TES and THES) Virtually complete e-versions of the daily and Sunday newspapers plus highlights from the two supplements but few pictures. Registration is required but the site is free. The Times Literary Supplement now includes an archive of past issues older than six months if you subscribe to the print version and there are similar benefits for THES readers. The
Electronic Telegraph Almost complete e-versions of the daily and Sunday newspapers with a few photos. Good search/archive facility. Its obituaries are particularly well-written and useful. Registration is required but the site is free. The Online
Mirror The Daily Mirror online features a generous selection of its reports and features The Guardian and The
Observer Excellent selection of news features and columnists from these two broadsheet newspapers, The Guardian (daily) and The Observer (Sunday). The site was relaunched in January 1999 as The Guardian Unlimited. The front news page has a 'breaking news feature' and the fascinating , Notes & Queries section provides reader's answers to intriguingly answers to such head-scratchers as "Why is a full cooked English breakfast (amongst other things) sometimes referred to as "the full Monty?" CCTA
Government infomation service - Hansard and official
British Monarchy sites Perhaps the two most useful additions to this indispensable site about government and its functions are the official British Monarchy site, and the searchable transcripts of the House of Commons business from the House of Commons and House of Lords (Hansard). To find Hansard choose the 'organisational' index and then select Hansard choosing House of Commons or House of Lords. Surely the most significant British Studies resource to appear on the WWW to date. BBC parliament Tune in to the BBC's daily TV roundups of Parliament. Frequent live coverage direct from the House of Commons, the UK's lower chamber. Recommended search engines Google
advanced search Second only to 'All the Web..'. in coverage with abilty to search for Adobe Acrobate .pdf files. It keeps a cache of old pages even if they have been removed. Note the ability to refine search by language, domain, or to search a phrase in the title or the address of a page. Friendly display of results. All the
Web, all the time As the name suggests, vast coverage: the place to go for something really obscure. Also very useful for searching for audio/visual formats. The picture search is especially good for researchers and editors. Hotbot
supersearch Huge search base but quick and offering some of the most useful search criteria of any search engine: search by page name, date, domain, geographical area. Seach also by file formats, eg Image, audio, video. IXQuick
Metasearch A comprehensive and clear metasearch engine. An internet discussion group for British Studies Now you can join the discussion group for British Studies directly on the WWW. Note: with the exception of pages held on its own server, the British Council accepts no responsibility for the content of any site recommended here. The WWW is a dynamic medium and pages change daily: please let us know about any links which are not working. return to top Home | bibliography | publications | calendar | links
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