History

• Europeana
  • Images

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UK history

• Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
• English Heritage

• antiqueprints.com
  • ancestryimages.com - Public domain images of old prints.

• Photos of UK and Ireland castles

• Castles of Wales
  • index of castles
  • index of persons

• Pathe News
  • British Pathe
  • youtube

Buildings

• Historic England
  • Search
  • Map search
  • Image search
  • Incorporates the former "Images of England" site.

• British Listed Buildings

Scotland

• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
• Historic Environment Scotland
• Listed buildings of Scotland

• Canmore (see site)
  • Buildings and archaeological sites in Scotland.
  • Browse map.

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Irish history

• Pacata Hibernia by Thomas Stafford (1633).
  • 1801 edn (2 vols).
  • 1896 edn vol.1 and vol.2.

• Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO)
  • DHO:Discovery (many online images of heritage, Creative Commons) (see "Browse")

• Landed Estates project. Formerly here.

• irelandposters.com
• oldirishimages.com

• CSO - Central Statistics Office
• OPW - Office of Public Works
  • Dúchas The Heritage Service
  • Dept. Arts, Heritage Heritage of Ireland

• NMI - National Museum of Ireland
• An Taisce
• Irish Script on Screen (digitised Irish manuscripts)

• Pictures of Irish churches
  • Catholic
  • Church of Ireland

Irish buildings

• Irish Protected Structures (listed buildings)
  • Dublin city
  • South Dublin
  • DLR
  • Fingal

• archiseek.com (and search site)
  • Buildings of Ireland

• Dictionary of Irish Architects

NIAH and archaeology.ie

• NIAH - National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie)
  • Building Survey

• archaeology.ie (National Monuments Service)
  • Archaeological Survey of Ireland
  • Urban Archaeological Survey of Ireland

• Historic Environment Viewer
• Historic Environment Viewer (online map viewer)

Family History

Royalty

• Wikipedia
  • Monarchy
  • Royal families
  • List of English monarchs
  • List of British monarchs

• soc.genealogy.medieval
  • site

• alt.talk.royalty
  • FAQ
  • British FAQ

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Peerage

Peerage - Seat in House of Lords. Head of family is peer. "Nobility" is families headed by a peer.

• Wikipedia categories
  • Nobility
  • Noble families
  • Peerage
  • Gentry

• Peerages of the United Kingdom
  • Peerage of England (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Great Britain (1707-1801)
  • Peerage of the United Kingdom (1801 to date)

  • Peerage of Scotland (up to 1707)
  • Peerage of Ireland (up to 1922)

Sites

• thepeerage.com by Darryl Lundy

• Tudor Place by Jorge H. Castelli
  • Elizabethan Peerage

• A Who's Who of Tudor Women by Kathy Lynn Emerson

Ranking

Peerage in yellow:

Title	Other forms	Wife	Inherited	Seat in House of Lords	Still being created?
Duke	His Grace, Duc	Her Grace, Duchess	YES	YES	None outside Royal family since 1874 (Churchill was offered but declined in 1955)
Marquess	Lord ---, Marquis	Lady ---, Marchioness	YES	YES	Not since 1936
Earl	Lord ---, Count, Comte	Lady ---, Countess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1984
Viscount	Lord ---, Vicomte	Lady ---, Viscountess	YES	YES	Most recent one created 1983
Baron	Lord ---	Lady ---, Baroness	YES	YES	Not since 1965
Life peer	Lord ---, Baron	Lady ---, Baroness	NO	YES	Being created all the time
Baronet	Sir ---, Bart.	Lady ---	YES	NO	Most recent one created 1991
Knight	Sir ---, Kt.	Lady ---	NO	NO	Being created all the time

European nobility

• European nobility
• European nobility by Herbert Stoyan
  • Genealogy of Charlemagne
  • Internet-Gotha
• Almanach de Gotha

German and Austrian nobility

• Explanation of German nobility

• German Wikipedia
• Translate from German to English
• German dictionaries
• German - English dictionary

• genealogy.net (German genealogy)
  • index by historical countries and regions
  • German Genealogy: Habsburg Empire

Scottish clans and tartans

• Scottish clans (see category)

• Tartans (see list)
• Wikimedia Commons
• Scottish Tartans Authority

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Families

• Noble families

• medieval English genealogy
• Baronage Press
  • The Feudal Herald
  • Moncreiffe's Family Records

• Tim Powys-Lybbe

• Wyndham Marsh.
  • His huge genealogy site intersects with Kerr and Gibbon, though he is not related to either.

Researchers

genealogics.org

• genealogics.org is one of the great royalty/nobility/gentry sites on the Internet.
• Charlemagne

• History of the site:
  • Set up by Leo van de Pas.
  • Originally on iinet.net.au. Then moved to genealogics.org
  • Leo van de Pas died in 2016.
  • The site was then maintained by Ian Fettes.
  • Ian Fettes died in 2025.
  • The site is now maintained by Leslie Mahler. Contact for login access.

• Plantagenet Cousins, by Ian Fettes and Leo van de Pas, 2007.

• Leo van de Pas used Ahnentafel numbering in some data.
• I wrote a Reverse Ahnentafel Parser

Search genealogics: Search

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Brian Tompsett

• Brian Tompsett
• Brian Tompsett's genealogy site is now gone:

  
  

  • Genealogy

  • The Genealogy of the British Royal Family
    • Victoria
    • my redirect to archive.org
    • surnames
    • sources

  • The Genealogy of the US Presidents
    • Bill Clinton
    • my redirect to archive.org
    • This is compiled from the work of Otto-Georg Richter, 1994.
    • His work is NOT based on [The Presidents, 1993].

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Paul O'Brien

• Paul O'Brien at MIC (UL).
• Twitter

• Taprooms, Taverns & Alehouses: Limerick City Pubs, ca.1850-2024 by Will Banks and Paul O'Brien (2024).

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Paddy Waldron

• Paddy Waldron
• Family tree
• Formerly here.

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Stirnet

• Stirnet genealogy by Peter Barns-Graham

Search Stirnet: Search with Google.

Politics

Irish politics

• Lords Lieutenant of Ireland
  • Historical list of Lords Lieutenant of Ireland (crown's deputy) (up to 1922) (also called Viceroy of Ireland, Lord Deputy of Ireland)
  • Historical list of Chief Secretaries for Ireland (no.2 post) (up to 1922)
  • Historical list of Under-Secretaries for Ireland (up to 1922)
  • Historical list of Governors-General (1922-37)
  • These refer to other posts:
    • Lord Justice of Ireland
    • Justiciar of Ireland

• Post-1922:
  • Historical list of heads of government
  • Historical list of heads of state

• Irish House Of Commons 1692-1800
  • Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre 1801)

Election results

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, RIA, 1978.

• Irish elections
  • pre-1922
  • 1922-49
  • 1949-date

• Detailed election results since 1918
  • people
  • general elections
  • by-elections

Dail and Seanad Debates

• oireachtas.ie
  • Current and historical lists of TDs and Senators
  • Dail Debates
  • Seanad Debates

Search Dail and Seanad debates: Search with Google.

NI politics

• NI elections
  • results since 1885
  • detailed results since 1992

UK politics

• hansard.parliament.uk
• hansard.millbanksystems.com (and search)

• Legislation.gov.uk
  • Private Acts of Parliament (e.g. divorces)

• Historical list of Prime Ministers

• UK elections
  • UK general elections

• History of Parliament online
  • Publications

US Politics and US Presidents

• List of US Presidents

• Genealogy of US Presidents

Popes and Saints

• The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) (see site)

• Historical list of Popes (and here)

• catholic-hierarchy.org

• Saints
  • List of Saints (and here)
  • Calendar of saints