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Some of our members have found these sites to be useful, however DARC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Member's Websites

Search Engines

Reference

World Wide Web Consortium
The reference site for HTML, CSS and other web standards.
The Internet Movie Database
A database of more than 120,000 movies and television programmes.
Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia.
Urban Legends Reference Pages
The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumours, and misinformation.

Travel

Accessible UK Train Timetables
A simple and clear train timetable site. Links to www.nationalrail.co.uk.
National rail timetable
The definitive train booking site.
National traffic information
Shows the messages displayed on all motorway display boards (among many other features).
Road Traffic Reports
Traffic information updated every 3 minutes.

History

Historical Directories
A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It contains high quality reproductions of comparatively rare books, essential tools for research into local and genealogical history. Several volumes of directories have been digitised, making source material for many counties and towns, from 1850 to 1920, freely available online.The directories, including volumes of White's and Kelly's, can be browsed or searched, and the powerful search engine means that family names, occupations, addresses and other key words or phrases can be quickly and easily located to their exact places on pages within the digitised texts.
Old Maps
Free 1:10560 scale Historical Mapping for the whole of the UK. Navigate directly to your chosen area using comprehensive County and Town gazetteers.
Picture The Past
The libraries and museums of Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire have in their collections, hundreds of thousands of historic photographs, slides, negatives, glass plates, postcards and engravings recalling the history of the local communities over the last hundred years and more.
TimeRef - Medieval History Timelines
British Medieval history covering dates 950 to 1400. Aimed at school children but a good reference nonetheless.

Computers/Technology

Imaging

Local

Podcasts

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This page was last updated on the 10th of September 2008.
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