Art & Architecture National Portrait Gallery
Art - The National Portrait Gallery allows you to search its collection. You can see paintings or photographs of many of the people on our site.

National Gallery
Art - The National Gallery allows you to search its collection. You can see the paintings of many artists on our site.

Tate
Art - The Tate allows you to search its collection. You can see the paintings of many artists on our site.

Bob Speel's website
Mainly 19th century art, architecture, etc. Lots of really useful information, links, and illustrations. Primarily indexed by artist but there are also some themes such as "Victorians and Water". Most of the sculptures are in London but Liverpool is getting a look-in.

Art Encyclopedia
Art - A search by artist's name will give you information about the artist and access to many of their works on-line.

Ornamental Passions
"Devoted to the unexpected details that help to make life in the city worth living." This delightful site focuses on decorative architectural details.

Art and Architecture
A rich site, full of illustrations and all searchable by artist, location etc. The search can prove rather tedious but there is lots to see.

Entertainment Internet Movie Database
Cinema - Anyone on our site with category "Cinema" will be on this terrific site. Or if you want to know "who was that actor in that film, you know, The Day of something. . . . " This site will put you out of your misery.

London on Film
Includes a Movie Map which plots 52 movies in Central London. Good source for film-related walking tours.

Wikipedia - London on film
Article with a staggering list of films using London as a location.

London on TV
The Action City section of this strange website list TV episodes against their London locations.

This is theatre
Theatres - Information on London theatres - historical, architectural - and about the shows.

Arthur Lloyd
"On this site there are over 1,900 pages of information and more than 4,700 archive images on the history of Music Hall and Theatre in the UK."

Fun & Games Animals on the Underground
A bit of fun with maps. Our American friend Trevor Blake found this site for us.

Treasure Days
The home of great downloadable treasure hunts in the cities and countryside of Britain. Currently seven in London, and growing.

General Research Wikipedia
The free encyclopaedia. We try to find our subject pictures elsewhere but Wikipedia is always there when we need it. An amazing resource.

Who named it?
Medical eponyms. e.g. Hodgkin's disease. Who was Hodgkin? What is the disease? It's all gruesomely here.

Quotations
Quotations - Many of our people are quoted here.

Nobel prize
Honours - Some of the people on our site have been awarded the Nobel prize. This site tells you all about the prize and lists the winners.

Mottos
This is a pdf file of hundreds of mainly Latin mottos, such as carpa diem, with translations (seize the day). No sources, or associations are given but it is useful. Do scroll down to the end for some light relief.

Graves Find a Grave
Graves - This archive covers the world and provides photos of the dead and of their graves.

Poets' Graves
Poets' Graves and lots of stuff about poetry. An attractive site currently (2007) listing 32 poets' graves in London. They also cover writers and musicians.

History Oxford DNB
"The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: the people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond. 56,862 biographies ... 65 million words ... 10,400 illustrations." A wonderful, trustworthy, free resource. Login with your library card number. That's the number off your free membership card for the library run by your council.

BBC History
"On this site you'll find in-depth articles, multimedia (like games, virtual tours and animations) as well as bite-size material like timelines and short biographies of historic figures. All is designed for you to get more out of your interest in History. " All to the high standard that we expect from the Beeb.

British History Online
"British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research."

Victorian London
Some pages are spoilt by excessive advertising and others have screeds of text. But there is a lot of interesting stuff here.

Victorian Web
Victorians - Lots of searchable information and illustrations about artists, scientists, authors, etc. and articles giving the Victorian view on topics such as economics, gender issues, etc.

London - General Londonist
"Londonist is a website about London and everything that happens in it. That means news, reviews and events; the history and future of London. We celebrate the quirks, eccentricities, hidden and surprising bits that make up the alternative side of the city."

urban75
London - Photos and information, from another London lover, who takes better photographs than we do.

Shady Old Lady
"London's lost histories are all around the capital - London's greatest places, hundreds of London's secret places, pinpointing the top places of interest to you."

BarryOneOff
The City, the East End, London history and customised T-shirts - all introduced by Barry who seems a very likeable bloke.

London Revolution
"Have you ever wanted to tour London? Now London Revolution's dynamic virtual tours allow you to do just that, without any risk of rain. You'll find famous London landmarks as well as extraordinary nooks and crannies of the city which you never knew existed. Use your mouse to interact with our high definition 360 degree virtual tours of this incredible city. " These are quite eerie images, far removed from the utilitarian Google Street View. Probably the next best thing to being there.

Monument Saturation Zone in Westminster
Do you think we have too many monuments? Westminster certainly do - check this map for the Monument Saturation Zone.

Others BrusselsRemembers
Memorials in Brussels. Our sister site.

RCA Online
The company that (as Xi Multimedia Solutions) built this website and BrusselsRemembers. Their technical knowledge and innovation has seen us through five major upgrades and we still enjoy working with them.

Plaques English Heritage
Plaques - English Heritage now look after all the "Blue Plaques" and many others in London, but there are many for which they take no responsibility. Also be warned: not all plaques that are blue are "Blue Plaques" - we would be surprised if EH take any responsibility for Tom Baker's plaque in Berwick Street.

Heritage Foundation
Plaques - The Heritage Foundation encompasses Comic Heritage, Musical Heritage, Sports Heritage and Films & TV Heritage. It has placed many plaques and these are listed on the site in the Roll of Honour.

Westminster
Plaques - Westminster has its own (green) plaques and this site tells you all about them.

Soho Society
Plaques - Pictures and information on the plaques in Soho.

Ulster History Circle
A plaque-placing organisation based in Ulster. We give them a link here not just because it's a nice site and they have honoured us with a link, but also because they provide a list of other plaque-related organisations in Britain, some being in London.

Bench Poetry
As a rule we don't collect benches but here's a site that specialises in them. There are some touching stories behind some of them. We are delighted to see Ben Weinreb's bench there.

Poetry Poetry Archive
English language poets.

The Other Pages
Lots on poetry including many portraits.

Sad London Derelict London
A great site, full of photos of London which you won't find anywhere else, displaying the London underneath - an antidote to tourist websites. "All pictures were taken . . . during many miles of walkabouts around the great capital. After years of travelling via car or public transport I realised just how little I had seen of London."

London Destruction
Not sure we agree with all the personal views expressed in the journal but that's what journals are for. We are certainly pleased with Charles's efforts to document the disappearing buildings and sights of London.

Faded London
"London is a city constantly re-inventing itself, but every now and then there's a window on to the past. It might be a washed-out advert painted on a wall, a plaque, an architectural quirk or elaborate man-hole cover - all worth recording before they are finally removed or hidden."

Specialist London London City of Science
Explore the places on this web site to see how science has helped to shape London and meet the needs of its people. Find out what London does for science as a centre of research excellence from the entries showing where science is done. Alert yourself the many science events that are open to the public.

Underground History
We are all fascinated by those ghost stations. This site includes descriptions of visits to some.

London Mosaics
We just love it when someone with their own specialism takes a sideways look at London and builds a website showing the rest of us a view we never dreamed of.

The City City of London
The Square Mile - its history, architecture, livery companies, museums, etc. with lots of useful links.

City of London - Green spaces
A walk around the gardens in the City of London, with historical information. A simple well-laid out site.

The Establishment Official Royals
Royals - The official Royal web site. Information and pictures on all the monarchs of England, Scotland and the UK. The information is there but it is very much the orthodox view (no dirt) and also we find the site rather irritating.

BritRoyals
Useful site for British Royalty - family trees, etc. all quite accessible.

British peerage and European Royals
Excellent site. This is our first port of call when we need information on this sort of thing.

Number 10
The history page is a good source of information on Prime Ministers in history.

Victoria Cross
Lists of holders of the Victoria Cross, their graves, photos, etc.

War & Peace UK National Inventory of War Memorials
A searchable database provided by a registered charity working to compile a record of all war memorials in the UK and to promote their appreciation, use and preservation.

Commonwealth War Graves
Graves - Search on the name of anyone from the Commonwealth who might have a war grave or memorial.

Peace Pledge Union
This site features a number of memorials with the theme of peace.

The Long, Long Trail
The Long, Long Trail is all about the British Army in the First World War: aimed at the family and military researcher, it is a tribute to the men and women who fought and won - and to the million who died trying.