Digitalising History: A Guide To History Resources On The Internet

Author/Editor: Shakila Yacob

Publisher: UM Press

ISBN: 9831004051

Weight: 200

Pages: 122

Year: 2007

Price: RM20

‘Digitalising History’ collates all the major websites and databases as well as a huge range of less well-known sites, into a comprehensive one-stop guide to history resources on the internet. Making for quick and easy location for specific resources, the sites are grouped into chapters such as ‘Starting Points’ and ‘Resources for Teaching and Learning on the Internet’ and further divided into sections.

Each entry carries a URL and brief text defining the site’s content, ease of access and navigation and who might find the site of most relevance. In short, Digitalising History: A Guide to History Resources on the Internet is an essential for anyone with the slightest interest in researching the events of the past that have shaped our world and our existences within it.