Investigations of a Dog

History Nexus is a new social bookmarking site which focuses on history websites. It uses similar technology to Digg, allowing users to vote and comment on websites as well as post links to them. Although it seems to be in its early stages it has huge potential both for promoting your own history site and for discovering other sites, so I hope it attracts more users. For example, there’s a link to an innovative First World War site which I didn’t know about before:

The Christmas Truce is a collaborative project to collect reports of the Christmas 1914 truce from local newspapers. I know from my own research that local papers are a very valuable source for the Great War but that finding the information you want involves spending hours searching through microfilm, so I’m definitely in favour of any attempts to make that information more accessible. This project would be even better if it used a wiki - so far it looks like it’s based on e-mailing newspaper transcripts to the editors - but it’s good that the work is being done.