The BBC is known around the world for its vast collection of audio and visual material that dates back to the corporation's earliest days. Drawing on these vast resources, the BBC has established this Web site (in conjunction with a living history television show) to place some of these materials online, available for the general public. The site itself is divided into five broad themes, including...

Directed by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage, Images of England is a project to construct a photographic record of England's 360,000 listed buildings to place online by 2002. In the first three-month photographic survey, which began last August, approximately 500 volunteer photographers in England captured over 39,000 images. The second survey, which began on...

Located in the South Yorkshire region of England, the city of Sheffield was synonymous with the production of cutlery and heavy manufacturing for several hundred years. In recent decades, much of the manufacturing moved elsewhere, and the city has become known as the setting for the popular film The Full Monty, and such music groups as Def Leppard, Pulp, and the singer Joe Cocker. Those persons...