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TimeSearch is a history search engine, designed to allow both for chance discoveries and highly focused searches for historical events.

TimeSearch allows the user to design a keyword search according to criteria such as area or theme. The search can be further refined by using the Timeline Sites facility which provides a checklist of websites which can be included or excluded from the search. For example, a user can choose whether or not to include Google, the BBC, YouTube, Flickr, and a number of educational websites, museums, libraries, and archives in the search. Search results are displayed in the form of relevant links to external websites, and related articles in the HistoryWorld website, alongside a timeline of events associated with the search term.

The European History Primary Sources (EHPS) is an index of scholarly websites that offer online access to primary sources on the history of Europe.

Each website that is listed in this portal has a short description and is categorised according to country, language, period, subject and type of source. The portal can be searched in a variety of ways. Most of the listed websites can be accessed for free, though sometimes a registration is required.

This portal is a work in progress and new content is regularly added.

The European History Primary Sources is a joint initiative of the Library and the Department of History and Civilisation of the European University Institute and is also part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library - History.

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The Virtual Encyclopaedia of Portuguese Expansion is a project of the Centre for Overseas History, an interuniversity research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon and the University of the Azores. It provides free online access to a multimedia encyclopedia offering information on the expansion of the Portuguese Empire from the 15th-18th Centuries. It will include texts, chronologies, maps, prints and teacher's materials. Content is still being added to the site on a rolling basis. All materials are in English or Portguese.  There is extensive coverage of travellers' exploration, colonisation by Portugal, the role of the church and the use of the Empire for trade and cultural transmission.