Web Based Resources

England’s Sites and Monuments Records and Historic Environment Records
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway

Energy Efficiency in Historic buildings Bibliographic Database
http://eprints.sparaochbevara.se/

Understanding Conservation
www.understandingconservation.org 

Practitioner support for building conservation accreditation. The aim of this site is to offer assistance and guidance to practitioners who are presenting their experience to various professional institutes to gain accreditation of building conservation skills. It is not a course nor does it provide an easy route to accreditation, what it does seek to achieve is to influence your way of thinking and provide you with a self-assessment regime that will assist you in compiling an appropriate body of evidence to demonstrate your accrued knowledge across a range of projects.

Rethinking Housing Refurbishement
www.rethinkinghousingrefurbishment.co.uk

This project takes a long hard look at current refurbishment standards and demonstrates just how much can be done to improve the way we renovate homes. 

RIBA British Architectural Library
http://www.architecture.com/LibraryDrawingsAndPhotographs/Home.aspx

The RIBA British Architectural Library is the largest and most comprehensive resource in the United Kingdom for research and information on all aspects of architecture. It is one of the finest collections of architectural material in the world.

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
http://www.buildinghistory.org

Would you like to find out more about the history of your house?

Do you want to research an historic building? Is it in the United Kingdom or Ireland?

If so this guide by Jean Manco will start you on the detective trail. Some information could be just a few clicks away, but to get the full story you will need to visit libraries and archives. Researching Historic Buildings points the way.

It includes hints on planning a research programme, and clues to finding and understanding useful sources for building history, such as maps and deeds. There are bibliographies on everything from architects to Victorian architecture. There are quick guides to archives. There are introductions to a wide range of building types, architectural styles, and the development of towns and villages. Ecclesiastical sources are such a big topic that The Church gets a large section to itself.

The Centre for Education in the Built Environment
http://cebe.cf.ac.uk/

As part of the Subject Network of the Higher Education Academy, the Centre provides discipline based support to enhance the quality of learning and teaching in the UK Higher Education Built Environment community.

Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1840-1940
http://www.codexgeo.co.uk/dsa/index.php

The Dictionary of Scottish Architects (DSA) is a database providing biographical information and job lists for all architects known to have worked in Scotland during the period 1840-1940, whether as principals, assistants or apprentices.

The English strand of the UK archives network
http://www.a2a.org.uk/

The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.