This page contains links to history sites dealing with a any one specific topic.

• British Forces.Com
  "This site is an attempt to chronicle the development, equipment and achievement of the British armed forces, since their inception to the present day. It covers the period from the beginning of the 17th Century when the Royal Navy came into being and the British Army was legislated into existence, up to the present day which sees the United Kingdom fielding a small, efficient but overstretched and underfunded army, navy and air force."
• Georgette Heyer
  Find out more information about this prolific historical writer who did intense historical research for her novels.
• Totalisator History
  Totalisator history covering the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in 1913 and it's subsequent development. "Nowadays a totalisator is a computer system used to provide betting facilities on horse, dog or trotting races. They sell tickets, record transactions, collate pools, calculate dividends, pay winning tickets, provide public displays of approximate dividends before a race and actual dividends after a race. They also provide for reconciliation and statistical reporting. The interesting part of these old mechanical and electromechanical systems from a computer history viewpoint is that these systems were real time, multi-user systems long before the computer was invented. The world's first was installed at Ellerslie in 1913 with 30 terminals and the largest was installed in Longchamps with 273 terminals. One of these old systems was tested in Sydney capable of 250,000 transactions per minute, which is good by today's standards."