England General Genealogy links

Basically this is an ad hoc list of sites you might find useful 

UK Domesday Book etc

English Handwriting 1500-1700

"British Home Children" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tweetybirdgenealogy/homechild.html

Victorian Poor Law and  Workhouses 
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.html
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/poorlaw/poorlawov.html
Stepney Workhouse in 1889 http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~lensons/
Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals in 1844 http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/4_13_TA.htm#L

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ a great resource

http://www.family-tree.co.uk

http://www.familyhistoryfairs.com

http://www.genealogical.co.uk

Jewish Ancestors www.Jewishgen.org/databases/uk

Newspapers
The Times Archives http://www.newsint-archive.co.uk/pages/main.asp Many libraries even in Australia have access to The Times

Newspaper resource project announced June 2004 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=press_release_newspaper
Penny Illustrated http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/pip/
http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/

The British Library Newspaper Collections http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
This source may require you to be at a library etc - many people in UK can access through their library
but each year they seem to open it for Library week and sometimes they offer trials 
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/libraryweek/?grid=05308
see also http://www.gale.com/

Chartist Ancestors http://www.chartists.net/

AccessGenealogy - England Genealogy Links
Catholic Family History Society Homepage
Current Value of Old Money
Family Tree Magazine Home
Guild of One-Name Studies

The BritishIslesGenWeb Project
Welcome to Lookup United Kingdom

some Commercial sites that may be worth a browse

http://www.curiousfox.com/

http://www.yourmemories.co.uk/index.html