For my own research, and anyone who is interested...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ Awesome site for all things British history.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Free e-books! Found a couple that haven't been published for years.
http://scholar.google.com/
http://www.refdesk.com/ RefDesk- like having your own librarian on call 24 hours a day
http://www.nationmaster.com./index.php A searchable database of random statistics