Historians traditionally acquire their data by visiting libraries and archives. Visiting these libraries and archives to carry out their research, the first stop for most historians upon arrival was usually to seek assistance from the librarian or archivist, who in turn directed them to a file or printed guide ( Organ et al., 1996). However, in the last twenty or thirty years the world has experienced the Internet revolution. In this essay we will discuss how the Internet has changed the way historians work? At the beginning of the information technology revolution, personal computers were the most obvious tool attributed to the way historians work, however, as the use of the Internet was not yet widely available, Gorst et al (1997, 139) suggest that they were primarily used simply as substitutes for pen and paper, as little more than glorifying typewriters or calculators for manipulating and representing the data collected in the archive. Previously, research was almost invariably limited to internally available material, or it was necessary to travel to access external collections. As mentioned above, comprehensive indexes and lists of papers for individual holdings have been compiled and, where possible, the lists have been disseminated between institutions (Organ et al, 1996). Developments in information technology have meant that an increasing amount of primary source material has become available to historic desktop computers via the Internet (Gorst et al, 1996, 139). This development has significant implications for the researcher of modern British history, as it potentially changes the way in which historical research will be undertaken. The Internet is a tool that in theory provides access to a warehouse of...... halves of paper......, at least those found in institutions such as academic libraries and museums, assembled websites. Many archives today have digitized primary materials. Easy and almost universal access is another advantage (Robert, 2012) as academic libraries are increasingly available online as the vast majority of UK and US universities have created their own historic sites which now contain valuable information a unlike the beginning of the information revolution where these sites were simply about advertising the department and its courses, so it is possible to conduct complex searches. And given the growing number of historical titles published year after year, this functionality is an invaluable aid, both for building preliminary bibliographies and for checking references in footnotes while writing research (Gorst et al, 1997, 143)