This group is a “society dedicated to promoting awareness of the continuing in importance of the 92 historic (or traditional) Counties of the United Kingdom.” The website offers a great deal of information, but the most valuable to genealogists is the Gazetteer of British Place Names. The gazetteer contains more than 50,000 names of places of all size. Results provide the historic county name, the administrative county name, the district, police area, and U.K. country. There is also a link to a modern map showing the town with the historical county boundaries overlaid on it.
http://www.gazetteer.org.uk/index.php
Richard Heaton’s Index to Digitalised British and Irish Newspapers Online
Mr. Heaton has been using newspapers in his research for thirty years. He has compiled this index from twenty-three online archives. The index is divided geographically into England (except London), London, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. Each section is subdivided by city/town name and country name. It provides the publication title (and any variant titles), the name of the online collection where it can be found (with direct llinks to many of them, the format, whether it was free or pay, as well as the start and end dates. Some of the entries include additional comments.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/BritishandIrishNews.html