A continuation of the Dirty Big Online Resource List
Period Authors
Samuel Johnson
The Spectator
Capt. Frederick Marryat
Athelstane E-Books - just, a whole bunch.
Edmund Waller
Book/text search tools:
Bartleby
UVA eText
Bibliomania iirc this heads to Rasselas
On Finding Electronic Texts
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The Online Books Page - UPenn
Gutenberg
Women Romantic-Era Writers
Humanities Text Initiative - UMich
Interet Public Library
American Memory from the Library of Congress
BookRags
BootLegBooks
World Wide School Library
Novels of Captain Frederick Marryat on Arthur's Classic Novels
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections
History/general: (Here's where you find the boat stuff! -Mel)
Castle Howard
National Maritime Museum Search Station
The Historical Maritime Society - Nelson and his Navy
Greenwood's Map of London 1827 (I'm in love with this thing, no joke -Mel)
Internet Library of Early Journals - A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Old Bailey! (*mandatory love for the Old Bailey site*)
Museum of Costume
Society for Nautical Research Linkslist
Terms for the Reader of British History
Greenwood's 1827 London Map (Interactive)
Revolutionary Players
The Warwick Eighteenth Century Centre - Useful Links and Resources
History On-Line - The Eighteenth Century
'ALT!... WHO GOES THERE? by Stanley Holloway
A Vision of Britain Through Time
International Institute of Social History
List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages
Old Hampshire Mapped (This also I am in love with it -Mel)
History of smuggling in and around Burton Bradstock
Hampshire Facts
Comparing the purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to 2002
Medieval English Genealogy - Links
British History 1700-1980 Database
Some Selected Reports from the Windsor & Eton Express
Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England
Archives in London and the M25 Area
Historical Maritime Society's Best of the Web
Reminiscences of Elizabeth Jones (nee Helsham, 1801-1866)
The Napoleon Series
Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Era (1793-1815)
An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village (1892)
Gardens? (Turns up a 404, but I love said 404 page -Mel)
The Vauxhall Society
And, last of all,
Fanny Burney:
Frances Burney on geometry.net
CAMILLA -OR- A PICTURE OF YOUTH BY THE AUTHOR OF EVELINA AND CECELIA [FANNY BURNEY]
And therein we are done. .::collapses a little::.
Feel free to direct as many people as you wish here; I appear to be off the
despatches checklist and my brain's too off-track right now to go hunting for posting-grounds.
.::passes out tea and rout cakes::.
Yours eternally,
Mel
Period Authors
Samuel Johnson
The Spectator
Capt. Frederick Marryat
Athelstane E-Books - just, a whole bunch.
Edmund Waller
Book/text search tools:
Bartleby
UVA eText
Bibliomania iirc this heads to Rasselas
On Finding Electronic Texts
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The Online Books Page - UPenn
Gutenberg
Women Romantic-Era Writers
Humanities Text Initiative - UMich
Interet Public Library
American Memory from the Library of Congress
BookRags
BootLegBooks
World Wide School Library
Novels of Captain Frederick Marryat on Arthur's Classic Novels
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture: Image and Text Collections
History/general: (Here's where you find the boat stuff! -Mel)
Castle Howard
National Maritime Museum Search Station
The Historical Maritime Society - Nelson and his Navy
Greenwood's Map of London 1827 (I'm in love with this thing, no joke -Mel)
Internet Library of Early Journals - A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Old Bailey! (*mandatory love for the Old Bailey site*)
Museum of Costume
Society for Nautical Research Linkslist
Terms for the Reader of British History
Greenwood's 1827 London Map (Interactive)
Revolutionary Players
The Warwick Eighteenth Century Centre - Useful Links and Resources
History On-Line - The Eighteenth Century
'ALT!... WHO GOES THERE? by Stanley Holloway
A Vision of Britain Through Time
International Institute of Social History
List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages
Old Hampshire Mapped (This also I am in love with it -Mel)
History of smuggling in and around Burton Bradstock
Hampshire Facts
Comparing the purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to 2002
Medieval English Genealogy - Links
British History 1700-1980 Database
Some Selected Reports from the Windsor & Eton Express
Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England
Archives in London and the M25 Area
Historical Maritime Society's Best of the Web
Reminiscences of Elizabeth Jones (nee Helsham, 1801-1866)
The Napoleon Series
Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Era (1793-1815)
An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village (1892)
Gardens? (Turns up a 404, but I love said 404 page -Mel)
The Vauxhall Society
And, last of all,
Fanny Burney:
Frances Burney on geometry.net
CAMILLA -OR- A PICTURE OF YOUTH BY THE AUTHOR OF EVELINA AND CECELIA [FANNY BURNEY]
And therein we are done. .::collapses a little::.
Feel free to direct as many people as you wish here; I appear to be off the
.::passes out tea and rout cakes::.
Yours eternally,
Mel
(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-17 06:57 am (UTC)(yes, I'm insane. we know.)
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Date: 2005-12-17 07:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-17 07:05 am (UTC)has been very helpful with fanfiction, actually. *happy noises*