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Advertisements, Bank notes/Banks, Baseball, Billheads, Blotters & Business, Firefighting Equipment, Insurance & Deeds, Letters, Menus, Police, Railroad, Theater 18th Century History: The Age of Reason (Timelines, Maps, 1800-1850: From Jefferson to the coming of the Civil War, Manifest Destiny & the Wild West, Industrial Revolution, Women's Rights, Inventions & Railroad History, The Gilded Age, Spanish-American War & Imperialism, The Progressive Era, Populism)
A Day in the Life:
Victorian Children,
US Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History, 11th -12th century everyday life
A Regency Repository BBC History Site (With interactive games and animations) Black Victorians in Britain (Photos) Bodleian Library (A stunning collection of images of London street sellers, tradesmen, women of trade, advertising ephemera, a few bills of sale, exterior/interior of premises, juvenilia, products, product list, etc.) British Birds:The Complete Morris's British Birds, 1891 British History Web Site (Roman Britain, Medieval, Civil War, Napoleonic War, WWII) British Royalty: The Unofficial Pages Cradley: History of An English Village Ebay.com (An excellent visual source for historical items) Feudalist Overlord (A collection of links) Flags: A Brief History of the British Flag:
History of the
Fourth; US Flag Day (History) France in the Age of Les Miserables From Revolution to Reconstruction, (US) Costume Game: Dress the lady and gentleman correctly (Interactive) Georgian London Street & Business Index Great Britain Historical Database Online Harper's Weekly Page (US) Harper's Weekly (US, Civil War, Andrew Johnson)
Her Majesty's Government:
Public Records Office, The National Archives History Sourcebook (US) International Institute of Social History Internet Library of Early Journals (UK) Godey's Lady's Book on Needlework Godey's Lady's Book Online, 1850 Jewish-American History on the Web Library of Congress (US) Life in the Middle Ages (Middleages.org.uk)
Anchoress Street Index, Squares of London, Places of Worship, Public Charities, Hospitals, &c., Public Buildings, Police of the Metropolis, Courts of Justice, Prisons, Pauperism and Mendicity, London Docks, The Bridges, Steam Packets, Hackney Coaches, List of London Bankers, List of Newspapers, Periodical Publications, Booksellers; Hotels, Taverns, & Coffee Houses; Post Chaises & Post Horses; Population; Government of the Metropolis; Supply of Provisions; Medicine and Surgery: Introduction, College of Physicians, Royal College of Surgeons, Gresham College, Apothecaries' Company, Medical Society, Red Cross-street, Library, Lectures (names of lecturers) Religion of the Metropolis: Introduction, Sects, The British & Foreign Bible Society, Missionary Societies, Prayer-Book and Homily Society, Miscellaneous Societies London History, Roman, Dark Age, Saxon, Norman, Medieval, Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, 19th Century, 20th Century. Medieval Links: (The Renaissance: Humanism & the Technical Arts (Art/Architecture/Heavy Machinery/Mapping); Astronomy and the Copernican Revolution; Alchemy; Anatomy; Universities & Courts; Scientific Instruments; Galileo Galilei & the Structure of the Universe; Natural History & Virtuoso Knowledge; Mechanical Philosophy & Scientific Societies; Women; From Newton to Eighteenth-Century Science Medieval World, #1 Medieval World, #2 Medieval World, #3 Medieval World, #4 Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice Fur Trade Business Records& Diaries, US (Inventories/diaries dating back to 1803)
Museum of the Fur Trade Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies (Research, People, Costume, Literature, Food, Gardens, Music, Games, Swordplay, Wordplay, Guilds, Faires) Restoration Period:
Asylums Society for Creative Anachronism (Excellent medieval resources. Thanks, Sis!)
The Journal of
Psychohistory
The Family The Olden Times (US, England, Scotland, Australia & Ireland) (Hasn't been up dated since 2001, so there are some dead links on this page)
The Victorian Web
The Roman Empire
Victorian England Tudor England: Images (Armies, Death Masks, Portraits) United Kingdom Digital Preservation (Searchable) Victorian Women Writers Project
General Info Vikings, BBC Vikings, BBC kids page Virtual Victorians: ( (UK) Wonderful interactive site! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday; Childhood, Domestic Life, Education & Science, Leisure, Public Services, Transport, Working Life Toys: (interactive) Mysterion; Decoupage, Kairosithon, Fantascopes, Magic Lantern, Object Spins (view objects from all angles), Puzzles
William's College History
of Sciences Image Gallery Writing on Hands, PDF, Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
19th Century Advertisement (Harper's Weekly) Antique Ads (US) (Text only) Harper's Weekly (Advertising history) Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850 -1920 John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library (A stunning collection of images of London street sellers, tradesmen, women of trade, advertising ephemera, a few bills of sale, exterior/interior of premises, juvenilia, products, product list, etc.) Patent Medicine Advertisements, US Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1740s-1770s
Advertisements, Bank notes/Banks, Baseball, Billheads, Blotters & Business, Firefighting Equipment, Insurance & Deeds, Letters, Menus, Police, Railroad, Theater 18th Century History: The Age of Reason (Timelines, Maps, 1800-1850: From Jefferson to the coming of the Civil War, Manifest Destiny & the Wild West, Industrial Revolution, Women's Rights, Inventions & Railroad History, The Gilded Age, Spanish-American War & Imperialism, The Progressive Era, Populism) America, 1770-1850 (An over view of life in...) Colonial Life, US
Fourth of July
History;
A Digital Archive of Architecture Artists & Architects (UK) Castles, Abbeys, Medieval Buildings New York Carver (Medieval art, history, architecture) Castle Architecture (and more) Castle Glossary (at Palaces.org) Castle Learning Center (Parts of a castle) Castle Life in the Middle Ages Castles of Great Britain: Castle Learning Center Castle Terms (UK) Castle Terminology (Ireland) Castle Terminology (Scotland) Castle Terminology (Wales) Church Architecture & Furnishings
Early English Architecture
(1180-1275)
Encyclopedia of British
History Glossary of Medieval Church Architecture Hemyrock Castle: Glossary of Feudal, Medieval, & Castle Terms Hospital Architecture, (Article from The Builder, 1869)
Medieval Architecture Page Orford Castle Enquiry, Video tour outside & inside the castle
Portalais
(Doors,
windows, fireplaces,
stairs, etc.) Rossbret Architecture, UK (from The Builder & Building News, 1847-1871) Structure Glossary (The Fundamental Terminology of Structural Behavior) The Builder, 1843-1852 (An online trade journal) TheVictorianHouse.com (House-Plan Books & historic houses)
Armor & Weapons, Knights & Heraldry Arms & Armor (history) Association for Historical Fencing (contains articles from the 1800s) Archery Library, UK (houses online books dating from 1545 - 1923) Bayonet Exercise Manual (US Army, 1852) College of Arms (UK) Combat Manuals & Medieval Dagger Techniques Cutless Manuals, 1869 & 1906, US Navy
Deeds of Arms:
A
Collection of Accounts
French
Dueling Code Dylan's Fencing Page (contains antiquated fencing manuals) Elizabethan Fencing and the Art of Defence: Old Sword Play (pdf file) Old Sword Play (alternative site) On Honor & Honorable Quarrels: A rule & order concerning the challenger Paradoxes of Defence, 1599 Fantasy Swords, Daggers & Knives, UK Fencing Documents, 1536 - 1663 Glossary of Arms & Amour Terms Glossary of Armor Terms (Pictorial) Heraldry (Regalis.com: History, heraldry, royalty, nobility, biography) Heraldry (Commercial site, but interesting.) Heraldry (Illustrated)
Medieval
England Historical Fencing Manuals Online Historical Jousts, Tournaments, & Deed of Arms: Descriptions of battles, tournaments, etc. (Middle Ages) Historical Manuscripts Manorial Search Knighthood & Chivalry: History, materials, resources Knighthood, Chivalry, & Tournaments Knighthood & Orders of Chivalry Old Sword Play: Systems of Defence, 1892 manual (PDF file) Old Sword Play (alternative site) Steps of Knighthood (Simplified but interesting) Tales from Froissart, 14th century The Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing: Modern retelling of the tournament career of a 15th c. champion warrior. Trebuchets & Other Siege Artillery The Wrong Side of the Blanket (Bastardy in Heraldry)
Art, Cartoons, Illustrations, Photographs Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon, 1827-1874 (Amelia's sketches)
Antique
Photographs, UK, Robert Vaughan Collection
Gentlemen from Brighton, England in the mid 1860s Derbyshire (check out the section for broadband users) Great Caricatures, English & French, 1708-1902 Historic American Cartoons & Illustrations Liam's Old Book Illustrations Page, UK (Scans from old books) New York Carver (Medieval art, history, architecture) Old Sketches (Sketchbook, 1827-1874) Regency Period Cartoons & Illustrations Victorian & Edwardian Photographs Writing on Hands, PDF, Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
(under contruction) Art, Books, Clubs &c., Domestic News, English Life, Events, Exhibits, Fashion, Foreign News, Foreign Travel, Gardens &c., Hotch-Potch, Inventions, Language, Law & Order, Military, Miseries of Life, People, Places, Poetry, Politics, Rambles, Servants, Society, Spar Wars, Sports, Theatre &c., Things, Travel, Weather
Fiction: Authors:
Arthur Conan
Doyle Antique Books (scanned) Books on Elizabethan Daily Life Cradley: History of An English Village Henry Mahew's London Labour and the London Poor Tales from Froissart, 14th century The Chronicals of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing: Modern retelling of the tournament career of a 15th c. champion warrior. The Text Library (Online classics) The Great Household in Medieval England The Victorian Dictionary (victorianlondon.org) The Victorian Women Writers Project
Electronic Resources: Early Manuscripts (Oxford) Coaching Schedules, 1777-1880 Historical Costuming Books at Lavolta Press Motts' Illustrated Catalogue of Victorian Plumbing Metropolitan Police Historical Archive: (London) The Enduring Mystery of Jack the Ripper The Notorious Case of Dr Crippen The 'Brides in the Bath' Murders A Short History of Police Presence in Bow Street Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice Napoleonic Memoirs & Literature Online: Imperial Guard of Napoleon, published 1851 Memoirs of Baron De Marbo, Volume 1, 1812 Memoirs of Baron De Marbo, Volume 2 Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1797 THE CORSICAN, Napoleon's Diary Reading List for Armor and Weapons The Frederick Douglass Papers (Library of Congress) The People of the Abyss, Jack London
Author's Preface
Windows to the Past,
Cornell University, historical materials online
Ancestral Vault: Royalty and Nobility Burke's Guide to British Titles British System of Aristocratic Honorifics Debrett's Baronetage of England: Existing English Baronets, 1828 Debrett's: Correct Forms of Address (Library book search) Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages (An amazing database of peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, House of Commons, Knights of the Garter, Order of Merit, Privy Council.) Queen's Quotes, 1837-1877
Other:
Exchange Rates (exchange rate between United States dollar & British pound, between 1791-2000) Inflation/Currency Converter, (Scots converter)
Calendar Maven's Hebrew Calendar Lunar Eclipes/5000-Year Catalog (NASA) Online Perpetual Calendar (Goes back to year 1. Also shows Phases of the Moon) Popcal Download (Perpetual calendar program, Jan 1753-Dec 2077) Rosetta Calendar (A calendar conversion program: Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew)
1893 - 1898 Cutters Practical Guide (Guide to cutting every kind of garment made by tailors) 19th Century Seminole Clothing A Guide to 19th Century Hand Sewing Boys Clothing (Historical Boys' Clothing Website) If login box comes up, hit escape or cancel to view page. Site accepts donations.
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