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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) Updated.
Monday
Agriculture
Build with Bricks
In
the News
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) English & Scots Currency Converter Measuring Worth Calculators (1774 to present) Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1264 to 2007 Scots Knowledge Base, Weights & Measures
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.
Introduction
Footwear
Religious/Wedding Costumes Styles: Other: Bustles:
Truly
Victorian Cathy's Victorian Fashion Page Celtic Grooming: Children's Clothing in Regency England Children's Underpinnings in Georgian England Concealed Garments (Clothing found in old houses) UK Corsets & Crinolines Links Page
Elizabethan Costuming Page Fans (17th, 18th, 19th century)
Prehistoric Fashon-era.com (Regency, Victorian, Edwardian, etc.) Fashion: Past & Present (Comprehensive list) Godey's Lady's Book on Dressing Baby Godey's Lady's Book on Dressmaking Godey's Lady's Book Online, US, 1850 1200s-1400s, from German handbook 1500s-1700s, from German handbook Gloves:
Glove Etiquette
Historical Costume
Archives History of Hair Jewelry in America Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion Jewelry, Mourning Judicial Attire: La Belle Assemblee, 1812 Miscellany, Medieval & Renaissance, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s , 1900s, Cross-Era, Period fabrics, Discerning fabrics, Ethnic Ladies' Bonnets (1850s-60, US) Ladys Magazine, The, 1790-1825 La Mode Bagatelle (Regency Wardrobe) Lady Pocket Magazine Fashion plates, 1834 Men's Hats, 1700s to present Men's Clothing Stores: Gieves & Hawkes, UK Savile Row's Best Bespoke Suit Medieval Costume, 100-1499 ad Medieval/Scottish Research Links Mourning and Its Usage, 1895 Mourning Rituals, Clothing, & Customs (US) Patterns: Past Patterns (US)
Roman Armor
And Military Dress PrintsGeorge.com (Georgian, Regency, & Victorian. Lots of visuals. Fashion plates, maps, military art, etc.) Regency Fashion Journals:
La Belle Assemblée Regency England Children's Underwear Savile Row's Best Bespoke Suit Tailors The Grand French Haute Couture Houses
Side Saddle Lady Museum Swimming/Seaside Fashions (Victorian/Edwardian, UK) The Costumer's Manifesto (Excellent site) Women's Underwear (In relation to menstruation) Victorian & Edwardian Photographs
Viking Answer Lady Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV
America's First Serial Killer: American Gothic: The Strange Life of H.H. Holmes H.H. Holmes: The Film (Different film site.) A Murder Most Curious: The Madeline Smith Story A Prisoner's Dictionary (Prison Slang) A Shocking Murder, London, ca. 1840 Bass Reeves: Deputy U.S. Marshal b. 1838 d. 1910 (fascinating biography) Bow Street Office, 1808 (a visual) British Society of Criminology Courts of Justice, 1819 London Crime & Policing in Victorian England Crime & Punishment in the 19th Century Crime & the Victorian Household Debtors Prison: Debtors Prison (Article) Debtors' Prisons - The Queen's Bench UK, written in 1838 Halifax Debtors Prison Inmate Tally, 1842 ~Extracts Radnorshire records of Quarter Sessions at Presteigne for the year of 1847. ~Prison menu. Prison System in the Victorian Age Criminal Justice Web Sites (from the University of Delaware) Criminology Links (University of Cambrige) Criminal Transportation: Criminals Transported to Australia, 1836-1853 Criminal Transportation, 1788-1868
Sources in the National Archives for research Desperados, US Executions in Derbyshire, 1556-1905 Famous Trials (Great site!) Federal Bureau of Investigation (US) Fingerprints: International Fingerprint Timeline Sir Francis Galton's paper on fingerprints Fingerprint Identification, Interpol Statistics, Gun Control, SafetyHistory of FirearmsTerminologyAnatomy of FirearmsBallisticsPatterns of Tissue Injury (: Graphic images)Criminalistics Laboratory MethodsForensic Science: Let Evidence Reveal the Truth Forensic Science Timeline (PDF file) Guillotines (Audio and text) Guillotine Parts (Interactive) Great American Quacks (the featherless variety)
History of Prison Life
in Southern Prisons, US
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17th & 18th Century Drama Database 19th Century Actor Photographs 18th & 19th Century London Stage Collections: Posters, Paintings, Playbills, Costume Designs Theaters: Old Vic Chronology, 1818 - 2003 The Adelphi Theatre (UK) 1806 - 1900: The Birdcage, US, Tombstone AZ The Golden Age of British Theatre (Prof. Sydney Higgins) Wilton's Music Hall: The Old Mahogany Bar University of Bristol Theatre Collection American Variety Stage: Vaudeville & Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 (Library of Congress) Variety Stage Motion Pictures, 1897-1920 London Playbills, 1800s-1900s
Melville Collection Cards: Antique Playing Card Collection Games of 18th & 19th Century Hungry Gleek, Laugh & Lay Down, Loo, Maw (Spoil Five), Noddy, Penneech, Pope Joan, Quadrille, Reversis (16th-century ancestor of Hearts), Speculation History of Traditionial Games: Board Games; Table Games; Pub Games Dice, Cards, & Tiles: Mah Jong, Dominoes, Cribbage, Shut the Box Popular 19th Century Card Games Popular 19th Century Parlor Games Prince Charles Playing Cards, 1897 Concert Life in Nineteenth Century London (Database) Entertainment in the Middle Ages Lady Patronesses of Almanack's London Theater (1660-1800) London Theatre Biographies--1660-1800 London Theatre Timeline, 1660-1800 (with related visuals) Map of Theatrical London, 1762 Makeup Book for Professionals, 1900 Medieval Drama (Prof. Sydney Higgins) Memoirs of A London Stage Actress (Jessie Bond, 1853-1942) Morris Dancing & May-day Games, from Walford's Antiquarian Magazine, 1886 Theater Database (Ancient history -20th century) The Development of Leisure Britain, 1700-1850 Technology & Leisure Britain after 1850 Toys: (Interactive) Building Bricks, Decoupage, Dress the Doll, Fantascopes, Kairosithon, Magic Lantern, Mysterion, Object Spins (view objects from all angles), Puzzles
Ballroom Etiquette (Civil War period) Basic Social Rules (For Ladies & Gentlemen) Book of Medieval Manners for the Young (pdf format) Courtship, Ladies and Gentleman Curtsying: (Presentation At Court) Elizabethan Dinner Conversation (Example from a 1573 English-French conversation manual) Emily Post on Etiquette (Searchable) Etiquette for the Best American Society Etiquette for Ladies & Gentlemen
Glove Etiquette,
site 1 Language of the Fan (Royal Collection) Language of the Fan (myhandfan.com) Language of the Fan (handfanpro.com) Language of Love (Valentines) Lord Chesterfield's Letters on Good Conduct & Etiquette, 1746-1771 Lord Chesterfield's Letters, Alternate site Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice The Gentleman's Magazine (Volumes 1-20, 1731-1750, British) The Society of 18th Century Gentlemen Victorian Weddings from Victoriana.com Village Life in the 1830s & 1840s Writing on Hands, PDF, Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Statistics, Gun Control, SafetyHistory of FirearmsTerminologyAnatomy of FirearmsBallisticsPatterns of Tissue Injury ( Graphic images)Criminalistics Laboratory MethodsExamination of Gunshot ResidueHistory of Firearms Identification Parts of a Revolver (US) The Northwest Gun (US)
14th Century Recipes, Ingredients, & Garnishing Logistics 17th century price list (Southampton 1625) 17th Century Recipe (Samuel Pepys' recipe for cakes, 1666) 18th Century English Breakfast A Christmas Dinner, Dickens, 1835 Christmas Recipes, The Regency Collection Coffee Houses & Doss Houses, People of the Abyss, Jack London Colonial Food, US Commissary Rations, 1815 (Waterloo) Cries of London: Street Sellers, The Regency Collection Food and Drink in Regency England Food in Season, UK (Judge's Lodging Museum) Foods in Season (listed by month) Food Prices, 1914-2002
Food Timeline
Georgian Street Vendors History of Iced Tea & Sweet Tea History of the Soft Drink Industry Le Managier de Paris, translation Du Fait de Cuisine, translation Das Kuchbuch der Sabina Welserin, translation An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook, 13th Century Sample Pages of cookbooks to be translated A chart of plant names, useful for translation, by Lyn M. Parkinson Medieval/Renaissance Food Home Page Norfolk Public Houses, UK (Gives historical dates) Old Recipes, US Inns & Taverns, Food & Drink Tea History: First Sale; First Advertisement; First Tea Laws; Catherine of Braganza; Chinaware; Public Tea; 1700-1800; Smuggling; Adulteration; Green tea; Black tea; Tea Gardens; Tea dances; Tea Break; 1800-1900; Closed Ports; Afternoon Tea; High Tea; Clippers; Tea Shops; Blending; 1900-; Tea in two World Wars. The Victorian Tea Party (Lots of other links here.) Tudor England: Food and Tableware Victorian London: Food and Drink (Adulteration; Animal Husbandry; Coffee houses & coffee rooms; Cookery Books and Advice; Household Management and Cooker; Cookshops; Diet; Fast food and food sold on streets; Foreign Cuisines; Night Houses and Supper Rooms; Public Dinners; Restaurants; Stoves and Ranges; Tea Shops; Weights and Measures)
Internet Public Library Genealogy Native American Genealogy Resources Index Native American Indian Genealogy The Mathematics Genealogy Project
1881 Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary AlternaNet (A collection of timelines. If you need it, it's probably here.) Armor Terms (Pictorial) Bagpipe Glossary (Illustrated) Bicycle Museum of America Timeline, interactive/pictorial Bodleian Library (A stunning collection of images of London street sellers, tradesmen, women of trade, advertising ephemera, bills of sale, exterior/interior of premises, juvenilia, products, product list, etc.) Castle Parts (A Glossary) Charles Dickens Glossary of Period Terms Equine Glossary, comprehensive Feudal, Medieval, & Castle Terms Forensic Science Timeline (PDF file) History of Poisoning Timelines Interactive Invention Timeline Journalism Timeline in the United States
Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary, 1881 Media History Project: Timelines Metropolitan Police Historical Timeline Parliamentary Procedure, Canada Railroad History (a timeline) UK & US Science, Mathematics, & Technology Timeline Timeline of Communication History Tree Register (British Isles) U.S. Postal History Timelines: Significant Dates in Postal History U.S. Post Office & ZIP Codes Timeline Victorian Britain, 1831-1901 (A Chronology) Victorian London Public Houses Who's Who in Medieval Britain (alternate site) Who's Who in a Victorian Village
17th Century Court Proceedings 17th Century Titchfield Rents (1632) 17th Century Lease & Copyholders 18th Century Mortgage Document (with subsequent default & redemption) A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln Anti-Saloon League (US) Appleby Probate Court Inventories, Tudor, 1530-1601 Braction (Henry Bratton) on the Laws & Customs of England, 1210-1268 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act; 1801 Act of Union; 1807 Anti-Slave Trade Act; 1913 Cat & Mouse Act; 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act; 1825 Combination Act; 1875 Conspiracy & Protection of Property Act; 1864 Contagious Diseases Act; 1846 Corn Law Act; 1804 Corn Laws; 1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act; 1839 Custody of Infants Act; 1907 Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act; 1921 Deceased Brother's Widow's Marriage Act; 1914 Defence of the Realm Act; 1870 Education Act; 1902 Education Act; 1880 Employer's Liability Act; 1802 Factory Act; 1833 Factory Act; 1844 Factory Act; 1847 Factory Act; 1850 Factory Act; 1867 Factory Act; 1874 Factory Act; 1891 Factory Act; 1817 Gagging Acts; 1774 Gaols Act; 1823 Gaols Act; 1751 Gin Act; 1886 Guardianship of Infants Act; 1924 Housing Act; 1839 Infant Custody Act; 1753 Mariage Act; 1836 Marriages in England Act; 1882 Married Women's Property Act; 1867 Masters & Servants Act; 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act; 1916 Military Service Act; 1835 Municipal Franchise Act; 1869 Municipal Franchise Act; 1911 National Insurance Act; 1908 Old Age Pensions Act; 1911 Parliament Act; 1834 Poor Law; 1906 Provision of School Meals Act; 1936 Public Order Act; 1844 Railway Act; 1836 Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England; 1837 Registering Birth, Deaths, & marriages; Combination Act; 1715 Riot Act; 1819 Six Acts;1815 Stamp Act; 1828 Test & Corporation Acts; 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act; 1871 Trade Union Act; 1913 Trade Union Act; 1906 Trades Disputes Act; 1871 Universities Tests Act; More acts & key dates in the sociological history and development of Great Britain.. Colonial America: The African-American Experience
Habitual Drunkards Act 1879 Imbeciles & Mental Health Acts Influences of British Imperialist Economic Fortunes on Slavery, Sugar, and Abolition Judicial Attire: Laws for Women in the 19th Century Legal Milestones for British Women, 1832-1928 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.) Libertarian Feminism in Britain, 1860-1910
Medieval Law Members of Parliament: 1750-1820 Members of Parliament: 1880-1920 Members of Parliament: 1820-1880 Members of Parliament: 1920-1950 Parliamentary Procedure, Canada
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1834 Prohibited Degrees of Marriage (Georgian & Regency) Prohibition (Ohio State)
Asylums The Emancipation of Women (UK) The Founders' Constitution, US, (early 17th century-1830s, period documents pertaining to the US Constitution) The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York Victorian London Public Institutions Historical names & dates of workhouses, hospitals, lunatic asylums; prisons, gaols & reformatories, barracks, orphan asylums, convents, almshouses, principal charitable institutions. Victorian Britain: Sex & Sleaze, The Divorce Bill Women & the Law in Victorian England Women's Legal Position in Regency England Women's Suffrage (UK)
Household Matters, Markets, & Shopping 17th Century Price List (Southampton 1625) A Day in the Life: Victorian Children, US A Guide to 19th Century Hand Sewing American Cookery, 1798 Antique Loos (UK) Antique Wallpaper, circa 1750 - 1860 Basins & Washtubs, Buckets, Butter Churns, Kegs & Barrels
Aeronautical, Nautical and Motoring. Castle Life in the Middle Ages Virtual Victorians: ( (UK) Updated.
Monday
Agriculture
Build with Bricks
In
the News
Daily
Life in the Middle Ages
Dining Chairs Godey's Lady's Book on Dressmaking Godey's Lady's Book on Needlework Household Cyclopedia of General Information (Published in 1881) Household Cyclopedia of General Information , 1881 (Alternative site) Housekeeping Tools (Elizabethan or Tudor) Huswifery (Elizabethan or Tudor) Interactive Invention Timeline Kitchenware & Housekeeping Tools Lamps: 1883 & 1888 Online Lamp Catalogs 19th Century Lighting (Victorian lamps) International Guild of Lighting Lighting History: 400 years of lighting (Very brief history) Rush Lighting (Rushes) Matches: Matches: (A glimpse of what people used prior to the modern match) The Little Match Girl (Andersen's Fairly Tale)
Jewish People Medieval Marketplace (UK) Mrs. Beeton's Every-Day Cookery & Housekeeping Book UK, ca. 1873 Routine of Household Works and Ways. Routine of Household Works and Ways. Observations on Servants, With Regard to their Coming and Going. Routine of House-work for Two Servants. Old & Interesting, a wonderful collection of historical household items Palace House, Beaullieu Palace
Introduction Regency Homes @ Gaelenfoley.com Regulations for Keeping Order in the King's Chambers Britain in 1905:
Edwardian Life
The Family TheVictorianHouse.com (House-Plan Books & historic houses) Thomas Crapper (antique & reproduction bathrooms) Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper Village Life in the Middle Ages Wallpaper, circa 1750 - 1860
Castle Terminology (Ireland) Celtic Grooming: Friesian Horses of Great Britain & Ireland Ireland Newspaper Abstracts (By city and town) Irish Newspaper Articles, Mid-1800s-early 1900s Irelandseye.com (For all things Irish): Fairies, Ghosts, Music, Names, Recipes Land-holding in England, JOSEPH FISHER, 1875 Land holding in Ireland, 1760-1880 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.) Occupations in Ireland, archaic
19th-Century Translations of the Gospel into Potawatomi Celtic Languages (Breton, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Manx) Electric Eclectic (Mega slang links) Geordie Pride Dictionary (An abbreviation of Heslop's Northumberland Words, 1892) Lancashire Dialect--Completely Lanky (Lancashire slang) Latin Terms (as seen in old church and probate records Native American Language Resources Mountain man diary with notes on the Ute language Regency Slang from Georgette Heyer Novels Sign Language, Ante-bellum America Sign Language, 1400-1700 Universal Cyrillic Alphabet Converter
Babel Fish Online Translation: English to Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and vice versa; German to French; Russian to English
1859 Map of London, zoom in to read street names Early Colored Maps of London (Zoomable maps. Excellent site!) more links of the same type of maps Chorographia Britannia (collection of old maps by region and county) England to Italy (The Casanova Tour) GENMAPS (Interesting old maps of England, Scotland, Wales and more) Greenwood's Map of London (1827) Guide to Dickens' London Walks Great Britain Historical Database Online Historic North American Maps (Browse by state or province, zoom in on streets) Map of Theatrical London, 1762 Maps: 13th Century through 1690 Maps from the Medieval Sourcebook Map of Theatrical London, 1762 Old County Maps, UK, 1878-1888 Old Maps of the UK (England, Scotland, & Wales) The Stage Coach Journey Route (Map showing journey from Springfield, MO to Tombstone, AZ) Tudor Maps (England, London, Ireland, Scotland & the Borders, Europe, Plan of Ingatestone Hall)
American Superfrigates, 1790s Baltimore Clippers in the War of 1812 (History, privateers, & sailing lore) Clipper Ships (Brief histories, specs, etc.) Education: HMS Gannet, 1878 HMS Gannet, 1878 National Maritime Museum, London Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (A short history) Lord Nelson, HMS Victory, Mary Rose, HMS Warrior 1860
Pride of Baltimore Sir John Wedderburn (A reluctant jacobite's tells of inhumane treatment on enemy's ship enroute to London gaol.) Sailor Terms Explained for Lubbers To Set A Sail (Definitions) U.S. Navy Regulation Uniforms, 1797-1943
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19th Century EuroAmerican Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine 19th Century Medicine in the United Kingdom 19th Century Instruments & Pharmaceuticals, Hawaii America's First Native American M.D. Antique Eyeglass & Ophthalmology Museum Anatomy, 1500-present Archaic Apothecary Symbols & Weights Asylums:
AbandonedAsylums.com, US
British Asylums Bloodletting & the Four Humors Cholera (Dr. John Snow), 1843-1870, early London maps, 1856 waterworks map, location of water companies, etc. (bullet probes, prostheses, early plastic surgery, tear bottle, soldier's diary) Drugs, 19th Century Timeline (Cocaine, Laudanum, Morphine) Epidemic History (at Archaic Medical Terms) Folk Medicine, UCLA Archive History of Science Image Gallery History of Drug Metabolism Supplement, 1880-1882 Hospitals: Hospital Poet, UK (Descriptive poems by William Ernest Henley, published in the 1875 Cornhill Magazine, based on Royal Infirmary Edinburgh) London, 1819: 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) Kings American Dispensatory, Plants, 1898 Lydia Pinkham's Patent Medicine for Female Complaints, 1875 (US) Bottle for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 1881 Ad for Lydia Pinkham's Tonic Life of a Late 19th Century Nurse (Autobiographical account by author Mary Roberts Rinehart) (US) Mamiya Medical Heritage Center & Musem, Hawaii Search for an antique instrument Anatomy; Uroscopy -- Urine and Medical Diagnosis; Diagnostic Instruments; General Surgery and Amputation; Bloodletting and The Four Humors; Urology and the Early Treatment of Stones; Obstetrics struggles for respectability; Ophthalmology -- From Barbers to Helmholtz; Military Medicine and Neurosurgery/Orthopedics; Civil War Medicine and The Battle of Cold Harbor; Potpourri; The Apothecary Shoppe; Dental Antiques; Quack Medicine Medical Museum, Thackray, UK Midwifery: Midwife's Diary: Mary Ballard (online, 1785-1812) Midwifery & Nursing History (UK) National Museum of Civil War Medicine Neonatology on the Web, period documents, 18th c. - 20th c. Nursing: Angels & Orderlies: Florence Nightingale's Nurse List Florence Nightingale's Letters History (US) Nursing & Midwifery History (UK) WWI Nurse Heroines (Letters) Opium Use in 19th Century England Patent Medicine Advertisements, US Physical Deterioration of Textile Workers
Pioneer
Diseases, Illnesses & Remedies, US
Poisons
& Antidotes Poisonous Plants (U of Penn) Poisonous Plants Database (Cornell University) Portrait of Man Suffering from Tetnus Postmortems on the Kitchen Table Quackatorium (Antique medical quackery and electrotherapy devices) Rare and Historic Books Online
Samuel Pepys' Diary (Accounts of the Plague, 1665) Self-Healing, Patents, & Placebos Tacuinum Sanitatis (Texts from Medieval health handbooks) The Black Death @ insecta-inspecta.com The Black Death @ eyewitnesshistory.com Toxic Plants (Purdue University) Treatment of the Insane, 1773-1843 Victorian Housewife Pharmacopoeia Medical Care and Public Health: An Overview Poetry and Medicine: W. E. Henley's In Hospital 19th-Century Views of Blindness and Deafness Wet-nursing: Goats as Wet-nurses (from The Penny Magazine, 1835, UK) Wet Nurses (France in the Age of Les Miserables) William's College History of Sciences Image Gallery Hygiene and Sanitation: Health & Hygiene (Victorian period) How Filthy Was London? (Victorian period) Medieval & Renaissane Mouth Wash Products Medieval Toilet Paper (François Rabelais' (1494-1553) commentary arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches.) Menstruation in the 19th Century & Before Belts: 19th/early 20th Japanese scans Underwear in relation to menstruation Patent Medicine, 1875 Washable Pads from: Napoleon Bonaparte's Toothbrush Public Health (Virtual Victorian) Toilet Paper World (fun historical facts) What's that Floating in the Moat? Writing on Hands, PDF, Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
16th Century Cavalry, 1575-1600 17th Century Military Prices (Wages, Price of Food, Weapons, etc) 1807 Rules & Regulations Manual/Drill Book, UK (PDF) A Child of Waterloo (Poignant account of both baby's parents dying in battle) Antique Medical Instruments (Antique dilators, forceps, and speculums.) Balloons, Military's Use of in the Mid 1800s to Early 1900s Bannockburn (Scotland): British Shipboard Confinement, 1776-1857 Clan MacQuarrie: The Red Tartan Army Commissary Rations, 1815 Accounts from General Lord George Paget's Journal Mrs. Driscoll in the Crimean War Criminal Transportation: Criminals Transported to Australia, 1836-1853 Criminal Transportation, 1788-1868
Sources in the National Archives for research Culloden (Scotland):
Cutless Manuals,
1869 & 1906, US Navy First World War Memoirs & Diaries Friesian Horses of Great Britain & Ireland Generals of the American Civil War Gunshot Wounds (: Graphic images) Killiecrankie (Scotland): Memoirs of British Campaigns, 1814-1831 (e-texts) Middle Ages: Historical battles & campaigns Military Archaeology (Two Men in a Trench) Napoleon Bonaparte's Toothbrush 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 Napoleonic Wars Summary, 1769-1815 Napoleonic Wars (Battles, etc.) Old Sword Play (pdf file) Old Sword Play (alternative site) Sam McDonald's Civil War Journals Scottish Military Historical Society Sir John Wedderburn (A reluctant jacobite's account of capture, treatment on enemy's ship, and treatment of prisoners in the London gaol.) Stories of 18th Century Scottish Servicemen
Soldiers' Hairstyles The Old Guard: Civil War Journal, 1864 (New York, NY) Uniforms, Kit, & Equip of the 42nd U.S. Navy Regulation Uniforms, 1797-1943 War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, Early 1900s War Times Journal (Orders, dispatches, memoirs, eyewitness accounts) Waterloo: 42nd Royal Highland Regiment Waterloo, The Battle (PBS. Interactive simulator) WWII: Bombing of London Timeline (Date, weather, activity/location, casualties) WWI Soldiers Stories Audio Gallery, BBC
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17th Century Port Books of Portsmouth (Sea trade around Portsmouth: chart, coastal traffic, foreign traffic, vessels with foreign cargo, wrecks) 17th Century Price list (Southampton 1625) 1893 Prices (US--at the Boston Cash Store) 19th Century Prices, US (From 1897 Sears & Roebuck) 19th Century Money & Banking (US) A Banker's Daughter: Guide to the Unprotected in Every-day Matters Relating to Property and Income American Currency Exhibit (Loads of antique currency & coin images) Antique Currency (US)
Antique Stocks & Bonds
(US) Bankruptcy in Victorian England British Coins Circulating in the Colonies British Coin Denominations from Calculators: Exchange Rates (exchange rate between United States dollar & British pound, between 1791-2000) Inflation/Currency Converter, (Scots converter) Coins of England & Great Britain (Issue dates) Fractional Farthings; The Farthing; The Halfpenny; The Penny; Three Pence; The Four Pence or Groat; The Sixpence; The Shilling; The Florin, or Two Shillings; Thirty Pence - Half Crown; Three Shillings, 40d and 45d; Five Shillings; Ten Shillings or Half Sovereign; One Pound or Sovereign; Maundy Coins Costs & Wages in Great Britain Debtors Prison: Debtors Prison (Article) Debtors' Prisons - The Queen's Bench UK, written in 1838 Halifax Debtors Prison Inmate Tally, 1842 Prison System in the Victorian Age Dialogue Concerning Exchequer, 12th C. (UK) Early Medieval Coins Database, UK (Amazing image site! Searchable by county, kingdom, ruler, and town, city, and village where coin was struck. Also provides a location map) Glossary of Ancient Weights and Measures Historical Prices & Wages (Crops, population mortality, etc., Worldwide) History of Banking in the U.S. Medieval & Early Modern Databank Medieval Money (UK)
Medieval
Weights & Measures Metals Used in Coins (UK)
Medieval Monks The Currency House, US The Great Recoinage, 1696 (UK) The Great Recoinage to Decimalization, 1816 (UK) The Rise of the London Money Market, 1640-1826 (Written by W.R. Bisschop, 1866 – 1944) US Paper Currency (by state), 1780s-1860s Wages & Costs in Great Britain Wages, Cost of Living, Contemp Equiv to Victorian Money Wages, People of the Abyss, Jack London Wages & Cost of Living in Victorian England How Much Money Would A Victorian Carry? Women & Property in 19th Century England
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England Ancient English Morris Dance (from Saturday Magazine, 1837) A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments:
Arthor O'Bradley's Wedding (A 'Lost' English Ballad from the 18 Century) Bagpipe Glossary (Illustrated) Dance: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920 Dance History Late 16th century; Early 17th century; Late 17th century; Early 18th century; Late 18th century; Early 19th century; Late 19th century; 20th century Late 18th Century Social Dance Social Dance, UK, 1490-1920 History in Song, US (scroll down) Memoirs of Music & Singing, (UK, memoirs, mid 1800s) Popular American Music Before 1900 Sheet Music (1790-1895)
Birth Village Baby Names Collection of Medieval Onomastic Articles Names Database (Massive collection) Online English Names Directory
Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire The Academy Library (A gazillion articles about names. Mostly Europe)
19th Century Seminole Clothing Chicasaw Historical Research Page (Land Sales, Letters, 1792-1849, Marriage records, Treaties) Language of the West Virginia Mingo Native American Resource, (Smithsonian) Sarah Winnemucca's Fight for Indian Rights Mountain man diary with notes on the Ute language Native American Language Resources Natchez Indians' Marriage Rules
Newspapers, Magazines, & Trade Journals 18th & 19th Century Newspapers, UK (Great collection of links) 1841 Newspaper Article on Napoleon Bonaparte's funeral, US 1815 Newspaper Articles on Napoleon Bonaparte African American Newspapers, Kansas State Historical Society , digital collections 1758-1778 : A magazine of general literature, 1869-1881 (New York, NY)Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine British Library Newspaper Archive (Excellent site! Read old newspapers online.)British Library Newspaper Library British Periodicals, a list (1665-1850) Catholic World 1865-1901 (New York, NY) historical newspapersDeBow's: Agricultural, commercial, Industrial, 1846-1869 (New Orleans, LA) Publick Occurrences (Boston, 1690)Garden and Forest, 1888-1897 (New York, USA) 1731-1750The English Mercurie, July 23rd, 1588 (Sir Francis Drake vs Spanish Armada.) The Weekely Newes, January 1, 1606 (Execution of Guy Fawkes.) The Intelligencer, Jan 29 - Feb 5, 1648 (Execution of Charles I.) The Gazette, Sept 2-9, 1658 (Death of Oliver Cromwell.) The Newes, July 6, 1665 (Instructions for protection against the Plague!) The London Gazette, Sept 3-10, 1666 (The Great Fire of London.) (Have to sign up for a trial subscription) History of African American Newspapers Journalism Timeline in the United States Ladies Repository: Literature, arts, Religion, 1841-1876 (Cincinnati, OH) US, Gloversville, NY, 1900-1990 1819 (Snippets from 1811-1834)London Newspaper Extracts, 1830-1831 Newspaper Library Catalogue, UK The Founding of the Associated Press The Use of a Steamroller to Print Newspapers History of the Linotype Machine Producing a Newspaper 1692-1792 Producing a Newspaper 1792-1892 Producing a Newspaper 1892-1992 A Capsule History of Typesetting Notes and Queries, 1849-1869 (articles dating from 1817 to early 1900s) USOld Newspaper Articles: 1800-early 1900sScotland, 1800s United States, 1800s-early 1900s Old Classifieds, 1800s-early 1900s Old Legal Notices, 1800s-early 1900s : (Devoted to the development of the country, 1868-1900 (San Francisco, CA)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 1757-1777 : Biblical repertory, 1831-1882 (New York, NY) : Literature & fine arts, 1835-1864 (Richmond, VA) , 1842-1857 (New Orleans, LA) : Architecture, 1843-1852 (August 10, 1775--News of the American Revolution) : (The September Massacres; Execution of Louis XVI; Death of Marat and Execution of Charlotte Corday) : Civil War Journal, 1864 (New York, NY) 1843-1850, 1832-1835, 1845-1859Timeline of Communication History Vanity Fair, 1860-1862 (New York, NY) Windows to the Past, Cornell University, historical materials online
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