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Architecture / Historic Homes

Benjamin Franklin House In the heart of London, is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the United States and more
Bramham Park Bramham Park was built in 1698 and its famous landscape laid out over the following 30 years by Robert Benson, 1st Lord Bingley. Take a virtual tour of the home, as well as view floor plans.
Burton Agnes Hall Built between 1598 and 1610 by Sir Henry Griffith, Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan stately home that has stayed within our family for more than four hundred years. Fifteen generations have filled the Hall with treasures, from magnificent carvings comm
Burton Constable This country-house museum has been the family home of the Constable family for seven hundred years and its interiors of faded splendour are filled with fine furniture, paintings and sculpture, a library of 5,000 books and a remarkable 18th century ‘cabine
Castle Howard Yorkshire's finest historic house & estate. Home to the Howard family for over 300 years, Castle Howard is a magnificent 18th-century residence set within 1,000 acres of breathtaking landscape.
Chiswick House and Gardens Chiswick House is a magnificent neo-Palladian villa set in beautiful historic gardens in west London.
Compton Verney Compton Verney is Warwickshire's award-winning art gallery
Dennis Severs' House Spitalfields home where each room represents a different historic style, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries
Erddig Since the time that Erddig was built by Joshua Edisbury in the 1680s, each owner has added to and cared for the house, its contents, its gardens and park. But each owner and generation has kept a part of and respected the work of their predecessors. As su
Exploring Hogarth's House BBC Video
Handel House Museum 25 Brook Street, London was home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel. He lived here from 1723 until his death in 1759
Hovingham Hall, North Yorkshire For over 400 years Hovingham has been the home of the Worsley family. The Palladian house was built between 1750 and 1770 by Thomas Worsley to his own design and is unique being entered through The Riding School.
Kiplin Hall Built in the 1620s for George Calvert, Secretary of State to James I, later 1st Lord Baltimore and founder of Maryland, USA. Its design was unique in Jacobean architecture, with central domed towers on each side of a tall symmetrical pavilion in mellow re
Leighton House Museum The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). Built to designs by George Aitchison, it was extended and embellished over a period of 30 years to create a private palace of art. Includes a vi
Markenfield Hall Spectacular mediaeval house, built mainly in 1310, and completely surrounded by its moat. It has been wonderfully little altered since, and is the most complete surviving medium-sized fourteenth century country house left in England.
Newby Hall and Gardens Designed by Sir Christopher Wren, with some of Britain’s finest Robert Adam interiors Newby Hall is home to a wonderful collection of Chippendale furniture,
Tabley House Designed by John Carr of York for Sir Peter Byrne Leicester, Bt., and completed in 1769. His
The Fairfax House Situated in the heart of York, Fairfax House is a stunning Georgian town house displaying one of the finest collections of English eighteenth-century furniture to be found anywhere. It is a perfect time capsule of life in a Georgian town house.
The Geffrye – Life in the living room 1600-2000 Discover through pictures and objects the changing nature of living rooms over the past 400 years.
Waddeson — House and Collections
Wesley Chapel Virtual Tour Wesley’s Chapel stands just outside of London’s Square Mile (the area known as The City of London).

Blogs

18th Century Stays Discussing Aspects of Stays and the Stay-Making Trade
American Duchess Historical Costuming from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
At the Sign of the Golden Scissors 18th Century Costume and Research
Bronte Weather Project
Georgian London The immigrant population and the artisan communities of London during the 18th century, as well as day to day trivia and the more bizarre aspects of London life three centuries ago.
Jane Austen's World
LIbrary of Congress blog
Retronaut
Smithsonian Blog
The Bronte Sisters Blog
The Regency Redingote
The Things That Catch My Eye — David William Wilkin's Weblog
Two Nerdy History Girls Bestselling authors Loretta Chase & Susan Holloway Scott gossip about history, writing, and yes, shoes.
Versailles and More

Cost of Living

Costuming

18th Century Stays Discussing Aspects of Stays and the Stay-Making Trade
19th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum as seen in "Old English Costumes" c.1908 Photographs of old gowns
American Duchess Historical Costuming from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
At the Sign of the Golden Scissors 18th Century Costume and Research
Between a Gentleman and His Tailor Details elements of a Regency gentleman's attire
Fashion Era contains 870 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History.
Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from the revolution to the end of the XIXth century
Fashion Plates from Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine, 1806-1810 Includes descriptions of gentlemen's dress
Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion
Kent State University Museum
Les Modes – Paris
University of Washington — Fashion Plate Collection The original fashion plates collected by Blanche Payne and others have been cataloged and carefully stored for preservation purposes in archival housing. Many of these plates are from some of the leading French, British, American, and other continental fa
Victoria and Albert Museum – Collections The world’s greatest museum of art and design
Women's fashions: 1800 – 1809
Women's fashions: 1810 – 1819
Women's fashions: 1820 – 1829
Women's fashions: 1830 – 1839
Women's fashions: 1840 – 1849
Women's fashions: 1850 – 1859
Women's fashions: 1860 – 1869
Women's fashions: 1870 – 1879

Digital Collections

American Folklore This folklore site contains retellings of folktales, myths, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, weatherlore, and ghost stories from all over the Americas.
American National Archives
Ancestry Images The site contains over 23,000 images of old and antique prints, maps and portraits, dating from the 17th century but mostly from the later 18th century and 19th century.
Art Renewal Center The largest on-line Museum on the internet, with hundreds of thousands of oversized high quality images of all the known works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history, cross referenced to the largest encyclopedic online art reference libra
Bath in Time – Images of Bath online Created to improve awareness, understanding and appreciation of Bath and its environs,using historic images from public and private collections.
Bath Postal Museum Search our collections SEE MORE Early Post pre 1712 This small collection contains postal material illustrating the early days of the postal service initiated in the reign of Charles II with Henry Bishop as Postmaster-General. Following a number of comp
Bath Record Office Bath Record Office collects and preserves historical records relating to Bath
British History Online British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust,
British Library Online Gallery Includes virtual books and online exhibitions
British Newspapers Online: 1800-1900
Brontë Society and the Brontë Parsonage Museum
CGFA – online art
Compton Verney Compton Verney is Warwickshire's award-winning art gallery
Diary Search — England A guide to the location of historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English.
English Heritage
Gallica French Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Hospital Records Database This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals. There are currently over 2,800 entries, which have been compiled by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. These can be found by
Internet Archive The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. It includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and informa
Iowa Digital Library The Iowa Digital Library features more than 450,000 digital objects created from the holdings of The University of Iowa Libraries and its campus partners. Included are illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, fine art, political cartoons, scholarly works
Les Arts Decoratifs
Library of Congress – Digital Collections Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
National Army Museum — UK
National Portrait Gallery — UK
New York Public Library Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Old Book Art Sharing out of copyright images from books
Old Book Illustrations This site is dedicated to providing you with a wide range of illustrations scanned from old books.
Open Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art — collections
Princeton University Digital Library
Sir John Soane's Museum Soane designed this house to live in, but also as a setting for his antiquities and his works of art. After the death of his wife (1815), he lived here alone, constantly adding to and rearranging his collections.
The British Museum
The British Postal Museum & Archive
The De Morgan Foundation
The Foundling Museum
The Geffrye – Life in the living room 1600-2000 Discover through pictures and objects the changing nature of living rooms over the past 400 years.
The Holburne Museum — Collections Bath's Art Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Collections Holdings of T=the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection
The National Archives — UK The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archi
The Smithsonian American Art Museum – Collections
The Wallace Collection A national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.
The Worcester Art Museum – collections
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center Great European collection
Victoria and Albert Museum – Collections The world’s greatest museum of art and design
Waddeson — House and Collections
Wellcome Digital Library – Digital collections Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Westminster City Archives City of Westminster Archives Centre holds extensive collections relating to family, local, business and community history. Among our resources are: books, pamphlets, directories, newspapers, journals, maps & plans, over 60,000 prints, drawings & p
Wikipedia Commons
WorldCat
Yale Digital Content

General Historical Research

Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
Bath Postal Museum Search our collections SEE MORE Early Post pre 1712 This small collection contains postal material illustrating the early days of the postal service initiated in the reign of Charles II with Henry Bishop as Postmaster-General. Following a number of comp
BBC British History Britain has been shaped by turmoil between its nations, and tension between state and church. But centuries of conflict would forge the power at the heart of the largest empire the world has ever seen.
Culture 24 Portal for current British museums exhibits
Debretts online
HyperHistory HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles Introductions to a wide range of building types and architectural styles, plus the development of towns and villages.
Retronaut
St Fagans: National History Museum
The British Postal Museum & Archive
The British Postal Museum and Archive
Two Nerdy History Girls Bestselling authors Loretta Chase & Susan Holloway Scott gossip about history, writing, and yes, shoes.

General Historical Research -- Regency

19th Century British currency
Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
British Newspapers Online: 1800-1900
Fashion Plates from Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine, 1806-1810 Includes descriptions of gentlemen's dress
Jane Austen Centre Bath This website features an online Jane Austen magazine with over 500 articles, an online giftshop, information about the Jane Austen Festival, Regency tea rooms, group visits, walking tours, Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, an online quiz, a comprehens
Jane Austen Information Page Huge compilation of Jane Austen resources gathered by Henry Churchyard
Jane Austen's World
Joanna Waugh — Historical Romance Writer Many informative Regency links, as well as language and etymology research.
Regency England 1790-1830 General information
Republic of Pemberley
The Bevan Family letters – an insight into Regency Brighton and beyond The Bevan family correspondence covers a variety of topics but is especially useful in providing us with an insight into general family life during the late-Regency period; sometimes as it was being led in Brighton.
The Regency Redingote
The Regency Researcher Regency historian Nancy Mayer’s website. The best resource for researching Regency life in the universe! (I'm her webmistress)
The stream of time; social and domestic life in England, 1805-1861
The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill
‘Pots, privies and WCs; crapping1 at the opera in London before 1830

General Historical Research — Georgian

19th Century British currency
Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports
Georgian Index Hodgepodge of Georgian History
Georgian London The immigrant population and the artisan communities of London during the 18th century, as well as day to day trivia and the more bizarre aspects of London life three centuries ago.
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies promotes the study of all aspects of the global 'long' eighteenth century.
The stream of time; social and domestic life in England, 1805-1861
The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill

General Historical Research — Victorian

19th Century British currency
Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
British Newspapers Online: 1800-1900
Brontë Society and the Brontë Parsonage Museum
Casebook: Jack the Ripper Amazing resource of links about Victorian London
Charles Dickson Page Amazing site on Charles Dickens, his life and times. Includes wonderful map of Victorian London
Crime and the Victorians
Francis Firth – Nostalgic photos, maps, books and memories of Britain.
John Snow Site This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Includes wonderful maps!
Leighton House Museum The house was the former home and studio of the leading Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896). Built to designs by George Aitchison, it was extended and embellished over a period of 30 years to create a private palace of art. Includes a vi
Off the Pedestal: Images of Women In Victorian Broadsides, Ephemera & Fast literature
Queen Victoria's Journals These diaries cover the period from Queen Victoria's childhood days to her Accession to the Throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and later, her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.
Ripon Museums Liberty Courthouse, Prison and Victorian Workhouse.
The Graphic – Issues at Hathitrust
The Victorian Web
The Victorian Women Writers Project Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.
Victoria Research Web Scholarly Resources for Victorian Research
West Midlands Police Museum
York Castle Museum – Kirkgate, the Victorian Street

Government Archives -- England

Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day.
Bath Record Office Bath Record Office collects and preserves historical records relating to Bath
British History Online British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust,
English Heritage
HANSARD 1803–2005 This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files.
Survey on London The survey is the closest thing to an 'official' history of London, and provides essential reading for anyone wishing to find out about some of its most famous and characteristic districts and buildings.
The National Archives — UK The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archi
Westminster City Archives City of Westminster Archives Centre holds extensive collections relating to family, local, business and community history. Among our resources are: books, pamphlets, directories, newspapers, journals, maps & plans, over 60,000 prints, drawings & p

Language

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
18th Century and Regency Thieves' Cant Includes Cant Database Search
British Slang – Lower Class and Underworld This is vocabulary that only lower (mostly much lower) class characters would conprehend, let alone use. Not to be employed in New Europa's better salons or when trying to pass one's self off as a flash toff.
Joanna Waugh — Historical Romance Writer Many informative Regency links, as well as language and etymology research.
Online Etymology Dictionary
Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536–1896]

London

Benjamin Franklin House In the heart of London, is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the United States and more
Chiswick House and Gardens Chiswick House is a magnificent neo-Palladian villa set in beautiful historic gardens in west London.
Covent Garden's History
John Snow Site This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Includes wonderful maps!
London Historians' Blog Random musings about London's history
Museum of London
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Old London Maps Views of the city from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Survey on London The survey is the closest thing to an 'official' history of London, and provides essential reading for anyone wishing to find out about some of its most famous and characteristic districts and buildings.
The Foundling Museum
The London Adviser and Guide, 1786 — Google Book containing every instruction and information useful and necessary to persons living in London and coming to reside there ... Together with an abstract of all those laws which regard their protection against the frauds, impositions, insults and accidents t
The Temple Bar History of Temple Bar Sir Christopher Wren’s Temple Bar marked the gateway to the City of London for 200 years.
Wesley
Westminster City Archives City of Westminster Archives Centre holds extensive collections relating to family, local, business and community history. Among our resources are: books, pamphlets, directories, newspapers, journals, maps & plans, over 60,000 prints, drawings & p

Maps

Charles Dickson Page Amazing site on Charles Dickens, his life and times. Includes wonderful map of Victorian London
John Snow Site This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Includes wonderful maps!
Old London Maps Views of the city from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

Medicine

18th Century Pharmacopeia Thomas Fuller published his Pharmacopeia Extemporanea in English in 1710. It caused quite a stir by giving away medical recipes previously guarded jealously by doctors. He explains his motives in The Preface.
Hospital Records Database This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals. There are currently over 2,800 entries, which have been compiled by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. These can be found by
Hunterian Museum and Archives A free collection located inside the Royal College of Surgeons of England, consisting of thousands of medical instruments and specimens.
John Snow Site This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Includes wonderful maps!
Wellcome Digital Library – Digital collections Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

Museums

Bath Postal Museum Search our collections SEE MORE Early Post pre 1712 This small collection contains postal material illustrating the early days of the postal service initiated in the reign of Charles II with Henry Bishop as Postmaster-General. Following a number of comp
Compton Verney Compton Verney is Warwickshire's award-winning art gallery
Dennis Severs' House Spitalfields home where each room represents a different historic style, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries
Emily Dickinson Museum
Hunterian Museum and Archives A free collection located inside the Royal College of Surgeons of England, consisting of thousands of medical instruments and specimens.
National Portrait Gallery — UK
Natural History Museum — UK
Ripon Museums Liberty Courthouse, Prison and Victorian Workhouse.
St Fagans: National History Museum
The British Museum
The British Postal Museum and Archive
The Foundling Museum
The Holburne Museum — Collections Bath's Art Museum
The Wallace Collection A national museum in an historic London town house. In 25 galleries are unsurpassed displays of French 18th century painting, furniture and porcelain with superb Old Master paintings and a world class armoury.

Newspapers and Journals

The Graphic – Issues at Hathitrust

People

Casebook: Jack the Ripper Amazing resource of links about Victorian London
Charles Dickson Page Amazing site on Charles Dickens, his life and times. Includes wonderful map of Victorian London
Diary Search — England A guide to the location of historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English.
Emily Dickinson Museum
Exploring Hogarth's House BBC Video
Gay History and Literature
Handel House Museum 25 Brook Street, London was home to the great baroque composer George Frideric Handel. He lived here from 1723 until his death in 1759
Jane Austen Centre Bath This website features an online Jane Austen magazine with over 500 articles, an online giftshop, information about the Jane Austen Festival, Regency tea rooms, group visits, walking tours, Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, an online quiz, a comprehens
Jane Austen Information Page Huge compilation of Jane Austen resources gathered by Henry Churchyard
John Snow Site This site is devoted to the life and times of Dr. John Snow (1813-1858), a legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology. Includes wonderful maps!
Republic of Pemberley
The Bevan Family letters – an insight into Regency Brighton and beyond The Bevan family correspondence covers a variety of topics but is especially useful in providing us with an insight into general family life during the late-Regency period; sometimes as it was being led in Brighton.
The Celebration of Women Writers The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and
The De Morgan Foundation
The diary of William Winckworth Schoolmaster of Bath Workhouse
The Napoleon Guide The Napoleonic Guide is the best reference source for everything you need to know about the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. It has more than 2500 pages of information covering all aspects of the greatest era in world history.
The Newgate Calendar The Newgate Calendar, a series of stories about criminals from the 17th century and earlier through to 1840, is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the criminal underworld of 18th Century Britain.

Science

Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day Obtain rise, set, and transit times for the Sun and Moon; civil twilight beginning and end times; and, lunar phase information.

Army Records Society Publishes manuscripts relating to the history of the British Army.
Bath Record Office Bath Record Office collects and preserves historical records relating to Bath
British History Online British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust,
British Library Online Gallery Includes virtual books and online exhibitions
Charles Dickson Page Amazing site on Charles Dickens, his life and times. Includes wonderful map of Victorian London
Diary Search — England A guide to the location of historical and literary sources, in the forms of Diaries and Journals, from all periods and parts of the world, which have been printed in English.
Early Eighteenth Century Newspaper Reports
Emily Dickinson Museum
English Heritage
Erddig Since the time that Erddig was built by Joshua Edisbury in the 1680s, each owner has added to and cared for the house, its contents, its gardens and park. But each owner and generation has kept a part of and respected the work of their predecessors. As su
Gay History and Literature
Off the Pedestal: Images of Women In Victorian Broadsides, Ephemera & Fast literature
Old and new London : a narrative of its history, its people, and its places
Opium Throughout History Timeline of Opium
Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles Introductions to a wide range of building types and architectural styles, plus the development of towns and villages.
Retronaut
St Fagans: National History Museum
Survey on London The survey is the closest thing to an 'official' history of London, and provides essential reading for anyone wishing to find out about some of its most famous and characteristic districts and buildings.
The Bevan Family letters – an insight into Regency Brighton and beyond The Bevan family correspondence covers a variety of topics but is especially useful in providing us with an insight into general family life during the late-Regency period; sometimes as it was being led in Brighton.
The Celebration of Women Writers The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and
The diary of William Winckworth Schoolmaster of Bath Workhouse
The National Archives — UK The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archi
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
The stream of time; social and domestic life in England, 1805-1861
The Wesley Center Online The Wesley Center Online website is a collection of historical and scholarly resources about the Wesleyan Tradition, theology, and Christianity
The Workhouse. The story of an institution This site is dedicated to the workhouse — its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, even its poets...
West Midlands Police Museum
‘Pots, privies and WCs; crapping1 at the opera in London before 1830

Africans in America The Web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States -- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865 -- and explores the central paradox that is at the heart of the Ameri
Debretts online
Opium Throughout History Timeline of Opium
The Newgate Calendar The Newgate Calendar, a series of stories about criminals from the 17th century and earlier through to 1840, is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in the criminal underworld of 18th Century Britain.
The Village Labourer 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill
When did the middle finger become offensive? — BBC article

Transportation

Bath Postal Museum Search our collections SEE MORE Early Post pre 1712 This small collection contains postal material illustrating the early days of the postal service initiated in the reign of Charles II with Henry Bishop as Postmaster-General. Following a number of comp
Carriages Glossary of carriages
List of the Flying Coaches, Stage Coaches, Wagons, and Carriers. 1721
Omnibuses & Cabs: Their Origin and History
The British Postal Museum & Archive
Travel in 18th Century England Costs associated with travel in 18th Century

Wales

War

National Army Museum — UK
Secrets and Spies — UK
The Napoleon Guide The Napoleonic Guide is the best reference source for everything you need to know about the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte. It has more than 2500 pages of information covering all aspects of the greatest era in world history.

Writers

Joanna Waugh — Historical Romance Writer Many informative Regency links, as well as language and etymology research.
Nancy Regency Researcher