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
- Canterbury Cathedral Virtual Tour
- 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
- Dr Johnson's House Dr Johnson's House is one of the few residential houses of its age still surviving in the City of London. Built c.1700, it was a home and workplace for Samuel Johnson 1748-1759
- 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
- Gunnersbury Park Estate Gunnersbury Park is a large leafy park set between Brentford and Acton.
- 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
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- 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.
- John Wesley's Home Virtual Tour On November 1st (All Soul's Day), John Wesley commissioned two houses to be built on either side of the courtyard. This one, for his own use and the other for visiting preachers.
- 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.
- The Mansion House
- 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).
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
- Ackerman's Costume Plates
- American Duchess Historical Costuming from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
- At the Sign of the Golden Scissors 18th Century Costume and Research
- Bath Fashion Museum
- Between a Gentleman and His Tailor Details elements of a Regency gentleman's attire
- Candice Hern -- Romance Novelist - Collections Candice is a passionate collector of Georgian and Regency period antiques. Several times per year, she will bring selections from her many collections to this site in articles that provide history and background on the featured items.
- 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
- House of Worth - Victorian Gowns
- Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion
- Journal des dames et des modes
- Kent State University Museum
- Kyoto Costume Institute -- Digital Archives
- L'Élégant : journal des tailleurs Men's Fashion
- Les Modes - Paris
- Pratt Institute -- Fashion Plate Collection
- The Bibliographica Textilia Historiae: On The Textile Literature
- 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
- Victoriana -- Victorian Era Online
- 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
- Accessible Archives, Inc. Accessible Archives, Inc. was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only in microformat, hard copy form or as images only. In pursuit of th
- 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
- Candice Hern -- Romance Novelist - Collections Candice is a passionate collector of Georgian and Regency period antiques. Several times per year, she will bring selections from her many collections to this site in articles that provide history and background on the featured items.
- CGFA - online art
- Collage View and buy images from Guildhall Art Gallery and London Metropolitan Archives
- 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.
- Digital Public Library of America
- Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- English Heritage
- Explore England's Past This site provides free access to reliable local history materials, produced by academics and volunteers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files are organised thematically.
- Gallica French Library
- Georgia State University Library Digital Collections
- 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
- Jstor
- Kyoto Costume Institute -- Digital Archives
- Les Arts Decoratifs
- Library of Congress - Digital Collections Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
- MOTCO UK Directory and image Ddatabase Contains a reference database of topographical prints, maps, prospects and panoramas of London, the Thames and the UK.
- National Army Museum -- UK
- National Maritime Museums - Royal Museums Greenwich - Collections
- National Museums Scotland
- 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
- Our Transport Heritage
- Philadelphia Museum of Art -- collections
- PortCities Maritime London - Discover the past, explore the present
- Princeton University Digital Library
- Public Catalogue Foundation The PCF is revealing the entire national collection of oil paintings in public ownership in the United Kingdom. It is a registered charity.
- Public Domain Review
- Rijks Museum.
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the NYPL
- 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.
- Telfair Museum - Savannah 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 Huntington
- 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 People's Collection Wales
- 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
- Tyne and Wear Museums Online Collection
- UK Government Art Collection Works from the Collection are placed in British Government buildings in the UK and in nearly every capital city around the world, and are seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors each year
- 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
- Victorian Advertising
- Victorian Times Victorian Times is a NOF funded digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901).
- Waddeson -- House and Collections
- Wellcome Digital Library - Digital collections Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
- Wellcome Images
- 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.
- Brought to Life - Exploring the History of Medicine
- Culture 24 Portal for current British museums exhibits
- Debretts online
- Explore England's Past This site provides free access to reliable local history materials, produced by academics and volunteers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files are organised thematically.
- HyperHistory HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
- Images of Calling Cards, 1785-1816
- Legacies of British Slave-ownership
- PortCities Maritime London - Discover the past, explore the present
- 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
- Candice Hern -- Romance Novelist - Collections Candice is a passionate collector of Georgian and Regency period antiques. Several times per year, she will bring selections from her many collections to this site in articles that provide history and background on the featured items.
- Early Modern England
- Explore England's Past This site provides free access to reliable local history materials, produced by academics and volunteers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files are organised thematically.
- Fashion Plates from Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine, 1806-1810 Includes descriptions of gentlemen's dress
- Images of Calling Cards, 1785-1816
- Impulsive Hearts Kristen Koster's Blog Great general Regency information
- 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
- Romantic - Era Songs A Site Devoted to Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the Romantic Period, as well as Later Settings of Lyrics and Poems of Romantic-Era Poets
- Slang: a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life - 1823
- Still Booking on De Quincey's Mail Coach
- 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 Huntington - Image of a voucher to Almack's
- The Jane Austen Society of Australia
- 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
- Early Modern England
- Explore England's Past This site provides free access to reliable local history materials, produced by academics and volunteers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files are organised thematically.
- Georgian Gent
- 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.
- Images of Calling Cards, 1785-1816
- Legacies of British Slave-ownership
- London, A Pilgrimage by Gustave Doré and Blanchard Jerrold
- Rutgers University - Eighteenth-Century Resources includes Art, Architecture, Landscape Gardening, &c.; History; Literature (and Electronic Texts); Music; Philosophy; Religion & Theology; Science & Mathematics
- 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 Georgian Gentleman General Georgian History
- The London pleasure gardens of the 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
- Victorian London - Dictionary
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.
- Annals of fashionable gallantry : a collection of remarkable trials for crim. con., divorce, adultery, seduction, cruelty, &c. : the whole forming a complete history of the private life and amours of many characters in the most elevated sphere, inters
- 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
- Early Modern England
- Explore England's Past This site provides free access to reliable local history materials, produced by academics and volunteers. Photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files are organised thematically.
- Francis Firth - Nostalgic photos, maps, books and memories of Britain.
- Francis Firth Photo Library The Frith Photo Library is a rights-managed library of historical photographs offering nostalgic images which depict the enormous physical and social changes that have taken place throughout Britain since the 1850s.
- 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.
- Romantic - Era Songs A Site Devoted to Theater and Popular Songs, Catches, Airs, and Art Songs of the Romantic Period, as well as Later Settings of Lyrics and Poems of Romantic-Era Poets
- Still Booking on De Quincey's Mail Coach
- The Book of Household Management Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and under house-maids, Lady’s-maid, Maid-of-all-work, Laundry-maid, Nurse and nurse-maid, Monthly, wet, and sick nurses, etc. etc. also, sani
- The Dictionary of Victorian London A vast website - it would run to thousands of pages in print - containing primary sources covering the social history of Victorian London. This includes extracts from Victorian newspapers, diaries, journalism, memoirs, maps, advertisements &c. and the
- The Graphic - Issues at Hathitrust
- The Life and Loves of a Victorian Clerk -- The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson, 1846 Read of the experiences and innermost thoughts of a remarkable young diarist and gain a rare insight into London life in the early Victorian era!
- 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
- Victorian Advertising
- Victorian Times Victorian Times is a NOF funded digitisation project examining social, political and economic developments in Victorian Britain (1837-1901).
- Victoriana -- Victorian Era Online
- West Midlands Police Museum
- York Castle Museum - Kirkgate, the Victorian Street
Georgia
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.
- National Maritime Museums - Royal Museums Greenwich - Collections
- 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
- A Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words (1859)
- A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England: To which is Now First Incorporated the Supplement, by Samuel Pegge 1839
- Anecdotes of the English Language: Chiefly Regarding the Local Dialect of London and Its Environs; 1844
- 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.
- Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Francis Grose, Pierce Egan in 1823
- Joanna Waugh -- Historical Romance Writer Many informative Regency links, as well as language and etymology research.
- Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence Francis Grose, George Cruikshank -- 1811
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase is complied and written by James Redding Ware (1909)
- Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms Antiquus Morbus is a collection of archaic medical terms and their old and modern definitions. The primary focus of this web site is to help decipher the Causes of Death found on Mortality Lists, Certificates of Death and Church Death Records from the 19
- Slang: a dictionary of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life - 1823
- Sportsman's Slang (1825)
- The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from
- Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536–1896]
- Victorian slang - a guide to sexual Victorian terms
- Vocabulum, Or, The Rogue's Lexicon 1859?
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
- Celebrating the black presence in Westminster 1500-2000 An exhibition focusing on the impact of the slave trade at a local level, drawing on the Centre's archives and local studies collections. Also documented are the lives of the African residents of Westminster during the age of the slave trade.
- Chiswick House and Gardens Chiswick House is a magnificent neo-Palladian villa set in beautiful historic gardens in west London.
- City of London -- Local history and heritage
- Covent Garden's History
- Dr Johnson
- 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 Mansion House
- 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!
- Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms Antiquus Morbus is a collection of archaic medical terms and their old and modern definitions. The primary focus of this web site is to help decipher the Causes of Death found on Mortality Lists, Certificates of Death and Church Death Records from the 19
- Very ill The Many Faces of Medical Caricature in Nineteenth-Century England & France
- Wellcome Digital Library - Digital collections Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
Museums
- Bank of England Museum - Interactive Timeline
- 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 Huntington
- The Old Operating Theatre The Oldest Operating Theatre In Britain in the unique setting of the timber framed Herb Garret
- 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 Women's Library The Women's Library is a cultural centre housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK.
Newspapers and Journals
Old Hollywood
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!
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- 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 Dictionary of Victorian London A vast website - it would run to thousands of pages in print - containing primary sources covering the social history of Victorian London. This includes extracts from Victorian newspapers, diaries, journalism, memoirs, maps, advertisements &c. and the
- The Jane Austen Society of Australia
- The Life and Loves of a Victorian Clerk -- The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson, 1846 Read of the experiences and innermost thoughts of a remarkable young diarist and gain a rare insight into London life in the early Victorian era!
- 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.
- Sagnlandet - Denmark 10.000 years of Danish history brought to life. Houses and settings from the Iron Age, Stone Age, Viking Age and 18th century.
Science
- Brought to Life - Exploring the History of Medicine
- 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.
- The Old Operating Theatre The Oldest Operating Theatre In Britain in the unique setting of the timber framed Herb Garret
Scotland
- 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
- Celebrating the black presence in Westminster 1500-2000 An exhibition focusing on the impact of the slave trade at a local level, drawing on the Centre's archives and local studies collections. Also documented are the lives of the African residents of Westminster during the age of the slave trade.
- 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
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- 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 Old Operating Theatre The Oldest Operating Theatre In Britain in the unique setting of the timber framed Herb Garret
- 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
- Accessible Archives, Inc. Accessible Archives, Inc. was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only in microformat, hard copy form or as images only. In pursuit of th
- 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
- Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
- 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
- Our Transport Heritage
- The British Postal Museum & Archive
- The Great North Road
- Travel in 18th Century England Costs associated with travel in 18th Century
War
- Crimean War Research Society
- National Army Museum -- UK
- Naval History of Great Britain by William James
- 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
- Impulsive Hearts Kristen Koster's Blog Great general Regency information
- Joanna Waugh -- Historical Romance Writer Many informative Regency links, as well as language and etymology research.
- Nancy Regency Researcher
Looks great!
Thanks, Nancy!
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Wow! Great list of research links!
@Cheryl, Thank you! I try to put my links here because I lose track moving from computer to computer, browser to browser.