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General British History Resources
Archives
Bodleian Library (Oxford U.)
The British Library (Manuscripts collections homepage)
British Public Record Office Archival Material Held at Stanford and Selected U.S. Libraries (Jonsson Library, Stanford U.)
British Association for Local History (homepage for society, including information and a page of research-related sites) (BALH, Ashbourne, UK)
Cambridge University Library (Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
EuroDocs: History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents (links to "transcriptions, facsimiles and translations" of key historical documents) (Richard Hacken, Brigham Young U.)
National Archives (homepage for UK government site)
Gardiner's Atlas of English History (historical maps from Gardiner's 1892 historical atlas) (Pam Rietsch)
John E. Muter Bloody, Bloody Britain: Battles on British Soil, 55 BC-1797 (lists of battles with texts on background, plus bibliography) (Alex's Military History)
Britannia: History
Britannia: British History Homepage (numerous subjects, arranged by subject or by time period, from the Britannia site)
Monarchs Homepage (monarchs of British kingdom, with brief bios and genealogies) (Britannia)
Prime Ministers: Homepage (biographies) (Britannia)
Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (homepage, with lists of papers, arranged by topic, on the UK, but with a focus on Southwest England) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
Center for Western European Studies: United Kingdom (links to sites devoted to historical and contemporary studies of Enlgand, Scotland, and Wales) (Phil Wilkin, U. of Pittsburgh)
Cornwall: Heritage and History (links to articles, archivs, and images) (Cornish City Council)
EuroDocs: History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents (links to "transcriptions, facsimiles and translations" of key historical documents) (Richard Hacken, Brigham Young U.)
Government
The British Monarchy: The Official Web Site 
The United Kingdom Parliament (homepage, including links to historical archives and exhibitions)
Royal Genealogies: Homepage (conversion of the ROYAL92.GED Gedcom file from the ROOTS-L list into HTML, with index) (Henry Churchyard, U. Texas, Austin)
H-Albion: The H-Net Discussion Network for British and Irish History (archived messages concerning historiography and related issues, teaching resources, links, and more) (Michigan State U.)
Ian's English Calendar (dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays") (Ian McInnes, Albion C., Albion, MI)
John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations (virtual exhibit) (Library of COngress, Washington, DC)
Manx National Heritage (links to articles on history, archives, and images) (Isle of Man Government)
A Manx Notebook (links to various articles and sites about Manx culture and history) (Frances Coakley)
National Archives: Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603 (virtual exhibits, with primary documents, maps, and more; sections on Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and France) (National Archives, London, UK)
Naval History: Great Britain (links to primary sources, such as catalogues and contemporary journalistic pieces) (Lars Bruzelius)
An England Reading List (Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim)
A Comprehensive Online Guide to Writing About British and Irish History (searchable database of bibliography for British and Irish historical research) (Royal Historical Society, U. College, London)
Peter Higginbotham The Workhouse (history of the workhouse across Britain, Poor Laws, and related topics, 1601-1930; includes images, transcriptions, articles, and more)
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Scotland General Resources
Scotland's Past (homepage for site devoted to Scottish history and archaeology)(Fergie Meek)
Alex's Military History: The Scottish Trilogy (links to homepages for detailed sites devoted to the battles of Stirling Bridge, Bannockburn, and Culloden) (Alex's Military History)
Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives (articles, images, and maps, "together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond") (Edinburgh U. Library)
Electric Scotland (homepage for a megasite about Scotland, with sections on Scottish history, as well as information about clan lineage) (Alistair I. McIntyre)
The Gateway to Scotland (overview articles on Scottish culture and history, with links to articles about hypertext-marked subjects [both on-site articles and some links to external sites], timelines, maps, links, and many more resources) (Bruce M. Gittings, U. Edinburgh)
Raphael Holinshed The Historie of Scotland, conteining the beginning, increase, proceedings, acts and gouernement of the Scotish nation  (facsimile reproductions from the 1585 Denham print) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
National Library of Scotland: Digital Maps of Scotland (historical maps) (Edinburgh, Scotland)
National Archives: Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603 (virtual exhibits, with primary documents, maps, and more; sections on Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and France) (National Archives, London, UK)
Orkneyjar-- The Heritage of the Orkney Islands (homepage with links to primary and secondary historical texts, as well as numerous articles and images related to Orkney culture) (Sigurd Towrie)
Rampant Scotland Directory: History (annotated links, within a larger site devoted to Scotland)
Scottish Documents.com ("free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901") (Scottish Archive Network)
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780 (database for statistics) (Alex Gibson, Exeter U.)
Scotland: Notable Dates in History (Bruce M. Gittings, U. of Edinburgh)
A Scotland Reading List (Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim)
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft: 1563-1736 (searchable database containing relevant court records; also includes an introductory essay, bibliography, and links) (Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, U. of Edinburgh)
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Wales General Resources
Annales Cambrię version A (Latin text, based on the Phillmore print) (Keith Matthews)
Documents in Welsh History (links to primary sources, within the Gwarnant site) (Jeff Davies)
"History and Status of the Welsh Language" (Geraint Jones, Oxford U.)
National Archives: Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603 (virtual exhibits, with primary documents, maps, and more; sections on Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and France) (National Archives, London, UK)
the Powys Digital History Project. (the "local history of communities in the heart of Wales from archive documents, photographs, and early maps," with 6 communities to examine) (Powys County Archives)
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (Welsh Assembly Government)
A Wales Reading List (Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim)
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Dark Age and Roman Britain
General Resources
History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents from Antiquity through 1065 (annotated links)(Richard Hacken, Brigham Young U.)
Early British Kingdoms Web Site (covers early Celtic kingdoms from the time of the Romans to the 11th century, hosted by Britannia) (David Nash Ford)
Historical resources for 'Dark Age' Britain (annotated set of links to primary texts of early British chroniclers and poet-historians) (Keith Matthews)
Regia Anglorum (homepage for group devoted to "Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History," with links to articles and news about re-enactment activities)
Chronicles
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (transcriptions into Old English, with very full editorial discussion, within the Georgetown Labyrinth site) (Tony Jebson)
Annales Cambrię version A (Latin text, based on the Phillmore print) (Keith Matthews)
Gildas De excidio Brittonum (latin text, based on the Theodore Mommsen edition) (Keith Matthews)
Nennius History of the Britons (J.A. Giles translation of entire text) Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
English Heritage Ancient Monuments Laboratory 
Roman Scotland: An Exhibition (Hunterian Museum, Glasgow)
Vindolanda Tablets Online (database for tablets, virtual exhibit with articles on the historical background, and more) (Center for the STudy of Ancient Documents, and Oxford U.)
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Anglo-Saxon Period
General Resources
The Old English Pages: Historical Contexts (anotated links, including many primary sources related to Anglo-Saxon England) (Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown U.)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (transcriptions into Old English, with very full editorial discussion, within the Georgetown Labyrinth site) (Tony Jebson)
Kemble: Anglo-Saxon Charters (numerous links to primary sources, as well as description of project) (Joint Committee on Anglo-Saxon Charters, British Academy-0Royal Historical Society)
History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents from Antiquity through 1065 (annotated links)(Richard Hacken, Brigham Young U.)
The New Regesta Regum Anglorum: A searchable edition of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon royal diplomas 670-1066 (within the British Academy-Royal Historical Society's section on Anglo-Saxon charters) (Sean Miller)
Signal Dates in Anglo-Saxon History (David Wilson-Okamura, U. Chicago)
The Tribal Hidage (stats, a map, and more) (Tony Jebson)
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (transcriptions into Old English, with very full editorial discussion, within the Georgetown Labyrinth site) (Tony Jebson)
Anglo-Saxon and Viking Yorkshire (U. of York)
Asser The Life of King Alfred (1847 English translation by Giles, , plus bibliography)(Online Medieval and Classical Library, U. California, Berkeley)
Bede (aka The Venerable Bede)
Bede's Story of Caedmon (facing Old English and modern English, with link to Latin text, with a wealth of linguistic information and full manuscript data) (Benjamin Slade, Johns Hopkins U.)
Bede Net (bibliography, plus numerous links to Bede-related resources)(Stephen J. Harris, U. of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Bede's World (museum homepage, with links to a biography, images from exhibitions, and more) (Museum of Early Medieval Northumbria at Jarrow)
Bede Bede's Ecclesiastical History of English (e-text of A.M. Sellar's 1907 English translation) (Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Calvin C.)
Bede Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum: The History of the Primitive Church of England (e-text of the William hurst 1814 translation into English) (Saint Pachomius Library)
The Laws of Alfred and Ine (Old English, based on Fowler and Smith edition of the Parker Chronicle MS) (Tony Jebson)
Medieval and Anglo-Saxon Recipes (recipes, in modern English, from The British Museum Cookbook (Michelle Berriedale-Johnson)
The Norman Conquest of England (1066)
The Battle of Hastings: A Brief History and Virtual Tour (virtual exhibit, with articles, images, and links) (Deborah Vess, Georgia C. and State U.)
The Battle of Hastings 1066 (extensive site, with background info, maps, images, and more) (Glen Ray Crack, Battle1066.com)
The Full Bayeux Tapestry (thumbnail images) (Glen Ray Crack)
Invasion of England, 1066 (historical overview, with illustrations from the Bayeux Tapestry) (eyewitnesstohistory.com)
William Malmesbury The Battle of Hastings, 1066 (English translation of excerpt from chronicle, within Fordham U.'s Medieval Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Statutes of William the Conqueror (English translation, within the Avalon Project site) (Yale U.)
Tony Jebson The Ruthwell Cross (attempt to reconstruct inscription, with diagram, background, and references)
The Vikings
Nova: The Vikings (companion site to series, includes texts and images, as well as video and links) (Nova, PBS.org)
Regia Anglorum (homepage for group devoted to "Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History," with links to articles and news about re-enactment activities)
Viking Heritage (homepage, with link to general information including history, maps, and images) (Gotland U.)
World of the Vikings (homepage for collaborative project with page of Viking links) (National Museum of Denmark and York Archaeological Trust)
The Vikings and Money in England (essay based on the work of Glyn Davies) (Roy Davies, U. of Exeter)
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Medieval Britain
General Resources
Medieval English Towns (in-depth histories of certain English towns, plus extensive bibliography and links) (Stephen Alsford)
Medieval Legal History (primary texts, lecture material, links, from the Medieval Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. of North Florida)
14th Century Outline (Michael Hanly, Washington State U.)
Ian's English Calendar (dating resource for students of English history and literature: "converts between old and new style dates, calculates day of the week, British regnal years, and the date of Easter and other moveable religious holidays") (Ian McInnes, Albion C., Albion, MI)
Richard Brittnell (U. of Durham) Rural and urban elites in England during the later Middle Ages (essay, with bibliography)
History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents, 1066-1485 (links to primary sources) (Richard Hacken, Brigham Young U.)
Medieval Scotland (numerous links to articles on aspects of medieval Scotland, including maps and archives) (Sharon L. Krossa, U. of Aberdeen)
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
The Battle of Bannockburn (articles on details of battle, background and consequences) (Alex's Military History)
The Black Death
CDC Plague Homepage (detailed discussion of the nature and transmission of bubonic plague) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA)
Dr. Mike Ibeji Black Death (detailed essay analyzing the spread of bubonic plague throughout Britain) (BBC)
James L. Matterer The Pestilence Tyme (illustrated historical overview, within the Gode Cookery site)
Selections from the Correspondence and Memoranda of the Cely Family, Merchants of the Staple, 1475-88 (e-text of 1909 edition by Henry Elliot Malden) (Richard III Historical Society, American Branch)
Chroniclers
The Croyland Chronicle Continuations, 1453-1486 (e-text of selections, within the Richard II Online Library site) (Richard III Society, American Branch)
David Nash Ford Geoffrey of Monmouth (biography, with bibliography)
Michael Ullyot (U. of Toronto) Geoffrey of Monmouth (extended discussion of geoffrey, with emphasis on questions of sources, within a larger site devoted to the myth of Troy in the middle Ages)
Judith Weiss (U. of Cambridge) Geoffrey Monmouth (biography, hosted by the Literary Encyclopedia web site)
Gerald of Wales Giraldus Cambrensis or Gerald of Wales (extended introduction to Gerald,focusing on his travelogue in Wales, plus translated selections from Itinerarium Cambriae (Leonard James)
Chronicles and Society in Northern England in the Fourteenth Century (description of project aimed primarily at an e-text of Thomas Gray's Scalachronica, as well as broader treatment of northern chronicles) (Michael Prestwich, U. of Durham)
Thomas Gray Scalacronica, by Sir Thomas Gray (selections from Gray's chronicle, in Maxwell's 1907 translation)(Peter Konieczny, De Re Militari)
Raphael Holinshed The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Raphael Holinshed The Historie of Scotland, conteining the beginning, increase, proceedings, acts and gouernement of the Scotish nation  (facsimile reproductions from the 1585 Denham print) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Matthew of Westminster: Simon de Montfort's Rebellion 1265 (Ronge's 1853 translation, from the Medieval Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. of North Florida)
The Battle of the Bannockburn (1314), according to the Vita Edwardi Secundi (in Denholm-Young's 1957 English translation) (Peter Konieczny, De Re Militari)
The Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War Resources (annotated links) (Steven Kreis, Wake Technical Community C., Raleigh, NC)
The Hundred Years' War (manuscript images depicting various battles) (Bibliothèque Nationale Française
Maps of France During the 100 Year's War (gifs)
Lynn Harry Nelson (U. of Kansas) The Hundred Years' War (1336-1565) (overview in essay form)
Law and Government
Bracton (aka Henry of Bratton) Bracton Online: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Latin text by Woodbine along with the Thorne translation into English, with a full intro and some manuscript images) (Law School Library, Harvard U.)
The Declaration of Arbroath (introduction, with text in Latin and in English) (Bruce M. Gittings)
The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer (Henderson's 1896 translation of treatise on government, c. 1180) (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
View Whole Manuscript of Magna Carta (image) (British Library)
Translation of Magna Carta (British Library)
Statutes of William the Conqueror (English translation, within the Avalon Project site) (Yale U.)
Lollard Society HomePage 
Monarchs
History of the Monarchy (links to histories of monarchs of England and Scotland) (Official Website of the British Monarchy)
The Life and Times of Edward the First (articles related to the historical period of Edward I) (Peter Riis)
Henry V -- History, Literature, and Myth (set of essays that place Shakespeare's play in the context of the historical king as seen in historical writings from the Middle Ages to the 20th century) (Kiley Thompson)
Raphael Holinshed, Henrie the fourth, cousine germane to Richard the second, latelie depriued (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Raphael Holinshed Henrie the fift, prince of Wales, sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Raphael Holinshed Henrie the sixt, sonne and heire to Henrie the fift (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
The Richard III Society Online Library (e-texts of primary sources on Richard III, including chronicles, verse, and more) (Richard III Society, American Branch)
Richard III and Yorkist History Server (many full-text, pedagogical, and other resources that serve as a general introduction to the late medieval and Renaissance period; includes literary texts) (Richard III Society, American Branch)
Richard III Foundation, Inc. ("international non-profit, tax-exempt organization . . . specializ[ing] in the education and research of Richard III, his contemporaries and era")
Raphael Holinshed Richard the second, the second sonne to Edward prince of Wales. (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Raphael Holinshed Richard the third, third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke, and vncle to Edward the fift. (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Robert the Bruce (biography, plus annotations of related sources) (Fergie Meek)
National Archives: Uniting the Kingdoms? 1066-1603 (virtual exhibits, with primary documents, maps, and more; sections on Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and France) (National Archives, London, UK)
The Peasants' Revolt
The Peasants Revolt 1381 (overview of revolt) (Edge Grove preparatory School; Hertfordshire, England)
Michael Gramer (U. of Pennsylvania) The History of the 1381 Peasants' Rebellion (essay)
Kim Milone The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (essay from Loyola U. Student Historical Journal 1986-7)
Stirling Bridge (articles detailing background of battle, the battle itself, and consequences) (Alex's Military History)
Tudors (and Stuarts) Page (historical information, illustrations) (Welford and Wickham Primary School, Berkshire, England)
Castles of Wales (homepage, with links to historical articles, links on Welsh history, and images of castles) (Jeffrey L. Thomas)
The Wars of the Roses
Lara E. Eakins The Tudors in the Wars of the Roses (detailed overview, with hyperlinked notes about key figures and elements, within a larger site devoted to Tudor history)
Liz Laycock (Sheffield Hallam U.) The Wars of the Roses (overview of events, including period images, plus a very extensive set of relevant links)
Wars of the Roses 1450-1487 (detailed descriptions of key battles, including maps) (UK Battlefields Resource Center)
Wars of the Roses: Principal Battles of the Wars of the Roses (chronological list of battles, with links to descriptive essays for each) (The Richard III Foundation)
Wharram Percy (Yorkshire): The Lost Medieval Village (Ken Tompkins, Richard Stockton C., N.J.)
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Early Modern Britain
General Resources
An Early Modern Holiday Calendar for England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (Kristen McDermott, Central Michigan U.)
CERES: Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service (includes a paleography course, materials on Sidney, Spenser, and more, as well as numerous links and archives) (Department of English, Cambridge U.)
Early Modern English Source (organization homepage, with links to research resources page and to relevant scholarly events)
Electric Renaissance Timelines (E. L. Skip Knox, Boise State U.)
Elizabethan England: Teacher's Resources (links) (Inez Ramsey, James Madison U.)
Elizabethan England (articles and images, on historical figures, everyday life, and more, arranged by topic; a collaborative site put together by students) (Springfield High, IL)
Andrew Zurcher (Cambridge U.) English Handwriting, 1500-1700: An Online Course (includes lessons, an extensive introduction, images, bibliography, and more; within Cambridge U.'s CERES site)
William Harrison Description Of Elizabethan England (1577) (e-text of these works from Holinshed's Chronicles, within Fordham U.'s Internet Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Renaissance Sites (annotated bibliography, arranged by topic, with emphasis on British cultural history) (Margaraet Pierce Secara)
Original Historical Texts (facsimiles of a selection of English "Rag-stock papers" and broadsheets, from 1588-1666) (David COrnfield)
Tudor and Elizabeth Portraits (images, bibliography, and links) (Edward Buehler)
English Reformation Resources (primary sources, arranged by topic) (Julie P. McFerran)
Tudor History (numerous articles on historical individuals, maps, genealogical tables, images) (Lara E. Eakins)
Primary Sources: Eyewitness accounts of People and Event sin Tudor England; Letters; Journals; Etc. (English History.net)
Tudors (and Stuarts) Page (historical information, illustrations) (Welford and Wickham Primary School, Berkshire, England)
Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in Early Modern England  (created by Zachary Lesser, Columbia U.; now maintained by Charlie Mitchell, Loyola U.)
Witches and Witch trials in England, the Channel Islands, Ireland and Scotland (chronologically listed data for juridical evidence of witch huunts, including citation of sources) (Marc Carlson, U. of Tulsa)
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
Peter Higginbotham The Workhouse (history of the workhouse across Britain, Poor Laws, and related topics, 1601-1930; includes images, transcriptions, articles, and more)
Francis Bacon Historia Regni Henrici Septimi Regis Angliae (printed 1638) (hypertext edition, in Latin and in English, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
Francis Bacon Sermones Fideles sive Interiora Rerum (printed 1638) (hypertext edition, in Latin, along with introduction, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
Jessica A. Browner, "Wrong Side of the River: London's Disreputable South Bank in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century" (1994) (Essays in History)
William Camden Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha (1615 and 1625) (hypertext edition, in Latin and in English, with the Bacon annotations, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
William Camden Britannia (1607) with an English translation by Philemon Holland (hypertext edition, in Latin and in English, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
William Camden Diary (1603 - 1623)  (hypertext edition, in Latin and in English, with critical introduction, within U. Birmingham's Philological Museum) (Dana F. Sutton, U. California, Irvine)
Sir Francis Drake (articles and images) (Oliver Seeler)
East India Company (National Computer Board, Singapore)
Elizabeth I Selected Writing and Speeches (e-texts, within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, Fordham U.)
Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend (virtual exhibit, with pages by topic, timelines, and links) (Newberry Library, Chicago, IL)
The Archive of John Evelyn (e-texts of his diaries, within a virtual exhibition) (the British Library, London, UK)
Gunpowder Plot Pages (includes multimedia) (Center For Fawkesian Pursuits)
Gunpowder Plot Society 
Raphael Holinshed Henrie the eight, sonne and successor to Henrie the seuenth (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Denham print of The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
Elizabethan Heraldry (introductory essays, excerpts from primary sources, and more) (John Neitz and Paula Katherine Marmror
Raphael Holinshed An Historicall description of the Iland of Britaine [Selections]. From The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.  (facsimile reproductions from the 1587 Henry Denham print) (Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image, U. Pennsylvania)
The Mary Rose Museum (virtual exhibit on a warship from Henry VIII's navy) (Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth, UK)
The Philological Museum ("a site devoted to Humanistic Letters, principally British"; includes a library of e-texts, many edited by Dana F. Sutton of U. California, irvine, along with a bibliography of neo-Latin texts (the Shakespeare Institute, U. Birmingham)
Ian Jessiman A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640 With a Specific Reference to Loughborough (overview essay, with images and bibliography within the endnotes)
Early Modern Scotland
Shake Loose the Border (site devoted to the 16th-century Anglo-Scottish border, with emphasis on ballads and broadsides; numerous links to primary sources; within the Legends site) (Paula Katherine Marmor)
Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives (articles, images, and maps, "together with important manuscript and printed texts relating to the geography and mapping of Scotland from 1550 to 1740 and beyond") (Edinburgh U. Library)
The Pont Maps (the Timothy Pont maps made in the 1580s and 1590s) (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Scottish Documents.com ("free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901") (Scottish Archive Network)
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780 (database for statistics) (Alex Gibson, Exeter U.)
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft: 1563-1736 (searchable database containing relevant court records; also includes an introductory essay, bibliography, and links) (Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, U. of Edinburgh)
Edmund Spenser, A vewe of the present state of Ireland ("a scholarly edition of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge MS 188/221... Includes an introduction, textual notes, collaborative interpretive notes, and an archive of supplementary materials"; within the CERES site) (Andrew Zurcher, Cambridge U.)
Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes (introductory essay, along with edited transcriptions of several statutes) (Maggie Pierce Secara)
The Trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton (edition of The Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of Robert Earl of Essex. For Thos. Basset, Sam. Heyrick, and Matth. Gillyflower, 1679.) (Margaret Pierce Secara)
The Damned Art (virtual exhibit on books related to witchcraft and demonology, based on the collection of John Ferguson (1837-1916); includes introductions, descriptions and images (Glasgow U. Library)
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Mid-17th-18th Century Britain
General Resources
Historical Outline for Restoration & 18th-Century British Literature (chronology of historical events and publications in Britain during the period 1642-1820) (Alok Yadav, George Mason U.)
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture (virtual exhibit, wtih sections on techinque, theatricality, physiogonbomy, politics, and more) (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U.)
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 (a "fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court") (Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker; U. Sheffield, and U. Hertfordshire)
Restoration: Politics (background page with links to accompany the film with Sam Neill as Charles II) (Miramax Films / Open Book Systems)
The American Revolutionary War
The American Revolution: National Discussions of Our Revolutionary Origins (articles and links; designed to complement PBS's Liberty! series) (Mark L. Cornbluh, Michigan State U.)
americanrevolution.org (links, cultural and historical information, and images (History Channel)
The Battle of Brooklyn (essay) (Brooklyn Online)
The Battle of Breed's Hil/Bunker Hill (synopsis, with statistics and tactical info) (AROTC, Worcester Polytechnic I.)
Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (includes historical articles and images) (CTSSAR, East Haddam, CT)
Robert K. Wright, Jr. The Continental Army (monograph on army organization) (US Army Center for Military History)
Historical Statements Concerning the Battles of Kings Mountain and the Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (e-text of 1928 publication) (US Army Center for Military History
Drums Along the Mohawk: The American Revolution on the New York Frontier (chronicles, letters, timeline, and more) (Gregory F. Ketcham)
Expédition Particulière (history of French involvement, including links) (Xenophon Group)
The Papers of Nathanael Greene (historical information, primary sources, links) (Dennis M. Conrad, U. of South Carolina)
Intelligence in the War of Independence (articles, primary documents) (Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC)
Military Science: Army ROTC, Bay State Batallion (links to detailed analysis of 4 Revolution battles) (AROTC, Worcester Polytechnic I.)
National Park Service: The American Revolution (links to exhibits) (NPS, US Dept. of the Interior)
The Oneidas and the Birth of the American Nation (history of Oneida military involvement) (Oneida Indian Nation, NY)
The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777 (developing site, with articles and images)(Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia, PA)
Histories of the Battle of Saratoga (links to historiographical accounts) (Richard Jensen, U. of Illinois-Chicago)
W. Gilmore Simms The Life of Francis Marion (e-text biography of "the Swamp Fox" general) (Project Gutenberg, Champaign, IL)
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (homepage, links to historical articles and bibliography) (SAR, Louisville, KY)
Spy Letters of the American Revolution (texts, historical articles, chronology) (Clements Library, U. of Michigan)
Valley Forge National Historical Park (includes links to historical information) (National Park Service, US Dept. of the Interior)
Yorktown Campaign (August-October 1781) (summary, bibliography, maps, images) (Xenophon Group)
English Bill of Rights 1689  (e-text, within the Avalon Project site) (Yale U.)
The British Book Trades 1710-1777: an index of masters and apprentices recorded in the Inland Revenue registers at the Public Record Office, Kew (searchable database) (Ian Maxted, Devon County COuncil)
The British book trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
The Bubble Project ("a collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, or first great stock-market crash of 1720") (David McNeil, Dalhousie U.)
Edmund Burke
"An Address to the King" (1777) (Patricia Craddock, U. Florida)
Brief Biography of Burke (American Revolution HTML Project)
Edmund Burke (biography, links to online texts, links to related Web pages) (Björn Christensson)
"On Taste" (from Sublime and Beautiful) (Michael Gamer, U. Penn)
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful -- Selections (Michael Gamer, U. Penn)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Björn Christensson)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Harvard Classics edition) (Bartleby.com)
Speech on Conciliation with America (American Revolution HTML Project)
The English Civil War
David Plant British Civil Wars, Commonwealth, and Protectorate 1638-60 (articles, bibliographies, links, and more)
E.L. Skip Knox (Boise State U.) The English Civil War (online course, arranged by subject)
Culloden-- The Death of the Clans (articles on background, battle, and consequences) (Alex's Military History)
Mike Ibeji The Darien Venture (multi-page article describing Scotland's plans to control Panama) (BBC)
English Dissenters (articles on various non-conformist groups in England, with a focus on the Civil War period) (ExLibris.org)
The Diary of John Evelyn (primary texts and some notes)(Anthony Sallis)
The Archive of John Evelyn (e-texts of his diaries, within a virtual exhibition) (the British Library, London, UK)
1755: The French and Indian War Page (tables, links, and more) (Larry Roux, Syracuse U.)
Sir Matthew Hale, A Discourse Touching Provision for the Poor (1683) 
History of Stage Travel In Britain (International Museum of the Horse)
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture (virtual exhibit, wtih sections on techinque, theatricality, physiogonbomy, politics, and more) (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U.)
Horses and British and American Culture: 1660-1840 
The Invitation To A Funeral Tour: A Free-Style Jaunt Around Restoration London Inspired by the Novel Invitation to a Funeral (Molly Brown's site accompanying her recently-published "historical whodunnit set in London during the reign of Charles II, featuring a number of real life characters such as Aphra Behn, Nell Gwyn, and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester"; site
John Hampden Society (centered on "the character and achievements of this great 17th century Parliamentarian")
L'Age d'Or - French and English Baroque ("a living history and re-enactment society that aims at recreating the classical Baroque period during Louis XIV's reign in France, and Charles II (Restoration), James II and William & Mary's reign in England")
he London Book Trades of the Later 18th Century (articles and statistics) (Victor Berch and Ian Maxted, Devon COunty Council)
The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications)
William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act, January 14, 1766 (American Revolution HTML Project)
Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (virtual exhibit, covering trans-Atlantic religious issues, leading to much immigration to America) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality, Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 (wlink to full text; links to other articles; ithin the Documenting the American South site) (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
18th-Century Scotland
The Highland Clearances (annotated links to articles and primary accounts) (Electric Scotland)
Scottish Documents.com ("free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901") (Scottish Archive Network)
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780 (database for statistics) (Alex Gibson, Exeter U.)
Military Maps of Scotland (18th Century) (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Trading Places: The East India Company & Asia, 1600-1834 (virtual exhibit) (the British Libray, London)
Peter Higginbotham The Workhouse (history of the workhouse across Britain, Poor Laws, and related topics, 1601-1930; includes images, transcriptions, articles, and more)
The World of London Theatre, 1660-1800
Homepage (Patricia Craddock & students, U. Florida) (under construction)
Contemporary Descriptions of London Life (excerpts)
London Theatre People, 1660-1800 (brief bios with links to a timeline)
Map of Theatre District 
Pictures Relevant to Theatre of the Period 
A Table of Seventeenth Century Actresses 
Theatre Sites 
Timeline 
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19th-Century Britain
General Resources
Charles Booth Online Archive: Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)  ("a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science) and the University of London Library") (London School of Economics and Science)
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century ("The following handlist reports many periodicals that began publication in Great Britain between 1801 and 1850, and also some that began their careers in the eighteenth century or earlier and continued to publish after 1800") (Michael Hancher, U. Minnesota)
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
Queen Victoria's Empire (virtual exhibits, including sections on colonial policies in India and Africa) (Public Broadcasting Service)
Romantic Natural History, 1750-1850 ("designed to survey and organize texts, images, and scholarship that link romanticism and natural history in the century before Darwin") (under construction) (Ashton Nichols, with Jennifer Lindbeck / Dickinson C.)
RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) (
Social Policy Pamphlets  (catalog of pamphlets, with many digitized and available in e-text form, in a collection focused on the 19th- and early 20th-Centuries) (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Transport Pamphlets (catalog of pamphlets, with most digitized and available in e-text form, in a collection focused on the 19th- and early 20th-Centuries) (London School of Economics & Political Science)
The Victorian Dictionary (a guide to the social history of Victorian London) (Lee Jackson)
Victorian Web
Victorian Economics: An Overview (links and articles arranged by topic, within the Victoria web site) (Brown U.)
Victorian Political History: An Overview (categories of links include: Timelines; Corn Laws; Reform Acts; Women's Suffrage; Prime Ministers; Other Figures; Miscellaneous; The British Empire and International Relations; Economic History; Related Topics; and Pre-Nineteenth History) (The Victorian Web)
Religion in Victorian Britain (articles arranged by topic, with links; part of the Victorian Web) (brown U. and National U. of Singapore)
Victorian Science: An Overview (articles and links arranged by topic; part of the Victorian Web site) (John van Wyhe, National U. of Singapore and Cambridge U.)
Victorian Social History: An Overview (categories of links include: Public Health; Conditions of Life and Labor; Race, Class, and Gender Issues; Education; London; Miscellaneous; and Economic History) (The Victorian Web, Brown U.)
Victorian Technology: An Overview (part of the Victorian Web; articles and links arranged by topic, including the Industrial Revolution, factories, railway systems, and more) (George Landow, Brown U.)
Victorian Database Online (by-subscription database of records for books, articles, and dissertation abstracts published from 1945 to 1999 on topics relating to the 'long' Victorian age, 1830-1914; cross-disciplinary)
The First Anglo-Afghan War (article on causes, followed by articles on battles) (Alex's Military History)
Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement (anthology of primary sources, taken from W. Morris, W. Crane, O. Wilde and other key players in the Arts and Crafts movement, along with links) (J.R. Burrows and Company, Rockland, MA)
Colonialism
Colonial Africa
The Anglo Boer War Museum (includes chronology, photos, and more) (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
The Anglo-Zulu War (articles and images on the conflict, as well as on Zulu culture) (Ian Knight)
The Earl of Cromer Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882 (1908) (e-text, within Fordham U.'s Internet Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
British Imperialism in Nigeria: Colonial Rule in Western Niger Delta (documents) (Urhobo Historical SOciety)
Queen Victoria's Empire: The Scramble for Africa (virtual exhibit within the companion site to PBS's Empires series) (Public Broadcasting Service)
Colonial India
The First Anglo-Afghan War (article on causes, followed by articles on battles) (Alex's Military History)
Manas: Primary Documents for the Study of Indian HIstory, 1890-2000 (bibliiographies, arranged by topic) (Vinay Lal, U. California, Los Angeles)
Sudheer Birodkar Hindu History: The British Come to Rule India and the Return of Indian Sovereignty (historical overview, including images)
British Voices in South Asia (virtual exhibit on colonial India, including articles and images, arranged by topic) (Rosan Augusta Jordan and Frank de Caro, Louisiana State U.)
Edmund Burke "Speech in Commons on India, 1783" (within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham U.) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Robert Clive "Speech in Commons on India, 1772" (within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham U.) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Colonial India (extensive set of links, arranged by topic) (U. California, Berkeley)
Digital Colonial Documents (multi-institutional project aimed at virtual archive of colonial documents; site still under construction, but numerous items online) (La Trobe U.)
Colonial India, Gandhi, and Eventual Independence (overview, links to texts and images; part of the Postcolonial Literary Dialogues web site at Western Michigan U.) (Josh Zuiderveen)
John Hobson "Imperialism" (1902) (economics article, within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham U.) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, "On Empire and Education" (selections) (Internet Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham U. / Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
George Macauley Minute on Indian Education (1835) 
Robert Clive "The Battle of Plassey, 1757" (within the Internet Modern History Sourcebook at Fordham U.) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Queen Victoria's Empire: Passage to India (virtual exhibit within PBS's Empires series companion site) (Public Broadcasting Service)
Digital South Asia Library: Statistics (statistics for British colonial India) (U. Chicago)
Trading Places: The East India Company & Asia, 1600-1834 (virtual exhibit) (the British Libray, London)
Victorian and Pre-Victorian Colonial India: An Overview (articles, primary sources, including literature) (Victorian Web)
Queen Victoria's Empire (virtual exhibits, including sections on colonial policies in India and Africa) (Public Broadcasting Service)
The Crimean War 1854-56 (historical overview, plus articles on battles) (Alex's Military History)
Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle (Peter Galbavy)
Disraeli and Gladstone
Benjamin Disraeli Page  (The Victorian Web)
Disraeli and the Purchase of The Suez Canal (a multimedia story; Brett Huffman)
The Disraeli Project ("The Disraeli Project is a Research Unit of Queen's University at Kingston, Canada, engaged in producing a scholarly edition of the correspondence of Benjamin Disraeli") (Queen's U., Canada)
Benjamin Disraeli Chronology (Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya U., Japan)
Industrialism and Working Conditions
The Crystal Palace, or The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Overview (Vitcorian Web) (George Landow, Brown U.)
The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England (material from a 1930 history textbook) (Laura Del Col, West Virginia U.)
Jonathan F. Scott and Alexander Baltzly, The Life of the Industrial Worker in 19th-Century England (excerpts from 1830 textbook titled Readings in European History Since 1814) (Laura Del Col)
Arnold Toynbee, Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England (1884) (three lectures by Toynbee)
Peter Higginbotham The Workhouse (history of the workhouse across Britain, Poor Laws, and related topics, 1601-1930; includes images, transcriptions, articles, and more)
Intellectuals
Jeremy Bentham
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) (brief excerpts) (Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon U.)
Bentham Newsletter 
Bentham on Economics (Bristol Resources for the History of Economics)
The Bentham Project (Jonathan Harris, University College London)
Bentham's Panopticon (Tom Formaro)
The British Utilitarians (Robert Cavalier, Carnegie Mellon U.)
Jeremy Bentham on the Net (online video camera aimed at body of Bentham on view at University College London; "the creator of the Panopticon is himself on view to millions of Internet users around the world. The tables have been turned")
Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty (ed. Louis Crompton) (Columbia U.)
Principles of Morals and Legislation (Chaps. 1-4) (1781) (James Fieser, U. Tenessee at Martin)
Thomas Carlyle
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Writings [Show]
Learned Societies and Scholars
The Roxburghe Club Collection (historical overview of the history of the Roxburghe Club, with details on collection in the U. Iowa Libraries) (Valerie Lagorio, U. Iowa)
Photographs of the Roxburghe Club, 1892 (overview essay and photos) (U. Iowa Libraries)
Skeat, Reverend Walter William (1835-1912)  (brief biographical overview, with exhaustive list of works and projects) (King's College, London)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 (a "fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court") (Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker; U. Sheffield, and U. Hertfordshire)
The Opium Wars
Digital China: The Opium War (overview, links to primary sources and other sites) (Harvard Law School)
China: The First Opium War (overview, image, and prmary document) (Joseph V. O'Brien, John Jay C. of Criminal Justice, NY)
Windows on Asia: History of Hong Kong (overview of cession of Hong Kong to Britain due to Chinese military defeat) (Michigan State U.)
Richard Hooker (Washington State U.) The Opium Wars (overview article, within the World Civilizations pages devoted to Chinese history)
Sigrid Schmalzer (U. California, San Diego) Review of Arthur Waley, The Opium War through Chinese Eyes (1958) 
Penny Magazine Online (etexts of 1830's UK publication aimed at the "working classes") (U. Rochester)
John van Wyhe (Cambridge U.) The History of Phrenology on the Web (articles, images, bibliography, and more)
Heather Palmer, "Queen Victoria's Not So 'Victorian' Writings About Pregnancy, Children, Marriage and Men" (Victoriana.com)
Reform, Radicalism and Social Unrest
The British Abolition Movement: Homepage pages on history, literature, art, and bibliography) (Mark Aronowitz & Kevin Heald, Miami U., Ohio)
Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838 (within Fordham U.'s Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
William Cobbett
Kevin Gilmartin (California Institute of Technology), "William Cobbett and the Politics of System" (1996) (part of Ch. 5 of Gilmartin's Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Romantic Praxis / Romantic Circles)
Thomas Babington Macaulay Speech On The Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831 (within Fordham U.'s Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
William Morris
Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement (anthology of primary sources, taken from W. Morris, W. Crane, O. Wilde and other key players in the Arts and Crafts movement, along with links) (J.R. Burrows and Company, Rockland, MA)
Saul Blumenthal (Massachusetts I. of Technology) The Kelmscott Chaucer (virtual exhibit, within the Print and the Book e-exhibit)
William Morris and His Circle (virtual exhibit, with articles and images, with sections on Morris's art, socialism, the history of his press, and more) (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. Texas, Austin)
William Morris (biography, with bibliography, especially of Morris's literary career) (Camelot Project, U. Rochester)
The Noble Craftsmen We Promote: Roots of Arts and Crafts (virtual exhibit page, focused on Morris and Ruskin and their influence on American theries of design) (Carlson Library, U. Toledo)
William Morris Why I Am a Socialist (1896) (excerpt, within Fordham U.'s Modern history Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
The Pursuit of the Ideal: The Life and Art of William Morris (virtual exhibit, with sections on Writings, Socialism, the Kelmscott Press, and biography) (Special Collections Library, U. Michigan
William Morris Home Society 
William Morris (U. Toronto)
Caroline Norton
A Celebration of Women Writers: Caroline Norton (biographical essay, with images) (Mary Mark Ockerbloom, U. Pennsylvania)
English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854) (Victorian Women Writers Project)
The Lady of La Garaye (1866) (Victorian Women Writers Project)
Letters to the Mob (1848) (Victorian Women Writers Project)
A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage & Divorce Bill (1855) (Victorian Women Writers Project)
A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill (1839) (Victorian Women Writers Project)
Charles W. Colby The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 (excerpt, within Fordham U.'s Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Peterloo Massacre (Articles, arranged by topic) (Spartacus Educational, UK)
Sydney Smith Fallacies Of Anti-Reformers, 1824 (within Fordham U.'s Modern History Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Archive (Jerome McGann, U. Virginia)
Photographs of the Roxburghe Club, 1892 (overview essay and photos) (U. Iowa Libraries)
Saltaire (web site devoted to West Yorkshire "mid-Victorian industrial village almost unchanged since it was built by Sir Titus Salt as the site of his mill for the spinning and weaving of Alpaca Wool")
Scottish Documents.com ("free access to a fully searchable index of over 520,000 Scottish wills and testaments dating from 1500 to 1901") (Scottish Archive Network)
Ordnance survey large scale Scottish town plans, 1847-1895 (maps and tables) (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
War of 1812
J. B. Calvert (U. Denver, Colorado) The War of 1812 And All That: An introduction to the War of 1812: an episode in the history of bungling, with its effects on the Indians (detailed overview, with emphasis on military politics, especially as regards various Native American threats)
Joshua Kuss (San Diego U.) The War of 1812 (articles, by topic, plus bibliography)
The James Madison Center: the War of 1812 (primary documents, articles, pedagogical resources, and more) (James Madison U.)
Native American Material: War of 1812 (links to primary documents in facsimile, with descriptions) (Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan U.)
Wesley Allen Riddle (U. Maryland University C.-Camp Doha) The War of 1812 (overview)
the War of 1812 (maps, articles) (US Military Academy, West Point, NY)
The War of 1812 Website (articles, images, documents, and links) (Military Heritage.com)
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20th-Century Britain
The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907 (e-text, within the Avalon Project site) (Yale U.)
Churchill and the Great Republic (virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC)
Social Policy Pamphlets  (catalog of pamphlets, with many digitized and available in e-text form, in a collection focused on the 19th- and early 20th-Centuries) (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Suite101.com: 20th Century British History and Politics (Joseph Sramek)
Transport Pamphlets (catalog of pamphlets, with most digitized and available in e-text form, in a collection focused on the 19th- and early 20th-Centuries) (London School of Economics & Political Science)
World History Archives: History of Britain and the UK in General ("documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective") (Haines Brown, Central Connecticut S.)
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914: Vol. XI: The Outbreak of War: Foreign Office Documents June 28th-August 4th, 1914 (as edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley in 1926) (Brigham Young U.)
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UK Book History
An Anthology of Chancery English (e-texts of numerous bureaucratic writing samples, from the John H. Fisher, et. al 1984 edition) (Electronic Text Center, U. of Virginia)
BOOKHAD: Support for Nationwide Research in Book History and Book Design (links up 6 library centers with major holdings in the history of the book) (U. of the Arts, London)
The British Book Trades 1710-1777: an index of masters and apprentices recorded in the Inland Revenue registers at the Public Record Office, Kew (searchable database) (Ian Maxted, Devon County COuncil)
The British book trades 1775-1787: an index to insurance policies (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (homepage, with lists of papers, arranged by topic, on the UK, but with a focus on Southwest England) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
BBTI: The British Book Trade Index ("an index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851") (U. Birmingham)
British Association of Paper Historians (archived articles, overview of paper history, news, links, and more) (Durham, UK)
Centre for the History of the Book (homepage, with journal files, links to other sites, and relevant news) (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, U. of Edinburgh)
Ian Maxted A History of the Book in Devon (articles, arranged by period) (Devon County Council)
The English Emblem Book Project (large repository of emblem books; presents facismile pages, some clickable to to show the text associated with each emblem) (Penn State U.)
HoBo: The site formerly known as History of the Book @ Oxford ("Dedicated webspace for History of the Book events and resources throughout the UK") (Ian Gadd, Oxford U.)
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 (includes statistical information arranged by topic and region, data on, currently, 27,000 libraries across Britain, plus links, and more) (Robin Alston, U. College, London)
he London Book Trades of the Later 18th Century (articles and statistics) (Victor Berch and Ian Maxted, Devon COunty Council)
SBTI: Scottish Book Trade Index (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)
UK Print History
Caxton's Chaucer (offers full e-texts of Caxton's 2 prints, along with biographical background, and more) (the British Library, London, UK)
English Caricature Prints: 1720-1820 (virtual exhibit, with text by Edward Hammond) (Haley and Steele, Boston, MA)
The Lifeof Thomas Gent: Printer of York, 1693-1778 (e-text of 1832 edition of Gent's autobiography, plus biographical info) (Thorn Gent)
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture (virtual exhibit, wtih sections on techinque, theatricality, physiogonbomy, politics, and more) (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U.)
The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications)
William Morris
Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement (anthology of primary sources, taken from W. Morris, W. Crane, O. Wilde and other key players in the Arts and Crafts movement, along with links) (J.R. Burrows and Company, Rockland, MA)
Saul Blumenthal (Massachusetts I. of Technology) The Kelmscott Chaucer (virtual exhibit, within the Print and the Book e-exhibit)
William Morris and His Circle (virtual exhibit, with articles and images, with sections on Morris's art, socialism, the history of his press, and more) (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. Texas, Austin)
William Morris (biography, with bibliography, especially of Morris's literary career) (Camelot Project, U. Rochester)
The Noble Craftsmen We Promote: Roots of Arts and Crafts (virtual exhibit page, focused on Morris and Ruskin and their influence on American theries of design) (Carlson Library, U. Toledo)
William Morris Why I Am a Socialist (1896) (excerpt, within Fordham U.'s Modern history Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida)
The Pursuit of the Ideal: The Life and Art of William Morris (virtual exhibit, with sections on Writings, Socialism, the Kelmscott Press, and biography) (Special Collections Library, U. Michigan
William Morris Home Society 
William Morris (U. Toronto)
Newspaper readership in south west England: an analysis of the Flindell's Western Luminary subscribers list of 1815 (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council)
RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) (
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)
Imperial Views, Colonial Subjects: Victorian Periodicals and the Empire (images and text from a 1999 exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library) (Yale U.)
Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles)


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