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JenNipps · Jul 3, 2006

We had a good list of resources, some Victorian, some French, some language-related.

Post any links to resources you have and I'll edit them into this post.

Books
Behemoth or The Long Parliament, Thomas Hobbes, University of Chicago Press, August 1990, ISBN 0226345440
Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640, Martin Ingram, Cambridge University Press, March 1990 (reprint), ISBN 0521386551
The Conjuror's Bird, Martin Davies, Shaye Areheart Books, December 2005, ISBN 1400097339
Children of the New Forest, Frederick Marryat, Wordsworth Children's Classics, ISBN 853261106
The English Civil War: A People's History, Diane Perkiss, Harper Collins, May 2006, ISBN 000715061X

Organizations
Historical Novel Society
Ohio Historical Society

Websites:
1850s Godey's Lady's Books (excerpts) (Full subscription site with Godey's issues.)
19th/early 20th Century Cookbooks
19th/early 20th Century High Fashion Plates
19th/early 20th Century Vintage Sewing Texts
American Civil War-era newspaper excerpts (mostly southern)
Avalon Project at Yale
BBC
The Bloomsbury Publishers' Research Centre
Britain's Channel 4 - History
British Civil Wars: Links & Resources
Dictionary of Americanisms (slang), 1848
Documents of the South
Historic Kentucky texts and information
Historic Ohio texts and information
Historic Prints & Photographs
The Labrynth
The legend of Prince Madoc
Luminarium
Making of American--Michigan
Making of America--Cornell
OldWestHistory.net
Perseus Digital Library
Photos of Original Garments (late 18th to early 20th Century)
Prince Madoc and the White Indians
Project Muse
Public Domain Book Search (limit publication date to 19th/early 20th century)
Questia
Roman-Britain
Scotland
The Sealed Knot: Knowledge Base Articles
Searchable Archives of Detailed Photos of Artifacts (mostly 19th century)
Voice of the Shuttle
Were the Welsh the First European Americans?
Western Civilization History Discussion Forum
Wright American Fiction

Links for Victorian research
1901 Census Online
BBC
Diary Junction
National Archives
Victorian London
VictorianResearch.org
Women Showing 19th/early 20th Century Clothing
www.channel4.com/history
www.history.ac.uk
www.tannerritchie.com

BardSkye · Jul 3, 2006

The only one I had up on the list was www.questia.com

JenNipps · Jul 3, 2006

Thank you. I'll get it added.

Puma · Jul 3, 2006

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This was originally posted by pdr in the "Where Does It Fit?" discussion. If you have other helpful resources -- organizations, books, magazines, etc. -- reply here and I'll edit them in to this post.

Websites
Questia

Organizations
Historical Novel Society
Ohio Historical Society
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www.questia.com is an online research library with major possibilities. Unfortunately, it's not free but the price is pretty reasonable for what they're offering.

I bought a library card for my local library hoping to be able to research online (I keep vampire hours) only to find out they only have newspapers and magazines in their online catalogue. Not of much use for researching daily life in 4BC.
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For early US resources there are a lot of county and state history books written starting about the time of the Civil War. I've also had very good luck finding things (articles, records, and book references) through Google by being very specific in my search terms. Puma

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Please do check your sources out three times. Don't rely on the internet for many of the sites are kept by keen amateurs and mistakes do creep in. Use reputable academic sources in book form.

Also always check your source. If you want French history always check with a French source. Sometimes your own country's version of a story is not the same or carries a different emphasis.

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Clarifying my prior post a bit, in Ohio, there are a lot of good articles and records from the Ohio Historical Society available on line. For my county, the entirety of the 1880 county history is also on line (and I also have the hardcover book so I know what's online is accurate.) Puma

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Please do check your sources out three times. Don't rely on the internet for many of the sites are kept by keen amateurs and mistakes do creep in. Use reputable academic sources in book form.

Also always check your source. If you want French history always check with a French source. Sometimes your own country's version of a story is not the same or carries a different emphasis.

You raise a good point, pdr.

It's one that I'm guilty of assuming people know, and while many do, it is still something that bears repeating from time to time just as a general reminder.
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The Bloomsbury Publishers' Research Centre.
1. http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp

Free, on-line, but using the Bloomsbury Refernece books.
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Genealogy Resources
If anyone's interested in a listing of genealogy resources for novel writing and/or for personal research, I've got a fairly good list of websites and know how they do(some of them have a lot more than just genealogy). I'm not going to post them unless there's an indication of interest. If you'd like them for personal use, PM me. Puma

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JenNipps · Jul 3, 2006

Thank you for that. I added what I could find/remember of the links in the discussion there.

pdr, do you have your list of Victorian resources?

Puma, I think I'm missing a few more of the ones you posted as well. Was it you or pdr or someone else who posted the link to French fashion in the 18th century?

pdr · Jul 4, 2006

Victorian Resources

Excellent sites for good general research
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
http://victorianresearch.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.channel4.com/history
http://www.victorianstation.com/queen.html

Specific sites for in depth research.
http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.html
http://www.1901censusonline.com/
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp
http://www.tannerritchie.com/
http://www.history.ac.uk/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/

Puma · Jul 4, 2006

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Hi Jen, No, I'm not the one who posted French fashion in the 18th century. Hopefully whoever did will repost it. Puma

JenNipps · Jul 4, 2006

Puma said:
Hi Jen, No, I'm not the one who posted French fashion in the 18th century. Hopefully whoever did will repost it. Puma

After I said that, I thought I was mis-remembering.

Earlier in the day before the site went down, I had cleaned all the cache and temp files on this computer, so I have nothing and tried to remember. *S*

JenNipps · Jul 4, 2006

pdr said:
Excellent sites for good general research
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
http://victorianresearch.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.channel4.com/history

Specific sites for in depth research.
http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.html
http://www.1901censusonline.com/
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp
http://www.tannerritchie.com/
http://www.history.ac.uk/
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/

Thank you, pdr. I will get these added again.

stumpfoot · Jul 5, 2006

oldwesthistory.net Go about halfway down the page to the links link, thats where the real treasure is to be found.

JenNipps · Jul 5, 2006

Thank you, stumpfoot. I will get that added.

JenNipps · Aug 14, 2006

Courtesy of a post by pdr in a separate discussion, I decided to add books to this listing as well.

robeiae · Aug 31, 2006

Oh, bother. Now I have to dig all this stuff up. Of the top of my head:

The Avalon Project at Yale is a wonderful collection of documents from U.S. History.

Project Muse at Johns Hopkins is a good spot to get scholarly journals online. Many university libraries have subscriptions, so you can access Muse for free at such places.

The Labyrinth at Georgetown is your source for all things Medieval (aside from Lisa, of course).

And of course, there is Perseus at Tufts for Classical primary source materials.

PODLINGMASTER · Aug 31, 2006

JenNipps said:
We had a good list of resources, some Victorian, some French, some language-related.

Post any links to resources you have and I'll edit them into this post.

Books
The Conjuror's Bird, Martin Davies, Shaye Areheart Books, December 2005, ISBN 1400097339

Organizations
Historical Novel Society
Ohio Historical Society

Websites:
The Bloomsbury Publishers' Research Centre
The legend of Prince Madoc
OldWestHistory.net
Prince Madoc and the White Indians
Questia
Scotland
Were the Welsh the First European Americans?

Links for Victorian research
1901 Census Online
BBC
Diary Junction
National Archives
Victorian London
VictorianResearch.org
www.channel4.com/history
www.history.ac.uk
www.tannerritchie.com

this is a great list..thanks

Podlingmaster

JenNipps · Sep 2, 2006

robeiae said:
Oh, bother. Now I have to dig all this stuff up. Of the top of my head:

Thank you for these, robeiae. Sorry it took a bit to get them added.

JenNipps · Sep 2, 2006

PODLINGMASTER said:
this is a great list..thanks

You're welcome. The thanks go to the members here who have provided the links and information. I just put it in one easy-to-find place.

Feel free to post any additions you think would be helpful and I'll edit them in as well.

JenNipps · Sep 9, 2006

New link added on Western Civilization.

davidthompson · Sep 10, 2006

I think I posted some of these before the crash. They're mostly searchable primary sources focussed on the 19th century USA.

Making of American--Michigan
Hundreds of original 19th century books and magazines
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text...af7fd10f4effb315f4ce34d674fb3;page=booleanext

Making of America--Cornell
Hundreds of original 19th century books and magazines including the Official Records of the Civil War
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_adv.html

Wright American Fiction
Lots of mid-19th century novels
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/...=wright2&sid=0cd277b69ee95c65aef9badbd5100535

Historic Kentucky texts and information
http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?;page=simpleext

Historic Ohio texts and information
http://worlddmc.ohiolink.edu/OMP/NewLogin

Hundreds of historic texts focussed on the 19th century American south, especially antebellum and African American life
http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/

Dictionary of Americanisms (slang), 1848
http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/AMER02.HTM

Searchable American Civil War-era newspaper excerpts, mostly southern
http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm

Original cookbooks, 19th and early 20th century
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/coldfusion/search.cfm

Free excerpts from 1850s Godey's Lady's Books
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/images/picsfashion.html

If the above isn't enough, subscription site with full Godey's issues
http://www.accessiblearchives.com

19th and early 20th century high-fashion plates
http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/

Huge collections of historic prints and photographs online
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html

Vintage sewing texts, mostly late 19th and 20th century
http://vintagesewing.info/index.html

Lots of photos of original garments, late 18th through early 20th century
http://demode.tweedlebop.com/realvict/

Google book search. Yeah, I know, but check out the public-domain texts from the 19th and early 20th century by limiting the publication date
http://print.google.com/advanced_print_search?ie=UTF-8

Photographs, mostly mid to late 19th century American women, showing clothing
http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/victorian/

Large collection of detailed photos of artifacts, searchable, mostly 19th century
http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/adv_search/index.jsp

JenNipps · Sep 10, 2006

Thanks, david. I'll get these added in to the first post here in a couple hours. (Sneaking away from company for a quick AW fix. *s*)

IreneB · Sep 28, 2006

Some more sites

www.luminarium.org

Pretty good for English medieval, renaissance and 17th century writers and culture. Tells you where sources are from.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Voice of the Shuttle--a great portal website for the humanities--history, dance, theology, literature, archeaology, queer theory, you name it, it's there. Run by an academic so it's vetted; good place for finding original material that's available on the web.

The constant lurker,
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JenNipps · Oct 1, 2006

Thanks, Irene. I got these added to the master list in the first post.

JenNipps · Oct 27, 2006

Added links and books. Thanks to everyone who posted resources in the English Civil War discussion.

JenNipps · Oct 28, 2006

Two more added: British Civil Wars & The Sealed Knot Knowledge Base Articles.

Matt McKee · Dec 18, 2006

De Re Militari

This site has a wealth of information about warfare througout history and was instrumental for me in my battle-scenes.

Regia Anlgorum

This group's website is a great source for Medieval and Viking Age daily-life information (pre-11th century).

endless · Dec 18, 2006

For those who wish to actually hear medieval instruments, as well as have them explained, I found a CD that is great. Put out by Vanguard Classics, it is called 'The Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance' by Musica Reservata of London.

It's nice to see _and hear_ these things.

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