Resources - Historical Fiction

[erastes]

This post is merely to be a list of historical fiction reference sites, for my own use mainly, but if anyone wants to link to it, or add to it, then please feel free! gehayi

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America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ -- The Making of America
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources -- American Colonist's Library
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html -- Virtual Jamestown

Ancient Egypt
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/egypt.htm Start here and explore, leads to hundreds of other resource pages

Astronomy:
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html#formb -- Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/fullmoon.htm -- Full Moons 1900 - 2100
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations.html -- Stars and Constellations

The Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.htmlbible.com/

England
http://members.shaw.ca/jobev/engnotes.html -- Currency and Travel
http://members.shaw.ca/jobev/monarch.html -- Monarchs
http://members.shaw.ca/jobev/engclim.html -- Climate
http://members.shaw.ca/jobev/englang.html -- Language

English Civil War
www.english-civil-war-society.org
www.sealedknot.org
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7384/civilwar.html
http://www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk/ecivil/index.htm -- Timeline

Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Other Books:
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/etext.html MASSIVE resource of online texts
http://www.bartleby.com/ -- Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
http://www.britannica.com/ -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
http://www.pantheon.org/ -- Encyclopaedia Mythica
http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm -- Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
http://www.bartleby.com/141/ -- The Elements of Style
www.dictionary.com
www.thesaurus.com
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/
http://feath.com/idea/chardisc.htm -- character generator
http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/ -- When you need a book instead, Worldcat Online has a searchable database of most libraries, including some not in the U.S
http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ -- 19th Century Documents Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm -- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://www.bartleby.com/ -- Bartleby: Great Books Online
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ -- A Celebration of Women Writers
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html -- Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html -- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ -- Online Books Page
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html -- Primary Source Repositories
http://promo.net/pg/ -- Project Gutenberg: Free Books On-Line
http://www.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/pagetopic.html -- Resources for the Study of 19th Century American Literature & Life

Experts
http://www.cln.org/int_expert.html -- Community Learning Network's Ask an Expert Sources
https://answers.google.com/answers/main - Google Answers (In beta testing; fee based)
http://www1.profnet.com/ -- ProfNet: Where Sources and Journalists Meet
http://www.refdesk.com/expert.html -- RefDesk.com Ask the Experts Links
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_directory.cfm -- Scientific American: Ask the Experts

Fairy Tales and Folklore:
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html --Folktexts: A library of folktales

General History:
http://www.history.ac.uk/resindex.html - The institute for historical research huge huge huge huge resource.
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ -- Any Day/Today in History
http://home.insightbb.com/~d.lawson/ -- Deb's Historical Research Page (huge HUGE resource providing links to information on many, many eras)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002061.html -- History of the Calendar
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/irhistry.htm Documents related to the history of International relations prior to 1914 (some dead links but huge resource)

Germany
http://www.csustan.edu/History/Weikart/gerhist.htm -- German History Sources

Homosexuality
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/index.htm -- Homosexuality through the ages
http://www.androphile.org/preview/Culture/ -- World history of male love
http://www.christian.org.uk/briefingpapers/homosexualageofconsent.htm -- Age of Consent

Japan
http://www.geocities.com/azuchiwind/samurai.htm

Maps
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ -- Old Maps
www.multimap.com -- Maps and Distances
http://www.mapblast.com/myblast/index.mb -- MapBlast!
http://www.maporama.com/share/ -- Maporama
http://www.mapquest.com/ -- Mapquest

Medieval
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html -- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook – lots of primary documentation, maps, etc. from Fordham University
www.domesdaybook.co.uk -- the domesday book
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ -- Medieval Rennaissance names

Miscellaneous
http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/mottoes.html -- Latin mottoes
http://world.altavista.com/ -- Babelfish
http://www.citysearch.com/ -- Citysearch: The City Guide
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html -- Current Value of Old Money
http://www.cyndislist.com/ -- List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.infoplease.com/ -- Information Please
http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html Costume history

Nautical
http://www.hms.org.uk/nelsonsnavymain.htm -- Nelson's Navy

Names:
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/names.html -- Miscellaneous Medieval Name Articles
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ -- Popular American Baby Names, by year
http://french.about.com/od/babynames/ -- French baby names
http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/data8.html -- Dutch names
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/ships/index.shtml#what -- Dutch ship passenger manifests
http://huguenot.netnation.com/ancestor/default.htm -- For French Huguenot names,
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/french1601.html -- a list from tax rolls of 1601 Artois, French with Dutch influence.
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html - Baby Name Wizard
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ - Medieval names

Regency:
www.pemberley.com
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html Jane Austen and her times.
www.polishedsociety.com
http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/nono.html -- You can't say that!
http://www.eclectics.com/allisonlane/common_regency_errors.html -- Common Regency Errors
http://www.georgette-heyer.com/ -- Georgette Heyer.com
http://www.mpmbooks.com/amelia/SERVANTS.HTM -- Roles of Servants
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/Regency.html -- The Regency Collection
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/England_18thc./England_18thc.html -- English law in the 18th century.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/ -- Old journals on line
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7517/learning.html -- A Regency Repository
http://www.S-Gabriel.Org/docs/#england -- English names.
http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/forfeiture.html -- Forfeiture law for treason and such.
http://members.shaw.ca/jobev/follies1.html -- Follies & Fashions 1807

Research
www.oldbaileyonline.org -- court transcripts and much more
http://www.met.police.uk/history/ -- history of the London Police
www.debretts.co.uk/
www.burkes-peerage.net
www.costumes.org -- massive clothing resource.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~framland/acts/actind.htm Marriage Acts in the UK
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/adams/resea.html -- Beginning Research on Any Topic
http://manta.library.colostate.edu/howto/doing-r.html -- CSU Libraries: Doing Research
http://www.dohistory.org/ -- Do History (How to do history research projects)
http://www.mun.ca/library/research_help/research/research.html -- Doing Research…
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml -- A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on MLA Documentation
http://www.nscc.ns.ca/lrc/Research/index.htm -- NSCC Student Library Research Guide
http://tutorial.lib.umn.edu/ -- QuickStudy: Library Research Guide
http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/skill1.htm -- The Seven Steps of the Research Process
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/ref/guides/gen/stepguide.html --Step-by-Step Guide to Doing Research
http://www.sccl.lib.mi.us/libhelp.html -- Tips for Using the Library and Doing Research
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html -- Finding Information on the Internet
http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontent/tutorials/search/index.asp -- Guide to Effective Searching of the Internet
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html --The Invisible Web Revealed
http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/index.shtml -- ResearchBuzz - Internet Research News and Information
http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/ -- A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW
http://searchenginewatch.internet.com/facts/index.html -- Web Searching Tips
http://www.writerswrite.com/research/ -- Writer's Write Research Information

Victorians
http://www.romanceeverafter.com/the_victorians.htm
http://www.victorianlondon.org/ -- Dictionary of Victorian London
http://www.apocalypse.org/~hilda/flang.html -- The Victorian Language of Flowers
www.casebook.org - Jack the Rippers London
http://www.victorianweb.org/
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/8875/grand.htm -- The Grand Tour - lots of info on the era

Vikings
http://ecs.lewisham.gov.uk/youthspace/ca/vikings/vikings.htm - good but aimed at children
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/vikings.htm Pretty big resource
www.vikinganswerlady.com – Probably the single best resource for Viking age, includes names, clothing, weapons and armor, etc.
http://www.regia.org/ - Regia Anglorum re-enactment group – Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Saxons.
http://www.pase.ac.uk - PASE – Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. Database of every recorded individual living in Anglo-Saxon England from 572-1042.
http://www.hurstwic.org/history/text/history.htm - Hurstwic Re-enactment group's history page. Vikings.
http://www.homestead.com/englishheathenism/pagangods.html - Anglo-Saxon paganism


Weather
http://www.personal.dundee.ac.uk/~taharley/weathermisclinks.htm

Words and usage
http://www.etymonline.com/
www.dictionary.com
http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/words.html
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/links.htm -- Slang
http://www.bawdylanguage.com/ -- Bawdy etymology
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/sex-scat.html#semen -- Glossary of sexual and scatological euphenisms
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ -- Common Errors in English
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/ -- Guide to Grammar and Writing

Worldbuilding:
http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm -- Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (note--this is only the first page of the questions)

Writing:
http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/ -- Preditors and Editors
www.agencyquery.com -- searchable resource to find an agent
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/ -- Complete works of Shakespeare
http://www.poewar.com/ -- Writer's resource
http://www.luminarypub.com/services/writersdb/index.php -- submissions and market tracker
www.duotrope.com -- markets
www.ralan.com -- spec fic markets
www.erotica-readers.com -- erotica writers. markets, advice, links, resources




contributions from erastes,evremonde, gehayi, semioticwarrior, nagasvoice, rwday, distaff_exile

Comments

[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

www.casebook.org has a wealth of information about Jack the Ripper's London, including maps and first-person descriptions of daily life in the Whitechapel area. I used this site extensively in a Sherlock Holmes story I wrote.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you might find it helpful or not, but I've been having a lot of fun with this set of pages on Japanese history.
This is just one part of a huge sprawling interlinked site with lots of pix.
http://www.geocities.com/azuchiwind/samurai.htm
Geocities is refusing to go to some of the links, but it's worth trying.
It's also very funny, talking bluntly about the real history vs. the tourist version vs. the videogame versions.
I wnadered onto it via Oda Nobunaga, who is one of those "bad guy" antiheroes most people condemn but who the site's writer really likes, along with his page Mori Ranmaru.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Deb's Historical Research Page (http://home.insightbb.com/~d.lawson/#*Disclaimer) is a bounty of links in one spot.

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

Oh, fabulous, fabulous, fabulous! Thank you so much!

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[ter369.livejournal.com]

Oh, NOW, I see this in your collection. Carry on!

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Just off the top of my head, here's a few I think might be useful.

I see you have a link to the St. Gabriel Dutch list, but I'd also suggest their main page for Medieval/Renaissance names - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/

The Domesday Book Online - http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook – lots of primary documentation, maps, etc. from Fordham University - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Multiple versions of the Bible so your homophobic preacher can get it right - http://www.biblegateway.com/

When you need a book instead, Worldcat Online has a searchable database of most libraries, including some not in the U.S. - http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

More Victorians: http://www.victorianweb.org/

That reminds me. I need to get some Victorian source books from Amazon.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's very useful!

xxx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Not me, personally (yet, anyway - I might one day do a Japanese novel, but OMG the research scares me rigid) but I'll happily add it to the list, someone will be grateful, I'm sure - Thank you!

xxx

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[erastes.livejournal.com]

no probs! feel free to submit anything!

xxx

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No probs - I do hope that you find it useful!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you darling!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod. I think books are probably best for the Victorians!

And thanks for the link!

[haydenthorne.livejournal.com]

I have a few more bookmarked, but I can't access the computer where they're currently saved. Ack.

[stormheller.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links. I've added them to my delicious page.

I also wanted to say that I just bought "connections" and made a point of reading "Ten Kisses" first. I really liked it. As a matter of fact, I thought the whole anthology was great; I read it on the plane home from San Francisco yesterday and the time just, er, flew.

So thanks for both the links and the good read.
~ Stormy in Toronto

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Aw Thank you! I'm very happy you liked 10 Kisses and the anthology too, there are some great stories in there!

[kathleenbradean.livejournal.com]

This is esoteric, but it's a collection of menus from the mid 1800s through 1910s in the United States. Check out what people paid for lunch, and what kinds of food they ate.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=printing&collection=MissFrankEButtolphAm&col_id=159

[erastes.livejournal.com]

THANK you! I'm always looking for this kind of information!