Resources Discussion

[JenNipps]

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 (http://www.amazon.com/Behemoth-Long-Parliament-Thomas-Hobbes/dp/0226345440/sr=1-6/qid=1161924929/ref=sr_1_6/102-1626693-2450565?ie=UTF8&s=books), 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 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Forest-Wordsworth-Childrens-Classics/dp/1853261106/sr=1-1/qid=1161769263/ref=sr_1_1/026-8377016-2904462?ie=UTF8&s=books), Frederick Marryat, Wordsworth Children's Classics, ISBN 853261106
The English Civil War: A People's History (http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Civil-War-Peoples-History/dp/000715061X/sr=1-1/qid=1161769136/ref=pd_bowtega_1/026-8377016-2904462?ie=UTF8&s=books), Diane Perkiss, Harper Collins, May 2006, ISBN 000715061X

Organizations
Historical Novel Society (http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/)
Ohio Historical Society (http://www.ohiohistory.org/)

Websites:
1850s Godey's Lady's Books (excerpts) (http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/godey/images/picsfashion.html) (Full subscription site with Godey's issues.) (http://www.accessiblearchives.com)
19th/early 20th Century Cookbooks (http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/...ion/search.cfm)
19th/early 20th Century High Fashion Plates (http://content.lib.washington.edu/costumehistweb/)
19th/early 20th Century Vintage Sewing Texts (http://vintagesewing.info/index.html)
American Civil War-era newspaper excerpts (mostly southern) (http://www.uttyl.edu/vbetts/newspaper_titles.htm)
Avalon Project at Yale (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm)
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
The Bloomsbury Publishers' Research Centre (http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp)
Britain's Channel 4 - History (http://www.channel4.com/history/)
British Civil Wars: Links & Resources (http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/links.htm)
Dictionary of Americanisms (slang), 1848 (http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/AMER02.HTM)
Documents of the South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/)
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)
Historic Prints & Photographs (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html)
The Labrynth (http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/)
The legend of Prince Madoc (http://www.wovoca.com/hidden-history-madoc.htm)
Luminarium (http://www.luminarium.org/lumina.htm)
Making of American--Michigan (http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/...age=booleanext)
Making of America--Cornell (http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_adv.html)
OldWestHistory.net (http://www.oldwesthistory.net)
Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/)
Photos of Original Garments (http://demode.tweedlebop.com/realvict/) (late 18th to early 20th Century)
Prince Madoc and the White Indians (http://home.att.net/~dana.olson/)
Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/)
Public Domain Book Search (http://print.google.com/advanced_print_search?ie=UTF-8) (limit publication date to 19th/early 20th century)
Questia (http://www.questia.com)
Roman-Britain (http://www.roman-britain.org/main.htm)
Scotland (http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stranraer/stranraer/index.html)
The Sealed Knot: Knowledge Base Articles (http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/knowbase/articles.asp)
Searchable Archives of Detailed Photos of Artifacts (http://memorialhall.mass.edu/collect...arch/index.jsp) (mostly 19th century)
Voice of the Shuttle (http://vos.ucsb.edu/)
Were the Welsh the First European Americans? (http://www.madoc1170.com/home.htm)
Western Civilization History Discussion Forum (http://www.westerncivforum.com/index.php)
Wright American Fiction (http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/t... badbd5100535)

Links for Victorian research
1901 Census Online (http://www.1901censusonline.com/)
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Diary Junction (http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.html)
National Archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/)
Victorian London (http://www.victorianlondon.org/)
VictorianResearch.org (http://www.victorianresearch.org/)
Women Showing 19th/early 20th Century Clothing (http://www.sensibility.com/vintageimages/victorian/)
www.channel4.com/history
www.history.ac.uk (http://www.history.ac.uk/)
www.tannerritchie.com (http://www.tannerritchie.com/)

[BardSkye]

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

[JenNipps]

Thank you. I'll get it added. :)

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Resources
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 (http://www.questia.com/)

Organizations
Historical Novel Society (http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/)
Ohio Historical Society (http://www.ohiohistory.org/)
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www.questia.com (http://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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Internet Sources
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 (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]

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]

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]

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

[JenNipps]

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]

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]

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

[JenNipps]

Thank you, stumpfoot. I will get that added.

[JenNipps]

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

[robeiae]

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

The Avalon Project (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/18th.htm) at Yale is a wonderful collection of documents from U.S. History.

Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/) 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 (http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/) at Georgetown is your source for all things Medieval (aside from Lisa, of course).

And of course, there is Perseus (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) at Tufts for Classical primary source materials.

[PODLINGMASTER]

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 (http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/)
Ohio Historical Society (http://www.ohiohistory.org/)

Websites:
The Bloomsbury Publishers' Research Centre (http://www.bloomsbury.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp)
The legend of Prince Madoc (http://www.wovoca.com/hidden-history-madoc.htm)
OldWestHistory.net (http://www.oldwesthistory.net)
Prince Madoc and the White Indians (http://home.att.net/~dana.olson/)
Questia (http://www.questia.com)
Scotland (http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/stranraer/stranraer/index.html)
Were the Welsh the First European Americans? (http://www.madoc1170.com/home.htm)

Links for Victorian research
1901 Census Online (http://www.1901censusonline.com/)
BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
Diary Junction (http://www.pikle.demon.co.uk/diaryjunction.html)
National Archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/)
Victorian London (http://www.victorianlondon.org/)
VictorianResearch.org (http://www.victorianresearch.org/)
www.channel4.com/history (http://www.channel4.com/history)
www.history.ac.uk (http://www.history.ac.uk/)
www.tannerritchie.com (http://www.tannerritchie.com)

this is a great list..thanks

Podlingmaster

[JenNipps]

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]

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]

New link added on Western Civilization.

[davidthompson]

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/text-idx?c=moa;c=moajrnl;g=moagrp;xc=1;xg=1;sid=303af7f d10f4effb315f4ce34d674fb3;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/text/text-idx?page=simple&c=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]

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]

www.luminarium.org (http://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,
IB

[JenNipps]

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

[JenNipps]

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

[JenNipps]

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

[Matt McKee]

De Re Militari (http://www.deremilitari.org)

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

Regia Anlgorum (http://www.regia.org/listings.htm)

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

[endless]

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.

[bunnygirl]

This may seem tangential (I hope not), but hands-on, affordable classes in outdoor skills are available for women in North America: http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/bow/

Each state has different offerings, and many are relevant to historical and/or western fiction. I've taken horseback riding, archery and basket-making, and I'm signing up for another retreat that offers campfire cooking, tracking, and dressing big game.

Other offerings I've seen are rifle and shotgun skills, canoeing, plant and wildlife identification, spinning, flint knapping, soap making, and outdoor survival.

The classes are taught at a beginner level in a friendly environment, but they're not dumbed down at all! I made a real basket in my basketry class. I groomed and saddled a horse in the horseback riding class, and rode her over rough terrain. The spelunking class had to crawl through narrow openings, and the canoeing and kayaking classes practiced water rescues.

So if any women here in North America are looking for a way to get hands-on experience of what it's really like to do some of these things that are part of their historical character's ordinary world, check it out!

[JenNipps]

Just a heads-up.

In order to minimize possible confusion, I've copied the first post of this discussion and made it into a new "Resources" post that is stickied at the top of the forum.

This discussion will remain open for you to continue on as we have been doing so far with postings of links, books, organizations, etc. Periodically, I will go through and copy any new additions/suggestions to the Resources post.

[pdr]

May I make another suggestion? Easy to do 'cos you do the work!!!!

The resources as they now are fall nicely into American Civil War, Classical History, The English Civil Wars, Victorian America, (Do you use Victorian with American mid and late 19thC history?) Victorian England, General History resources, Ancient History and Odds and Sods.

I think it would help us all if they were actually subdivided like that.

[pdr]

Well, I had to track down a reference so here you are Jen, all the useful resources people have mentioned since this Historical Genre board started.

Dictionaries
http://www.askoxford.com/ The best for historical writing. Always use when editing or for spell checks.
http://www.etymonline.com/ Use as you write to check that the word is correct for your time period.


General Sources
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/homepage.html
Google Historical Newspapers. This is one: http://historynews.chadwyck.com/


Transcripts of Trials from the Old Bailey Court.
From 1674 - 1834
Useful if you want ot know about murder and treason and other mayhem.
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Scottish History
http://www.scottishhistory.com/artic...ffs_page1.html (http://www.scottishhistory.com/articles/early/thanes/sheriffs_page1.html)
http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STE...S/contents.htm (http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/STARN/poetry/BRUS/contents.htm), the reference to shires is in Book II, line 515)
Dictionary of the Scots Language (http://www.dsl.ac.uk/) might help.
http://www.belhelvie.org.uk/history/medieval.htm


Clothes and Costumes
http://www.costumesocietyamerica.com/contact.htm
'English costume of the early Middle Ages: the tenth to the thirteenth centuries' by Iris Brooke
'Handbook of English mediaeval costume' by C. Willett Cunnington and Phillis Cunnington; with illustrations by Barbara Phillipson and Catherine Lucas
'Mediaeval costume and life; review of their social aspects arranged under various classes and workers with instructions for making numerous types of dress' by Dorothy Hartley
'English costume from the early Middle Ages through the sixteenth century' by Iris Brooke
'Medieval Costume and Fashion' by Herbert Norris
'Racinet's full-color pictorial history of western costume : with 92 plates showing over 950 authentic costumes from the Middle Ages to 1800' by A. Racinet
'The common man through the centuries; a book of costume drawings' by Max Barsis


18th Century
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html


Irish History
http://www.bartleby.com/65/pe/PenalLaw.html
http://www.libraryireland.com/JoyceHistory/PartV.php


Colonial Americahttp://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/
American Artisans: Crafting Society Identity, 1750-1850 (Paperback)
by Howard B. Rock (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Howard%20B.%20Rock) (Editor), Paul A. Gilje (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Paul%20A.%20Gilje) (Editor), Robert Asher (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Robert%20Asher)
'Everyday Life In Colonial America From 1607-1783 '
by Dale Taylor, one of The Writer's Guide To Everday Life series from Writer's Digest Books.
'Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies', by Julia Cherry Spruill.


The Vikings
http://www.intercollege.se/viking/my...y2/index2.html (http://www.intercollege.se/viking/mythology2/index2.html)
http://www.rosala-viking-centre.com/history.htm
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/
'A History of the Vikings'. (Oxford Monographs in International Law) Gwyn Jones
'The Vikings' (Penguin History) Else Roesdahl
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/


Mediaeval History
'Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England', 15701640 (Past and Present Publications) (Paperback)
by Martin Ingram (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Martin%20Ingram) (Author)


Ancient History
Stonehenge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm
Sarum: The Novel of England (Paperback)
by Edward Rutherfurd (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Edward%20Rutherfurd) (Author)
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/home/


Classical History
The Romans
http://www.roman-britain.org/main.htm
http://www.livius.org
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ classical
The Greeks
http://www.crystalinks.com/greece.html
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1997/B/199701827.html
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/hisar/people/jw/
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5021.html
http://www.ashmolean.museum/ash/faqs/q004/

Ancient Egypt
http://www.crystalinks.com/palermostone.html
http://www.egyptologyonline.com/manetho.htm
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/abydoskl.html
http://touregypt.net/egyptantiquities/



20th Century Sources
http://www.nrm.org.uk/home/home.asp
http://www.popcenter.org


17th Century England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_%28ship%29
http://immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/1600indexv2.html
17th Century - English Civil Wars
'Behemoth or The Long Parliament' (Paperback)
by Thomas Hobbes (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-0209622-0840966?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Thomas%20Hobbes) (Author)
'Cromwell' by Antonia Fraser
'The King's Peace 1637-41', 'The King's War 1641-1647' and 'The Trial of Charles I' by C.V. Wedgewood


19th Century Britain
http://www.wickedness.net/els/els1/dcruze%20paper.pdfhttp://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/wedding_bride/tofc.html

Sailing Ships
http://ladywashington.org/glossary.html
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571524_1/Ship.html
http://immigrantships.net/v2/1600v2/1600indexv2.html


WW1 Flying Aces
'Fighting Pilots ' by Patrick Pringle


Weapons
Swords
By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers and Olympic Champions by a guy named Richard Cohen.
Guns
http://www.kismeta.com/diGrasse/PolishFirearms.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/flintlock2.htm
Rifles
http://www.elverumske.no/esc_english/weapon_eng.htm
Muskets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bess
http://www.elverumske.no/esc_english/weapon_eng.htm
http://www.jaegerkorps.org/neumanNRA.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/flintlock2.htm

[Rosamund]

Well done, pdr! Thank you! It's so much easier to find what I want now.

These sites from my list of resources may help someone else. They basically cover from around 600 C.E. to the Renaissance, but in detailed sections under the following general/introduction/index pages:

Stefan's Florilegum: http://www.florilegium.org/ (food, clothing, crafts etc)
Cariadoc's Miscellany: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Medieval.html
SCA links: http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php (lots of categories), http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/arts_and_sciences.html (arts and sciences), http://www.sca.org/misc.html (miscellaneous links)

More specific sites
Anglo-Saxon England: http://www.regia.org/
Vikings: http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ (I know you have this one already, but it bears repeating. It was recommended to me by a learned Scandinavian as the most accurate source on the net, and I have certainly found that to be the case.)


For literature (good for old-time spelling, names, old beliefs, general 'ideal' behaviour etc.)
Voice of the Shuttle: http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp
Culpeper: http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/66/113/frameset.html
Exeter Book: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/oe/exeter.html
Doomsday Book: http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/
Red Book of Hergest: http://camelot.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/poetry/4ancientbooks/red_book_of_hergest.htm
Black Book of Carmarthen: http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/ctexts/bbcindex.html
Ancient Texts: http://www.ancienttexts.org/
Greco-Roman Texts (and a few renaissance ones): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Medieval and Classical texts: http://omacl.org/
Sacred Texts: http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm


Period Names
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/

I have more sites, but I'm not sure if they will be useful or not, as they tend towards King Arthur and mythology. Anyways, I hope these are of some use.

[JenNipps]

Thanks, pdr and Rosamund. :)

I actually had thought of dividing like you mentioned before but just honestly haven't had time for it.

I'll get these added/divided. I can't promise it'll be today but it will be one day this week.

[PastMidnight]

Here are a few:

Create a calendar for any year, anywhere in the world: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/

Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, all around the world: http://www.sunrisesunset.com/custom_srss_calendar.asp

Popular US names from 1801-1999, organized by census and birth year: http://www.galbithink.org/names/us200.htm

Women's clothing, 1839-1919: http://www.corsetsandcrinolines.com/timeline.shtml

Headline newspaper articles, 1899-1999: http://century.guardian.co.uk/

History and culture of the Scottish Highlands: http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/index.jsp

Huge bibliography of women's clothing, 1840-1865: http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/dress%20bib.htm

[JenNipps]

You guys are great. Keep 'em coming and I'll get them added.

[Rosamund]

Regency England in Jane Austen's Time: http://www.pemberley.com, and especially http://www.pemberley.com/bin/regency/regency.cgi.

There are some more links for Regency England on http://www.georgette-heyer.com/links/reginfo.html, and a few on http://www.heyerlist.org/resources.html.

How to Wear A Medieval Veil: http://www.virtue.to/articles/veils.html

The Language of Flowers (Victorian times) (please note that there are several versions of this language): http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/hilda/flang.html, http://www.earthlypursuits.com/FlowerLanguage.htm, http://www.earthlypursuits.com/FlwrsPer/FlwrSent.htm, http://www.thegardener.btinternet.co.uk/flowerlanguage.html, http://www.victorianbazaar.com/meanings.html

[pdr]

adding resources to my list to make it easier for you to find homes for them, Jen. OFten the url bears no relationship to the topic!!!

[JenNipps]

I don't have all the new additions edited in yet, but I do have up through the "Period Names" link Rosamund gave added in.

The past couple weeks have been busier than expected. This week is nuts. I'm only here a couple more days then I'll be in Oklahoma City for a writers' conference from Thursday evening to sometime Sunday.

[Carmy]

Medieval Life

Just a few. Although the links go to clothing mainly, other aspects of medieval life are available on the sites.

http://www.medieval-life.net/clothing.htm

http://www.mwart.com/

http://www.octavia.net/9thclife/Clothing.htm

http://www.virtue.to/articles/

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/1adele.htm

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/clothing.html

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/resources.html

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/clothing/index.htm

http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/crafts6.html

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Medieval_Life/clothing.htm

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/

[JenNipps]

OK, guys... I think I'm current for adding new links to the resources list. At some point, I may need to go through and re-organize them, but I'm not able to do that right now.

[PastMidnight]

Just came across this one on the NaNo Historical forum.

Digital Menu archive: http://www.lapl.org/resources/en/menu_collection.html