HISTORY & CULTURE ~ General Sources 

[See also the link for Social Life & Customs, which includes, Cookery, Etiquette, Fashion, Letter-writing, Music, Dance, Theatre, etc. –  also the link to the Literature page; and see below for links to Museums and Libraries]

• A Vision of Britain through Time
• The Archives Hub
• The National Archives [UK]
• The National Archives [UK] – the catalogue
• British Money
• Currency Converter [National Archives]
• Measuring Worth – The Purchasing Power of the British Pound 1264-present
• Culture 24 [ news and exhibitions for all UK Museums, Libraries, Archives]
• England’s Past for Everyone
• English Heritage Images
• Royal Historical Society
• British Titles of Nobility [current to 1998]

HISTORY & CULTURE ~  Georgian & Regency Periods    

Books:   

1. Erickson, Carolly.  Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England.  William Morrow, 1986. 
2. Porter, Roy.  English Society in the Eighteenth Century [Penguin Social History of Britain].  Rev. ed.  Penguin, 1990

Links:  

• Early 18th-Century Newspaper Reports, by Rictor Norton
• Dictionary of Cant and English Slang, by Nathan Bailey, 1736 [at From Old Books]
• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose, 1811 [at From Old Books] 
• The Loiterer by James Austen. This website also includes “Voices of Men in Praise of Jane Austen”, and notes by “Sophia Sentiment.”
• Memoirs of Pascal Bonenfant – includes a number of databases of information on 18th century Britain, especially London:  the Thieves Cant Dictionary , the Newgate Calendar, and Thomas Fuller’s Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 
• Regency England 1790-1839
• Regency England Bibliography [Historical Novelists Center, to 1997 only]
• Regency Collection [A. Woodley website] – various Regency links 
• The Regency Page of Catherine Decker; and her Homepage with great Regency links.
• Regency Redingote blog – “historical snippets of Regency England”
• Regency Society of America
• Sharon Lathan’s Regency Glossary
• Sue Wilkes blog on English Social History
• Sundries:  An 18th century newsletter by Jim Chevalier [October 2005 – October 2006]

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ VICTORIAN PERIOD

 HISTORY & CULTURE  ~ LONDON   

Books:

1. George, M. Dorothy.  London Life in the XVIIIth Century.  London:  London School of Economics, 1951 [originally published in 1925 by Kegan Paul, with corrections]

Links:

1. the Thieves Cant Dictionary 
2. the Newgate Calendar 
3. Thomas Fuller’s Pharmacopeia Extemporanea

• The Edwin C. Bolles Collection at Tufts University, Digital Library:  http://dl.tufts.edu/view_collection.jsp?pid=tufts:UA069.006.DO.MS004  
  [the Edwin C. Bolles papers, circa 1768-1921, include prints, maps, guidebooks, and full-text digital books on the topics of London and England]
• WILL- What’s in London Libraries:  http://www.londonlibraries.org.uk/will/  [search library catalogues, museums and archives] 
• Old London Maps:  http://www.oldlondonmaps.com/  [and views of the City from the 16th – 19th centuries] 
• The Royal Parks, London’s Personal Space:  http://www.royalparks.org.uk/ 
• Vauxhall Gardens:  http://www.vauxhallgardens.com/index.html   [ a website for David Coke’s forthcoming book, A Comprehensive History of VAUXHALL GARDENS 1661-1859:   “contains lists of names of those involved at the gardens and other items of general interest. It also provides links to other sites with Vauxhall interest, and a list of further reading for those who would like an introduction to the subject. I hope it will also act as a focus for all those interested in Vauxhall Gardens and related fields.”] 
• The National Archives:  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ 
• City of Westminster:  http://www.westminster.gov.uk/ 
• ‘Underground London:  http://www.bl.uk/eblj/2009articles/pdf/ebljarticle72009.pdf [article in eBritish Library Journal, 2009, Article 7]
• Dictionary of Victorian London

 HISTORY & CULTURE ~ ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Books:

1. Batey, Mavis.  Jane Austen and the English Landscape.  London:  Barn Elms, 1996   –  absolutely lovely!
2. Duckworth, Alistair.  The Improvement of the Estate:  A Study Of Jane Austen’s Novels.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins U Press, 1971; reprinted in paperback, 1994  –  brilliant 
3. Girouard, Mark.  Life in the English Country House:  A Social and Architectural History.  New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1978.
4. Wilson, Kim.  In the Garden with Jane Austen. Madison, WI:  Jones books, 2008.

Links:

• Chatsworth 
• Designs for the Pavillon at Brighton, by Ripton – NYPL Digital Gallery
• English Heritage Images – Georgian Architecture Collection
• Humphry Repton’s Red books of Hatchlands and Ferney Hall at the Pierpont Morgan Library & Musuem
• Humphrey Repton. The Art of Landscape Gardening.  1907 reprint by Houghton Mifflin [Google Books]
• ______________. The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphry Repton, Esq. Being His Entire Works On These Subjects. A New Edition by  J.C. Loudon.  London, 1840. [Google Books]
• Repton’s Regency Landscapes at Jane Austen’s World blog
• Humphrey Repton at Wikipedia with links
• Austenonly blog post:  “Enamoured of the Picturesque at a Very Early Age”: William Gilpin and Jane Austen   
• William Gilpin. Observations on the River Wye, 1789 edition [Google Books]
• ___________. Three essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape.  1794 edition [Google Books]
• ___________. Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1772 on several parts of England. 3^rd edition, 1792. [Google Books]
• William Gilpin at Wikipedia with links
• The Picturesque at Wikipedia with various links  

 HISTORY & CULTURE ~ DECORATIVE ARTS 

Books:

1. Agius, Pauline, Stephen Jones.  Ackermann’s Regency Furniture and Interiors. Ramsbury:  Crowood Books, 1984.
2. Musgrave, Clifford.  Regency Furniture, 1800-1830.  NY:  Thomas Yoseloff, 1961.

Links:

• Empire & Regency: Decoration in the Age of Napoleon – NYPL Digital Gallery

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ LITERATURE
 – See The World of Jane Austen ~ Literature & Austen’s Circle page]

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ MILITARY HISTORY

• The Historical Maritime Society:  Nelson and his Navy
•  Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers, by J.H. & E.C. Hubback [1909] at Molland’s
• Jane Austen’s Sailors: Gentlemen in the Military Capacity, by John Hart.  Persuasions, 4 [1982]
• A Quick Primer on Waterloo at The Regency Collection [A. Woodley]

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ MUSIC, DANCE & THEATRE
– see The World of Jane Austen ~ Social Life & Customs page and then by each topic [though I know this should be under “Culture” – it works better on that page…!]

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ TRAVEL & TRANSPORT [ CARRIAGES ]

• Carriages of the Regency Period
• Carriages of Europe 

HISTORY & CULTURE ~ MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES
 – fabulous resources one and all

• The Bodleian Library, Oxford University
• Boston Public Library, MA  – see “Online Collections”
• The British Library
• The British Museum
• Columbia University Library – Digital Collections
• Holburne Museum, Bath
• Geffrye Museum, London – The Geffrye Museum depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day.
• Lewis Walpole Library, CT
• Museum of London
• The National Archives [UK] – and The National Archives  – the catalogue
• National Library of Scotland – Digital Collections
• New York Public Library – Digital Gallery
• Pierpont Morgan Museum & Library, NY –  click here for the online Jane Austen Exhibition
• Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• Wallace Collection, London and Wallace Collection Prints
• Yale Center for British Art