Databases & Online Resources

Amassed from our scholarly adventures this semester. Though these are links from our schedule, it might be more helpful to have all of them on a single page. You are free to edit this with additional information. Remember, though, don't delete anything. We can't get it back if you delete it.

General Databases & Tools

• Google N-Gram Viewer
• Worldcat (database of all kinds of library holdings but not full text)
• Internet Archive (full text of all kinds of archival materials! but no representations of the material object, e.g., the binding)
• Google Books, of course, is always your friend and often has available full text of books and periodicals from the 19th century.
• Oxford English Dictionary Database
  
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Old Bailey Online
• Current Value of Old Money
• Purchasing Power of British Pounds from 1245 to Present

Note: Check the SJSU databases list for other interesting resources (e.g., art)

Using Primary Sources

• Making Sense of Evidence

History

• British History Timeline (uses Flash)
• The Timetables of History  by Grun (get a used copy?)
• British History Online
• 19c Print Culture Intro Download 19c Print Culture Intro
• 19c Timeline Download 19c Timeline
• Reading Materials PPT Download Reading Materials PPT
• Our 19th-Century Timeline

Dickens

• Dickens Journal Online Links to an external site.
• Stanford's Introduction & Information - digital copies of each issue of this serial
• Chronology of Dicken's Life, Dickens Project UCSB 
• Chronology of Dicken's Publications, Victorian Web
• Complexity of sentences in Hard Times - using Voyant -- compared to the "Gettysburg Address

Copyright Issues

• Stamp Act of 1765
• Almanac Day Download Almanac Day
• Statute of Anne, 1710
• British Copyright overview (Victoria Web)

Periodicals, Serials, & Newspapers

• Database of Mid-Victorian Images  (keyword search)
• The English Woman's Journal
• Monthly Repository
• Victorian Serial Novels (available at University of Victoria)
• Stanford's Introduction & Information on Hard Times serials - also digital copies of each issue of this serial

Print Culture

• "The Printed Image in the West " (MetMuseum)
• "Print Culture " (Taunton)
• American Bookbinding Museum

Technology

• A Brief History of Typewriters
• Invention of Photography (British Library Exhibit)

Medicine

• Queen Victoria & Anesthesia
• History of Bethlem Hospital  (Bedlam for the insane!)
• Bethlem Hospital Archives
• Observations on Insanity ... (Arnold 1782 - pathologizes imagination as the first step towards insanity if overused)
• "Dissecting Pregnancy "
• "A Rake's Progress " (1733)

Slavery & Imperialism

• Image of slave ship (1789)
• Legacies of British Slave Ownership database,  including maps of plantations in Jamaica, Grenada, and Barbados
• Inside the Slave Ship , History of American Slavery episode 2 (15 min podcast) - from Slate)
• Animated interactive map of 315 years. 20,528 voyages 1600-1860 all over the world - from Slate.com (The interactive animates more than 20,000 voyages cataloged in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database.)
• "The British Empire, Trading Routes & Construction" (video)
• Colony Trade Routes  (image)
• Colonial Trade Routes
• European Colonial Expansion  (video)

Maps

• Maps of the British Isles
• Timeline of David Rumsey's Maps
• See Geographic Nomenclature in Norton
• London to Luton Hoo  (1767)
• Great Britain in the 19th C
• Greenwood’s Map of London  (1827)
• Maps of London through the 19th Century

Coffee Houses

• "London Cafes: The Surprising History of London's Coffee Houses" (Green, Telegraph 2013)
• The Early History of Coffee Houses in England (Robinson 1893)