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The following links are resources I have found helpful in my writing or out of simple curiosity regarding the subject. If an author's link is included, it does not mean that I am endorsing this author or favoring her over any one else; it means that she has taken the time to provide readers with links useful to their research or simple curiosity to know more about a subject.

You will notice that the majority of these links have to do with Regency and Georgian England. What can I say? That is where my main interest lies.

General Research Sites

http://www.etymonline.com
Online Etymology Dictionary. Great for looking up whether a word is old enough for historical use.

http://www.timeanddate.com
Use this to develop a calendar for any given year. It also gives you the stages of the moon during the month, great for covert activities.

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5967 -
search for names in a given year

http://www.20000-names.com
As it says—all sorts of names and meanings

http://www.babynameworld.com
Another sampling

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames
A great way to learn what babynames were popular in the U.S. since the 1880s. Sorted by decade until 2000, then by year.

http://www.geocities.com/inkslinger_k/inky-prinny.htm
The author has researched the usage of names in specific time periods.

http://genealogy.about.com/od/surname_meaning/a/english.htm
About English surnames and where they originated

http://www.surnamedirectory.com/surname-resources-UK.html
It helps to get the surname from the right county

http://www.last-names.net
More surname information

http://www.gutenberg.org
Books in the public domain for free download

http://books.google.com
In the advanced search section, you can limit to year of publication and search for word usage, not to mention the period books available for free download

http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/timeline_1300.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/afas13/hd_afas13.htm

http://www.northeastengland.talktalk.net/Timeline.htm

http://www.greatbuildings.com/timelines/places/london.html

http://www.timelines.ws/1300_1399.HTML

http://www.btinternet.com/~timeref/hsttime4.htm

http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/histclimat.htm
A site with historic weather data

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/history/crime/crimes.html#piracy

Author Web Sites with Historical Resources

You will also find author sites under specific time period sections if their site is mainly dedicated to a time. Also, check out my blog. Some of the blog links there have historical information posted on them.

http://www.marjoriegilbert.net
Includes information about the early 1800's, featuring prominent people of the time who appeared in her book, casts lists from one of the plays at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and more

http://www.annegracie.com
Astounding group of research links.

http://charlottedillon.com/ResearchLinks.html
Old/New West, Middle Ages, Civil War, Regency, Victorian, Buggies, Medicine, Sex, Foods, Reference and you name it

http://www.dianacosby.com
Various research links on knights, vikings, the police...

http://www.candacehern.com
Wonderful pictures of items Candace has collected, as well as other historic resources

http://www.gaelenfoley.com/index-history-m-wardr.html
Author site with historical information

http://www.theresestenzel.com
Author site with historical data and the sites of other historical writers

http://www.cindyvallar.com
A must site for anyone who enjoys pirates and buccaneers

Georgian and Regency Links

http://www.micheleannyoung.com
for Regency dueling, weapons, nobility, and fashion

http://www.candicehern.com/timeline.htm
This is a timeline of the Regency.

Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval History

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com
Eleventh Century Scotland

http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk
Living history group about Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and Normans

http://www.regia.org
Images, engravings, pictures from old books (not just Viking stuff)

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/britishstudies/resources.html
Miscellaneous information from Parliament, to Smugglers, to maps, to laws, to coinage

Good resources on Britain

http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/histclimat.htm
A site with historic weather data

http://www.umich.edu/~ece/studentprojects/crime2/additions.html
Arresting the miscreants and the poor laws of England.

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org
The Old Bailey Proceedings on-line

http://www.paulsmith.doctors.org.uk
ArchaicMedicalTerms.

http://www.anvil.clara.net/stage.htm
Stagecoach information.

http://www.parliament.uk
to look up info about Lords or Commons -- you can search their archives or ask questions there too and For Research on the British Parliament

http://www.bopcris.ac.uk
Parliament

http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/peerage.html
The British Peerage

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/noblesse.htm#19th
French nobility and title address

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

http://www.englishplants.co.uk/calender.html
What plants grow in Britain and when.

http://www.smuggling.co.uk
A site with Smugglers Britain on-line

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/BritishDenominations3.html
English coinage history and denominations

http://www.measuring worth.com/calculators/ppoweruk/
Working out the worth of the British pound

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1818map/1818map_linkc.htm
1818 map of London. If you click on the sections, they enlarge

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~genmaps/
County maps

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html
Old New Jersey maps

Clothing and Housing

http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/informal.html
Men's fashion

http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/colors/1.htm
An on-l;ine exibition of the history of dyes so writers don't put their eighteenth century heroines into a mauve gown

http://kalenhughes.com/index.html
for clothing links to Tudor, Georgian, Regency and Victorian

http://historicalfictionbooks.ning.com
The process of making an empire gown

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image.aspx?compid=42103&filename=fig15.gif&pubid=298
The layout of a house in Grosvenor Square in London

Age of Sail and Military

http://www.hms.org.uk
If you love the Age of Fighting Sail as I do, this is a great place to start

http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-medals/history.htm
Military Medals

http://world.guns.ru/main-e.htm
Weaponry

http://www.middlesexvillagetrading.com/powderman.txt
How to load a black powder gun

http://www.ageofnelson.org/michaelphillips/index.html
Ships of the old Navy

http://www.sailingnavies.com/index.php
Sailing Navies from 1650-1850