Cabinet Particulier

Research

Books
Wish list of titles at Amazon.

Contemporary Fiction Titles 
Recently published titles on the Edwardian era

Period Fiction Titles
Published titles during the Edwardian Era (or shortly after)

Blogs

General Websites

  • BBC History Magazine One of the best, if not the best, jumping off points for history regarding United Kingdom, the continent, and how it also affects the world. I also obsessively love their podcast.
  • British Library’s Flickr Search over 1 million images
  • British Museum Search over 2 million objects from all periods of history.
  • Hathi Trust Large digital repository of materials from nearly 100 institutions worldwide.
  • History Pin
  • Internet Archive Largest archive of moving images, texts, audio, and other ephemera that is out of copyright or copyright free.
  • National Gallery London You can view collections online by artist and by year. Fantastic to see what was being created for your particular time period.
  • Old Maps Online
  • Project Gutenberg One of, if not the largest eBook collections of out of copyright or copyright free materials.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Search through thousands of images on art and design, create an account to download the images.
  • UK Inflation Converter Convert ye olde prices to modern pricing, from 1270-1970
  • US Inflation Converter 1913 – Present via Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • US Inflation Converter 1774 – 2013 via Measuring Worth
  • Wikipaintings Encyclopedia of fine arts.

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Topic: Victorian

(Many academics still consider Edwardian to be very late Victorian)