Books Wishlist

• Edwardian wish list at bookshop.org
• Edwardian wish list at amazon.com
• Victorian wish list at amazon.com

Contemporary Fiction Titles 

• A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
• Edwardian Murder Mysteries #1-4 by Marion Chesney
• A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
• The New Deadwardians

Blogs

• Edwardian Promenade

Topic: Art

Topic: Food

• Historic food prices around the globe

Topic: Health and Beauty

Topic: Home & Design

• BBC Homes: Edwardian

Topic: Newspapers/Magazines/Advertising

• The British Newspaper Archive Digitized collection of newspapers from around the globe, beginning in the 1700s to now.
• Chronicling America Digital collection of American newspapers from 1690 to present. Presented by the Library of Congress.
• The New York Times Time Machine Browse the collection beginning with the first issue in 1851. (Available only to NYT subscribers.)
• The University of British Columbia Historical Newspapers Digitized historical newspapers from around the province dating from 1859 to 1995.
• Vintage Ads from the late 19th C to the early 21st C.

Topic: People

• Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918 Provided by UK Data Service, 453 life-story interviews originally collected as part of the study.

Topic: Postcards

• Edwardian Postcard Project From 1901 to 1910, Edwardians sent over 6 billion postcards. Curated by Lancaster University.

Topic: Photography

Topic: Theater

Topic: Victorian

(Many academics (wrongly) consider the Edwardian period as late Victorian.)

• Victorian Research A treasure trove of a website of resources if you’re into the Victorians.

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.
• The British Library’s Flickr Search over 1 million images.
• British Museum Search over 1 million objects across all of history.
• Hathi Trust: A Large digital repository of materials from nearly 100 institutions worldwide.
• History Pin Get local community curated history content.
• Internet Archive Digital archive of moving images, texts, audio, and other ephemera that is out of copyright or copyright free.
• National Gallery London Archive and Library All of the museum’s activities from it’s founding in 1824 to now.
• National Gallery London Digital Collection Search more than 2600 art objects.
• Old Maps Online Search and narrow in maps with timelines of places and events.
• Project Gutenberg Archive of over 75,000 ebooks that are out of copyright or copyright free.
• Victoria and Albert Museum Search more than 1.75 million objects across all of history.
• UK Inflation converter Track the cost of things from 1209 CE to now.
• US Inflation converter From the Bureau of Labor Statistics covers from 1913 to now.
• US Inflation converter From 1790 to 2024; measures worth.
• Wikiart Search artwork by schools, groups, artists, movements, genres, fields, and more.
• Wikipedia The Resources section tends to be chock full of reliable, current, and reviewed sources.