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Captain James Cook The Endeavour Journal, 1768-1771 (full text, teacher resources, and more) (National Lobrary of Australia) |
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Molly Brown, The Invitation To A Funeral Tour: A Free-Style Jaunt Around Restoration London Inspired by the Novel Invitation to a Funeral (site accompanying Brown's recently-published "historical whodunnit set in London during the reign of Charles II, featuring a number of real life characters such as Aphra Behn, Nell Gwyn, and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester"; site includes |
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The Bubble Project ("a collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, or first great stock-market crash of 1720") (David McNeil, Dalhousie U.) |
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Dictionary of Sensibility (project developed in Jerome J. McGann and Patricia Meyer Spacks's U. Virginia course on "The Novel of Sensibility"; includes extensive glosses on terms of the period, critical apparatus, and many illustrative excerpts from literary and other relevant texts) |
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The Gothic: Materials for Study (texts, articles and bibliography, arranged by subject) (U. Virginia) |
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William Hogarth (on Art page) |
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David Hume
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John Locke
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The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications) |
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The New Child: British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830 (1995 exhibition at the U. Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, UC Berkeley; James Steward, Curator) |
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Restoration: Politics (background page with links to accompany the film with Sam Neill as Charles II) (Miramax Films / Open Book Systems) |
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Restoration: Medicine (background page with links to accompany the film with Sam Neill as Charles II) (Miramax Films / Open Book Systems) |
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Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality, Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 (wlink to full text; links to other articles; ithin the Documenting the American South site) (U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
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Earl of Shaftesbury
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Sir Robert Walpole: Photo |
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Stanford Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution (faculty/student research group, lectures, conferences) (Michael Marrinan) |
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The World of London Theatre, 1660-1800 |
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Homepage (Patricia Craddock & students, U. Florida) (under construction) |
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Contemporary Descriptions of London Life (excerpts) |
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London Theatre People, 1660-1800 (brief bios with links to a timeline) |
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Map of Theatre District |
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Pictures Relevant to Theatre of the Period |
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A Table of Seventeenth Century Actresses |
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Theatre Sites |
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Timeline |
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