Looks like I keep stumbling across something...

TheShipsList - 18th-20th centuries. Passenger lists, info about sea companies involved in migrations and ocean trade, ship descriptions and pictures, arrivals, reports, diaries, and stories of wrecks with survivor lists, official immigration related documents.

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 17th ( Read more... )

Hey, what I've run across! A bill for laundry from 1675, and 18th century washing machines, and the recipe for starching of muslin and plenty and plenty of more at the site Old & Interesting.

And a handful of other resources:
Apple corers, back to 17th.
Toothpick holders of 19th.
Neapolitan silver marks, 15th-19th.

Feeding America, a collection ( Read more... )

A few resources that you can be interested in.

Georgian London
An awarded, admired and - last but not least - nice to read blog, though personally I'm a bit annoyed with the author's manner of avoiding any citations and resource notes. But the blog is still a very, ahem, inspiring site, with its sections such as 'Criminal London' or 'Sick London' ( Read more... )

Two very informative manuals of fencing.
Old Sword-Play by Alfred Hutton, London-New York, 1892
Cold Steel by Alfred Hutton, London 1889

Now that I've gotten your attention (especially those of you for whom "pants" = "underpants" instead of "trousers")-- a funny story about Wellington being unable to read somebody's handwriting, from Futility Closet:

The following story has been told, but I have not met with it in its absolute correctness. The Duke of Wellington received a letter, ( Read more... )

Today I've run into a some site and I was all 'Oh! That's the same map! From that book, years ago!'.
So, in case some of you haven't made acquaintance with the Graveyard of the Atlantic yet, --> here <-- you'll find the history of the Sable Island. And I think you can find the map of it interesting.


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PotC: On Stranger Tides is just coming, and the moviemakers won't be able to say that they hadn't a possibility to the proper research. Queen Anne's Revenge, sunk in 1718, was discovered (supposedly) again in 1996. On The Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project site, you can read (very comprehensive and detailed!) reports from the archaeology field ( Read more... )

I'd like to announce the day of goodness for sailors, sea dogs and all possibly-interested-mates in general. A handful of links behind the cut.
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Posted here because I thought it may be of interest. Let me know if I am wrong.

(N.B. Before I go any further I wish to state that the following is no reflection on the general state of my kitchen. It is, I am afraid, one of the drawbacks of living in the countryside that the wildlife occasionally insists on coming indoors.)

"So You've Never ( Read more... )

Hey guys! As a newbie here, I present my first offering (apologies if I've done the tags incorrectly).

Following the previous post-- more hilarity, courtesy of the Royal Navy archives.

"The ship’s doctor was probably the second most dangerous person a sailor would encounter apart from the enemy."

Oh yes? I think Dr. Maturin would like a word with you ( Read more... )