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1. Digital History [website] - Resource Guides on American History (1793-Present Day). Absolutely chock full of information, resources, documents, book suggestions, summaries of historical decades, articles and more related to different periods of American history. Some of the links are dead, while others may require a bit of searching on your part ( Read more... )

This is a list of recommended fanfiction that meets one or more of the following criteria ( Read more... )

Some nineteenth-century women on why higher education is a good thing

Address on the Medical Education of Women by Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell (1864, U.S.).

The Higher Education of Women by Emily Davies (1866).

Mistaken Views on the Education of Girls by Johanne Lohse (1884, NZ). Mainly on primary and secondary education, but very passionate ( Read more... )

Quick facts about the first Oxford colleges for women
(mainly compiled from the college history pages linked below)

1. The Association for the Higher Education of Women was founded in 1878, to raise money for and create a college for women at Oxford. This resulted in three institutions within the next year:

- Lady Margaret Hall, founded 1878/ ( Read more... )

This is a curiosity I've discovered, feel free to delete if it isn't appropriate for this comm.

We all know the Sanctuary  Dr. James Watson is a brilliant forensic mind who was a member of the Five.  But what about the real Dr. James Watson?

Dr. James Dewey Watson is credited with the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule, along with Francis ( Read more... )

This is a list of resources about the real Nikola Tesla. Feel free to suggest additions to this list.

Nikola Tesla [wikipedia]
Tesla Universe [website] (includes the tremendously useful Nikola Tesla timeline)
Tesla: Master of Lightning PBS site [website]
Collection of Tesla links [websiteSelected Tesla Writings (both Tesla's own work and articles ( Read more... )

This is a list of online resources that may help with research. Feel free to suggest additions to this list.

Books
Google Books [website]
Project Gutenberg [website]
Questia.com [website]
List of sites specializing in online and audio books [project gutenberg]
Internet Archive Text Archive [archive.org]
Open Library [website]

Archived Webpages ( Read more... )

This is a list of resources about the practice of medicine and other medical issues. Feel free to suggest additions to this list.

Victorian Medicine/Pharmacies
The Victorian Pharmacy Miniseries [bbc]
Victorian Medicine - From Fluke to Theory [bbc]
Victorian Pharmacy [royal pharmaceutical societyScience and the Practice of Medicine in the ( Read more... )

I've found these books available online to be helpful resources on Victorian Oxford:

Education in Oxford, its methods, aims, and rewards (1861) Largely on the subject of "why an Oxford education is a good thing," but with some useful digressions into student life and student behavior and misbehavior.

Oxford and Oxford Life (1899) Has useful ( Read more... )