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Hollywood, History, Clothing (Modern and Historical), and Time-frame Specific Research Links
Hollywood/movie/entertainment stuff:
Clothes on Film- a fascinating website with articles detailing what many movies get right (and wrong) about how they clothe their characters, and often why decisions were made the way they were. (The articles {beginning here} on the Richie Holmes movies, for example, are very interesting reads.)
Tyranny of Style - "A closer look at costume design and the language of clothing." (Interesting read with interesting articles about costume design choices for tv/movies like this one about CA:TWS)
BAMF Style - "break down how these cinema badasses carried themselves so that you too can"
Frock Flicks another costume reviews site
A similar website is Frocktalk, now defunct, but available via the wayback machine. The person who ran the site also did a great TED talk on the subject.
Virtual History - "Film history of the 20th century in the virtual world" stills, posters, links to info (articles and books), and basic information about thousands of movies, actors, directors and writers (in not just Hollywood, but worldwide)
Internet Movie Firearms Database - Firearms and other weapons as seen in movies, tv shows, anime, etc- great for researching who was using weapon and when
Internet Movie Cars Database- Cars, motorcycle and other motor vehicle appearances in films and tv shows
Internet Game Cars Database - a comprehensive list of vehicles seen in video games
Internet Broadway Database - All sorts of info on different broadway shows/cast/etc
The Big Cartoon Database - Info on everything animated: cartoons, films, television shows, adverts, and more
League of Comic Geeks "Discover comics from DC, Marvel, Image, IDW, and many more our comic book database. "
CBDB, The Comic book Database "Welcome to CBDB: The most detailed comic book resource on the net!"
Grand Comics Database - "The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world."
The Internet Movie Plane Database- Airplane in movies, tv shows and video games
The Internet Movie Script Database - While scripts can be radically different than the final movie that aired, it can still be a really good resource.
The Daily Script Movie and television scripts and screenplay collection, again may not be the version that actually aired
Springfield!Springfield! a database of thousands of TV show episode scripts and movie scripts
TVShowTranscripts - another tv show episode transcript site
Subtitles Like Scripts - movie and tv transcripts
Scraps From the Loft - movie, tv, stand up comedy transcripts and more
Forever Dreaming select tv and movie transcripts
The BBC TV, radio and film script library
Techstuff - Behind the Jargon of the Film Industry (podcast episode, a look at the tech and terminology of film sets)
Jill Bearup throws Tom Scott through a window excellent look at how a fight scene is staged and everything that goes into making it look real while also being safe (archive.org video link)
Lost Media Wiki - "a community effort to track down lost or hard-to-find media!"
10 popular tones used in voice acting (short clip of a voice actor demonstrating different tones and explaining when they are used, originally on tiktok here)
Historical/Cultural/Religious/whatnot research links (history/culture/era/etiquette/etc):
Specific era language, slang, and terminology links can be found in the Words resource post.
Historic map collection links can be found in the Randomness Part One resource post.
General history/Non-timeframe specific:
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Digital Collections numerous art and history books, subjects spanning history and the world
UNESCO's General History of Africa - 9 volumes, available online as PDFs, going from the ancient civilizations through colonialism to modern day (information is very, very dense and dry though)
The Age of Borders - when current borders were defined (from this reddit post)
Fordham University's Sourcebooks - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Internet Modern History Sourcebook, etc (others include African, Byzantium, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian and Gay, Science, and Women's)
Native Languages of the Americas resource site
Museum of disABILITY's virtual museum an exhibit "dedicated to advancing the understanding, acceptance and independence of people with disabilities." (wayback machine link)
The British Library's Digitized Collections - numerous collections ranging from historical maps, manuscripts (including Beowulf, Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook and much, much more), sound recordings, etc (currently only partially available after a cyber attack)
British History Online "a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world."
Black Cultural Archives "the home of Black British History"
Historical Locks - a delve into the history of locks, keys, padlocks, safes, what existed in what era and area, and the technology and folklore of it all.
Lighting things in pre-electric times thoughts and techniques (tumblr post with information and numerous period techniques)
Ancient and Historical Measurements Converters convert ancient and historical weights, lengths, volumes, units of area to modern or contemporary ones.
Historical Chinese Clothing (and more) Resources a masterpost of 400+ links on historical Chinese Clothing (plus accessories, armor, weapons, music, relationship terms, naming resources and much, much more)
Clothing, How Did They Make It? (the first in a wonderfully detailed four part series on the history of pre-modern textile production, the production of the fiber, cleaning, spinning, weaving, and dying, and its trade)
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library- Centuries of handwritten heritage preserved and available for all (thousands of religious {Eastern Christian, Islamic, Buddist, Hindu, etc} manuscripts as well as generally historical handwritten and early printed works)
Vatican Library Digital Collection providin "free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects)."
Digital Bodleian "Discover over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries."
Who Was Alive choose a year and see who was alive then and how old they were with links to each person's wikipedia page
"Ancient" times through Middle Ages (ish):
Livius - website with thousands of articles on ancient history
Perseus Digital Library - Digital library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, as well as a depository of images of ancient art
The Greek Age of Bronze "Weapons and warfare in the late Helladic time 1600-1100 BC" (also information on the Trojan War and the Sea Peoples)
Global Medieval Sourcebook - A Digital Repository of Medieval Texts "The Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is an open access teaching and research tool...spanning one thousand years (600-1600) of literary production around the world." (All transcriptions, translations, and commentaries have been "produced and reviewed by scholars of medieval studies")
Hull Domesday Project an overview and exploration of the Domesday Inquest, Great Domesday, and the purpose, structure, and terminology of Domesday Book, with references for further study.
Open Domesday providing both the Domesday Book mapped and also the original folios
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters - collection (in original Latin and English translations) of medieval Latin letters to and from women who lives from the 4th-13th centuries, biographical information of each woman included.
Anglo-Saxon Names (compiled from Bede's A History of the English Church and People, completed 731 CE)
A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1095-1149 Database of men and women who took part in the crusades after the Council of Clermont (1095) through the end of the Second Crusade (1149), including identities, social status, titles, geographical origins, finance, family relationships and affiliations to crusade leaders.
Carleton College's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Primary Sources PDF collection - translated primary documents on late antique, medieval, Byzantine and Renaissance history
University of Leeds' Medieval History Texts in Translation PDFs of translations of documents from and regarding Italy, Sicily, England, Germany, Spain and the Crusades, dates ranging from 1035-1288
Medieval Scotland "This is a collection of articles and resources aimed at anyone interested in Scotland between A.D. 500 and 1603, from about when the King of Dál Riata moved from Ireland to Argyll to when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne."
Learn to read medieval Latin documents
Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia "an attempt to catalogue all possible elements of Celtic culture, from its origins in central Europe in the Bronze Age, through the 21st century."
The Celtic Literature Collective "an attempt to collect as many possible early and medieval texts produced in the "Celtic" countries, or on Celtic themes"
Medieval Murder Maps "The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence, and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford."
Wiktenauer collection of primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of historical European martial arts (HEMA) research
Middle Ages for Kids aimed at children, but a wealth of information on the middle ages ranging from clothing to weapons to food and more
Medicine in the Middle Ages theories, treatments and links for more information
Journal article Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe (fairly academic, but interesting)
Medieval Life and Times - huge resource site with sections dedicated to art, castles, clothing, food, music, weapons and much, much more
MEDIEVAL MISCONCEPTIONS: torches and candles - lighting in medieval times (video)
An article on Medieval pet names
Medieval WorldBuilding Mega-Tutorial (includes info about armies, and many other details)
Sleep in the Middle Ages
Medieval writing resource post (including links to posts about clergy, nobility, common medieval jobs, divination, mythical creatures, structuring an army, medieval punishments, armor, siege warfare, castle anatomy, clothing, common terms of medieval life and more)
Castle Glossary
Medieval military tactics regarding right-handedness
Map of Medieval Trade Routes - (post with some information, zoomable map itself here)
King Henry III Fine Rolls Project Transcription of fines recorded 1216–1272. Lists of male names and female names (and a few more female names) recorded and their frequency (wayback machine links)
England’s Immigrants Database (1330-1550) - fully-searchable database with over 64k names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
Names of Jews in Medieval Navarre (13th–14th centuries) delves into naming rituals as well (pdf)
Islam’s Medieval Underworld
Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe "explores what medieval texts have to say about disability" (available as a free PDF, also available here)
Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis- high-resolution images of more than 160,000 pages of European medieval and early modern codices available for downloading by the page, manuscript, or collection.
Harvard Library's Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Material Features project tutorials and detailed information on bindings, pages, content, and decoration, and links to digitized manuscripts with those features.
A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: from the semi-Saxon period of A.D. 1250 to 1300. Consisting of an alphabetical inventory of every word found in the printed English literature of the 13th century (full title, published 1862, on gutenberg here or scanned on archive.org here)
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
16th-18th century:
The English Physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. by Nicholas Culpeper, published 1652 (archive.org link or a pdf version)
The Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald, published 1769 (archive.org link)
The Country Housewife’s Family Companion by William Ellis, published 1750 (archive.org link) full title: "The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good economy of the domestic concerns of a country life. According to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's, &c., wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England: shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping"
Domestic Medicine by William Buchan, 2nd ed, published 1785 (transcribed)
Huge list of links for writing about Pirates and a second one
Information on flying false flags (by pirates or in war)
Roles on a Pirate Ship (wayback machine link)
The Canadian Privateering Homepage includes a Canadian Privateer Ship List and names of privateers, a logbook of a 1799 journey and more (wayback machine link)
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my18thcenturysource "From costuming to movies and art, everything 18th century related."
London Lives - "a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners" (240k+ manuscript/printed pages from eight London archives, data contains records from 1680-1820 and beyond)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - searchable archive of the almost 200K criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Huge resource compilation of information about Great Britain's Royal Navy from the 1790s to post WWI (including vessels, medicine, history, manning, leave, punishment, the slave trade, pay scales and much more)
Lighting Then VS Now: Fire Before Electricity (video, lots of general information about lighting and the technology for it in the 18th century as well as laws about it in England and the American colonies)
Common American houses before the second Industrial Revolution (where they were built, what they looked like and how they were laid out)
North American Architecture of the 18th Century
Coinage found in the 17th and 18th century (video, focus on the American colonies)
The History of Money in America (video, focus on early colonial period)
Working with Horn : making a comb with one method and a spoon with another - horn, "the plastic of history" (videos with techniques for carving horn)
All Things Georgian "Writing about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era" (1714-1830s)
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
19th century:
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 A pictorial record of London's Great Exhibition
English Heritage's video series- Audley End- The Victorian Way Living history look at a Victorian manor with everything from laundry to cooking and baking and much more
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management - published in 1861, a guide to all aspects of running a Victorian household, including recipes, dealing with servants, general health and more. (wayback machine link, or find gutenberg's download here)
Everyday life in 19th century Britain
a map of Dickens' London (wayback machine link)
1817 Map of London
500+ maps of 1893 and 1896 London stitched together by The National Library of Scotland (link to article about it, direct link here)
Pigot & Co's Metropolitan Guide & Book of reference to every street, court, lane, passage alley and public building, in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs. (published 1820s, scanned book)
Bacon's new large scale atlas of London and suburbs (atlas published 1900, scanned book)
Druggist's Manual, published 1826, "with Latin and English synonyms, a German, French, and Spanish catalogue of drugs, tables of specific gravities etc (archive.org scanned book)
The Home: Where It Should Be And What Should Be In It published 1873 (everything one needed to know for setting up a home including a price list in the back of what everything might cost, via archive.org)
The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs, published 1879 (via googlebooks)
The lady's guide to perfect gentility, in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc - Etiquette manual from 1857 (scanned pages, via library of congress)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book- full of data but very dense)
"A text-book of nursing": 1893 version and 1897 version by Clara Weeks-Shaw (read online or DL various versions)
Two scanned books on Floriography: 1825's Floral Emblems, or, A Guide to the language of flowers and 1857's The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems
History of Landscape Design – 19th Century Gardens & the Birth of the Public Park
Women's Handicraft in the 19th Century gallery - a digital collection "documenting 19th century American women's participation in household handicrafts." (magazines, patterns and books)
37 Conversation Rules for Gentlemen from 1875 (from the 1875 book A Gentleman’s Guide to Etiquette)
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society" pub. 1860, gutenberg
Huge list of links for writing Victorian England/ACD Holmes fic
What Sherlock Holmes Would Have Eaten for Christmas Dinner
Society for Photographing Relics of Old London 112 photographs taken of "Old" London between 1875-1886 (article about it)
"How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era" - tumblr post with information on society, culture, dress and accent (must be logged into tumblr to read)
Victorian Era Mini-Masterpost focusing on links providing information on multicultural (race and religion) aspects of Victorian London
Domestic Medicine and Surgery in Victorian England (the treating of various injuries and wounds, from Cassells Household Guide published 1880, wayback machine link for when site won't connect)
Collection of links on Victorian England
Housebreakers and Burglars of Victorian London (tools and techniques)
Victorian Etiquette, Manners and Morals (as published in "The Girls' Own Paper" 1880-1883, wayback machine link)
Of Carriages and Kings by Frederick Gorst - autobiography of a Victorian footman (archive.org scanned book)
Victorian & Edwardian Services (Houses) 1850-1914 (houses of the different classes, wayback machine link)
Housebreakers and Burglars of Victorian London
Homestead History, The American Frontier numerous PBS articles compiled for their 'Frontier House' series
Mountaineer Coffee coffee and its preparation in the late 1700-mid 1800s when away from cities and town
Townsends' video series on the American Frontier - a range of topics from making a canoe to using a flintlock to cooking over a fire and more (18th and 19th century information)
Photo collections of the American "Old West" at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, which has numerous photo collections like The Baker and Johnston Photographic Studio (many Shoshone, Arapahoe, and Apache studio photos) and Lora Webb Nichols' photos (24k of photos from rural WY from late 1800s-1950s) and more
1818 to 1890s Bicycle Models - article with video of the 1915 B&W silent documentary mostly demonstrating the old bicycles,the Dutch title cards in Dutch are translated in the article. The article also has the 1937 newsreel "Birth of the Bike"
The 1900s: a social history of everyday life website detailing life in the UK from late Victorian era through mid 20th C, detailing housing, jobs, money, shops, transportation, and more.
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898 to 1906 short films available for streaming by the Library of Congress
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
20th century:
The ship captain's medical guide A book "intended solely for the use of those who are unable to call in medical assistance" 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org) (22nd ed, 2014 PDF via the wayback machine for comparison)
Every Woman's Encyclopaedia 8 volume set compiled in 1910, originally a bi-weekly periodical, published to provide the modern Edwardian British woman everything she might want to read. Topics include first aid, keeping house, biographies on famous women, information on life in the colonies, the art of entertaining and much, much more (archive.org link)
Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code, 15th ed, published 1915 ("General Manual of the Criminal Law" by the man who founded Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department)
International Encyclopedia of the First World War
WWI Military and Naval Service Kit, Burberry’s Catalogue for Officers (British Empire, wayback machine link)
Collection of links on the 1920's (in general), 30's (NYC-centric) and 1930's in the UK, and 40's (in general)
Breakdown of living expenses in 1936 Brooklyn and, particularly of interest for the Captain America fandom, the multipart, how to Brooklyn guide, a collection of meta about Brooklyn in the 30s and 40s ranging from housing to LGBTQ history and more. Also check outhistoricallyaccuratesteve especially the Steve Rogers at Home tag (blog is no longer being updated, must be logged into tumblr to access) and steve-rogers-new-york, who has now compiled a lot of their 1920s-40s history and cultural information posts in this AO3 collection and also posts scans from booklets and newspapers and more (ranging from recipes to household hints to slang terms to sex-ed brochures) in their research tag.
Welcome to 1940s New York - photos, maps, statistics, and a brief narrative for 116 survey areas based on the 1940 Census and a market analysis published in 1943 by four local newspapers.
Prices of a family budget of staple foods, fuel and lighting, and rent, for 60 cities in Canada, 1920, 1926, and 1928 to 1936
The NYC Space/Time Directory's Maps by Decade - as of Oct 2024 site was still accessible but archived, it is now also available at github (article about the directory)
The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue, 1939-40 (a department store/cooperative society serving the British Empire, wayback machine link)
Research into condoms and their usage during WWII (US focused, but historical info)
WWII Propaganda Poster Collection - over 800 American, German, and Russian World War II propaganda posters.
Duke University's Ad*Access- Digital Repository of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955
Retrowaste - Website whose "sole purpose is to provide the best online experience for learning about vintage culture." Broken down by decades (20s-90s) and US based provides basic info as well as highlights sports, cars, fashion, music, etc for each decade.
Royal Military Police instruction video on how to go from West Germany to West Berlin
Early Automobile Industry Trade Catalogs (1903 - 1916)
Collection of photos from Taishō era Japan (260 b&w photos, taken between 1914-1918)
The subreddit r/TheWayWeWere contains randomly submitted old photos of everyday people that are 40 years or older for a look at everyday people's fashions etc, can be filtered by decade.
LGBTQA history:
The LGBTQ+ Archive "Throughout history, attempts to erase LGBTQ+ lives have often started with the destruction of information about them....This site is an independent effort to preserve and make accessible the critical information and resources for LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety originally hosted on now-defunct federal websites."
Digital Transgender History Archive
Lesbian Historic Motif Project (LHMP) - An annotated bibliography blogging project that looks at published research of interest to writing historic lesbian characters. (Many, many resources linked here)
"LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History" from the US National Park Service (introduction with links to each chapter in the series, wayback machine link)
Sourcebook of Homosexuality in England in the 17th and 18th centuries and the 19th century - Transcribed primary sources including newspaper reports, trial documents, letters and more
Friendships, Lesbianism and Identity In Victorian Britian (short article) and one of its sources, Anne Lister’s Construction of Lesbian Identity (pdf, a jstor article by Anna Clark)
"The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment" article about the "transvestite pass" that was issued in Germany from 1909-1933
Russian Gay Culture numerous resources compiled by Middlebury University
The ArQuives Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages? part of the "Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages" series
Queer Asgard Folk part of the "Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages" series
"I Could Spend All Day Looking at the Covers of These LGBTQ Publications" by Catherine Halley (JSTOR article with link to JSTOR's Reveal Digital's Independent Voices LGBTQ series)
NY Public Library's Gay and Lesbian History Digital Collection
The GLBT Historical Society museum and online archive
The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA) Various collections available online from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Re‐examining our roots: Queer history and anatomy by Theodore C. Smith (15 page article from The Anatomical Record, PDF)
The ACT UP Oral History Project an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP (ACT UP is "a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis" founded in 1987)
The Lesbian Herstory Archives (its "mission is to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives.")
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory - "a digital history hub for the research and study of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans oral histories." (Contains links to some of the above archives as well as others)
History of Sexuality - "a freely-available, peer-reviewed, and open-source resource by sex educators, historians, and librarians active in sexuality fields, and it aims to fill a often-overlooked need for the historical representation of LGBTQ+ identity"
Anything That Moves Online Archive (scanned copies of Anything that Moves, a bisexual magazine that ran from 1990-2002, available to read online)
QZAP -The Queer Zine Archive Project "launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities."
Medical information from various points in history: (some also linked in appropriate era's sections)
History of Medicine Timeline and a second one
The Medical Heritage Library "a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries.. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive."
History of Blood Banking and Bloodletting (wayback machine link)
Phisick Medical Antiques - "Phisick illustrates a history of medicine through a selection of antique instruments used over the years by doctors, physicians, barber surgeons, dentists, apothecaries and their patients." (wayback machine link)
Early history of wound treatment (pdf of article from the Royal Society of Medicine Press)
Medicine in the Middle Ages theories, treatments and links for more information
Journal article Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe (fairly academic, but interesting)
Domestic Medicine by William Buchan, 2nd ed, published 1785 (transcribed)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book)
The ship captain's medical guide A book "intended solely for the use of those who are unable to call in medical assistance" 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org)
US NIH National Library of Medicine's digital collections - searchable by publication range (including over 40 pre-1600 books, although the vast majority are in later ranges like 20k from 1850-1899), subject, type of work and more all in the public domain and available either to read online or download in various formats. Including:
Treasure of poor men, a good booke of medecines (1565)
A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery (1746)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book- full of data but very dense)
"A text-book of nursing": 1893 version and 1897 version by Clara Weeks-Shaw (read online or DL various versions)
Gunn's domestic medicine (1835)
The Lancet (archive.org copies, 1823-2014)
A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820) (article and scanned book)
Money, historical currency and purchasing power:
University of Missouri's Prices and Wages by Decade libguide - provides links text primary sources showing retail prices for common items or "necessities of life" (like cost of groceries, rents, gasoline, various fares, etc) at different times from 1600's to today (generally US focused, but an amazing resource)
Historical Currency Converter - "How much could 10 french franc in 1898 buy in today's rupees? What was the worth of 1 billion German mark in 1923 or 1000 Polish zloty in 1980? Was an annual wage of 25 pounds per year in 1780 much compared to the wage rates at the time? To answer these questions the Historical Currency Converter uses a short-cut, by comparing the worth of various sums in various currencies in their purchasing power of Swedish consumer goods and the pay of workers in Sweden. Provided a country's purchasing power parity does not change much compared to Sweden, this should give a reasonable accounts of the worth of money over time also for other countries."
Currency Converter: 1270 – 2017 "Calculate purchasing power. Try our online currency converter and find out how many animals, stones of wool and quarters of wheat you can buy, and how much you could earn." (from the UK National Archives)
Bank of England's Inflation calculator (1209-today)
Historical Currency Conversions (US and British currencies, past and present)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Inflation Calculator (US dollar inflation calculator, 1913-today)
U.S. Inflation Calculator "measuring the dollar's purchasing power over time." (not only a calculator but also provide a look at inflation on various things like food, gas, health care, college costs, etc)
The following categories that used to be found in this post can now be found in Randomness Part One resource post: Newspaper Archive sites, Magazine Archives, Historical catalogues and catalogue collections, Dime Novels, Penny Dreadfuls, and Other Fiction Collections, Collections of runs from specific magazines/pulps, and Vintage Recorded Music/Radio Theater.
Food Specific:
The Sifter "Search the world of food" - a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks. (article about it)
NYPL's Menu Collection - 45k menus dating from the 1840s to the present, transcribed and searchable; also The Buttolph collection of menus (menus from 1850-1970s; article about collection)
Medieval Recipes
The Food Timeline
Gode Cookery - site "dedicated to the food & feasts of the Middle Ages & Renaissance." (recipes, images and more)
"Primitive cookery; or the kitchen garden display'd" Vegetarian cookbook published 1767 (googlebooks)
McCormick Science Institute's history of spices
What America Ate - an interactive website and online archive about food in the Great Depression
Michigan State University's Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project - a digital archive includes of 76 cookbooks American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century
Project Gutenberg is also a great resource, here are all 'cooking' books, sorted by category.
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer Merritt, originally published in 1896 and considered one of the first 'modern' cookbooks with exacting measurements etc. Also contains household hints and advice as well as full suggested menus (read online or download)
mid*century*menu a website dedicated to testing out recipes and cookbooks from the 40s-70s
The Bartender's Association of NYC's Official Handbook and Guide Recipe guide for cocktails and mixed drinks, published 1895 (scanned book)
Historically Themed or Archival Focused Youtube channels:
Pario Gallico channel run by an Experiential Archaeology & Living History company, mostly focusing on the Iron Age
Sally Pointer a heritage educator and archaeologist, her channel is filled with videos demonstrating how to make various things using methods of different ages (ranging from Neolithic to middle ages) like cordage and baskets and weaving and whatnot.
Two playlists from the Hull and East Riding Museum of medieval craft demonstrations and more detailed leatherwork and spinning demonstrations
RAMUNI - Viking Crafts and Reenactment youtube channel, Viking crafts, clothing, lifestyle info and more
English Heritage - The Victorian Way by Audley End House and Gardens, various videos on how to prepare food on an estate in the Victorian Era as well as other things like laundry
English Heritage's History Inspired Makeup Tutorials
CrowsEyeProductions' youtube channel is a great resource for short videos on historical clothing, fashion and more including an entire playlist on how various people of different social standings got dressed in different periods.
Silvousplaits hairstyles videos on how to recreate historical and fandom specific hairstyles including a 'Real Historical Hairstyles' playlist with links in the notes for sources
Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown numerous playlists for 17th century American/English life including clothing, cooking, housing, guns and weaponry, and more
18th Century (American) Life by Jon Townsend - cooking and life in general historical recreation videos (playlists include historic laundry, writing, building cabins/canoes/etc, cooking and much more)
PriorAttire a YouTube channel that covers fashion from the 12th century onwards, including getting dressed and showing how many layers and undergarments were needed to create the various looks.
glamourdaze numerous playlists (1920s, 30s, 40s, 50, 60s fashion) also make up and general women focused short slice of life vintage films from around the world.
Guy Jones' youtube channel - Collection of numerous street scenes, public events, parades and more ranging from 1880s-1960s from all over the world. Also speeches and music from turn of century. (youtube removed the channel (March 2024) due to copyright issues, some videos have been uploaded to the internet archive here)
BBC Archive "Hop aboard an audiovisual time machine, that will transport you back to the golden age of TV." (playlists include things like retro tech and gaming, fashion, newsreels, the making of..., etc)
British Pathé "considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance."
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia highlights of their collection from 1913-today
Charlie Dean Archives tons of archival videos from places like BBC, NASA, etc
Clothing and hygiene (historical):
The Portrait Timeline Portraits and paintings from around the world searchable by historical eras or keywords.
NationalClothing.Org "read about various national clothing articles, the history of traditional dress and modern life of vintage pieces of clothes, the characteristics and traditional features of specific national costumes, and among other topics." (wayback machine link)
How to wear a toga (youtube video from University of Leicester)
How to tie a subligaculum (wrapped loincloth worn in Roman times)
Underwear in the Middle Ages
Video - Can You Move In Armour? a video recreating the deeds of the famous knight Jean le Maingre, known as Boucicaut, which were put in writing in the early 15th century. (and article with more info)
Armour references- style broken down by era, diagram breaking down the various pieces and how to wear it (gif of someone putting on the various pieces) and a useful and huge info post on armor
Armor Tutorials and References
Traditional Chinese and Byzantine armour components A brief introduction and analysis
Ming, Qing and Japanese armour components A brief introduction and analysis
Clothes of the Ming Dynasty Created specifically for The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty but very good for general overview of clothes for the general era (AO3 work)
Renaissance Clothing- lots about what was worn and why (The meaning behind Renaissance/medieval clothing colors is very interesting)
History of Laundry
Laundry in the 18th Century (4 video playlist); combined into a single video
History of Hygiene Timeline
Museum of Menstruation - collection of links about menstruation throughout history and the world
Soaps & Detergent, a History (timeline, chemistry, safety, etc)
History of Hygiene: Bathing, Teeth Cleaning, Toileting, & Deodorizing
Viking Clothing (what was worn and how it was made)
Evolution of Chinese Clothing and Cheongsam
Elizabethan Costuming Page hundreds of articles about 15th century clothing and costuming (in England and elsewhere)
Getting Dressed | Historical Clothing in the 17th Century Series youtube playlist of clothing, textiles, and their creation in the American Colonies
Regency Era clothing (and how it compared to that of similar eras)
The mirror of the graces, or, the English lady's costume 1811 book on women's fashion (scanned copy)
A Primer on Regency Era women's fashion and men's fashion as well as 7 ways to tie a cravat (and how to make one)
Hair washing and care in the the 19th century
Article on the history of gendered restrooms and the salons attached sometimes
Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (sfw 1 min film of a woman undressing from 1896, giving a good idea of the various layers women used to have to wear)
A Day at the Beach - c.1899 3 minute film of Étretat and Le Tréport in Normandy France
"A Sh*tty Guide to 18th Century Underwear" a tumblr infographic/tutorial (women's undergarments)
How did Victorian women go to toilet? (youtube video- excellent demonstrations)
The Symington Fashion Collection 130 images of extant corsets and other historical women's undergarments (The Leicestershire County Council also has over 100 corset patterns here)
A Victorian Fancy Dress Ball: Popular Costumes of the Late 19th Century some of these have to be seen to be believed (wayback machine link)
Timeline of Women's Fashion - infographic, 1794-1970
19th Century Fashion Infographics of men's and women's dress, undergarments, hats, etc
Digital Collections of Extant Costumes - a directory listing online collections of extant (ie surviving) historical costume, generally in museums (in numerous different countries covered lots of different eras.)
The Cut of Men's Clothes, 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh (pdf, site currently down, available on the wayback machine here or also here)
When Men Had Too Many Pockets (Youtube video delving into how overly pocketed Victorian men's clothing was)
Corsets and Crinolines "the changing shapes of women’s dress from the 1500s to the 1920s" (pdf)
Video of modern recreation of a woman getting dressed in a 'Walking outfit for the 1900s' showing all the layers involved.
iWareBatik site (also an app) that has info on identifying Batik textiles, philosophical values behind the motif, its place of origin, useful information about local producers and more
Tirazain- a digital archive and library with the aim to document and preserve Palestinian embroidery.
Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank "The RSN Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times."
Stitch Picture's Embroidery Stitch Picture Dictionary documenting hundreds of stitches
Antique Pattern Library "This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain, to preserve them... They are available, for free, to anyone who wants them, for educational, personal, artistic and other creative uses."
The Quilt Index "an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world."
The UNT Texas Fashion Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Costume and Textiles Pattern Collection
Vogue Pattern Book 1949-1955
HatHistorian "A small channel dedicated to short histories of various hats"
Clothing (general or modern):
Vintage Dancer "When you need to find vintage style clothing…. When you need to learn fashion history…. When you need costume help…. VintageDancer is the answer!" (Victorian era clothing through 1990's)
We Wear Culture- Google and museums/schools/etc collaboration creating a searchable archive of some 30,000 fashion pieces that puts "three millennia of fashion at your fingertips"
OSF Costume Rentals A costume rental website several different decades of clothing from medieval to the 1980s
Glamourdaze - "A vintage fashion and beauty archive" (from 1900-1960 only, but lots of info)
Tie-a-tie not only how to tie various ties, but dress codes guides and accessories
How To Tie a Necktie into a Bow Tie (video)
High-Heels guide - 25 common types
Hosiery terms (wayback machine link)
Scanned copy of a 1982 Victoria’s Secret catalog (via the wayback machine)
Image of dress silhouettes illustrating different sleeves, necklines, collars, and dress types (full tumblr post)
Women's Blouse Collars 1940s-50s
A Visual Dictionary to Women's Tops (Infographic, wayback machine link)
The Ultimate Sleeves Fashion Vocabulary infographic and Collars infographic (women's clothing)
The Ultimate Collars and Cuffs Fashion Vocabulary infographic (men's)
How To Gatsby: Overview For Gentlemen infographics and information on hats, suits, shoes etc (wayback machine link)
The Discerning Gentleman's Guide to Shoes
An infographic guide to suits and menswear
Classic black tie dress code infographic
Black Tie Guide "The Ultimate Resource for all things Tuxedo, Black Tie & Formal Evening Wear" (articles ranging from its origins during the regency era to today, etiquette, white tie, mourning wear, etc, etc, etc)
How to Dress Your Man/Character: An Informal Tutorial Heavy on the PicSpam
Various infographs on men's suits- here (with shoe information as well) and here (ensuring a proper fit, matching colors, collars and more)
Men's hats (focused on US/Europe, mostly 1920s-40s)
Essential men’s boots guide (infographic, wayback machine link)
Women's Coats: A Visual Guide (infographic, wayback machine link)
A Visual Fashion Guide For Women - Necklines, Skirts, Bras, Blazers, Collars, Shorts and Heels (set of infographics)
Vintage Sewing Pattern Wiki- over 80k of patterns, searchable by decade, season, garment, brand, etc
CoPA- Commercial Pattern Archive - over 55,000 scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from 61,000 commercially produced patterns, dating back to 1847.
FreeSewing "FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike." Pick a design, add measurements, customize your pattern.
University of Kentucky's 10 page DIY clothing repair guide (pdf)
Set of infographics on applying makeup (wayback machine link)
Post focusing on eyeshadow
Cosmetics and Skin -"Stories from the history and science of cosmetics, skin-care and early Beauty Culture."
UKhairdressers Style Gallery - a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles (site is gone but somewhat backed up by the wayback machine)
Hair and Makeup Artist Handbook - articles broken into era/period under the 'period hair & makeup ' tab range from 1600s-1980s
fashioninfographics "a comprehensive blog/archive of infographics decoding fashion for both women and men" (no longer updated)
omgthatdress - "A blog for fashion and history." (easily searchable tags to see different outfits from different eras)
Research and Resource Collected Links Masterpost
Clothes on Film- a fascinating website with articles detailing what many movies get right (and wrong) about how they clothe their characters, and often why decisions were made the way they were. (The articles {beginning here} on the Richie Holmes movies, for example, are very interesting reads.)
Tyranny of Style - "A closer look at costume design and the language of clothing." (Interesting read with interesting articles about costume design choices for tv/movies like this one about CA:TWS)
BAMF Style - "break down how these cinema badasses carried themselves so that you too can"
Frock Flicks another costume reviews site
A similar website is Frocktalk, now defunct, but available via the wayback machine. The person who ran the site also did a great TED talk on the subject.
Virtual History - "Film history of the 20th century in the virtual world" stills, posters, links to info (articles and books), and basic information about thousands of movies, actors, directors and writers (in not just Hollywood, but worldwide)
Internet Movie Firearms Database - Firearms and other weapons as seen in movies, tv shows, anime, etc- great for researching who was using weapon and when
Internet Movie Cars Database- Cars, motorcycle and other motor vehicle appearances in films and tv shows
Internet Game Cars Database - a comprehensive list of vehicles seen in video games
Internet Broadway Database - All sorts of info on different broadway shows/cast/etc
The Big Cartoon Database - Info on everything animated: cartoons, films, television shows, adverts, and more
League of Comic Geeks "Discover comics from DC, Marvel, Image, IDW, and many more our comic book database. "
CBDB, The Comic book Database "Welcome to CBDB: The most detailed comic book resource on the net!"
Grand Comics Database - "The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building an open database covering all printed comics throughout the world."
The Internet Movie Plane Database- Airplane in movies, tv shows and video games
The Internet Movie Script Database - While scripts can be radically different than the final movie that aired, it can still be a really good resource.
The Daily Script Movie and television scripts and screenplay collection, again may not be the version that actually aired
Springfield!Springfield! a database of thousands of TV show episode scripts and movie scripts
TVShowTranscripts - another tv show episode transcript site
Subtitles Like Scripts - movie and tv transcripts
Scraps From the Loft - movie, tv, stand up comedy transcripts and more
Forever Dreaming select tv and movie transcripts
The BBC TV, radio and film script library
Techstuff - Behind the Jargon of the Film Industry (podcast episode, a look at the tech and terminology of film sets)
Jill Bearup throws Tom Scott through a window excellent look at how a fight scene is staged and everything that goes into making it look real while also being safe (archive.org video link)
Lost Media Wiki - "a community effort to track down lost or hard-to-find media!"
10 popular tones used in voice acting (short clip of a voice actor demonstrating different tones and explaining when they are used, originally on tiktok here)
Historical/Cultural/Religious/whatnot research links (history/culture/era/etiquette/etc):
Specific era language, slang, and terminology links can be found in the Words resource post.
Historic map collection links can be found in the Randomness Part One resource post.
General history/Non-timeframe specific:
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Digital Collections numerous art and history books, subjects spanning history and the world
UNESCO's General History of Africa - 9 volumes, available online as PDFs, going from the ancient civilizations through colonialism to modern day (information is very, very dense and dry though)
The Age of Borders - when current borders were defined (from this reddit post)
Fordham University's Sourcebooks - Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Internet Modern History Sourcebook, etc (others include African, Byzantium, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian and Gay, Science, and Women's)
Native Languages of the Americas resource site
Museum of disABILITY's virtual museum an exhibit "dedicated to advancing the understanding, acceptance and independence of people with disabilities." (wayback machine link)
The British Library's Digitized Collections - numerous collections ranging from historical maps, manuscripts (including Beowulf, Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook and much, much more), sound recordings, etc (currently only partially available after a cyber attack)
British History Online "a collection of nearly 1300 volumes of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world."
Black Cultural Archives "the home of Black British History"
Historical Locks - a delve into the history of locks, keys, padlocks, safes, what existed in what era and area, and the technology and folklore of it all.
Lighting things in pre-electric times thoughts and techniques (tumblr post with information and numerous period techniques)
Ancient and Historical Measurements Converters convert ancient and historical weights, lengths, volumes, units of area to modern or contemporary ones.
Historical Chinese Clothing (and more) Resources a masterpost of 400+ links on historical Chinese Clothing (plus accessories, armor, weapons, music, relationship terms, naming resources and much, much more)
Clothing, How Did They Make It? (the first in a wonderfully detailed four part series on the history of pre-modern textile production, the production of the fiber, cleaning, spinning, weaving, and dying, and its trade)
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library- Centuries of handwritten heritage preserved and available for all (thousands of religious {Eastern Christian, Islamic, Buddist, Hindu, etc} manuscripts as well as generally historical handwritten and early printed works)
Vatican Library Digital Collection providin "free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects)."
Digital Bodleian "Discover over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries."
Who Was Alive choose a year and see who was alive then and how old they were with links to each person's wikipedia page
"Ancient" times through Middle Ages (ish):
Livius - website with thousands of articles on ancient history
Perseus Digital Library - Digital library of ancient Greek and Latin texts, as well as a depository of images of ancient art
The Greek Age of Bronze "Weapons and warfare in the late Helladic time 1600-1100 BC" (also information on the Trojan War and the Sea Peoples)
Global Medieval Sourcebook - A Digital Repository of Medieval Texts "The Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is an open access teaching and research tool...spanning one thousand years (600-1600) of literary production around the world." (All transcriptions, translations, and commentaries have been "produced and reviewed by scholars of medieval studies")
Hull Domesday Project an overview and exploration of the Domesday Inquest, Great Domesday, and the purpose, structure, and terminology of Domesday Book, with references for further study.
Open Domesday providing both the Domesday Book mapped and also the original folios
Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters - collection (in original Latin and English translations) of medieval Latin letters to and from women who lives from the 4th-13th centuries, biographical information of each woman included.
Anglo-Saxon Names (compiled from Bede's A History of the English Church and People, completed 731 CE)
A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land, 1095-1149 Database of men and women who took part in the crusades after the Council of Clermont (1095) through the end of the Second Crusade (1149), including identities, social status, titles, geographical origins, finance, family relationships and affiliations to crusade leaders.
Carleton College's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Primary Sources PDF collection - translated primary documents on late antique, medieval, Byzantine and Renaissance history
University of Leeds' Medieval History Texts in Translation PDFs of translations of documents from and regarding Italy, Sicily, England, Germany, Spain and the Crusades, dates ranging from 1035-1288
Medieval Scotland "This is a collection of articles and resources aimed at anyone interested in Scotland between A.D. 500 and 1603, from about when the King of Dál Riata moved from Ireland to Argyll to when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne."
Learn to read medieval Latin documents
Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia "an attempt to catalogue all possible elements of Celtic culture, from its origins in central Europe in the Bronze Age, through the 21st century."
The Celtic Literature Collective "an attempt to collect as many possible early and medieval texts produced in the "Celtic" countries, or on Celtic themes"
Medieval Murder Maps "The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight into violence, and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford."
Wiktenauer collection of primary and secondary source literature that makes up the text of historical European martial arts (HEMA) research
Middle Ages for Kids aimed at children, but a wealth of information on the middle ages ranging from clothing to weapons to food and more
Medicine in the Middle Ages theories, treatments and links for more information
Journal article Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe (fairly academic, but interesting)
Medieval Life and Times - huge resource site with sections dedicated to art, castles, clothing, food, music, weapons and much, much more
MEDIEVAL MISCONCEPTIONS: torches and candles - lighting in medieval times (video)
An article on Medieval pet names
Medieval WorldBuilding Mega-Tutorial (includes info about armies, and many other details)
Sleep in the Middle Ages
Medieval writing resource post (including links to posts about clergy, nobility, common medieval jobs, divination, mythical creatures, structuring an army, medieval punishments, armor, siege warfare, castle anatomy, clothing, common terms of medieval life and more)
Castle Glossary
Medieval military tactics regarding right-handedness
Map of Medieval Trade Routes - (post with some information, zoomable map itself here)
King Henry III Fine Rolls Project Transcription of fines recorded 1216–1272. Lists of male names and female names (and a few more female names) recorded and their frequency (wayback machine links)
England’s Immigrants Database (1330-1550) - fully-searchable database with over 64k names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
Names of Jews in Medieval Navarre (13th–14th centuries) delves into naming rituals as well (pdf)
Islam’s Medieval Underworld
Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe "explores what medieval texts have to say about disability" (available as a free PDF, also available here)
Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis- high-resolution images of more than 160,000 pages of European medieval and early modern codices available for downloading by the page, manuscript, or collection.
Harvard Library's Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Material Features project tutorials and detailed information on bindings, pages, content, and decoration, and links to digitized manuscripts with those features.
A Dictionary of the First or Oldest Words in the English Language: from the semi-Saxon period of A.D. 1250 to 1300. Consisting of an alphabetical inventory of every word found in the printed English literature of the 13th century (full title, published 1862, on gutenberg here or scanned on archive.org here)
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
16th-18th century:
The English Physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. by Nicholas Culpeper, published 1652 (archive.org link or a pdf version)
The Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald, published 1769 (archive.org link)
The Country Housewife’s Family Companion by William Ellis, published 1750 (archive.org link) full title: "The country housewife's family companion: or profitable directions for whatever relates to the management and good economy of the domestic concerns of a country life. According to the present practice of the country gentleman's, the yeoman's, the farmer's, &c., wives, in the counties of Hertford, Bucks, and other parts of England: shewing how great savings may be made in housekeeping"
Domestic Medicine by William Buchan, 2nd ed, published 1785 (transcribed)
Huge list of links for writing about Pirates and a second one
Information on flying false flags (by pirates or in war)
Roles on a Pirate Ship (wayback machine link)
The Canadian Privateering Homepage includes a Canadian Privateer Ship List and names of privateers, a logbook of a 1799 journey and more (wayback machine link)
London Lives - "a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners" (240k+ manuscript/printed pages from eight London archives, data contains records from 1680-1820 and beyond)
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - searchable archive of the almost 200K criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Huge resource compilation of information about Great Britain's Royal Navy from the 1790s to post WWI (including vessels, medicine, history, manning, leave, punishment, the slave trade, pay scales and much more)
Lighting Then VS Now: Fire Before Electricity (video, lots of general information about lighting and the technology for it in the 18th century as well as laws about it in England and the American colonies)
Common American houses before the second Industrial Revolution (where they were built, what they looked like and how they were laid out)
North American Architecture of the 18th Century
Coinage found in the 17th and 18th century (video, focus on the American colonies)
The History of Money in America (video, focus on early colonial period)
Working with Horn : making a comb with one method and a spoon with another - horn, "the plastic of history" (videos with techniques for carving horn)
All Things Georgian "Writing about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era" (1714-1830s)
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
19th century:
Dickinsons' comprehensive pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851 A pictorial record of London's Great Exhibition
English Heritage's video series- Audley End- The Victorian Way Living history look at a Victorian manor with everything from laundry to cooking and baking and much more
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management - published in 1861, a guide to all aspects of running a Victorian household, including recipes, dealing with servants, general health and more. (wayback machine link, or find gutenberg's download here)
Everyday life in 19th century Britain
a map of Dickens' London (wayback machine link)
1817 Map of London
500+ maps of 1893 and 1896 London stitched together by The National Library of Scotland (link to article about it, direct link here)
Pigot & Co's Metropolitan Guide & Book of reference to every street, court, lane, passage alley and public building, in the cities of London & Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and their respective suburbs. (published 1820s, scanned book)
Bacon's new large scale atlas of London and suburbs (atlas published 1900, scanned book)
Druggist's Manual, published 1826, "with Latin and English synonyms, a German, French, and Spanish catalogue of drugs, tables of specific gravities etc (archive.org scanned book)
The Home: Where It Should Be And What Should Be In It published 1873 (everything one needed to know for setting up a home including a price list in the back of what everything might cost, via archive.org)
The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs, published 1879 (via googlebooks)
The lady's guide to perfect gentility, in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc - Etiquette manual from 1857 (scanned pages, via library of congress)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book- full of data but very dense)
"A text-book of nursing": 1893 version and 1897 version by Clara Weeks-Shaw (read online or DL various versions)
Two scanned books on Floriography: 1825's Floral Emblems, or, A Guide to the language of flowers and 1857's The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems
History of Landscape Design – 19th Century Gardens & the Birth of the Public Park
Women's Handicraft in the 19th Century gallery - a digital collection "documenting 19th century American women's participation in household handicrafts." (magazines, patterns and books)
37 Conversation Rules for Gentlemen from 1875 (from the 1875 book A Gentleman’s Guide to Etiquette)
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society" pub. 1860, gutenberg
Huge list of links for writing Victorian England/ACD Holmes fic
What Sherlock Holmes Would Have Eaten for Christmas Dinner
Society for Photographing Relics of Old London 112 photographs taken of "Old" London between 1875-1886 (article about it)
"How to Roleplay in the Victorian Era" - tumblr post with information on society, culture, dress and accent (must be logged into tumblr to read)
Victorian Era Mini-Masterpost focusing on links providing information on multicultural (race and religion) aspects of Victorian London
Domestic Medicine and Surgery in Victorian England (the treating of various injuries and wounds, from Cassells Household Guide published 1880, wayback machine link for when site won't connect)
Collection of links on Victorian England
Housebreakers and Burglars of Victorian London (tools and techniques)
Victorian Etiquette, Manners and Morals (as published in "The Girls' Own Paper" 1880-1883, wayback machine link)
Of Carriages and Kings by Frederick Gorst - autobiography of a Victorian footman (archive.org scanned book)
Victorian & Edwardian Services (Houses) 1850-1914 (houses of the different classes, wayback machine link)
Housebreakers and Burglars of Victorian London
Homestead History, The American Frontier numerous PBS articles compiled for their 'Frontier House' series
Mountaineer Coffee coffee and its preparation in the late 1700-mid 1800s when away from cities and town
Townsends' video series on the American Frontier - a range of topics from making a canoe to using a flintlock to cooking over a fire and more (18th and 19th century information)
Photo collections of the American "Old West" at the University of Wyoming's American Heritage Center, which has numerous photo collections like The Baker and Johnston Photographic Studio (many Shoshone, Arapahoe, and Apache studio photos) and Lora Webb Nichols' photos (24k of photos from rural WY from late 1800s-1950s) and more
1818 to 1890s Bicycle Models - article with video of the 1915 B&W silent documentary mostly demonstrating the old bicycles,the Dutch title cards in Dutch are translated in the article. The article also has the 1937 newsreel "Birth of the Bike"
The 1900s: a social history of everyday life website detailing life in the UK from late Victorian era through mid 20th C, detailing housing, jobs, money, shops, transportation, and more.
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898 to 1906 short films available for streaming by the Library of Congress
(see below for compiled medical sources from all eras)
20th century:
The ship captain's medical guide A book "intended solely for the use of those who are unable to call in medical assistance" 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org) (22nd ed, 2014 PDF via the wayback machine for comparison)
Every Woman's Encyclopaedia 8 volume set compiled in 1910, originally a bi-weekly periodical, published to provide the modern Edwardian British woman everything she might want to read. Topics include first aid, keeping house, biographies on famous women, information on life in the colonies, the art of entertaining and much, much more (archive.org link)
Sir Howard Vincent's Police Code, 15th ed, published 1915 ("General Manual of the Criminal Law" by the man who founded Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department)
International Encyclopedia of the First World War
WWI Military and Naval Service Kit, Burberry’s Catalogue for Officers (British Empire, wayback machine link)
Collection of links on the 1920's (in general), 30's (NYC-centric) and 1930's in the UK, and 40's (in general)
Breakdown of living expenses in 1936 Brooklyn and, particularly of interest for the Captain America fandom, the multipart, how to Brooklyn guide, a collection of meta about Brooklyn in the 30s and 40s ranging from housing to LGBTQ history and more. Also check out
Welcome to 1940s New York - photos, maps, statistics, and a brief narrative for 116 survey areas based on the 1940 Census and a market analysis published in 1943 by four local newspapers.
Prices of a family budget of staple foods, fuel and lighting, and rent, for 60 cities in Canada, 1920, 1926, and 1928 to 1936
The NYC Space/Time Directory's Maps by Decade - as of Oct 2024 site was still accessible but archived, it is now also available at github (article about the directory)
The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue, 1939-40 (a department store/cooperative society serving the British Empire, wayback machine link)
Research into condoms and their usage during WWII (US focused, but historical info)
WWII Propaganda Poster Collection - over 800 American, German, and Russian World War II propaganda posters.
Duke University's Ad*Access- Digital Repository of over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955
Retrowaste - Website whose "sole purpose is to provide the best online experience for learning about vintage culture." Broken down by decades (20s-90s) and US based provides basic info as well as highlights sports, cars, fashion, music, etc for each decade.
Royal Military Police instruction video on how to go from West Germany to West Berlin
Early Automobile Industry Trade Catalogs (1903 - 1916)
Collection of photos from Taishō era Japan (260 b&w photos, taken between 1914-1918)
The subreddit r/TheWayWeWere contains randomly submitted old photos of everyday people that are 40 years or older for a look at everyday people's fashions etc, can be filtered by decade.
LGBTQA history:
The LGBTQ+ Archive "Throughout history, attempts to erase LGBTQ+ lives have often started with the destruction of information about them....This site is an independent effort to preserve and make accessible the critical information and resources for LGBTQ+ health, legal rights, and safety originally hosted on now-defunct federal websites."
Digital Transgender History Archive
Lesbian Historic Motif Project (LHMP) - An annotated bibliography blogging project that looks at published research of interest to writing historic lesbian characters. (Many, many resources linked here)
"LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History" from the US National Park Service (introduction with links to each chapter in the series, wayback machine link)
Sourcebook of Homosexuality in England in the 17th and 18th centuries and the 19th century - Transcribed primary sources including newspaper reports, trial documents, letters and more
Friendships, Lesbianism and Identity In Victorian Britian (short article) and one of its sources, Anne Lister’s Construction of Lesbian Identity (pdf, a jstor article by Anna Clark)
"The Early 20th-Century ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe From Harassment" article about the "transvestite pass" that was issued in Germany from 1909-1933
Russian Gay Culture numerous resources compiled by Middlebury University
The ArQuives Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives
Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages? part of the "Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages" series
Queer Asgard Folk part of the "Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages" series
"I Could Spend All Day Looking at the Covers of These LGBTQ Publications" by Catherine Halley (JSTOR article with link to JSTOR's Reveal Digital's Independent Voices LGBTQ series)
NY Public Library's Gay and Lesbian History Digital Collection
The GLBT Historical Society museum and online archive
The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA) Various collections available online from the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Re‐examining our roots: Queer history and anatomy by Theodore C. Smith (15 page article from The Anatomical Record, PDF)
The ACT UP Oral History Project an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP (ACT UP is "a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis" founded in 1987)
The Lesbian Herstory Archives (its "mission is to gather and preserve records of Lesbian lives and activities so that future generations will have ready access to materials relevant to their lives.")
The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory - "a digital history hub for the research and study of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans oral histories." (Contains links to some of the above archives as well as others)
History of Sexuality - "a freely-available, peer-reviewed, and open-source resource by sex educators, historians, and librarians active in sexuality fields, and it aims to fill a often-overlooked need for the historical representation of LGBTQ+ identity"
Anything That Moves Online Archive (scanned copies of Anything that Moves, a bisexual magazine that ran from 1990-2002, available to read online)
QZAP -The Queer Zine Archive Project "launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities."
Medical information from various points in history: (some also linked in appropriate era's sections)
History of Medicine Timeline and a second one
The Medical Heritage Library "a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries.. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive."
History of Blood Banking and Bloodletting (wayback machine link)
Phisick Medical Antiques - "Phisick illustrates a history of medicine through a selection of antique instruments used over the years by doctors, physicians, barber surgeons, dentists, apothecaries and their patients." (wayback machine link)
Early history of wound treatment (pdf of article from the Royal Society of Medicine Press)
Medicine in the Middle Ages theories, treatments and links for more information
Journal article Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe (fairly academic, but interesting)
Domestic Medicine by William Buchan, 2nd ed, published 1785 (transcribed)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book)
The ship captain's medical guide A book "intended solely for the use of those who are unable to call in medical assistance" 13th edition, 1901. (via archive.org)
US NIH National Library of Medicine's digital collections - searchable by publication range (including over 40 pre-1600 books, although the vast majority are in later ranges like 20k from 1850-1899), subject, type of work and more all in the public domain and available either to read online or download in various formats. Including:
Treasure of poor men, a good booke of medecines (1565)
A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick and surgery (1746)
The home book of health and medicine, published 1834, "being a popular treatise on the means of avoiding and curing diseases" (archive.org scanned book- full of data but very dense)
"A text-book of nursing": 1893 version and 1897 version by Clara Weeks-Shaw (read online or DL various versions)
Gunn's domestic medicine (1835)
The Lancet (archive.org copies, 1823-2014)
A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons (1820) (article and scanned book)
Money, historical currency and purchasing power:
University of Missouri's Prices and Wages by Decade libguide - provides links text primary sources showing retail prices for common items or "necessities of life" (like cost of groceries, rents, gasoline, various fares, etc) at different times from 1600's to today (generally US focused, but an amazing resource)
Historical Currency Converter - "How much could 10 french franc in 1898 buy in today's rupees? What was the worth of 1 billion German mark in 1923 or 1000 Polish zloty in 1980? Was an annual wage of 25 pounds per year in 1780 much compared to the wage rates at the time? To answer these questions the Historical Currency Converter uses a short-cut, by comparing the worth of various sums in various currencies in their purchasing power of Swedish consumer goods and the pay of workers in Sweden. Provided a country's purchasing power parity does not change much compared to Sweden, this should give a reasonable accounts of the worth of money over time also for other countries."
Currency Converter: 1270 – 2017 "Calculate purchasing power. Try our online currency converter and find out how many animals, stones of wool and quarters of wheat you can buy, and how much you could earn." (from the UK National Archives)
Bank of England's Inflation calculator (1209-today)
Historical Currency Conversions (US and British currencies, past and present)
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Inflation Calculator (US dollar inflation calculator, 1913-today)
U.S. Inflation Calculator "measuring the dollar's purchasing power over time." (not only a calculator but also provide a look at inflation on various things like food, gas, health care, college costs, etc)
The following categories that used to be found in this post can now be found in Randomness Part One resource post: Newspaper Archive sites, Magazine Archives, Historical catalogues and catalogue collections, Dime Novels, Penny Dreadfuls, and Other Fiction Collections, Collections of runs from specific magazines/pulps, and Vintage Recorded Music/Radio Theater.
Food Specific:
The Sifter "Search the world of food" - a multilingual database, currently 130,000-items strong, of the ingredients, techniques, authors, and section titles included in more than 5,000 European and U.S. cookbooks. (article about it)
NYPL's Menu Collection - 45k menus dating from the 1840s to the present, transcribed and searchable; also The Buttolph collection of menus (menus from 1850-1970s; article about collection)
Medieval Recipes
The Food Timeline
Gode Cookery - site "dedicated to the food & feasts of the Middle Ages & Renaissance." (recipes, images and more)
"Primitive cookery; or the kitchen garden display'd" Vegetarian cookbook published 1767 (googlebooks)
McCormick Science Institute's history of spices
What America Ate - an interactive website and online archive about food in the Great Depression
Michigan State University's Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project - a digital archive includes of 76 cookbooks American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century
Project Gutenberg is also a great resource, here are all 'cooking' books, sorted by category.
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Farmer Merritt, originally published in 1896 and considered one of the first 'modern' cookbooks with exacting measurements etc. Also contains household hints and advice as well as full suggested menus (read online or download)
mid*century*menu a website dedicated to testing out recipes and cookbooks from the 40s-70s
The Bartender's Association of NYC's Official Handbook and Guide Recipe guide for cocktails and mixed drinks, published 1895 (scanned book)
Historically Themed or Archival Focused Youtube channels:
Pario Gallico channel run by an Experiential Archaeology & Living History company, mostly focusing on the Iron Age
Sally Pointer a heritage educator and archaeologist, her channel is filled with videos demonstrating how to make various things using methods of different ages (ranging from Neolithic to middle ages) like cordage and baskets and weaving and whatnot.
Two playlists from the Hull and East Riding Museum of medieval craft demonstrations and more detailed leatherwork and spinning demonstrations
RAMUNI - Viking Crafts and Reenactment youtube channel, Viking crafts, clothing, lifestyle info and more
English Heritage - The Victorian Way by Audley End House and Gardens, various videos on how to prepare food on an estate in the Victorian Era as well as other things like laundry
English Heritage's History Inspired Makeup Tutorials
CrowsEyeProductions' youtube channel is a great resource for short videos on historical clothing, fashion and more including an entire playlist on how various people of different social standings got dressed in different periods.
Silvousplaits hairstyles videos on how to recreate historical and fandom specific hairstyles including a 'Real Historical Hairstyles' playlist with links in the notes for sources
Jamestown Settlement & American Revolution Museum at Yorktown numerous playlists for 17th century American/English life including clothing, cooking, housing, guns and weaponry, and more
18th Century (American) Life by Jon Townsend - cooking and life in general historical recreation videos (playlists include historic laundry, writing, building cabins/canoes/etc, cooking and much more)
PriorAttire a YouTube channel that covers fashion from the 12th century onwards, including getting dressed and showing how many layers and undergarments were needed to create the various looks.
glamourdaze numerous playlists (1920s, 30s, 40s, 50, 60s fashion) also make up and general women focused short slice of life vintage films from around the world.
Guy Jones' youtube channel - Collection of numerous street scenes, public events, parades and more ranging from 1880s-1960s from all over the world. Also speeches and music from turn of century. (youtube removed the channel (March 2024) due to copyright issues, some videos have been uploaded to the internet archive here)
BBC Archive "Hop aboard an audiovisual time machine, that will transport you back to the golden age of TV." (playlists include things like retro tech and gaming, fashion, newsreels, the making of..., etc)
British Pathé "considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance."
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia highlights of their collection from 1913-today
Charlie Dean Archives tons of archival videos from places like BBC, NASA, etc
Clothing and hygiene (historical):
The Portrait Timeline Portraits and paintings from around the world searchable by historical eras or keywords.
NationalClothing.Org "read about various national clothing articles, the history of traditional dress and modern life of vintage pieces of clothes, the characteristics and traditional features of specific national costumes, and among other topics." (wayback machine link)
How to wear a toga (youtube video from University of Leicester)
How to tie a subligaculum (wrapped loincloth worn in Roman times)
Underwear in the Middle Ages
Video - Can You Move In Armour? a video recreating the deeds of the famous knight Jean le Maingre, known as Boucicaut, which were put in writing in the early 15th century. (and article with more info)
Armour references- style broken down by era, diagram breaking down the various pieces and how to wear it (gif of someone putting on the various pieces) and a useful and huge info post on armor
Armor Tutorials and References
Traditional Chinese and Byzantine armour components A brief introduction and analysis
Ming, Qing and Japanese armour components A brief introduction and analysis
Clothes of the Ming Dynasty Created specifically for The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty but very good for general overview of clothes for the general era (AO3 work)
Renaissance Clothing- lots about what was worn and why (The meaning behind Renaissance/medieval clothing colors is very interesting)
History of Laundry
Laundry in the 18th Century (4 video playlist); combined into a single video
History of Hygiene Timeline
Museum of Menstruation - collection of links about menstruation throughout history and the world
Soaps & Detergent, a History (timeline, chemistry, safety, etc)
History of Hygiene: Bathing, Teeth Cleaning, Toileting, & Deodorizing
Viking Clothing (what was worn and how it was made)
Evolution of Chinese Clothing and Cheongsam
Elizabethan Costuming Page hundreds of articles about 15th century clothing and costuming (in England and elsewhere)
Getting Dressed | Historical Clothing in the 17th Century Series youtube playlist of clothing, textiles, and their creation in the American Colonies
Regency Era clothing (and how it compared to that of similar eras)
The mirror of the graces, or, the English lady's costume 1811 book on women's fashion (scanned copy)
A Primer on Regency Era women's fashion and men's fashion as well as 7 ways to tie a cravat (and how to make one)
Hair washing and care in the the 19th century
Article on the history of gendered restrooms and the salons attached sometimes
Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir (sfw 1 min film of a woman undressing from 1896, giving a good idea of the various layers women used to have to wear)
A Day at the Beach - c.1899 3 minute film of Étretat and Le Tréport in Normandy France
"A Sh*tty Guide to 18th Century Underwear" a tumblr infographic/tutorial (women's undergarments)
How did Victorian women go to toilet? (youtube video- excellent demonstrations)
The Symington Fashion Collection 130 images of extant corsets and other historical women's undergarments (The Leicestershire County Council also has over 100 corset patterns here)
A Victorian Fancy Dress Ball: Popular Costumes of the Late 19th Century some of these have to be seen to be believed (wayback machine link)
Timeline of Women's Fashion - infographic, 1794-1970
19th Century Fashion Infographics of men's and women's dress, undergarments, hats, etc
Digital Collections of Extant Costumes - a directory listing online collections of extant (ie surviving) historical costume, generally in museums (in numerous different countries covered lots of different eras.)
The Cut of Men's Clothes, 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh (pdf, site currently down, available on the wayback machine here or also here)
When Men Had Too Many Pockets (Youtube video delving into how overly pocketed Victorian men's clothing was)
Corsets and Crinolines "the changing shapes of women’s dress from the 1500s to the 1920s" (pdf)
Video of modern recreation of a woman getting dressed in a 'Walking outfit for the 1900s' showing all the layers involved.
iWareBatik site (also an app) that has info on identifying Batik textiles, philosophical values behind the motif, its place of origin, useful information about local producers and more
Tirazain- a digital archive and library with the aim to document and preserve Palestinian embroidery.
Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank "The RSN Stitch Bank aims to digitally conserve and showcase the wide variety of the world’s embroidery stitches and the ways in which they have been used in different cultures and times."
Stitch Picture's Embroidery Stitch Picture Dictionary documenting hundreds of stitches
Antique Pattern Library "This ongoing project is an effort to scan craft pattern publications that are in the public domain, to preserve them... They are available, for free, to anyone who wants them, for educational, personal, artistic and other creative uses."
The Quilt Index "an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world."
The UNT Texas Fashion Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Costume and Textiles Pattern Collection
Vogue Pattern Book 1949-1955
HatHistorian "A small channel dedicated to short histories of various hats"
Clothing (general or modern):
Vintage Dancer "When you need to find vintage style clothing…. When you need to learn fashion history…. When you need costume help…. VintageDancer is the answer!" (Victorian era clothing through 1990's)
We Wear Culture- Google and museums/schools/etc collaboration creating a searchable archive of some 30,000 fashion pieces that puts "three millennia of fashion at your fingertips"
OSF Costume Rentals A costume rental website several different decades of clothing from medieval to the 1980s
Glamourdaze - "A vintage fashion and beauty archive" (from 1900-1960 only, but lots of info)
Tie-a-tie not only how to tie various ties, but dress codes guides and accessories
How To Tie a Necktie into a Bow Tie (video)
High-Heels guide - 25 common types
Hosiery terms (wayback machine link)
Scanned copy of a 1982 Victoria’s Secret catalog (via the wayback machine)
Image of dress silhouettes illustrating different sleeves, necklines, collars, and dress types (full tumblr post)
Women's Blouse Collars 1940s-50s
A Visual Dictionary to Women's Tops (Infographic, wayback machine link)
The Ultimate Sleeves Fashion Vocabulary infographic and Collars infographic (women's clothing)
The Ultimate Collars and Cuffs Fashion Vocabulary infographic (men's)
How To Gatsby: Overview For Gentlemen infographics and information on hats, suits, shoes etc (wayback machine link)
The Discerning Gentleman's Guide to Shoes
An infographic guide to suits and menswear
Classic black tie dress code infographic
Black Tie Guide "The Ultimate Resource for all things Tuxedo, Black Tie & Formal Evening Wear" (articles ranging from its origins during the regency era to today, etiquette, white tie, mourning wear, etc, etc, etc)
How to Dress Your Man/Character: An Informal Tutorial Heavy on the PicSpam
Various infographs on men's suits- here (with shoe information as well) and here (ensuring a proper fit, matching colors, collars and more)
Men's hats (focused on US/Europe, mostly 1920s-40s)
Essential men’s boots guide (infographic, wayback machine link)
Women's Coats: A Visual Guide (infographic, wayback machine link)
A Visual Fashion Guide For Women - Necklines, Skirts, Bras, Blazers, Collars, Shorts and Heels (set of infographics)
Vintage Sewing Pattern Wiki- over 80k of patterns, searchable by decade, season, garment, brand, etc
CoPA- Commercial Pattern Archive - over 55,000 scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from 61,000 commercially produced patterns, dating back to 1847.
FreeSewing "FreeSewing is open source software to generate bespoke sewing patterns, loved by home sewers and fashion entrepreneurs alike." Pick a design, add measurements, customize your pattern.
University of Kentucky's 10 page DIY clothing repair guide (pdf)
Set of infographics on applying makeup (wayback machine link)
Post focusing on eyeshadow
Cosmetics and Skin -"Stories from the history and science of cosmetics, skin-care and early Beauty Culture."
UKhairdressers Style Gallery - a massive database full of high-quality images of different hairstyles (site is gone but somewhat backed up by the wayback machine)
Hair and Makeup Artist Handbook - articles broken into era/period under the 'period hair & makeup ' tab range from 1600s-1980s
Research and Resource Collected Links Masterpost