A place to share all my links I use when I do historical research. If you love all things old like me, take a peek. I will continue to add more. Feel free to send me an email (author@ramonaelmes.) with your favorite links and I will drop them here.
Measuring monetary worth calculator:
- Details: Compares the monetary value between years. (Inflation). Ex. What is the value of 10K pounds from 1876 today?
- https://www.measuringworth.com/…/ukco…/relativevalue.php
Wealth of the Land Gentry around 1880 to 1910:
- Details: How much did landowners pass on when they died between 1880 and 1910.
- https://www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/55_205Rothery.pdf
Wealth of business owners in the UK born in the 1840s:
- Details: How much did business owners born in 1840 make?
- https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Wealth_63703560-1d77-4f5a-b48d-d8a074014f67.pdf
Dowries in Regency England:
- Details: The cost of getting married. :O)
- https://byuprideandprejudice.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/married-to-money-dowries-in-victorian-england/
Victorian Photos of Locations Across the Globe:
- London: Victorian London in Color Photos: Bringing the Late 19th Century to Life – Rare Historical Photos
- Yokohama: Vintage Photos Reveal What Daily Life in Yokohama Looked Like Over 100 Years Ago (mymodernmet.com)
- Hong Kong: China | Collection of 70 photographs of Hong Kong and Canton, and 2 panoramas, circa. 1880s | Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History | 2021 | Sotheby’s (sothebys.com)
- Bombay: Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bombay, India (1890s) | MONOVISIONS – Black & White Photography Magazine
- Calcutta: Kolkata | MONOVISIONS – Black & White Photography Magazine
- New York: A Photographic Tour of the New York City in the 1880s (seeoldnyc.com)
- San Francisco: Old San Francisco Photos Turned Into Google Street View Map – Business Insider
Train Travel – Victorian/Regency Era:
- Routes: Rail Map online – UK & IE Railways
- Train Carriage Details: VICTORIAN TRAIN TRAVEL | A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England (visitvictorianengland.com)
- Train Carriage Details: Catching a Train in the Early Victorian Era – Susanna Ives | My Floating World
Titles
- Info on titles: THE NOBILITY, THEIR RANKS, THEIR EXCEPTIONS TO THEIR RULES (chantelgraysonbooks.com)
- Info on titles 2: English honorifics – Wikipedia
Cruises in the 1840s and 1850s
- Growth of Passengers ships from 1837 to now: Timeline: The World’s Biggest Passenger Ships from 1831-Present (visualcapitalist.com)
- 1881Map showing how long it took to travel across the globe from London: Res Obscura: Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps
- History of cruises: HISTORY OF CRUISING – FROM THE 1830s TO THE LOVE BOAT | Cruising The Past (cruiselinehistory.com)
- Links of ships and interior:
- Ladies on ships – 1840s: Separate Spheres On Narrow Boats: Victorians At Sea – JSTOR Daily
Shipping routes
- Colonial shipping routes from 1750 to 1850: Mapped: European Colonial Shipping Lanes (1700‒1850) (visualcapitalist.com)
- History of shipping routes: 18th Century shipping mapped using 21st Century technology | Travel | The Guardian
- More shipping routes: Colonial Era Shipping Routes | MoveHub
The telegraph (a modern marvel)
- Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom: Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom – Wikipedia
- Electric Telegraph Company: Electric Telegraph Company – Wikipedia
- More electric telegraph: Who Invented The Telegraph? Inside The Origins Of This Historic Device – EU-Vietnam Business Network (EVBN)
- Catching a criminal using the telegraph: Ronalds, Cooke & Wheatstone Develop the First Commercial Electric Telegraph as an Alarm System : History of Information
- Eletric Telegraph in-depth details: Distant Writing – Electric Telegraph Company
British Diplomat Service 1815 to 1860
- Awesome book: The British Diplomatic Service: 1815-1914 – Raymond Jones – Google Books
- Timeline of British diplomacy: Timeline of British diplomatic history – Wikipedia
- Rank and structure of the diplomatic service in the UK: Diplomatic rank – Wikipedia