April 24, 2005

Ye Olde Linkes

A Variety of Ladies' Head Dresses, The New lady's magazine (1786). Click for larger image.

Ladies' headdresses at the Beinecke (via Jim Chevalier on C18-L).

Sharon posts a multitude of links on crime. She writes, "Has to come around sooner or later in an election campaign." Indeed. She has also scored a copy of Hanging not punishment enough (1701) and plans to make it available. Please do!

The Gutenberg Bible held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is available on CD-ROM. G. Zombie has one. Here it is online. There are a number of other copies online: two at the British Library, which one can compare; the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible (ca. 1454); and the Keio Gutenberg Bible. Bible links from the University of Calgary. See also The Oliver Cromwell Website and The Goodspeed New Testament Manuscript Collection (both via Plep).

Libraries as fingerprints at Historiological Notes.

The fantastic architectural drawings of Achilles G. Rizzoli (1896-1981) at Giornale Nuovo.

The Opium Wars (via Plep).

Britain's 18th-c canal system being restored (via Metafilter).

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