Research Links for Writers

Crime | History | Medicine | Science & Technology | Misc

There's more to being a writer than sitting in front of your computer and typing. Writing involves researching, whether you're researching an obscure fact to support your alternate veiw of the historical event or merely trying to discover if a city name you've invented already exists.

Crime

• Police Jargon: How to Talk Like a Cop
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners - lots of information about fraud and embezzlement
• CIA
• Crime Scene Investigation
• FBI Reading Room
• Glock official website
• Ruger Firearms
• How Lock Picking Works
• How Burglar Alarms Work
• Interpol
• The Smoking Gun

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History

Europeon | American

• Historical Cheat Sheet
• WWW-VL History Central Catalogue
• The WWW Virtual Library

European History

Regency England

• 19th Century Carriages & Coaches by Jaclyn Reding
• A Regency Repository
• English Titles in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Jo Beverley
• Food and Drink in Regency England
• Notes and illustrations on Regency clothing styles (with 1895 Charles E. Brock illustrations for Pride and Prejudice)
• Notes on the society of Jane Austen's time (especially with respect to Pride and Prejudice).
• Regency Links
• Regency Names by Jo Beverly
• The British Monarchy - The Official Web Site
• The Regency and Post-Regency Period
• The Regency Page
• The Regency Town House Heritage Centre
• To Paint Or Not To Paint: The use of cosmetics through history by Jaclyn Reding

Medieval Times

• Medieval Names by Jo Beverly
• Medieval Names Archive
• Medieval Marriage by Michelle Jerott
• Medieval links
• The Beckoning - The Medieval Period
• The British Monarchy - The Official Web Site
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University
• The Labyrinth (old)
• The WWW Virtual Library History Index Medieval Europe
• Trial by Ordeal by Jo Beverly

Books and Videos

• FREE e-text download (from Project Gutenberg) of: William the Conqueror by Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892) - Text version - 338.66 KB | Zip version - 123.19 KB

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American History

• WWW-VL History: United States
• Yale University Guide to American History and American Studies

Revolutionary

• WWW-VL: History: Usa: Revolutionary Era

Civil War

• WWW-VL: History: Usa: The Civil War 1855-1865

Books and Videos about the Civil War

(Most of these are from A&E and The History Channel, two channels I watch regularly, because you can learn some awesome stuff there.)

• Guns of the Civil War (A&E documentary)
• Civil War Journal: The Conflict Begins (History Channel DVD Set tells the explosive story of the outbreak of the Civil War)
• Civil War Journal 3-Book set (includes The Leaders, The Battles and The Legacies)
• Civil War Combat (DVD set from the History Channel gives an in-depth analysis of the Civil War's greatest battles)
• Sex in the Civil War (History Channel Documentary - From battlefield to brothel, this is an eye-opening look at a subject that has been largely bypassed)
• Civil War Journal: Women at War (A&E Documentary - A generation of American women played an important role in the conflict that divided the nation.)

Colonial

• WWW-VL: History: Usa: Colonial Era

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Medicine

• The Routine Autopsy: The Procedure Related in Narrative Form, A Guide for Screenwriters and Novelists by Ed Uthman, MD - (uthman@neosoft.com) Diplomate, American Board of Pathology
• Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary: Poisons & Antidotes

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Science & Technology

• How Stuff Works - Great info! You can find out almost anything on this site, from how lock picking works to how sex works.
• Hubble Telescope
• Warp Drive, When?

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Miscellaneous Research Links

• Jaclyn Reding's Research Links
• Research Index for Romance Writers
• Dreamer's Research Links for Writers - This site has a great collection of links for research broken down into categories such as architecture and much more. A great place to start your research.
• The Internet Public Library