Category: Website of the Week

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street This collection at the National Library of Scotland contains broadsides from 1650 to 1910 and includes detailed commentary on each broadside, transcription, downloadable facsimile, and searchabil…

Website of the Week (WoW) #110: The Word on the Street

This collection at the National Library of Scotland contains broadsides from 1650 to 1910 and includes detailed commentary on each broadside, transcription, downloadable facsimile, and searchability across title, subject, or keyword.


The Word on the Street – Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
digital.nls.uk
Online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides. These single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read or sung aloud. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions..

Website of the Week (WoW) #109: The Poetry Channel

Website of the Week (WoW) #109: The Poetry Channel

Listen to podcasts of poetry and interviews with poets from one of the UK’s leading poetry organizations.

Website of the Week will be on vacation until Aug. 26. See you then!


The Poetry Trust : The Poetry Channel
www.thepoetrytrust.org
Welcome to The Poetry Channel where we add new podcasts every month. All our ‘programmes’ are available at THE POETRY CHANNEL ARCHIVE. Here you can see our most recent uploads.

Website of the Week (WoW) #109: The Poetry Channel

Listen to podcasts of poetry and interviews with poets from one of the UK’s leading poetry organizations.

Website of the Week will be on vacation until Aug. 26. See you then!


The Poetry Trust : The Poetry Channel
www.thepoetrytrust.org
Welcome to The Poetry Channel where we add new podcasts every month. All our ‘programmes’ are available at THE POETRY CHANNEL ARCHIVE. Here you can see our most recent uploads.

Website of the Week (WoW) #108: Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing

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Website of the Week (WoW) #108: Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing

This site on early European printed books is from the National Diet Library in Japan, which has its own collection of incunabula. The site is in English and Japanese and introduces the terminology and history of these special books with a peek into the library’s collection.


Incunabula – Dawn of Western Printing
www.ndl.go.jp

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Website of the Week (WoW) #108: Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing

This site on early European printed books is from the National Diet Library in Japan, which has its own collection of incunabula. The site is in English and Japanese and introduces the terminology and history of these special books with a peek into the library’s collection.


Incunabula – Dawn of Western Printing
www.ndl.go.jp

Website of the Week (WoW) #107: Shelley’s Ghost

Website of the Week (WoW) #107: Shelley’s Ghost

Check out this online exhibition from the Bodleian and New York Public Library on the Godwins and the Shelleys, a great literary family whose reputation was shaped by the selective release of documents and manuscripts into the public domain. It also provides a fascinating insight into a family that was blessed with genius but marred by tragedy.


Shelley’s Ghost – Reshaping the image of a literary family
shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #107: Shelley’s Ghost

Check out this online exhibition from the Bodleian and New York Public Library on the Godwins and the Shelleys, a great literary family whose reputation was shaped by the selective release of documents and manuscripts into the public domain. It also provides a fascinating insight into a family that was blessed with genius but marred by tragedy.


Shelley’s Ghost – Reshaping the image of a literary family
shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Website of the Week (WoW) #106: African American Sheet Music

Website of the Week (WoW) #106: African American Sheet Music Browse or search this collection of sheet music from Brown University, focusing on the period 1840-1950 and vocal music by or related to African Americans.African American Shee…

Website of the Week (WoW) #106: African American Sheet Music

Browse or search this collection of sheet music from Brown University, focusing on the period 1840-1950 and vocal music by or related to African Americans.


African American Sheet Music
library.brown.edu

Website of the Week (WoW) #105: Alexandre Dumas

Website of the Week (WoW) #105: Alexandre Dumas

If you missed celebrating Bastille Day/Le quatorze juillet yesterday, why not dip into some French literature today? The Society of Friends of Alexandre Dumas presents their collection of resources on the French author including bibliographies, a dictionary of his prodigious literary output, and full text online. Not familiar with some of his writings? There’s an excerpt feature where you can get a taste of something new. Most of the site is in French.


dumaspere.com, le site officiel de la Société des Amis d’Alexandre Dumas
www.dumaspere.com

Website of the Week (WoW) #105: Alexandre Dumas

If you missed celebrating Bastille Day/Le quatorze juillet yesterday, why not dip into some French literature today? The Society of Friends of Alexandre Dumas presents their collection of resources on the French author including bibliographies, a dictionary of his prodigious literary output, and full text online. Not familiar with some of his writings? There’s an excerpt feature where you can get a taste of something new. Most of the site is in French.


dumaspere.com, le site officiel de la Société des Amis d’Alexandre Dumas
www.dumaspere.com

Website of the Week (WoW) #104: The Romance of the Middle Ages

Website of the Week (WoW) #104: The Romance of the Middle Ages This online exhibition from the Bodleian Libraries traces the medieval romance from its origins to its influence on the modern world. It also includes a mini documentary and sou…

Website of the Week (WoW) #104: The Romance of the Middle Ages

This online exhibition from the Bodleian Libraries traces the medieval romance from its origins to its influence on the modern world. It also includes a mini documentary and sound recordings of readings from a few of the works in the exhibition.


The Romance of the Middle Ages
medievalromance.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
The amazing variety of medieval romance continues to feed our imagination.

Website of the Week (WoW) #103: British Cartoon Archive…

Website of the Week (WoW) #103: British Cartoon Archive

With over 170,000 digitized images, this online archive is a treasure trove of cartoon images published in the United Kingdom. You can also find biographies of the cartoonists here.


– The British Cartoon Archive – University of Kent
www.cartoons.ac.uk
Welcome to the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent. The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library.

Website of the Week (WoW) #103: British Cartoon Archive

With over 170,000 digitized images, this online archive is a treasure trove of cartoon images published in the United Kingdom. You can also find biographies of the cartoonists here.


– The British Cartoon Archive – University of Kent
www.cartoons.ac.uk
Welcome to the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent. The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent’s Templeman Library.

Website of the Week (WoW) #102: Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project

Website of the Week (WoW) #102: Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project Step back into the world of early modern theatre–as well as its literary, social, and economic context–with this archive of manuscripts from actor Edward Alleyn and his father-in-l…

Website of the Week (WoW) #102: Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project

Step back into the world of early modern theatre–as well as its literary, social, and economic context–with this archive of manuscripts from actor Edward Alleyn and his father-in-law Philip Henslowe. Essays add to your visit as you look into the theatrical life not only of Henslowe and Alleyn but also of Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson, and many other notable personalities of the theatre.


Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project
www.henslowe-alleyn.org.uk
The Archive of Dulwich College in London, England, holds thousands of pages of manuscripts left to the College by its founder, the eminent actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626).

Website of the Week (WoW) #101: Emily Dickinson…

Website of the Week (WoW) #101: Emily Dickinson

The Emily Dickinson Museum presents a collection of resources about this American poet on her life in Amherst, Massachusetts and her enduring poetry.


Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson Museum
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a poet with an exceptional ability to distill “amazing sense” from “ordinary meanings.” Her poetry is now considered among the finest in the English language.

Website of the Week (WoW) #101: Emily Dickinson

The Emily Dickinson Museum presents a collection of resources about this American poet on her life in Amherst, Massachusetts and her enduring poetry.


Emily Dickinson | Emily Dickinson Museum
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a poet with an exceptional ability to distill “amazing sense” from “ordinary meanings.” Her poetry is now considered among the finest in the English language.