Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Links: The Eighteenth Century

Swift's World

• Chronology of Swift's Life and Times
• Biographical sources

• Architectural Dublin : 18th Century
• St. Patrick's Cathedral Architectural Dublin : 17th Century
• Baile Atha Cliath [Dublin]
• Guide to Dublin
• The City of Armagh The cathedral library, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Robinson who also built the observatory, has a copy of Gulliver's Travels corrected in Swift's hand...
• Chronological list of dates of Irish History
• Irish Writers SEARC
• Irish Studies in the United States

• William Hogarth (1697 -1764) Exhibit Haley & Steele, Antique Printsellers
• Invitation to a Funeral - site based upon the novel by the same name, featuring people and places in Restoration London.
• London Place Names
• Map of London BRITAIN.CO.UK
• Three maps of London showing locations of
  Fetter Lane
  Redriff and Wapping
  Old Jury

  The World of London Theater--1660-1800

  London in the Mid Eighteenth Century - maps and pictures

  The Pub in Literature: England's Altered State

• Restoration & 18th Century Voice of the Shuttle
• The Eighteenth Century Humanities Handbook. Walter Evans, General Editor. Seventh Edition. Augusta State University, 1995.
• Eighteenth Century political timeline: Literature of the Eighteenth Century page
• The Seventeenth Century in England Univ. of Texas
• 18th Century England Univ. of Texas
• The Eighteenth Century British Cultural Studies
• The Monarchs of England: a millennium of monarchs with their links to Greenwich history - Greenwich 2000 Network
• 1726-1727: an online history of the millennium The Guardian & The Observer
• British Monarchs Britannia
• British History StudyWeb
• British History A Directory of Internet Resources - Academic Info
• The Problem with Whigs Will's Backroom
• Current Value of Old Money
• How much is that worth today? Comparing the purchasing power of money in the Great Britain from 1660 to any other year including the present.
• ENGLISH FARM - recreation of a Worchestershire farm of the late 17th Century, Swift's and Gulliver's time.
• 17th, 18th Century and Regency Links -- Moonstone Research and Publications
• English Acts and Documents
  • English Bill of Rights [1689] - An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown Wiretap Avalon - Yale
  • Documents Illustrating Jacobite History
• British History 1700-1950 Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
• English History, 1660-1800
• South Sea Bubble
• The Jew As Other: A Century of English Caricature, 1730-1830
• Rictor Norton (Ed.), Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook. Updated 2 March January 2001
• Portraits of Political Figures
• Tory Tergiversation In The House Of Lords, 1714-1760 by Dr David Backhouse, Institute of Historical Research

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  Europe

  Eighteenth Century France

  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Studies SUNY Stony Brook

  The Brobdingnagian: an electronic journal devoted to the study and discussion of topics concerning the eighteenth century in England, America, and abroad.

  Homosexuality In Early Modern Europe compiled by Jeffrey Merrick, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Suicide In Early Modern Europe compiled by Jeffrey R. Watt, University of Mississippi

  Texts and Documents: Europe

  Dictionary of Sensibility

  North American

  • Archiving Early America Historic Documents of 18th Century America
  • Cycles of US History - Revolutionary Cycle 1701-1791
  • Experience Colonial Life
    • Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation as transcribed by a young George Washington
    • Selected Recipes from Colonial Williamsburg

  The World

  • c18: The eighteenth century on line International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Societe internationale d'etude du XVIIIe siecle
    • The c18 project | Le projet c18 - to encourage a new form of collaborative electronic publishing, taking as its subject eighteenth-century studies in the widest sense.
  • Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net by Jack Lynch
    • History
  • The Enlightenment: The Age of Reason Modern European History Advanced Placement
  • Age of Enlightenment The Development of Western Civilization: NM's Creative Impulse
  • Enlightenment: Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  • 18th Century History history1700s.com
  • Selected Readings C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines
  • Eighteenth Century: catalog from W. H. Allen Books
  • Eighteenth-Century Studies (journal)
  • Attending to Early Modern Women -- women in early modern Europe and the Americas, ca. 1500 to ca. 1800

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  Daily Life and Culture

  • Eighteenth-Century Life (journal)
  • 18th Century Life: An Online Magazine
  • 18th-Century Legal Terms Order in the Court: Juvenile Justice in the 18th Century
  • Eighteenth Century Ring
  • 18th-Century Art Art History Resources on the Web: part 6
  • 18th Century Costumes from the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • 18th Century Clothing Patterns
  • 18th Century Wine Recipes collected by Ralph Roberts
  • Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Works, and Culture
  • Online Conversion - need to convert hogsheads into quarts?

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  Chronologies and Timelines

  • Chronology of Swift's Life and Times (this site)
  • Eighteenth-Century Chronology by Jack Lynch
  • 18th Century History history1700s.com
  • A Cultural & Political Timeline: The New Child: British Art & the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830:
  • Romantic Chronology (18th Century to 1784)
    • Romantic Chronology (UK miror)
    • Web Chronologies & Timelines
  • Poetry, Literature, & Significant Literary Events During the Age of Reason ~ 1650--1800
  • The Augustans Time-Line of English Poetry 858-1998
  • Tables of History : 1700 - 1799 in Danish and English
  • 18th-Century Timeline Univ. of Texas
  • Chronology of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (starts 1701)
  • Timelines by "Stickman"
    • 1600-1700
    • 1700-1750
    • 1750-1800
  • Classical Music and The World: year by year
  • A Brief Chronology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature by Roger Blackwell Bailey, Ph.D., San Antonio College
  • 17th to 19th Century Timeline - for a course on the development of scientific method
  • Eighteenth Century political timeline: Literature of the Eighteenth Century
  • Chronological list of dates of Irish History
  • The Incredible Expanding Timeline: 18th Century
  • 1600-talets historia 1600-1673 [Swedish]
  • The Enlightenment Period CalPoly
  • Politics to Poetry: A Brief Chronology of the Eighteenth Century
  • 1700-1750
  • Timeline of the 18th Century
  • Christy's Ultimate History Timeline Project
  • SF Timeline 18th Century

  • English Calendar by Ian MacInnes, Albion College
  • The Calendar and Old Style (O.S.) Monticello

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  Scholarly Societies and Conferences

  • C18 International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Société internationale d'étude du XVIIIe siècle
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
  • Mid-Western American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle / Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies across the disciplines - a listserver discussion group
  • Voltaire Society of America
  • Jonathan Swift (1667-1745): A Symposium to Mark the 250th Anniversary of His Death - announcement of 1995 conference

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  General History Sources

  • History and HistoriographyThe English Server, Carnegie Mellon University
  • American and British History Resources on the Internet
  • Historical Glossary
  • EuroDocs Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
  • European History Historical Text Archives, Mississippi State
  • History EINet Galaxy
  • Royal Genealogies
  • World History from The History Net
  • World History Links pages
  • HyperHistory
  • History and Theory Studies in the Philosophy of History

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  Miscellaneous Sources

  • Contemporary Novels Set in the (Greater) Eighteenth Century compiled by Norbert Schürer

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  Gulliver Home Page || Links || Bibliography

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  Lee Jaffe
  updated: 17 March 2002
  Comments or questions?