links

• Historical Sociolinguistics Network

• the Textbook Colloquium

• The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas

• HELL: History of the English Language - by Carol Percy (University of Toronto)

• the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (Sociolinguistics and Language History, University of Helsinki)

• English Historical Linguistics: bibliographical resources, research projects and other interesting sites

• Histories of Prescriptivism Alternative approaches to the study of English 1700-1900

• the Monaghan Collection: an exhibition of early English textbooks (see especially Case 1).

• Peeter Heynsgenootschap: learned society for the history of language teaching

electronic editions

• Aan mijn dierbare Cecilia, 16de-eeuws lief en leed in brieven, ed. by Marijke J. van der Wal (2002). An illustrated and profusely documented collection of sixteenth-century Dutch letters.

• Eighteenth-century electronic texts

• The Spectator Project: A hypermedia Research Archive of C18th periodicals

• The English language of the north-west in the late Modern English period: A Corpus of Late Eighteenth-Century Prose. Access to the corpus is obtained by completing the Access Request form.

research resources

• Chi square test
• The Papers of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820)
• Greenwood's Map of London 1827
• Eighteenth-century Resources - History
• National Register of Archives
• Oxford Text Archive
• Restoration and Eighteenth-century English Literature Index
• Eighteenth-century England
• Past masters: OUP's editions of correspondences on CD-ROM