external links - languages, place-names etc.

dictionaries of (mostly) old languages

• The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
• Ondrej Tichy's Bosworth-Toller (BT)
• UT Austin Bosworth-Toller (BT)
• Middle English Dictionary (MED)
• Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND)
• Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (EDD)
• OED
• Kommission für Mundart- und Namenforschung Westfalens
• Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal: Woordenboeken
• Etymologisch Woordenboek van het Nederlands
• Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek (VMNW)
• Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch
• Fritzners ordbok (ON)
• Du Cange
• Indo-European etymological dictionary (IEED)
• Germanic Lexicon Project
• Dictionaries by Gerhard Köbler
• Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru
• Dictionnaire de français "Littré"
• Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500)
• Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français
• Dictionary of Old-English Plant-Names
• Le trésor de la langue française informatisé

linguistics

• Sveriges medeltida personnamn
• Niederdeutsches Wort
• Us Wurk
• Anglo-Norman Text Society
• Bibliography of Irish linguistics and literature
• Zupitza, Ælfrics Grammatik und Glossar (scans)
• itinera electronica
• Gérard Huet's Sanskrit site
• The Electronic Introduction to Old English
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader (with a glossary typeset by me)
• Germanic Lexicon Project - Non-Germanic Texts
• Numbers from 1 to 10 in over 4500 languages
• The jargon file
• SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet
• Old Norse online
• Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey
• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)
• Online Etymological Dictionary (of English)
• Thesaurus of Old English
• University of Texas, Linguistics Research Centre (many online books and courses)
• Ekwall, Contributions to the history of Old English dialects ([1917])
• Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain
• The Early English Text Society
• The Durham Liber Vitae Project
• MANCASS C11 Database Project
• CORPVS GRAMMATICORVM LATINORVM
• Dictionnaire ancien français
• Curses
• Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

place-names

• Ortnamnsregistret (Sweden)
• Westfälisches Ortsnamenbuch (WOB)
• Dictionnaire topographique de la France
• onomastics.org
• Electronic Anderson (EHN)
• Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (AÀA) ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland
• Enwau Lleoedd Celtaidd Cynnar yn Ewrop ac yn Asia Leiaf (Celtic personal names, with my maps)
• A history of Birmingham places & placenames
• Landscapes of Governance (UCL)
• Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI)
• English Place-name Society
• English place-name list archives
• Institute for Name-Studies, Nottingham
• Key to English place-names
• Bibliographie Toponymie
• Gysseling Toponymisch woordenboek
• Scottish Place-name Society
• The Ulster place-name society
• Alaric Hall
• Essex Place-name Project
• Archif Melville Richards
• John Field papers
• Liechtensteiner Namenbuch
• Herefordshire Place-Names by W. St. C. Baddeley, from Trans. BGAS 39, 87-200 (1916)
• Historische Ortsnamen
• A Topographical Dictionary of England (S. Lewis, ed.)
• Les noms de lieux en France - Glossaire de termes dialectaux (A. Pegorier)
• Zachrisson, A contribution to the study of Anglo-Norman influence on English place-names (1909)
• Ekwall, The place-names of Lancashire (1922)
• Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui
• Placenames Database of Ireland
• Placenames NI - The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project
• Dated Placenames from Lincolnshire
• DigDag - Digital atlas of the Danish historical-administrative geography
• University of Copenhagen - Department of Scandinavian Research
• Danske stednavne database
• Place-names and settlement history: aspects of selected topographical elements on the continent and in England (Hilsberg)
• List of names from the 6 inch OS maps of Kent
• Longnon, Les noms de lieu de la France
• Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences
• Ortnamnsregistret

old maps

• Speed proof maps
• Peutinger map
• old-maps.co.uk
• New Popular Edition OS Maps
• Paris
• Paris
• Stanford Digital Forma Urbis

historical documents

• Medieval source material: Chancery rolls
• Online books for Essex and Suffolk surname research
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)
• Office-holding in East Anglian boroughs, 1272-1460
• Chartes originales antérieures à 1121 conservées en France
• Langscape
• Norfolk Transcription Archive
• DEEDS Project (Toronto)
• Regesta Imperii
• Migne Patrologia Latina (MPL)
• Henry III Fine Rolls
• Feet of Fines etc. (AALT)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls (PRO)
• Domesday Book
• Domesday Map
• Bibliographia: facsimile of Dugdale's Monasticon
• Historical Directories (University of Leicester)
• Holinshed's Chronicles, 2nd ed 1587 (SCETI) (inc. Harrison's Description of Britaine)
• Camden's Britannia (1607)
• English Monastic Archives
• DB
• Anglo-Saxon charters - online texts
• Electronic Sawyer
• Victoria County History
• British History Online
• Staffordshire Past-track
• L'École des chartes
• Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France - la bibliothèque numérique
• Chartae Burgundiae Medii Aevi
• Cartulaires
• CAMENA - Lateinische Texte der Frühen Neuzeit
• Aenigmata Aldhelmi
• Feudal Aids
• Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
• DOE: Short Title to Cameron Number
• Search AS Corpus (grep)
• Diplomatarium Norvegicum
• O. Rygh: Norske Gaardnavne
• Stanford Medieval and Modern Thought Text Digitization Project
• Full Back Catalogue of CBA Publications
• Papers from the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium
• censuses

Libraries

• CUL

Record offices

• Suffolk online catalog
• Suffolk
• Norfolk
• Essex
• Cambridgeshire
• A2A

Record societies

• Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
• Berkshire Record Society
• Bristol Record Society
• British Record Society
• Cambridgeshire Records Society
• Derbyshire Record Society
• Devon and Cornwall Record Society
• Hertfordshire Record Society
• Lincoln Record Society
• London Record Society
• Northamptonshire Record Society
• Somerset Record Society
• Staffordshire Record Society
• Suffolk Records Society
• Surrey Record Society
• Sussex Record Society