Websites

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-09-15.

This page on websites includes a short list of lists of websites and a slightly longer list of websites as well as a long list of potentially useful web resources.

Lists and webographies

• Robin Hood Project at the University of Rochester: Other Ressources. Lists a handful of dedicated sites.

Robin Hood Websites

The items included here deal exclusively with or include substantial amounts of material on the Robin Hood tradition.

• Experience Nottinghamshire: Robin Hood (official tourism website of Nottinghamshire)
• Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood…
• The Legend of Robin Hood
• Our Nottinghamshire: Robin Hood
• The Outlaw Robin Hood - His Yorkshire Legend (Barbara Green)
• Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood. Site with information on various aspects of the tradition, history etc.
• Robin Hood Loxley Yorkshire
• The Robin Hood Award 2016-17
• Robin Hood Explained (Everything Explained Today)
• The Robin Hood Project: a Robbins Library Digital Project (University of Rochester). Includes the paper 'Robin Hood: Development of a Popular Hero' by John H. Chandler (2006)
• Robin Hood - rob the rich to feed the poor
• Robin Hood of Wakefield (Midgley Webpages). On history and origins, place-names etc. This site represents a substantial original research effort. Highly recommended
• Robin Hood Outlaw Legend of Loxley. "An illustrated medieval history of Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Loxley around the time of Robin Hood and Little John"
• Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web. The web presence of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
• 'Robin Hood: Select Literary Bibliography' by John H. Chandler with contributions from Robbins Library Staff, and a selection of illustrations, etc.
• World Wide Robin Hood Society
• Robin Hood-Wiki. In German
• Robin Hood - www.robinhoodblog.com.

Robin Hood Forums

• The Blue Boar Inn.

Other web sites of special interest

Dictionaries and language history

French, including Anglo-Norman

• The Anglo-Norman Online Hub
• Dictionnaire Ancien Français: Moyen Âge (Lexilogos)
• Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500).

English

• Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Liguistic Atlas of Late Medieval English
• The Middle English Dictionary
• Oxford English Dictionary.

Latin

• Du Cange Online (La Sorbonne)
• Latin Dictionaries (Latinitium).

Geography, topography and archaeology

• Heritage Gateway
• The Megalithic Portal
• Pub Wiki: Pub history in London, Suburbs & the South - Mainly 1600 to 1940
• The Sherwood Forest Trust
• The Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society.

Library catalogues, online book and media respositories

• Archaeology Data Search: Archive
• Bibliothèque Nationale de France
• Bodleian Libraries
• The British Library
• The British Newpaper Archive (subscription required)
• Broadside Ballads Online from the Bodleian Libraries
• Cambridge University Library
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• Early English Books Online
• English Broadside Ballad Archive (University of California Santa Barbara)
• English Folk Dance and Song Society
• English Short Title Catalogue
• Evans Early American Imprint Collection
• Huddersfield Exposed
• The Internet Archive
• Library of Congress
• National Library of Scotland
• Newspapers, by Ancestry.com
• Royal Library, Copenhagen
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Maps and mapping

• British Library: Grace Collection of Maps of London
• British Library: Fire Insurance Maps & Plans
• British Library: Maps of the UK
• Charles Booth's London
• Locating London's Past
• National Library of Scotland: Map Images
• Map and Plan Collection Online
• Old Maps Online
• OpenStreetMap
• Romantic London
• A Vision of Britain through Time.

Photos

• Geograph
• Metro Postcards.

Record collections and directories

• Anglo-American Legal Tradition
• The Gazette: Official Public Record
• The Genealogist (subscription required)
• Historical Directories of England & Wales (University of Leicester)
• National Archives
• The Parliament Rolls of medieval England (Scholarly Digital Editions) (subscription required)
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey
• Records of Early English Drama Online.