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Resources are listed under these headings:
• Literary News
  • Higher Education: News, Policy, Rankings
    • Publishers and Booksellers
      • Words, Wordplay
        
        • Rhetoric, style and literary theory
          • Printing and Typography
            • Maps and Mapping

• See also the Digital Humanities page

Literary News

• Aggregator: Arts and Letters Daily (CHE)
• The Browser (also art, music: limited access)
• Aggregator & Blog: Berfrois (Russell Bennetts)

  : BBC Radio 3 (arts & drama) The Essay The Verb Night Waves BBC Radio 4 (Gwyneth Williams) In Our Time (history of ideas: Melvyn Bragg, with archive 2004-12) Reith Lectures (archive 1948-2011, with transcripts) The Moral Maze (debates, with Michael Buerk: 2007-2012) A Good Read, Open Book Start the Week (discussion: often authors with new books) Thinking Allowed (social sciences: Laurie Taylor) BBC Radio 4 Extra (Podcasts) BBC World Service (arts & drama) The Strand (18min. arts daily, Weekend 55 min.) The Forum (round-table discussions on science & culture) World Book Club BBC 4 BBC 2 Index to BBC Podcasts See also Media Discussion Platforms

• Literary Journals (most or $):
• The Believer Magazine (San Francisco: specialising in long reviews)
• Boston Review (1975, politics & literature)
• Granta (1889, Ian Jack: new writing)
• London Review of Books (1979, Mary-Kay Wilmers)
• More Intelligent Life (The Economist)
• New York Review of Books (1963, Robert B. Silvers & Barbara Epstein)
• Open Letters Monthly (reviews: Sam Sacks, Boston: links to blogs & journals)
• Standpoint (Daniel Johnson: centre-right politics and culture)
• New Yorker (1925, David Remnick: RSS, Blogs)
• Times Literary Supplement (1902, Peter Stothard: Open Access)
• Academic Journals : Jstor, MUSE
  • Blogs:
  • TLS Blog, A Don's Life (Mary Beard)
  • This Side of the Pond (CUP US: group blog)
  • OUP Blogs (discussing science, humanities & linguistics)
  • Crooked Timber (communal blog on culture, politics & economics)
  • La Rivista Culturale (anthropology, art, literature, botany, history; also in English & French: Melissa Pignatelli)
    • Upcoming Public Lectures & Talks:
    • British Academy
    • British Library
    • Royal Society
    • Royal Society of Arts
    • School of Advanced Study (London)
    • Intelligence Squared $

• Book Reviews: Guardian (Classics), Independent, LA Times,
• New York Times, Scotsman, Telegraph, Barnes & Noble Review

Higher Education

News (see also Philosophy and Science news)

• Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed
• NY Times , Washington Post
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
• Guardian, Times HE Supplement, Telegraph, Independent
• Research News (LISS: ePublishing)
• See also Digital Humanities
• University World News

• Education (general): BBC, Guardian, Telegraph
• Times Educational Supplement, NY Times

• Further Education: Skills Funding Agency, Association of Colleges

Policy, Funding, Rankings

• OECD CERI (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation)
  • PISA 2009 (core competencies of 15-year olds: league table of countries, details)

• British Academy (for humanities and social sciences)
• Royal Society (academy for the sciences)
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• HEFCE (HE Research Policy & Funding), Research Councils UK
• Higher Education Policy Institute (think tank)
• Higher Education Statistics Agency
• UCAS Data (Undergraduate applications & acceptances)
• Ofqual (government regulator for entrance exams)
  • University Groupings: Russell Group (research-intensive), 1994 Group,
    Million Plus (ex-polys), University Alliance (business focus)
    • Research Policy Blogs: Exquisite Life (William Cullerne Bown & others)
    • Critical Education (Andrew McGettigan)

• University Rankings
• (All rankings, especially the QS world subject rankings, give only rough indicators of quality,
  but are included on these pages for general interest. See websites below for further discussion.)

  • RAE 2008 Results (UK, including subject rankings)
  • REF 2014 (Impact Guidelines, Consultation Document July 2011)
  • University Ranking Watch (Richard Holmes: blog)
  • Comparison of Rankings (Wikipedia)
    • THE-TR World University Rankings (2011-12, with subject-group rankings)
    • QS World University Rankings (2012, plus subject rankings)
    • Shanghai Rankings (2012, sciences: universities & departments worldwide)
    • Webometrics (2012: universities' web presence, reflecting commitment to open access)
    • UK Universities by Subject (Guardian 2013)
    • University Rankings (Guardian 2013, teaching spend, ratio, satisfaction)
    • UK University Rankings (The Independent 2013: based on RAE & other public data)

      • Jobs
      • HECSU (career guidance for graduates)
      • Eduserv, Guardian, THES
      • Cambridge (Reporter), Oxford

Academic Publishers and Booksellers

• Worldwide Academic Presses (links from Exeter, 2005)
• American University Presses (links, 2011)
• Combined Academic Publishers (US publishers in UK & Europe)
• British Bookshops
• Oxford University Press (Blogs)
• Cambridge University Press (Journals Blog, US Blog)
• Manchester University Press
• Benjamins Publishers
• Brill
• De Gruyters
• Klincksieck
• Loeb Classical Library (Harvard)

Words, Wordplay

• Affixes
• Anagram Generator
• CrossTips (crossword solver)
• Rhyming Dictionaries: Rhymer
• RhymeZone (with Shakespeare search)
• Thesaurus (aggregator)

• The Bible Gateway (search), Strong's Concordance (AV)
• Bibledex (discussing every book of the Bible: Nottingham, Brady Haran)
• Words of the World (: Nottingham, Brady Haran)
• The Poetry Foundation (archive of popular poetry)
• The Johnson Blog (The Economist's language blog)
• Online Etymological Dictionary (main source dictionaries: E Weekley 1921, E Klein 1971,
  OED II 1989, RK Barnhart 1988, F Holthausen 1927, BA Kipfer - RL Chapman 2007)
• Wonderfully Wacky Way With Words (a curiosity: on this server)
• World Wide Words (UK: Michael Quinion)
• Science Fiction Citations
• Also on this site: Linguistics blogs, Dictionaries

  Quotations

  • Bartlett's Quotations (11,000)
  • Quotations Home Page (29,000)
  • Wikiquote (20,400 pages)

Rhetoric and Literary Style

• Rhetorical Terms with Examples (45: Kentucky)
• Rhetorical Terms (227: Wikipedia)
• MHRA Style Guide (pdf)
• CUP Style Guide (Word doc)
• Chicago Manual of Style (7th Edition, 1920)
• Hart's Rules (1905: online only)
• Guardian Style Guide (spelling & usage)
• BBC Radio Style Guide (spoken usage)

Literary Theory

• English Language & Literature Departments (QS rankings)
• Critical Inquiry (JStor)
• British Comparative Literature Association (university departments worldwide)
• Illuminations: Critical Theory (Texas, Arlington)
• Archetypal Stories and Narratology (the most popular content page on this server)
• World Mythology Course Material (Michael Webster: GVSU, Michigan)
• Mini-guide to Structuralism (content page: needs revision)

Printing and Typography

• Book Glossary (ABE Books)
• Book Sizes (Steve Trussel)
• ISO Paper Sizes (Cambridge: Markus Kuhn)

• Conservation: V&A, BL
• Training Manual (Alaska: 200-page PDF)
• Tips: Basic, FAQs (LOC)
• Multi-Page, Single-Page Manual
  • Type Design, Typography, Typefaces, & Fonts
    (Luc Devroye, McGill: with links to Books, Blogs, Glossaries)
  • British Letterpress (description of the business today)
  • I Love Typography (informative blog: John Boardley)
  • Glossary of Typography (Melbourne Museum of Printing)
  • Microsoft Typography
    A Disagreeably Facetious Type Glossary
  • Serif and Sans History (Dmitry Kirsanov)
  • Adobe Font Specifications
  • Unicode Script Converter
  • Decode Unicode (Wiki)

    • Art Printing (Wikipedia)
    • Glossary of Art Printing ('Dano': Dan Steinhardt)
    • BibliOdyssey (Sydney: rare book illustrations)
    • See also the Libraries page
    • Links to Print Collections
    • Printmaking (MOMA: simple)
    • Printing Techniques (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
      (Aquatint, Drypoint, Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Woodcut)
    • Art of Photogravure
    • Chromolithography (Print Terms)
    • Niépce: photographic history (go to left heading Bitumen after Niépce)
    • Postcards
    • British Postal Museum (and Archive)
    • Smithsonian Postal Museum

Maps and Mapping

• See below for Historical Maps
• For nautical charts, see Sea and Sailing
• For celestial and planetary charts, see Astronomy

• Introductory Resources
• Magnetic Declination (for locations worldwide)
• Wikipedia Atlas Portal
• Travel Guide to Cartographic Resources (29 links: Lisa Smith)
• Parts of a Map (PDF: Ball State University)
  • Organisations
  • International Cartographic Association
  • British Cartographic Society (links)
  • International Boundaries Research Unit (Durham)

• Gazetteers: Key to English Place-Names (Nottingham: Institute for Name-Studies)
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Information Institute)
• Etymologies of Country Names (Wikipedia: needs improvement)
• Country Names: World Map (posted on Reddit: entertaining but unreliable)
  • Digital Maps: Google Earth ( Blog)
  • Wikimapia (online interface for Google Earth)
  • Google Maps (plus satellite and street views)
  • Microsoft Bing (plus aerial and birds-eye)
  • OpenStreetMap (interactive and editable world map)
  • Comparison of Digital Maps (Wikipedia)
    • Ordnance Survey (interactive UK map, plus )
    • Geograph UK (photos from every OS grid square)
    • British Train Maps
    • UK WebCam Directory
  • Perry-Castañeda Map Collection (Austin)
  • National Geographic (plus historical print maps)
  • TerraServer $ (satellite images from EarthSat and GlobeXplorer)
    • News & Blogs
    • Ed Parsons.com (map blog, by Google's geospatial technologist)
    • Jonathan Crowe (blog, with The Map Room archive & Twitter feed)
    • Google Maps Mania (news on projects using Google Maps: Keir Clarke)
    • All Points Blog (Adena Schutzberg, Directions Magazine)
    • Collins Maps Blog (map publisher)
    • Mapperz (digital mapping news, with links)
      Experimental Mapping Projects
      • Radical Cartography (Bill Rankin, Yale)
      • World Mapper Project (displaying statistics as maps)
      • Breathing Earth (emulation)

  • Projections
  • Overview of Map Projections (HTML or PDF: US Geological Survey)
  • Understanding Map Projections (117-page PDF: Melita Kennedy)
  • Global Map Projector ( NASA)

Historical Maps

• Map History: History of Cartography (Tony Campbell, with links to online maps)
• Oddens' Bookmarks (Utrecht: old links captured by Internet Archive 24/7/11)
• British Library (Online Maps, Links, Mapping History)
• BBC Beauty of Maps (historical maps )

• Ancient & Mediaeval: Digital Projects
• Ancient World Mapping Center (UNC: with Free Maps, and news on Barrington Atlas)
  • Pleiades Project (Gazetteer of the Ancient World)
• HESTIA (researching geographical information in Herodotus)
  (Herodotus Timemap: linking the text with the places)
  (Google Ancient Places linking texts to gazetteers,
  with GapVis display interface)
• Interactive Cultural Map of Hellas
• Wide-Area Maps of the Roman Empire (NY: Dalton School)
• The Roman Empire in 3rd C. AD (interactive map at Calgary: from 1907 Everyman Atlas)
• Regnum Francorum Online (interactive maps and written sources for early mediaeval Europe)
  • Historical Collections
  • Perry-Castañeda Historical Maps (links to other collections)
  • David Rumsey Collection (LA: huge collection of rare maps, pretty but variable resolution)
  • Mediaeval Art and Architecture (Pittsburgh: images & plans,
    and maps of Britain and France, from Shepherd's Historical Atlas of 1929)
  • Mediaeval Maps (political maps at Fordham: mostly European, from Muir's Historical Atlas of 1911)
  • Europeana (portal to European map collections)
  • Modern Historical Maps of Europe and North America (at Oregon)
    • Gough Map (Britain, about 1360: earliest showing routes
      and accurate coastline. Bodleian, interactive)
    • A Vision of Britain (Portsmouth: maps & statistics 1801-2001)
    • Old Maps Online (portal to British, Czech, & Russian collections)
    • Old British Maps (Ordnance Survey's County Series, started 1840)
    • Old Maps (UK, $: County Series, National Grid, Russian maps)
    • London Maps: Crace Collection (British Library, Google Maps)