There's also a huge resource compilation of information about Great Britain's Royal Navy from the 1790s to post WWI (including vessels, medicine, history, manning, leave, punishment, the slave trade, pay scales and much more) here: http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html
If you're interested in what people ate there's the New York Public Library's Menu Collection - 45k menus dating from the 1840s to the present, transcribed and searchable here: http://menus.nypl.org/
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Date: 2019-04-01 05:29 pm (UTC)There's also a huge resource compilation of information about Great Britain's Royal Navy from the 1790s to post WWI (including vessels, medicine, history, manning, leave, punishment, the slave trade, pay scales and much more) here: http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html
If you're interested in what people ate there's the New York Public Library's Menu Collection - 45k menus dating from the 1840s to the present, transcribed and searchable here: http://menus.nypl.org/