Where fic authors have included a bibliography, recommended websites or inspirations, I shall include them here.
Ancient World: Greece
The Spartans – JJPOR
Tom Holland – Persian Fire
Herodotus – Histories
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Eighteenth Century: USA
Discussion on the Differing of Governmental Systems – sunnyrea
John & Abigail Adams
Sources listed:
1. Adams, John; Thoughts on Government, Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies;
http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=592&chapter=76854&layout=html&Itemid=27; 1776.
2. “British Prime Minister,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Prime_Minister
3. “John Adams,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams doctor who
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Nineteenth Century: General
A Vampyre More Accursed – jinxed_wood
1817: Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley
No sources given, but features poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley and there are references to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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Nineteenth Century: England
Strangers at Fairhurst – vvj5
Regency Period
Refs to novelist Georgette Heyer and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
A good online source for all sorts of things and links relating to this era is Jane Austen’s World.
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1896 by Bad_Dickens
Barbara Belford – Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
Merlin Holland – The Wilde Album
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Twentieth Century: British Isles
Play Up and Play the Game – Doyle
No sources given, but a nod to the works of author Angela Brazil.
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Twentieth Century: France
1900 – Bad_Dickens
Turn of the century France, Paris, Oscar Wilde etc.
Boyd, James P. The Paris Exposition of 1900 Illustrated. 1900.
Evenson, Norma. Paris: A Century of Change 1878-1978 1978.
Gosling, Nigel. The Adventurous World of Paris 1900-1914
Nelson Current, Richard, and Marcia Ewing Current. Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light 1997.
Wikipedia articles on Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) and Henry Milne-Edwards (1800-1885)
Barbara Belford. Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
Merlin Holland. The Wilde Album
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Twentieth Century: Russian Revolution
Red October – Various
Ch5-8 credits: Robert H. McNeal’s The Bolshevik Tradition
Ch11: Philip Pomper – Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin, The Intellegensia and Power (Columbia University Press, 1990)
John Gooding – Rulers and Subjects (Arnold, 1996)
Leon Trotsky – Lenin (Harrap & Co, 1925)
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Twentieth Century: USA
Planes, Trains & Horseless Carriages – Ligia Elena
Wright Brothers, 1900s America, Transport
No sources cited, but a link to a photograph taken at Kitty Hawk here.
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