Here is the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto, Canada. Here they have a variety of collections of shoes from ancient times to the present. The web site also has fun facts about shoes and footwear.

The Bata Shoe Museum

This is an ambitious project. A fully searchable online database of the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1674-1834. The entire database should be online by 2004, currently only 22,000 trials from 1414-1759 are present.


The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A very interesting view of Victorian London, complete with ghosts, cemeteries, photographs, and a bibliography.

City of Shadows