Samuel Johnson

• "A Guide to Samuel Johnson"
  Dr. Jack Lynch's page contains a comprehensive list of biographies, bibliographies, and links to Johnson texts available online, and to other sites about Johnson.
• The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
  This site contains biographical materials, as well as pictures of Johnson's birthplace, and links to other historical sites associated with Johnson.
• Samuel Johnson's London house
  Samuel Johnson's London house, where the Dictionary, the Rambler, and the Idler were composed, also has an informative Web site, with illustrations of Johnson and his circle.

Celia Fiennes

• Bath & Beyond and Bath.co.uk
  Take a virtual tour of the spectacular architecture of Bath, and find out about the town's links to literary history and its modern spa facilities at one of these two sites.
• Harrogate Museums and Arts
  This site has a link to the Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate, which contains information on spa history.
• Jean Ducey on Celia Fiennes
  A biographical article about Celia Fiennes, by Jean Ducey, for British Heritage magazine.
• Fabled City
  Celia Fiennes's visit to Bath, with some illustrations.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• Ministry of Culture
  The Republic of Turkey's Ministry of Culture Web page contains a number of encyclopedia-style entries on Ottoman history, art, and culture, including portraits and descriptions of Ottoman women's dress.
• Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish Costume
  The Godfrey Kneller portrait of Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish costume (from a private collection).
• Liotard, Woman and Girl in Turkish Costume.
• Bath Postal Museum
  Curious about how letters traveled during the eighteenth century? Learn more about the post here.

The Grand Tour

• The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
• "Italy on the Grand Tour,"
  An excellent online exhibition by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
• The Oglethorpe University Museum
  This site has an online gallery of Grand Tour–related images by Canaletto, Ricci, and other period artists.
• Information on Venetian Carnival.
• Portrait of Sir Gregory Page-Turner
  Sir Gregory Page-Turner on the Tour in 1768, as painted by Pompeo Battoni.

Captain James Cook

• Cook's Third Voyage (1776–1779)
  UCLA's excellent online exhibit concerning Cook's voyages contains Sydney Parkinson's illustrations of the voyage, bibliographies, and useful summaries of Cook's discoveries.
• Transit of Venus
  The Orpington Astronomical Society maintains an informative page about the transit of Venus.
• Royal Observatory Greenwich
  The Royal Observatory Greenwich contains information on the history of navigation and astronomy. The site includes archived online exhibits on Harrison and the story of longitude, Edmond Halley, and the Ordinance Survey (which highlights a display of mapmakers' instruments).
• Portrait of James Cook
  James Cook's portrait by Nathaniel Dance, held at Britain's National Maritime Museum.
• Portrait of James Cook
  James Cook's portrait by John Webber, from Australia's National Portrait Gallery.

George Vancouver

• Passageways
  A simple modern map of Vancouver's route is available at the National Library of Canada's Web site.
• Interested in looking at authentic eighteenth-century maps? Here are two sources:
  
  Lloyd Reed Maps Collection
  This McMaster University site has a searchable index (date, country, cartographer) that will allow you to view maps from ca. 1500 to the 1890s online.
  
  The David Rumsey Map Collection
  This site also has a number of eighteenth-century maps available online, and will allow you to search by country, zoom in for a closer look, and even print off maps.
• Early Writing in Canada
  Further online readings concerning early Canadian exploration by men including Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, Alexander MacKenzie, Alexander Henry, and David Thompson may be found at the University of Western Ontario's Early Writing in Canada online anthology.

"Captain Charles Johnson"

• "When Blackbeard Scourged the Seas"
  This article gives an account of the political situation in Virginia that led to Blackbeard's demise: Yetter, George Humphrey. "When Blackbeard Scourged the Seas." Colonial Williamsburg Journal, 15:1 (Autumn 1992). 22–28.
• North Carolina Maritime Museum
  An ongoing look at the archaeological work on a ship supposed to be Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge, undertaken by the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The site also includes information on Blackbeard's piratical career.
• "Barrett's Privateers"
  One of the best-known songs about privateering is "Barrett's Privateers," written and performed by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers. (The song can be found on Rogers' albums "Fogarty's Cove," "Between the Breaks . . . Live!" and "Home in Halifax.") This site contains the words of the song, and an explanation of the facts and fiction behind it.

Joseph Pitts

• Islam at About.com
  A basic informational article about the practices of Islam.
• Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project
  Important Islamic texts are available online at this site.
• Islamic Art
  Images of Late Islamic Art (from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century) are shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Web site.

Sir William "Oriental" Jones

• The Iranian
  This site contains more translations of Hafiz's poems by Reza Ordoubadian, as well as a note on translation by the translator.
• Medieval Sourcebook
  Translations of Hafiz (including some by Jones) at the Medieval Sourcebook.
• Gertrude Bell
  Find out more about Gertrude Bell, a late nineteenth-century translator of Hafiz, at the Robinson Library at the University of Newcastle.
• "When I say 'ghazal,' I mean 'ghuzzle'"
  Doty, Gene. Lynx. XI: 2, June 1996. (Revised 12 November 1998). This article concerns the form of English ghazals, and gives a short bibliography of works about ghazals.
• Iransaga
  Read more classical Persian poetry in translation at Iransaga's literature pages.
• Chapter One
  An electronic text of Sir William Jones's Third Anniversary Discourse on the Hindus, which discusses Sir William Jones's contributions to linguistics.

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

• The East India Company, the business venture established in 1600 that eventually became a military government and a key force in the occupation of India, is well represented online:
  
  A basic history of the company.
  
  An online exhibition on Britain and the East India Company at the British Library.
• Compass
  The British Museum offers an online tour of artifacts called "Compass." By using the "where/when" search feature, you can select and examine eighteenth-century objects from Asia.
• Warren Hastings
  The Columbia Encyclopedia biography of Warren Hastings.

Oliver Goldsmith

• Portrait of Goldsmith
  National Portrait Gallery's Portrait of Goldsmith (studio of Joshua Reynolds).
• National Portrait Gallery
  The home page of the National Portrait Gallery has a search function that allows you to look for pictures of many key British writers and public figures.
• University of Toronto
  An excerpt of Goldsmith's poem, "The Traveller; or, A Prospect of Society."
• Early Canadiana Online
  Compare two Olivers, two villages, and two centuries. Oliver Goldsmith had a great nephew, also named Oliver Goldsmith (1794–1861), who wrote a poem called "The Rising Village," about an Acadian village. You can read about it at Early Canadiana Online.