Linkroll

Some online resources I value.

Shaftesbury

Research: Shaftesbury Project Biography, bibliography and conferences; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Shaftesburiana Bibliographies and an electronic edition of A Letter concerning Enthusiasm, compiled by Laurent Jaffro; no longer updated

Online sources I cite in Shaftesburys Philosophie.

Environmental history: History of London’s Air Pollution Article by Hannah Ritchie, Our World in Data; Coal, Smoke, and Time in London Article by Aleksandr Bierig, Journal18
Queer history: Gay History & Literature A collection of essays by Rictor Norton
Printmaking: The Crater of Mount Vesuvius Evelyn’s view into the crater of Vesuvius, etched by himself, 1649; British Museum

Digitised collections: Gallica The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France; Digitale Sammlungen The Munich Digitisation Centre (MDZ) of the Bavarian State Library, with holdings of manuscripts and early printed books
Full texts: Perseus Digital Library A resource for ancient texts, Greek and Latin, with translations and word analysis. Besides the classic view, there is the more modern Scaife Viewer.; Deutsches Textarchiv German-language texts from about 1600 to 1900 in full text, carefully edited; Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Open access: Persée French academic journals, digitised back to their first volumes and freely accessible; OpenEdition Open-access journals and books in the humanities and social sciences, plus research blogs and event listings

Encyclopaedias: Encyclopædia Universalis My first port of call when I want to know something; many articles by subscription only; ENCCRE The first critical edition of the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (1751–1772), freely accessible and supported by the Académie des sciences. ENCCRE stands for Édition Numérique Collaborative et CRitique de l’Encyclopédie.
Dictionaries: Wörterbuchnetz Historical dictionaries under one roof, above all the Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; complemented by the Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS); Logeion The major Greek and Latin dictionaries in a single search, including the Greek–English lexicon by Liddell, Scott and Jones (LSJ); the LSJ is also available on its own from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

English: In Our Time Usually three experts discuss a topic from history, philosophy or science, with Melvyn Bragg until 2025 and Misha Glenny since 2026; BBC Radio 4
German: Das Wissen Daily features on science, history and world affairs, with a script for every episode; SWR; radioWissen Audio features on history, philosophy, literature and science; Bayern 2; Zeitzeichen Around 15 minutes a day on a historical date, from antiquity to the present; WDR
French: Avec philosophie Philosophical conversations with guests from academia; France Culture; Le Cours de l’histoire A historical topic explored over several episodes with historians; France Culture; Salle des archives Recordings from the INA archive, placed in context by guests; France Culture

News: LWN.net Unrivalled source for anything to do with Linux and free software
GNOME: Planet GNOME The blogs of the people behind the GNOME desktop
Culture & politics: Framablog The blog of the non-profit association Framasoft on free software and digital freedom

Without AI: DuckDuckGo The version without automatically triggered AI search
Small web: Marginalia Search Independent, open-source search engine with its own index; favours non-commercial, text-heavy sites

Accessibility: GrahamTheDev Many insights and hundreds of tips and tricks; WebAIM Contrast Checker Check colour contrast against the WCAG requirements

Webcomic: xkcd By Randall Munroe: ‘A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language’