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*[http://www.wolvendaal.org/churches-monuments/wolvendaal-church-colombo The Wolvendaal Church, Colombo]. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/041128/funday/2.html "The country’s oldest Christian church" [and other churches in Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Gaveshaka. ''The Sunday Times Newspaper'' in Sri Lanka. Sunday 28 November 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915133504/http://amazinglanka.com/wp/garrison-cemetery/ "British Garrison Cemetery of Kandy"] October 18, 2013 amazinglanka.com, archived. With images. If text does not display, reload the page. Retrieved 16 September 2014
*[http://www.ceylonmedals.com/ceylon_medal.htm The Ceylon Medal 1818] from [http://www.ceylonmedals.com/outline.htm Orders, Decorations and Medals Relating to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from 1795] ceylonmedals.com
*[https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/under/intro.html Under a Tropical Sun] (Macquarie University) covers 1796-1821. Includes the historical background and contemporary accounts of the Officers of the [[73rd Regiment of Foot]] (and their families) in Ceylon 1814-21.
*[http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/12569 A review of the National Archives of Sri Lanka] by Nadeera Rupesinghe, PhD Candidate, Institute of History, Leiden University, posted January 4, 2016. dissertationreviews.org
*[http://www.dlir.org/fdasl-home.html The Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka] from [http://www.dlir.org Digital Library for International Research]. These collections primarily consist of furniture from the Portuguese, Dutch and British Periods (17th to 19th centuries). Images and essays, including "Woods Used in Sri Lanka Furniture".
*[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33723/1/11010495.pdf ''The Development of the Ceylon Civil Service 1802-1833''] by Premasiri Dharmapriya Kannangara PhD Thesis University of London, December 1964. eprints.soas.ac.uk
===Historical photographs and images online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9ENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition''] by William Knighton 1845 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyceylonfr01kniggoog Archive.org version]
:''Forest Life in Ceylon'' by W Knighton, formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 1854 [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl01knig Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl02knig Volume II]. This work has been described as a novel, (but somewhat against this view see further comments.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzVCfoQorHwC&pg=PA144 Page 144] ''Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden'' by Sharae Deckard 2009 Google Books</ref>) [http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/198.html William Knighton], biographical details, djo.org.uk
*''Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'': [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Ceylon%20Asiatic%20Society Archive.org] Multiple volumes from Volume 1 1845. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000638474 HathiTrust] multiple volumes including '''restricted access''', some of which, to c 19251926, are probably available to those in North America.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Ceylon+antiquary+and+literary+register+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register''] multiple volumes from Volume III 1917 to Vol. X 1924. Archive.org. Includes a section "Notes and Queries". [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100732322 HathiTrust editions], restricted to some areas such as North America.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HAM3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP11 ''The History of the Rebellion in Ceylon During Lord Torrington's Government: Affording a Comparison with Jamaica and Governor Eyre''] by Captain John MacDonald Henderson (late 78th Highlanders.) 1868 Google Books. The rebellion of 1848.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=o6odAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Colonial Reports - Annual. No. 527 Ceylon 1906''] by Great Britain Colonial Office (1907). Internal title is "Report on the Blue Book of 1906". Google Books.
:''Colonial Reports - Annual'' for Ceylon. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155583 ''No. 396 Ceylon 1902 to No. 1507 Ceylon 1929''] for most years. HathiTrust Digital Library.
:*Two of these volumes are available on Archive.org, [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1902-396/page/n1/mode/2up 1902-1908], [https://archive.org/details/colonial-reports-ceylon-1909-653/page/n1/mode/2up 1909-1917]
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Colonial+Reports+-+Annual%22%29&sort=date Archive.org editions of ''Colonial Reports - Annual'' from 1908 onwards]. Includes reports in respect of Ceylon.
*[https://archive.org/details/b3045296x/page/n3/mode/2up ''A catalogue of the indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon...''] by Alexander Moon, Superintendant of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon 1824 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/acatalogueindig00moongoog/page/n3/mode/2up File 2], [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.36004/page/n3/mode/2up File 3] Archive.org
