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===Access some articles in the JSTOR subscription website for free===
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organisation which provides access to scholarly journals, primary sources, and books. <br>In addition to access through the British Library, or through some library cards, (such as those issued by the National Libraries of Scotland, Wales and Australia) -enquire at your local library as to what is available, some items may be accessed for free, on your home computer, up to six items from the archive every month. More details are in the article [https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-MyJSTOR-How-to-Register-Get-Free-Access-to-Content How to register & get free access to content]. Note that until December 31, 2020 during covid restrictions the '''free limit has increased to 100 per month''', and this remains the situation currently (March 2023).<br>[http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals Browse] the titles of the Journals and books available in the JSTOR website. Includes a Search facility. Note however, that previously not all articles were available under the free scheme, and this is probably the current situation. <br> An example of an article available is [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2599322 "Real Incomes of the British Middle Class, 1760-1850: The Experience of Clerks at the East India Company"] by H. M. Boot ''The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Nov., 1999), pp. 638-668
==Access an obsolete website in the Wayback Machine at ''archive.org''==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130127010330/http://www.tapmal.com/anglo/site/pg/vocab A-I Vocabulary: A lexicon of long-forgotten Anglo-Indian words] www.tapmal.com, now an archived webpage
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091027093430/http://geocities.com/faskew/Colonial/Glossary/ColGlossary.htm Askew's Glossary of
Victorian Colonial Terminology] includes a section on 'British Colonial Military Terms and Soldier Slang' and 'India and the Northwest Frontier'. Now an archived website.
*[https://archive.org/details/language-of-the-camp/mode/2up ''Dictionary: Language of the Camp. Army Hindustani and Other Soldier Slang''] by Charles Tustin Kamps 2022. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA179 A description of coins, weights and measures in use in Madras c 1832]. The terms for weights are pollum, vis, maund, candy, and for grain puddy or seer, marcal and kallum. For cloth, terms are mollum or cubit. Page 179 ''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras'' by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 Google Books.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India'']1850 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents] Includes Vocabulary, Monetary System, Weights, Linear Measures etc.
===General===
*Perhaps you have found a webpage which is not in English. You can obtain a computer produced translation of non English wording using [httphttps://translate.google.com Google Translate], or some browsers such as Google Chrome have an automatic option to translate webpages. If you don't use Chrome, you can also enter a website URL (link) to Google Translate, and the entire webpage will be translated (although there may be errors).*Another translation option is [https://www.deepl.com/translator DeepL Translator] which some consider more accurate than Google.
==Find out the meaning of an archaic medical term ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20171127223251/http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wakefield/definitions/defmedic.html Old Medical terms for use by Genealogists] Rootsweb page, archived.
*Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
*[http://www.wolfbane.com/icd/index.html International Classification of Diseases] for death certificates. Data from 1900 currently (2023/01). wolfbane.com
*''A Dictionary of Medical Science'' by Robley Dunglison. Varying titles over time. Most editions contain the wording "Carefully revised and greatly enlarged" (or similar).
:[https://archive.org/details/62650260RX1.nlm.nih.gov/page/n3/mode/2up 1833], [https://archive.org/details/101567857.nlm.nih.gov 2nd edition, 1839], [https://archive.org/details/101515233.nlm.nih.gov 3rd edition, 1842], [https://archive.org/details/101515227.nlm.nih.gov 4th edition, 1844], [https://archive.org/details/101515242.nlm.nih.gov 5th edition 1845], [https://archive.org/details/101515244.nlm.nih.gov 6th edition, 1846], [https://archive.org/details/101515252.nlm.nih.gov 7th edition 1848], [https://archive.org/details/101515261.nlm.nih.gov 1857], [https://archive.org/details/medicallexicondi00dung 1860], [https://archive.org/details/medicallexicondi00dunguoft 1866], [https://archive.org/details/llecondi00dung 1868], [https://archive.org/details/2medicallexicond00dunguoft 1874], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi1893dung 21st edition 1893], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi1903dung 23rd edition 1903] All Archive.org.
:There are a few additional editions on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22dictionary+of+medical+science%22+%29&sort=date Archive.org], currently all were published in the 1850s.
*''Appleton's Medical Dictionary'' [https://archive.org/details/b21690315/page/n7/mode/2up 1904], [https://archive.org/details/appletonsmedical00jell/page/n7/mode/2up 1915], [https://archive.org/details/appletonsmedica00jell/page/n5/mode/2up 1916] Archive.org
==Find out the meaning of an archaic occupation ==
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*[https://familysearch.org/blog/en/techtips FamilySearch TechTips Blog Archives] FamilySearch website. Use the Blog Search.
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*''A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain'' by Samuel Halkett and James Laing. 1882-1888.
:[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon01halkuoft Volume 1] [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon02halkuoft Vol 2], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon03halkuoft Vol 3], [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofanon04halkuoft Vol 4]. All Archive.org
:''Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature''. New and enlarged editions based on the previously mentioned volumes, by James Kennedy, W A Smith and A F Johnson, 7 volumes 1926-1934. Volumes 8 and 9 by Dennis E Rhodes and Anna E C Simoni.
:[https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0001/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 1 A-C] (Book title); [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0002/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 2 D-G]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0003/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 3 H-L]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0004/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 4 M-P], [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0005/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 5 Q-S]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0006/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 6 T- Y]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0007/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 7 Index [of authors<nowiki>]</nowiki> and 2nd Supplement], [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0007/page/306/mode/2up 2nd Index]; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0008/page/n7/mode/2up Vol 8 1900-1950] 1956; [https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0005/page/n5/mode/2up Vol 9 additions for all periods to 1950] 1962. All Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofpseu00atki/page/n5/mode/2up ''Dictionary of pseudonyms and pen-names : a selection of popular modern writers in English''] by Frank Atkinson 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*''Handbook of pseudonyms and personal nicknames. First Supplement'' by Harold S Sharp 1975.[https://archive.org/details/handbookofpseudo0000shar/mode/2up ''Volume I A-J''] [https://archive.org/details/handbookofpseudo0002shar ''Volume II K-Z''] Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*''Who was who among English and European authors 1931-1949'' published 1978. Gale Composite Biographical Dictionary Series Number 2.
:[https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoamongen0001unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume 1 A-F''], [https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoamongen0002unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume 2 G-M''], [https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoamongen0003unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume 3 N-Z''] Archive.org Books to Borrow. Includes pseudonyms and other author details.
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