We've been trying to put together a selection of pages and links which we hope you will find both interesting and useful. Good local interest sites are particularly scarce at the moment and we are keen to attract visitors to the area. So, if you have any links, information or suggestions on how to improve this section of the site, please get in touch.
Books and Collecting          Visiting the Area           Local History           Subject Links

Books and Collecting

Secondhand and Antiquarian Bookshops in the Area. Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds are home to numerous secondhand booksellers, many of whom have shops.

Book Fair Calendar. A comprehensive listing of all known fairs.

The British Library. The free 'Portico' site is useful for the Short Title Catalogue, but if you want more detail you have to pay.

BiblioMANIA. This American based list allows no censorship so If you are easily offended, this is not the list for you. I'm not a mailing list junkie but love this one, particularly for the 'Daily Bleed'.

Herbals & Early Gardening Books. A catalogue of the Doris and Marc Patten Collection including images, listing by subject, author and title; Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University.

Repositories of Primary Sources. A listing of over 2900 web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources.

Salon Magazine.   Check out Camille Paglia's 'on-line advice for the culturally disgruntled'

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Visiting the Area

Map of Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds.

Map of Stroud Town Centre.

Take a walk around our home town. The dispassionate eye of Virtual Stroud reveals all.

This Is Gloucestershire. Winner of the Newspaper Society Award for the best newspaper Internet site. This is as good as a local site gets at the moment.

Glosnet. "The official Gloucestershire pages..."

Gloucestershire Gateway. Another local newspaper site.

Visit Gloucestershire. This web site has been produced in conjunction with Gloucestershire Tourism.
I can't get this one to work properly, but they say they're going to fix it (16/10/98).  They are working on it! (18/2/99) A new site but it takes so long to load that I can't tell you if it works, I got bored. (20/9/99)

The Cotswolds. At the very least you get to see a selection of photos of the area.

Welcome to the Cotswolds. "This site aims to provide The Cotswolds with a high-interest community web-site".

Hotel & Guest House Directory. Hope it's useful.

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Local History

The Gloucestershire Collection. At Gloucester Library was founded in 1900, and collects material relating to every aspect of the county.

Gloucestershire Record Office. Aims to preserve historical records relating to Gloucestershire, and make them available for research.

Whiteway Colony: The Social History of a Tolstoyan Community. A promotional site for Joy Thacker's book.

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Subject Links

Cinema Sites. An index of Movie and TV resources thoughtfully organized and annotated by a film industry professional.

Rangefinder magazine. Investigates modern photographic issues in feature articles, primers, and columns. Your can also browse the archives to find an article you may have missed in the print issue.

Adam. The Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of 1213 Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians for the benefit of the UK Higher Education community.

The National Botanic Garden of Wales. Follow the development of this millennium project situated in the regency park of Middleton Hall in Carmarthenshire.

The Royal Horticultural Society. Outlines the methods by which they hope to encourage and improve the science, art and practice of horticulture in all its branches. If you are interested in events or gardens which are closer to home,  have a look at their UK Map and RHS event listings in the Around Britain Section.

Gardening UK. A directory designed to make finding plant & garden catalogues a one-stop process.

Performing Arts Links. Maintained by Maria Teresa Lovinelli, librarian (and vice-director) of the Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection in Rome. 

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