Culture

 
        
General sites
  • Arts and letters Daily - an updated report of news and reviews in the field of Arts and Letters -- the latest trends, breakthroughs, disputes, and gossip.
  • Art Daily - the First Art Newspaper on the Net
  • ArtLink - Make original, quality young art Available, Accessible and Affordable to art lovers everywhere. Since January 1998, ArtLink,in conjunction with Sotheby’s, has held 7 exhibitions and auctions.
  • ModeNatie - situated right in the heart of Antwerp’s fashion district; it houses the Flanders Fashion Institute, the fashion museum ‘MoMu’, the editorial staff of A Magazine, a library, a Forum and the Fashion Department of the Hogeschool Antwerpen.
    ModeNatie is a unique concept where creativity, dynamics and passion for fashion will be spread by all his inhabitants.
    It offers a forum for debate, confrontation and reflection, a platform for students and designers and is at the same time a ice place to meet.
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Architecture
  • More London - more space, more transport, more views, more life, more culture, more secure, more value, ...
  • New London Architecture - What's happening now in architecture, planning and development in London
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Cultural Personalities
  • Biography.com - over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present
  • Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society - The Glasgow Legacy. An architect, designer and artist celebrated around the world today as one of the most significant talents to emerge in the period which spans from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s.
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Gastronomy
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History
  • First World War - the Heritage of The Great War 1914- 1918 (In English and in Dutch)
  • SeaBritain 2005 - The Battle of Trafalgar and the death in action of Admiral Lord Nelson on 21 October 1805 was a defining moment in British naval history and inspired the Official Nelson Commemorations Committee to set up the Trafalgar Festival for 2005. Taking the Trafalgar Festival as its inspiration it was decided to broaden the scope of the celebrations and commemorations and to take this unique opportunity to promote greater public awareness generally about the sea and its impact on all our lives.
  • The History Net - the web's best history archive : 20th century history, African History, African-American History, American History, Ancient/Classical History, British History, European History, Medieval History, Military History, Women's History.
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Literature
  • Crime Time - British site with interviews and critiques of both British and American authors, links to radio and television and interesting essays ...
  • Hero Pulps - are you ready for some extreme fiction?
  • Literay Traveler - Explore your literary imagination
  • MysteryNet - for everyone who enjoys mystery ... : on line mysteries, mystery greats, mystery books and much more!
  • Poetry Audio Archive - an interesting site if you are looking for a poet (click on 'find a poet') or a poem (click on 'find a poem'). It includes biographies, photos, and other information on more than 400 poets, with new pages being added all the time, and nearly one thousand poems, with new ones being added all the time. You can search for text within a poem, or browse the list by title or first line.
  • Poetry International Web - a worldwide forum for poetry on the internet with news, reviews, essays, interviews and discussion, but, first and foremost, hundreds of poems by acclaimed modern poets from all around the world, both in the original language and in English translation
  • Project Gutenberg - the goal of this site is to provide Public Domain Etext editions a short time after they enter the Public Domain.
  • Star Interviews - interviews with writers.
  • Tangled Web UK Contents - the Latest on Hundreds of Crime, Mystery & Fantastic Fiction Authors and their Books: exhaustive survey of exciting books with contributions by renowned critics such as Val McDermid, H.F.R. Keating and Paul Johnston ...
  • The Booker Prize - this literary prize is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa.
  • The British Council - Literature Department
  • The Cambridge History of English and American Literature  - considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published. Contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing.
  • The Modern Word - a large network of sites developed to explore twentieth century writers who have pushed the envelope of traditional narrative and structure. This includes many writers associated with Modernism, surrealism, "magical realism," and postmodernism. 
  • The Mysterious Home Page - a guide to mysteries and American crime fiction on the internet.
  • The Nobel Foundation - Educational - enjoy its game corner !  
  • The Nobel Prize in literature - the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
  • The Pulitzer Prize - journalism, fiction, drama, history, biography, poetry, general non-fiction, music, special award.
  • The San Antonio College LitWeb British Literature Index - lists of recommended books
  • TLS - The Times Literary Supplement
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Museums - Canada
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Museums - U.K.  
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Museums - USA
  • Adler Planetarium & Astrology Museum - in Chicago.
  • Burke Museum - fossil vertebrates.
  • Metropolitan Museum - the largest museum in New York.
  • MoMA - the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The quality and diversity of the Museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern and contemporary art.
  • National Gallery of Art - here you can visit The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and find European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and selected works on paper.
  • Guggenheim -  All the Guggenheim museums . New York, Bilbao, Berlin, Venice