Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (BRANCH) "provides users with a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925." This website, which was launched in 2005 and is edited by English scholar Dino Franco Felluga, includes dozens of essays authored by over 100 contributing scholars about a range of topics related to nineteenth-century literature and history. Visitors can browse essays by timeline (available via a link at the top-right corner of the website), by contributors, or by topic clusters. New visitors to this site may find it easiest to browse this diverse collection of essays via topic clusters, which includes dozens of topics ranging from celebrity culture, empire and the world, gender and sex, failed or alternative science and technology, and much more. These essays, which can be downloaded in PDF format, provide helpful overviews about a range of topics relating to nineteenth-century culture, making this website a blend of an encyclopedia and academic journal.
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