Sites On a Particular Subject

Ancient Egypt in Historical and Mainstream Fiction at Egyptomania.org.
The Richard III Foundation, Inc. A non-profit educational organization, with extensive resources on 15th century England.
Literature on the Age of Napoleon. Bibliographies on fiction, drama and poetry; Napoleonic filmography; history and criticism; electronic texts; cronology and other useful content.
The House of Tudor. See also Wikipedia
Old West by Jim Janke. All about 19th West in the US.
Romancing the Indian. An extensive site about how Indians were portrayed in novels of Cooper, Twain, et al. There's a lot of other things here too.
Literature on the Age of Napoleon. Bibliographies on fiction, drama and poetry; Napoleonic filmography; history and criticism; electronic texts; cronology and other useful content.

Steve Trussel's Prehistoric Fiction site will delight those who love caves and cavemen.

Historical, Regency and Other Romance Novels

Romance Novels on the Web at Western Kentucky University Libraries
Rose's Medieval Romances offers a detailed list of historical romance authors, with message board and links.
Regency Home Page provides information, resources and links for regency novels.
Romance Writers of America Homepage. A premier site for (contemporary) romance writers.
We Really Dig Time Travel Romance Novels. See also Time Travel Romance Writers

The Detective and the Toga, All about mysteries set in Ancient Rome. Maintained by Rick Heli.
Fictional Rome with a searchable database of books, authors & reviews.
The Pompeii Gateway. See Novels set in ancient Rome list.
Some sites dealing with nonfictional Rome:
- The Roman Army by Gary Brueggeman. All about the legion.
- Roman Calendar at Wikipedia. See also Calendars Thru the Ages site.
- The Romans. An informative, educational page on Roman history provided by BBC. See also, For schools and education
- De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors.

Crime Through Time
Historical Mysteries with Women Sleuths
Irish Historical Myteries
The Detective and the Toga, All about mysteries set in Ancient Rome. Maintained by Rick Heli .
Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, 1993, and Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, 1995 (Amazon.com catalog info).
Molly Brown's Tour of Restoration London. The author of Invitation to a Funeral, a historical mystery, offers a detailed tour of London, its nooks and crannies, in the late 17th century.
Tangled-Web Crime and Mystery Fiction Journal, including historical mysteries.
Historical Mystery Bibliography by Dean James. It has an extensive list of historical mysteries.
Newsletters, magazines and fanzines for mystery readers by Mystery Readers Journal.
The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society with a quarterly journal, "Murder: Past Tense", by Sue Feder.
Magical Mystery Tour by Sue Feder. Lots of book reviews.
Historical Mystery Homepage. It has an up-to-date list of historical mystery authors and their books with information on location and historical period of the novels.

Nautical Fiction List by John Kohnen. About 806 Authors and 2160 titles. See also his Nautical Literature Page for info on ship-building sources, and links to other nautical sites. Comprehensive!
Nautical Fiction Authors
Nautical Fiction List at Northbrook Public Library.
The World of Patrick O'Brian at W.W. Norton.

Complete Guide to Historical Fiction Reference Books.
Selected List of Historical Fiction by Author. This is based on Besaw's list.
Historical Fiction Writers Pseudonyms List.
Evanston Library offers a useful page of "reviews and recommendations" in various categories, including mysteries and children's literature.
Continuing Yahoo! Listing, it has compiled Web links for authors, which includes all genres of literary fiction.
LibraryThing where you can catalog all your books online and network with other people that have/read similar books.
BookSpot A general resource site for book news, various Top lists, book award winners, genre and author spotlights.

Concharbooks Historical Fiction. "Secondhand/used books in 50+ categories, from antiquarian first-edition factual books to all types of fiction. A fun and extensive bookstore with a radical Celtic flavour, selling to all over the world from Cardiff, Wales."
Advanced Book Exchange. Good for out-of-print book search and ordering. ABE is a clearinghouse of many used book sellers, i.e. their combined database. Reasonable price and a very extensive catalog.
AddAll Used and Out-of-Print Book Search allows simultaneous searches across many databases.

A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales, by Jonathan Neild, published in 1902.
Historical Figures in Fiction by Gregg Sapp and Donald Hartman. Lists books by historical character. A companion volume is "Historical Figures in Nineteenth Century Fiction" by Donald Hartman (Epoch Books, 1999). (Send inquiries to Don Hartman).
World Historical Fiction : An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults by Lynda Adamson and her companion volume American Historical Fiction : An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults. A very comprehensive book that covers most countries and time periods. She also has "Literature Connections" series for grades K-6 and 7-12. See Historical Fiction for Young Adults/Education section.

Lost Classics Book Company reprints old classics. In historical fiction, it specializes on the books by G.A. Henty.
Murder by the Book. A bookstore which also carries a lot of historical mystery books.
goodnewfiction.com is a site featuring books by new historical fiction writers.
See the list of Methven's Classic Historical Novels.
Bookwire Index of Trade Publishers.

Oxford Book Of Historical Stories (Amazon.com catalog info). A collection of stories published by Oxford University Press in 1995. (ISBN: 0192142194) Author/Editor: Michael Cox. "Historical fiction is as popular today as it was at its birth in the 19th century. The stories in this collection feature some of the giants of the genre - Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini and Georgette Heyer - plus tales by Gaskell, Hardy, Huxley, Faulkner and Marjorie Bowen." This info was posted by Waterstone's Bookstore.
Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits, 1993, and Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives, 1995 (Amazon.com catalog info).