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History of monumental brasses. Other pages on the site discuss clothing and armour depicted on brass monuments. Site sells equipment for brass rubbing.

Internet Archive copy of "A history of ancient sculpture" by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883).
 
Deals with Eygptian, Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern sculpture.
 
 

The aim of this book is to give, as far as possible, a straight-forward account of the costume to be found represented on that large class of sepulchral memorials known as Monumental Brasses.
 
This is a link to the Internet Archive's collection in PDF, Text, and Kindle formats.
 
 

Barley Studio was founded by Keith Barley ACR in 1973 and has been at the forefront of developing techniques for the preservation of ancient glass since then. Their aim is to maintain the highest standards of artistry and craftsmanship in stained glass conservation and creation.

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An extensive gallery of photographs of beetles

A consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

This website provides access to a comprehensive collection of images and detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral.

Comprehensive information about the bee fauna of the western Palaearctic biogeographical region and includes synonyms and country level distribution data (see map). It covers a much wider geographical area than the Fauna Europaea list of bees which is largely outdated. The checklist aims to give some orientation to bee taxonomists and the users of bee taxonomic information like ecologists, pollination biologists or agricultural scientists. It will also act as a planning tool for barcoding the bees of this region.

Founded in 1979 to promote the appreciation, study and conservation of church monuments both in the UK and abroad.

GBIF is an international organisation that is working to make the world's biodiversity data accessible everywhere in the world. GBIF and its many partners work to mobilise the data, and to improve search mechanisms, data and metadata standards, web services, and the other components of an Internet-based information infrastructure for biodiversity.
 
GBIF makes available data that are shared by hundreds of data publishers from around the world.
 
 

Primarily a collation of published interactions between Great Britain 's invertebrate herbivores (insects and mites) and their host plants. There are also some interactions for the invertebrates closely associated with herbivores, such as predators, parasitoids, cleptoparasites and mutualists.

An online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.

Within the United Kingdom, the Hope Entomological Collections are second in size and importance to the national insect collection at the Natural History Museum, London. The collection houses over 25,000 arthropod types, and comprises over 5 million specimens.

Website contains ability to search the collection.

The Field Studies Council is an environmental education charity committed to helping people understand and be inspired by the natural world. Thousands of students every year experience the FSC through fieldwork and cross-curricular courses at our network of 17 centres across the UK.

Forensic entomology is the study of insects and other arthropods (ie spiders, mites) in a situation where a crime may have been committed. The insects recovered from a crime scene can provide vital information for the investigating team.

The most common role for Museum forensic entomologists is establishing a minimum time since death in suspicious cases, by analysing the carrion insects on the body.

Helen Whittaker MA AMGP designs and makes stained glass windows and architectural sculptures in copper and glass. Helen uses figurative glass painting and traditional glazing techniques combined with striking geometric designs and modern abstract forms.

Images of England detailed record for Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, Northamptonshire.

iSpot is a website provided by The Open University as part of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) project, which is funded by the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. The purpose is to allow anyone to upload images of organism and have them identified and discussed.

Images of England detailed record for jesus Hospital, Rothwell, Northamptonshire.

Images of England detailed record for Market House, Rothwell, Northamptonshire.

Chartres Cathedral is among the best preserved of the major French cathedrals, with extensive programmes of sculpture and stained glass. It was a major site of pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin Mary, to whom the cathedral is dedicated.

The links lead to information and diagrams concerning the cathedral's Architecture, Stained Glass, Sculpture, Manuscripts. Maps and Other Information.

The order Psocoptera is one of the least recorded insect groups. This lack of recording is not because the species are rarely encountered – on the contrary; almost every tree in Britain is likely to be home to some of these creatures and psocids are far more abundant than some insect orders (e.g. lacewings).

One hundred species have been recorded in Britain which, compared to other insect groups, is not a dauntingly large number to learn to identify.

The Non-native Species Secretariat has responsibility for helping to coordinate the approach to invasive non-native species in Great Britain.  We are responsible to a Programme Board which represents the relevant governments and agencies of England, Scotland and Wales.
 
Site contains fact and identification sheets for monitoring the spread of invasive entomnon-native species.

Housed in the Department of Entomology and the College of Agriculture and Life Science, the NCSU Insect Museum is dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of resources in systematic entomology useful to the NCSU Department of Entomology, the citizens of North Carolina, and the broader systematics community. We also host the Treehoppers website(Deitz and Wallace) and theHexapod Haiku Challenge, which happens every March.

A guide designed to assist users to identify invasive ant species commonly encountered in the Pacific Island region. The guide covers four subfamilies, 20 genera and 44 species.
 
Has a glossary of terms with very useful diagrams and descrptions.
 

Designed for use in the classroom, these online features and printable files (PDFs) help educators introduce to their students the richness and diversity of works in various collections of the Metropolitan Museum. Publications include a variety of illustrations and descriptions of selected works of art, historical and cultural background, classroom applications in the form of lesson plans and activities, and other useful material.

 
Material consists of large illustrated pdf files on Greek, Egyptian, Chinese, Medieval, Rennaisance, Islamic, African, Asian, and Byzantine art.
 

Website for Salisbury cathedral.

With over 35 million specimens housed in more than 132,354 drawers, 33,000 jars or vials, and 23,000 slides in more than 5,200 cabinets, the National Insect Collection is one of the largest entomological collections in the world.

The Species Recovery Trust (formerly the Endangered Species Conservation Trust) is committed to halting the loss of some of the rarest species in the UK.

Our primary aim is to remove 50 species from the edge of extinction in the UK by the year 2050 through effective conservation strategies informed by detailed scientific knowledge.

Images of England detailed record for St Nicholas, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire.

Images of England detailed record for St Peter's church Wolfhampcote.

Midland churches entry for St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness, Upper Shuckburgh, Warwickshire.
 

The World Heritage Site of Stonehenge. Located near Salisbury in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside, it is a highlight of the South West.

Founded in 1872 as the South London Entomological and Natural History Society now has members from all over the British Isles and abroad. The Society publishes a quarterly jopurnal, and maintains a comprehensive reference collections of Diptera, Coleoptera, Odonata, and British and European Lepidoptera.

The Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) network is an initiative that is open to anyone with an interest in nature. Hosted by the Natural History Museum, the site aims to create and inspire a new generation of nature-lovers by getting people to explore, study, enjoy and protect their local environment.

The Stained Glass Museum at Ely Cathedral offers a unique insight into the fascinating story of stained glass, an art-form that has been practised in Britain for at least thirteen hundred years.

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List.
 
The World Heritage List includes 911 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
 
World Heritage Locations that are featured on this site are:

• Notre-Dame d'Amiens
• Notre-Dame de Chartres

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled collaboratively by hundreds of expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.

Images of England detailed record for the Triangular Lodge, Rushton, Northamptonshire.

Stained Glass Register and News, the e-zine for hobby and professional artists of the UK.

Red Data Books for Entomology.

ENGLISH HERITAGE'S RECORD OF SCHEDULED MONUMENTS
The medieval settlement of Upper Shuckburgh to the south and east of
Shuckburgh Park and the remains of its open field system survive as a
series of well-preserved earthworks and associated buried deposits.

Online magazine devoted to medieval stained glass. Contains news, features, and description of a featured panel of medieval glass.

Website of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust.

Wild About Britain has hundreds of thousands of pages about British wildlife, the Environment and the Great Outdoors; from birds, butterflies, fungi and trees to climate change, marine life, astronomy and the weather.

The website of the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust.

Systematic collections of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Entomology comprise over one million curated specimens.

Division holdings include important collections of lepidopterans, arachnids, Orthoptera, Coleoptera, water beetles and midges, and specialty collections on evolutionary themes. Recent acquisitions also include historically important collections from other institutions.

The Division also maintains a general entomological library of periodicals, books and reprints that includes coverage of arachnology donated from the Alexander Petrunkevitch Library.

The Yale Peabody Museum’s collections are available to legitimate researchers for scholarly use