Welcome to Celtnet 'One Million People' — This, unashamedly, is a drive to get as many people to help this site as possible. Over the years I have transscribed a number of books (mostly Middle Welsh and Recipes) and I have made the full texts, translations and modern recactions (for recipes) available on this site, completely free. But I am only one person, doing this in my spare time and there are hundreds of books out there that need to be made availabe. So, I am going to ask you for 1 of 4 things from you:

1. A donation of $1 made via PayPal:

2. A donation of 50c made via PayPal:

3. A link back to this page: <a href="http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/one-million-people.php">One Million People</a> Making ancient books available to all.

4. If you have an old book, then consider making it available to this site, either by donation, by scanning it or by digitizing and copying yourself (any such donations will of course be acknowleged).

Just to show what has been done already, here are the ancient and historic books that have already been put up on this site:

Cookery books:

Apicius' De Re Coquinaria, ancient Roman Cookery book
The Forme of Cury, Medieval Cookery book
Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Regency Cookery book
Francatelli's The Cook's Guide and Housekeeper's & Butler's Assistant Victorian cookbook
Mrs Beeton's Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management Victorian cookery book

Ancient Welsh Texts

The Red Book of Hergest
The Black Book of Carmarthen
The Book of Taliesin

Why am I doing this? Well, I really want to make ancient culinary literature available to all, and old recipes fascinate me.

Why am I asking for only $1 or 50c? Well, I want everyone who comes to this site to want to and to be able to donate. But surely it won't make a difference? I hear you ask. Well... This site gets a minimum o 4000 visitors each and every day. Most people will ignore this appeal, but if only 1 in 10 donate 50c that's $200 a day, $1400 a week. That's enough to source a number of ancient books or to keep the site running for a few more months (and to give me the incentive to work a little harder on making more texts available).

This is the real power of the internet. Each individual only gives a little, but collectively the amount is huge.

What's in if for me? Yes, I can hear you asking that. Well, if you want you get your name here in lights. And that's another reason for calling this 1,000,000 people. I want to personally thank anyone and everyone who takes the time and effort to help. If you donate then you will get your name listed here. I have set-up a database and you can add a little biography of yourself there. This will be linked from your name on this page. If you have a website then you can add a link to that website and it's completely free. Even if you just link to this page from your site you will still get your name here.

Yes, a 50c or $1 donation to this cause is all you need to get your website permanently linked from this page. It's my 'thank you' for your donation and time. Now, I can't say any fairer than that, can I? To donate simply click on the: As soon as you've made you will automatically be re-directed to the information entry page where you can submit your details to be listed on this and subsequent pages.

If you have donated 50c you get a naked link. If you have donated $1 or more you can define your own link text.
If you have added a link to this page send an email with your Name, a short (500 character) biography, the page where you added our link to and your URL to me at admin @ celtnet.org.uk . Please note, if you only link to this site but do not donate, your URL will be displayed, but it will not be hyperlinked.