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An excellent overview of the history of gravitational lensing, including the 1919 eclipse, covering the history of the subject through to the present day. (I,A)

A mainly observational review of the astrophysical and cosmological applications of strong gravitational lensing, including a nice historical introduction and a brief review of microlensing. (A)

This classic paper marks the birth of microlensing, in making the jump from light deflection by our sun (as observed by Eddington, et al.) to that by other stars in our galaxy. (A)

A comprehensive review of microlensing, covering the history of the field, its theoretical foundations, a critical review of observational results at the time of its writing and a discussion of future prospects. (A)

A comprehensive (and updatable) review with sections on the history, theory, and applications of gravitational lensing. (A)

Eddington, a pacifist, used the eclipse experiment as an example of how science can transcend borders, even in times of war. (I)

This article tells the story of Dyson and Eddington's experiment and data analysis. Eddington believed that the experiment would confirm Einstein's prediction - and his observations bore this out. (I)

The original paper describing the expedition, its observations and results. (A)

The deflection of during an eclipse was the first observation of lensing in the universe, but there would not be another for 60 years. However, in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky predicted that galaxies and clusters of galaxies would make good gravitational lenses as well, in this prescient paper. (A)