Early Modernity on Film
Discussions of the ways in which the early modern period has been represented in movies, with further reading and web resources (EMR)
Elizabeth
Exhibition to mark 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s death, includes sections on her youth, the court, representations, threats to the crown, the final years (National Maritime Museum)
English Civil War Society
Re-enactment society’s website
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Web site for the novel by Tracy Chevalier; includes sections on the book (and the paintings mentioned in it) and on Vermeer
Also the film website
The Purpose of the Historical Novel
1935 essay by Lion Feuchtwanger
Invitation to a Funeral
An online ‘jaunt around Restoration London’ inspired by a ‘tale of Restoration intrigue’ written by Molly Brown, which stars Aphra Behn (and ‘a cast of thousands’ including Nell Gwyn, the dukes of
York and Monmouth and the earl of Rochester)
Le Poulet Gauche
Website of a re-enactment group of sixteenth-century France
The League of Diggers and Levellers
English Revolution re-enactment society (website ‘under reconstruction’ October ‘05)
The 1642 Living History Village
(Gosport Living History Society)
Madame Bonancieux’s Cavalier Page
Cavaliers and musketeers, historical and fictional, from seventeenth-century France and
England
The Mary Rose
Site includes a virtual tour of this sixteenth-century battleship, which sank in 1545, was recovered by archaeologists in the 1980s and put on display at the Naval Museum in Portsmouth
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Earl of Bothwell
Online essay from BBC History looking at the ‘web of intrigue’ surrounding the murder of Lord Darnley (Saul David)
Novels set in the 18th century
A useful list of modern novels set in the long eighteenth century (Russell Hunt)
Pictures of the past: the 17th and 18th centuries in film
Searchable filmography (Sabine Biebl)
Plimoth-on-Web
the ‘virtual’ version of Plimoth Plantation, the well-established living history museum of the early puritan settlers of Massachusetts
Sail 1620 - the 17th Century lives of the Mayflower Pilgrims
website of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the site aims to be both entertaining and educational on the lives and history of the Pilgrim Forefathers, the Plymouth Colony, and their ship the Mayflower
The Salacious Historian’s Lair
(Originally L’Age d’Or - French and English Baroque) Some sumptuous stuff: Baroque costuming and re-enactment.
The Sealed Knot
English Civil War re-enactment society
Seventeenth-century New England and the Salem witch trials
A range of resources; includes sections about daily life, religion, the Mathers, as well as the witch trials and The Crucible (Margo Burns)
Shakespeare on Television
(Jose-Ramon Diaz-Fernandez)
Time Traveller’s Guide: Napoleon’s Empire
(Channel 4)
Time Traveller’s Guide: Stuart England
(Channel 4)
Time Traveller’s Guide: Tudor England
(Channel 4)
Time Traveller’s Guide to Stuart England
Time Traveller’s Guide to Tudor England
Web pages from a UK broadcaster blending education and entertainment (Channel 4)
Tudor England: 1485 to 1603
Biographies, portraits, primary sources, etc of Tudor monarchs and other key figures (eg Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Cromwell) (EnglishHistory.net)
Tudorhistory.org
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Tudor monarchs, and other useful resources: chronologies, glossaries, maps etc (Lara Eakins)
