Beginners’ Latin
Online tutorial (The National Archives)
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar
Useful tool for looking up the date of Easter (in Orthodox and Western calendars) from 325CE onwards, with good explanatory introduction and links to further calendar resources (Marcos J Montes)
Early Modern English Dictionaries Database
Fully searchable database of 16 early modern dictionaries; however, access is restricted to librarians and academic researchers, who will need to register for a password (Ian Lancashire)
Early Modern Palaeography
Excellent online materials for a taught course (Dave Postles)
Early eighteenth-century currency converter
(Marteau’s Journal)
English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course
A palaeography resource for ‘anyone whose research will embrace original English manuscript sources in this period’. Extensive range of examples, with additional resources making it useful for both beginners and more experienced researchers (CERES)
Ian’s English calendar
A very handy little resource: quickly check day of the week, regnal years, ecclesiastical calendar, etc (Ian MacInnes)
LIMA: Literary Manuscript Analysis
‘an advanced introduction to the study of manuscripts’, focusing on their physical characteristics (including handwriting) (Gabriel Heaton)
The Map of Early Modern London
interactive map of “the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London”, with a wealth of supporting material (Janelle Jansted)
MEMDB
Data relating to medieval and early modernprices and currency (Rutgers Libraries)
Scottish Handwriting
website providing online tuition in palaeography for historians, genealogists and other researchers in reading manuscript historical records written in Scotland (though the usefulness of the site is not limited to those reading Scottish sources) in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, with the emphasis on practical help to improve skills (Scottish Archives Network)
Shakespeare Searched.
a handy and rather fun search engine designed to provide quick access to passages from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, with search results clustered by topic, work, and character (Clusty Labs)
Transcription Marker
useful selection of 17th-century documents for transcription practice (Centre for Editing Lives and Letters)
