The 1798 rebellion and the origins of Irish republicanism
long essay on “the largest popular republican rising in Irish history” (Andrew Flood)
Absolutism (Internet Modern History Sourcebook) Primary source document extracts, useful for teaching. Mainly on France, a little on Spain and England
Absolutism
Useful links (Stephanie Marra, WWW-Virtual Library)
The Account Book of Richard Latham
The accounts book of an eighteenth-century Lancashire farmer in searchable database format (Lorna Scammell)
Of Agriculture (1650)
Text of Abraham Cowley’s essay on 17th-century English agriculture (Modern History Sourcebook)
The Aphra Behn Page
Includes biographical material, links, sections on Behn and racism and on women in Restoration theatre (Ruth Nestvold)
Apotropaios
(Was ‘Folk Magic in Britain’) An exploration of objects, such as witch-bottles, written charms, horse skulls, that that were concealed in and around buildings as spells or counter-spells; sections on each of the various kinds of object, links, book list (Brian Hoggard)
An arbitrage model of crop rotation in eighteenth-century England
essay by Liam Brunt (U. Oxford)
Discussion papers in economic and social history, 32 (1999)
The Art of William Hogarth
Described as ‘a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work’, the quality of the images is very good and it’s easy to navigate (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett: An e-text of the 1875 edition
a work in progress (about halfway through at May ‘06), with additional links (Ellen Moody)
Bach
Bibliography (Yo Tomita)
Beginning Eastward From London: a study in the domestic establishment of the British East India Company (1599-1660)
Essay on early years and development of the Company (Chris Godat)
Bibliographies for studies of the Reformation
Introductory bibliography and more specialised bibliographies on Erasmus, Luther, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola (William Harmless)
Bibliography of Tudor-Stuart Women’s History
(Diana Laulainen)
The ‘bloody papist’: murder, papists and propaganda in early modern prose pamphlets
NB: link to download MS Word document
article by Lynne Robson (Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
From Renaissance Journal, 2:1 (2004)
Bodleian Broadside Ballads Project
30,000 ballads online, from the Bodleian Library’s collections, fully indexed and searchable by author, title, subject etc. There are also woodcut images and some musical scores (Bodleian Library)
British catholic policy in eighteenth-century Ireland and Quebec
PhD thesis (1998) by Karen Stanbridge, a comparative study of British Catholic legislation examining the processes leading to the legislation and their outcomes (Theses Canada Portal)
British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-1660
Timelines, battles, biographies, links (David Plant)
British History, 1660-1832
Book extract: chapter by Alexander Murdoch from British history, 1660-1832 : national identity and local culture (Basingstoke, 1998) (Edinburgh Research Archive
British History Online
A rapidly expanding range of primary and secondary sources for British history (University of London/History of Parliament Trust)
British primary documents
Includes selection of early modern texts online, printed and archival (Richard Hacken)
British Women Romantic Poets
An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)
Last Mile Tours: Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-century England
Website of a student project making imaginative use of original sources (Margaret Allen, Mandy Taylor, Bonnie Bonifield)
Catherine de Medici Queen of France
List of online resources (Robert Wilde)
Catherine d’Medici, Queen of France
Short biography and bibliography (Prof Pavlac’s Women’s History Resources)
The Catholic Reformation
Links to online source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
The Execution of Charles I
A useful essay, with plenty of reference to contemporary documents (Frieda Blackwell and Jay Losey) (NB: Wayback Archive)
City, capital, and metropolis: the changing shape of seventeenth-century London
essay by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
In Imagining early modern London: perceptions and portrayals of the city from Stow to Strype, 1598 -1720 (Cambridge UP, 2001)
The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835
a relational database documenting the known careers of Church of England clergymen; can be searched by persons, locations, etc. Unfortunately, much of the supporting website is at present (Sept ‘06) incomplete.
