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)
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)
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 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)
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.
Controlling a complex metropolis, 1650-1750:politics, parishes and powers
article by Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck ePrints)
From London Journal, 26:1 (2001).
Cotton Times
A site focusing on the industrial revolution in Lancashire from the mid eighteenth century: includes timeline, important figures, workers, transport, Lancashire dialect, links, bibliography
Country House Database
Country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them. Organised by region (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, islands) (Robin Alston)
County government in Tudor England
overview essay by Steve Hindle, useful introduction to the subject
chapter in NL Jones and RL Tittler (eds), A companion to Tudor Britain (Blackwell, 2004)
Crime and popular protest
overview essay by Steve Hindle; a useful introduction to the subject
chapter in B Coward (ed), A companion to Stuart Britain (Blackwell, 2003)
Crime, litigation and the courts in the Isle of Man
Outline of a research project using a rich but neglected set of archives, from a range of courts in the early modern Isle of Man (Stephen Miller) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I, 1603-1610
An online, searchable version of the CSPD for these years (an important resource for many subjects in early modern British history), which may be expanded chronologically in the future (University of London/History of Parliament)
Dartford 1500-1800
With sections on population, industry, religion among others in a southern English market town, an excellent local history site (Dartford Archive)
A Day in 18th-century London
Includes extracts from Swift, Addison, The Tatler, Smollett, Boswell: vivid and illuminating materials providing insights into the city (Norton Topics Online)
Defoe’s Review
annotated digital edition of Daniel Defoe’s early periodical, in weblog format, facilitating reader interaction and ongoing discussions about the text, early modern print culture and modern digital technologies; fully searchable (Christopher Flynn, Natalie Roxburgh)
