Alchemy Website
The site has 1700+ images, 200+ complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material, a searchable database (Adam McLean)
America in Caricature 1765-1865
An online exhibit of political cartoons (Lilley Library)
American almanacs and colonial identity
seminar paper by Matthew Shaw (British Library Research Archive)
originally given at University of Birmingham, March 2006
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)
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)
Audience behaviour in Shakespeare’s London
An essay about theatregoing experiences in London around 1600 (Andrew Gurr)
Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Searchable database of information from the Bath Chronicle 1770-1800 (Bath & North East Somerset Council)
Best Witches
A very useful and wide-ranging set of resources (Joan Pontius) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Bible: King James Version
fully searchable electronic (SGML) edition of the King James Bible (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)
Bibliographies for studies of the Reformation
Introductory bibliography and more specialised bibliographies on Erasmus, Luther, Bucer, Zwingli, Calvin and Ignatius of Loyola (William Harmless)
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)
Books of Common Prayer
Links to various online versions of the Anglican prayer book, including the 1552, 1559 and 1662 editions (Reformed Episcopal Church)
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 History, 1660-1832
Book extract: chapter by Alexander Murdoch from British history, 1660-1832 : national identity and local culture (Basingstoke, 1998) (Edinburgh Research Archive
The Bubble Project
A collaborative, interdisciplinary research project on the South Sea Bubble (which burst in 1720), focusing on its cultural history and influence on the arts, includes bibliography, essays, historical outline (David McNeil et al)
1737 Canting Dictionary
transcription (in XML format) of N. Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (Liam Quin)
The Catholic Reformation
Links to online source materials and web resources (Internet Archive of Texts and Documents)
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
a scholarly online edition of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts, which include laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances, and his transcriptions from other sources (William R Newman, Indiana University)
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.
Coin and Conscience: Popular Views of Money, Credit and Speculation
online exhibit of images that ‘trace society’s changing attitudes toward money from the Reformation and the Church’s injunctions against usury, to the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism’ (Baker Library, Harvard College)
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
online exhibition exploring Europeans’ attempts ‘to “read” native cultures of the Americas’ (and vice versa); six thematic sections, including ‘promotion and possession’, ‘viewers and the viewed’, ‘colonial fictions, colonial histories’ (University of Pennsylvania Library)
The Conventicle
a group blog by students in Scotland with interests in the Puritans and the Reformation
The Damned Art
online exhibit of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology (University of Glasgow Library)
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)
Dependency, shame and belonging: badging the deserving poor, c.1550-1750
article by Steve Hindle
from Cultural and Social History, 1:1 (2004)
The Dictionary of Sensibility
A resource for the language of eighteenth-century ’sensibility’; 24 ‘key terms’, such as ‘benevolence’, ’sense’, ‘taste’, are explored through extracts from primary texts (Corey Brady et al)
Dissent, Doubt and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation
Set of pages focusing on the religious changes of the 1530s in England, with extracts from texts including material on the ‘Pilgrimage of Grace’ and Anne Askew (Norton Topics Online)
Dress and fashions in early modern Europe
List of diverse online resources related to clothing, fashion, etc (Early Modern Resources)
