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)

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)

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)

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)

The Bishops’ Census of 1563: a re-examination of its reliability
seminar paper by Nigel Goose, examining the problems with this source for demographic analysis
Institute of Historical Research e-seminars (1996-98, exact date unknown)

The British Presence in India in the 18th Century
Essay about the East India Company at the BBC website (Peter Marshall)

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)

Charity and the bequest motive: evidence from seventeenth-century wills
Online essay exploring the motivations for charitable bequests in 17th-century Suffolk (Leslie McGranahan)

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)

Clothing, cloth and cloth-theft in Defoe’s England
An essay looking at clothing, the second-hand clothes trade and theft in the early eighteenth century (Melissa Johnson)

Coins in colonial America
Online exhibit of coins, including state, national and imported coins (University of Notre Dame)

Colonial Paper Currencies
Online exhibit (University of Notre Dame

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)

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)

Dependency, shame and belonging: badging the deserving poor, c.1550-1750
article by Steve Hindle
from Cultural and Social History, 1:1 (2004)

The development of agrarian capitalism: land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580
Book extract: chapter from book by Jane Whittle, published by Oxford UP (2000)

Dress and fashions in early modern Europe
List of diverse online resources related to clothing, fashion, etc (Early Modern Resources)

Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coat of Arms: Material Culture and Self-Representation in the Late Middle Ages
An online ‘manual’ created in the course of various cultural heritage-projects, aimed at non-specialists and specialists, including teachers. The aim is ‘to show how the emerging self-consciousness of the Late Middle Ages tried to represent and define itself in objects.’ There are four sections - arms and armour; heraldry; costumes; jewellery - with surveys of developments, some illustrations, and glossaries of terms, general and for each section (Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest)

Dutch City Maps
Seventeenth-century town and city maps (George Welling)

Dutch Material Culture
Bibliography (Paul R Huey)

Early America Economy and Society Seminar Papers
Recent seminar papers, including papers on tea traders, coffeehouse debates, Quakers, urban workers (Library Company of Philadelphia)

Early industrialisation in the pottery industry
essay, “deals with the early period in the industrialisation of North Staffordshire and concentrates on the major industry in the area, pottery manufacture” (Lorna Scammell)

Early Modern Chester 1550-1762
A useful outline of the city’s history, with sections including politics, social conditions, economic regulation (G C F Forster)

The Early Modern City
Bibliography (Gilbert Stelter)

Early modern food, drink and drugs
A list of useful resources (EMR)