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

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

Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era
Online exhibition: historical background, timeline, information on construction, design, use of carpets and rugs, images and descriptions of examples, resources including bibliography; activities for schools (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Good turns and the art of merchandizing: conceptualising exchange in early modern England
online article by Barbara Sebek, discussing ideas and practices in commodity exchanges
from Early modern culture, 2 (2001)

Italian Porcelain in the Eighteenth Century
useful illustrated essay (Jeffrey Munger, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Nevitt’s Memorial: the accounts of the Sidney family
An account of Sir Robert Sidney’s income and expenditure from c.1590 to 1626 (Sidneiana)

North American Fur Trade
Plenty of useful information; includes sections on languages of the fur trade, women in the trade and the beaver hat (White Oak Society)

Parrots, poets and philosophers: language and empire in the eighteenth century (PDF)
article by John Gilmore, examining references to parrots in eighteenth-century poetry, as exotic ornaments that confer status on their owners, in a process of ‘imitation, translation and cultural transfer’ (Brunel University)
From EnterText, 2.2 (2003)

The political economy of reading
A lecture on the history of books and readers 1500-1900 (PDF file) (William St Clair)

Renaissance Maiolica Study of maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) for its significance in material culture (Anita Kovacevic)

Scottish Economic History Database, 1550-1780
website making publicly available data collected during a project on Scottish wages and prices, 1550 -1780, in the following categories: crop yields, demographic, price and wage data, weather statistics (A.J.S. Gibson and T.C. Smout)

Style and Status: imperial costumes of Ottoman Turkey
an online exhibit of the sumptuous robes and fabrics of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Smithsonian Institute)

Trade Products in Early Modern Europe
Cloves, cod, coffee, porcelain, potato, sugar, tea… a delightful site that grew out of a seminar on ‘the Expansion of Europe’ (James Ford Bell Library)