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Absolutism (Internet Modern History Sourcebook) mainly on France, a little on Spain and England

Constitutional States (Internet Modern History Sourcebook) including English Revolution, Restoration and 'Glorious' Revolution, the Netherlands, philosophy

Absolutism (WWW-Virtual Library)

The Path to Royal Absolutism (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) online exhibit tracing the political and cultural history of France from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth century; part of the 'Creating French Culture' exhibition, as is:

The Rise and Fall of Absolute Monarchy which covers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to Enlightenment and Revolution

Thirty Years War (Stephanie Marra, WWW-VL) a useful set of resources

Thirty Years' War Resources (Google Directory)

Gunpowder Plot Society information on the plot, primary documents, links

Gunpowder Plot Online Classroom all sorts of useful resources for teaching

To Picture a Plot (Centre for Fawkesian Pursuits), examining images of the Plot ever since its happening as cultural products, changing in their significance through time

The English Revolution (Modern History Sourcebook) a good selection of resources and texts

Civil Wars of Ideas (Norton Topics) exploring politics, religion and culture in seventeenth-century England through images and extracts of contemporary texts, with an informative introduction

The World Turned Upside Down site on the 'English Revolution', very much the perspective from 'below'; plenty of links, bibliography. Stimulating and engaging on the various radical movements (and their twentieth-century descendants)

English Civil War (E L Skip-Knox) a more conventional narrative account, from a taught course

The English Revolution 1640 (Christopher Hill; Andy Blunden) text of Christopher Hill's study of 1940 (the third edition of 1955).

British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638-1660 (David Plant) timelines, battles, biographies, links

Women's Lives in the British Civil Wars (at this site) extracts from personal narratives by a range of women, accounts of seventeenth-century war and revolution from their perspectives and in their own words

Oliver Cromwell originally created to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his birth in 1599, includes biographical info, resources, quotes, etc

The Pamphleteer's Protestant Champion (Kevin Creed) essay on Cromwell, arguing that he was in the main a pragmatic politician; it was the print media of the time that cast him as a 'protestant savior'

Oliver Cromwell resources (Google Directory) impressive listing of Cromwell-related sites. Why should I go to all the trouble when Google has done it for me, I ask myself?

The Levellers: Libertarian Radicalism and the English Civil War (David Hoile) essay arguing that the Levellers have more in common with libertarianism than socialism

The Levellers: chronology and bibliography (Roderick Moore) also from a libertarian perspective, indeed extremely hostile to 'the distortions of socialist historians' (and seems to regard marxist and socialist as the same thing), this is intended as a study guide for students seeking information on and primary sources for the Levellers

King Charles I (Pauline Gregg; eScholarship editions) turning to the royalists... text of this 1984 biography, including full bibliography

The Execution of Charles I (David Cornfield) full text of a contemporary printed account from 'The Intelligencer'

The Execution of Charles I (Frieda Blackwell and Jay Losey) a useful essay, with plenty of reference to contemporary documents

English Reformation and Civil War and Protectorate, Restoration and 'Glorious Revolution' (Doris Ostendorf) a short, useful outline of religious/political developments in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 (D Wilkes and M Kramer) a growing site with various resources including an 'encyclopaedia' of the people involved, links, chronology covering 1685-89 and bibliography

The Drawn Sword (University of Aberdeen) images from the MacBean Stuart and Jacobite collection, which covers 'every aspect of the Jacobite rebellions, the causes and effects, and the personalities, royal, national and local

Enlightened Despotism (Internet Modern History Sourcebook) Russia, Austria, Prussia, Poland

Representation and Democracy in the 18th Century (Steve Muhlberger) resources for a taught course, including materials on both the American and French revolutions

The Olive Branch Petition (PRO Virtual Museum) 'The aptly-named Olive Branch Petition represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.' (It was ignored by the British.) This virtual exhibit includes the original text and other documents, background on the causes of the revolution, George III, colonisation, the war itself, and the developing relations between Britain and the American colonies from the early seventeenth century

The American Revolution a site to accompany an American documentary on the American Revolution: bibliography, discussions and essays, web resources (and brief notes on the programmes)

Guided readings: the American Revolution (Gilder Lehrman Institute)

American Independence (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

American Revolution Timelines (The History Place)

Spy Letters of the American Revolution (Clements Library, University of Michigan) a 'gallery' of letters, with images, links to information about the spies and the methods used: fascinating

Recollections of an Old Soldier (Denise G Jones) electronic version of the memoir of David Parry, a soldier in the American revolutionary wars

America in Caricature 1765-1865 (Lilley Library) online exhibit of political cartoons

Charters of Freedom (NARA) the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights online

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (CUNY/George Mason University collaboration) a high quality site numbering Lynn Hunt and Jack Censer among its authors; as well as articles, it includes images, texts (translated into English), maps, songs, timelines, glossary. The articles are well written, and it looks good too

French Revolution (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

French Revolution (Stephanie Marra, WWW-VL)

The French Revolution: Apocalyptic Expectations (Norton Topics Online) focusing on the impact of the French Revolution on radical English writers rather than events in France itself

The French Revolution in British Newspapers (Alan Liu) and as for less radical English writers... a small but scintillating online archive of reactions to 'Unspeakable Events' across the Channel

French Revolutionary Pamphlets (Mark Olsen) for French readers, digitised versions of three rare pamphlets

French Farce at Fishguard 1797 (Jon Latimer) the shambolic attempted invasion of Britain by the French through south west Wales (well, it worked for Harry Tudor...) and the local response. Pity about all the advertising

The 1798 Irish Rebellion (Jacqueline Dana) web resources, texts, chronologies relating to the rising

War and society in eighteenth-century Germany (Documents in German History Project) source materials, conveniently translated into English, guidance notes, reading lists

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