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Everyday Life in Pre-modern Europe (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Social Conditions in 17th-century France (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Dartford (England), 1500-1800 (The Dartford Archive) sections on population, industry, religion among others in a southern English market town, an excellent local history site

Gloucestershire Miscellany (OTDS) a selection of documentary sources including wills and inventories

A Day in 18th-century London (Norton Topics Online) includes extracts from Swift, Addison, The Tatler 'On Shops', Smollett, Boswell: vivid and illuminating materials providing insights into the city

Occupations in Eighteenth-century Bradford (Elvira Willmott)

Old Occupations Index (Rodney Hall)

Land and Labour in Norfolk 1440-1580 text of the introduction to a recent book by Jane Whittle, The development of agrarian capitalism (OUP, 2000)

Farms and Fields of Deddington 1500-1950 (Deddington Online) a short but significant outline of the changes in farming patterns that took place in one Oxfordshire parish

Abraham Cowley, On Agriculture (Modern History Sourcebook) mid-seventeenth-century essay on English agriculture

The Economy of Europe in the Renaissance (E L Skip-Knox) background information, for a taught course

The Plymouth Colony Archive (University of Virginia) a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, seventeenth century texts, research and seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies

The Account Book of Richard Latham (Lorna Scammell) search this account book of an eighteenth-century Lancashire farmer (and there is useful background information as well)

Robert 'King' Carter of Virginia (?) notes and information on an eighteenth-century plantation owner and politician

Scottish Economic History Database, 1550-1780 (Alex Gibson) data categories include crop yields, demographic, price and wage data

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland (EDINA) digitised version of an important primary source for Scotland in the 1790s and 1830s, covering 'a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people'

Malthus' Essay on the Principles of Population (1798) (Ed Stephan) full text of this highly influential work

Early America Economy and Society Seminar Papers (Library Company of Philadelphia) full texts of recent seminar papers, including papers on tea traders, coffeehouse debates, Quakers, urban workers (and see also Past seminar papers)

Industrial Revolution (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

Country House Database (Robin Alston) lists 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)

Cotton Times focusing on the industrial revolution in Lancashire from the mid eighteenth century: includes timeline, important figures, workers, transport, Lancashire dialect, links, bibliography

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