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Research tools

This page provides a range of research tools for the investigation of primary material in the seventeenth century

Archaeology

Bodleian Library

= Book owners

- Pearson, David, English book owners in the seventeenth century: a work in progress listing
Bibliographical Society electronic publications: downloadable web document,
original version: January 2007. Latest update: July 2011.

- Ellis, Markman, Coffee house library short-title catalogue
Bibliographical Society electronic publications: downloadable web document,
April 2009
"This short-title catalogue lists in alphabetical order 387 printed items (books, pamphlets, maps, printed music) with provenance endorsements indicating ownership by a coffeehouse in the eighteenth century. For discussion of the libraries and coffee-houses associated with these items, see the article 'Coffee-House Libraries in Mid Eighteenth-Century London' in the March 2009 issue of The Library"

- British Library Rare Book Web Links

County resources

LINCOLNSHIRE

- Lincs to the Past

Currency converter

- Roman numeral and date converter

E-Document repository examples

- GRF library of English antiquarian books & documents

Web based digital image repository of C17th and earlier vellum manuscripts and early published books
See - Laws of England section of the website

Group knowledge sharing examples

- The portable antiquities scheme

Image search

The - Geograph website provides a tool to search for photographic images of landscape by Ordinance Survey grid references

Interesting miscellaneous web tools

Ancestry Atlas

Inventories

Latin tuition

- National Archives London - Beginner's Latin
- National Archives London - Advanced Latin

Local historical societies

British Association of Local History
Snodland historical society
Snodland historical museum: Enquiries to Dr. Andrew Ashbee, 214 Malling Road, Snodland, Kent ME6 5EQ: email - aa0060962@blueyonder.co.uk

London streets and parishes

- Harben, Henry A., A dictionary of London (London, 1918)
A London parish map for C17th London is available at XXXX

London online books

- University of Pennsylvania online London & Westminster book list

Newspapers

- Raglinen educational archive of rare historic newspapers

Palaeography

- National Archives London - Palaeography Tuition
- Early modern palaeography online course with practice exercises
Munby, Lionel, Steve Hobbs and Alan Crosby, Reading Turdor and Stuart handwriting (2nd ed., XXXX, XXXX)

Regnal years

- Table of regnal years of English sovereigns

Search tools

- Connected histories: British history sources, 1500-1900
- C18th Connect: Eighteenth century scholarship online

Visual material

- Directory of London print and map dealer shops (with physical locations & websites)

Wiki examples

- The Leverstock Green Chronicle

This is a substantial wiki based site devised, researched and maintained by Barbara Chapman, a retired teacher and local historian. The site takes a chronological, field and building oriented approach to documenting and synthesising the history of the village of Leverstock Green, now a suburb of Hemel Hempstead. Not an academic historian.

- FamilySearch Research Wiki

A useful wiki for quick overviews on London parishes, with pointers to the location of published and manuscript parish registers and other parish records

Victoria County History

Victoria County History Explore

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