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Revision as of 09:57, March 21, 2012

Research tools

Editorial history

19/08/11, CSG: Created page


Overview

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

Currently, this page is an informal collection of tools of varying utility, and will need to be restructured and edited.


Contents



Alumni Cantabrigienses


Wikipedia index to Internet Archive editions of Alumni Cantabrigienses


Alumni Oxonienses


Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: Their Parentage, vol. 4 (S-Z) (Oxford & London, 1892)


Archaeology Data Service


- London Archaeology online journal

Index to London Archaeologist, 1668-2008
- 11 PDFs for 11 vols

Sampling vol. 11

Biddulph, Kim, 'History v. Archaeology: the City of London on the eve of the Great Fire of London, a case stuy' 59-63
Archives: digital data 163-166
British Libray: London: A Life in Maps (exhibition), reviewed 184
Cassini Historical Maps, reviewed 306
Groundsure Historical map service, inside cover facing 224
Cartographic evidence, Holborn 10-11, 13; Putney 274, 277, 279
Centre for Metropolitan History: Londoners and the Law project, 112
Docks/wharves, medieval 47-48, 50
Domestic interiors database 196
Dunstan, James, The History of the parish of Bromley, St Leonard, Middlesex (1862), 40-43
Heard, Kieron, with Damian Goodburn, Investigating the maritime history of Rotherhithe. Excavations at Pacific Wharf, 165 Rotherhithe Street, Southwark, reviewed 138


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Archives


National Archives of Ireland
National Archives of Wales


Bankruptcy


Taunton Journal, 1725-1627, reports of bankruptcy[1]


Bodleian Library


- Bodleian library guide to resources


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


Building history


Building history- use of wills and inventories


Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company


A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1635-1639
- Oxford, 1907

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1640-1643
- Oxford, 1909

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1644-1649
- Oxford, 1912

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1650-1654
- Oxford, 1913

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659
- Oxford, 1916

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663
- Oxford, 1922

A calendar of court minutes, etc. of the East India company 1664-1667 (Oxford, 1925)
- Google snippets only

A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1668-1670 (Oxford, 1929)
- Google snippets only

A calendar of the court minutes etc., of the East India company, 1671-1673 (Oxford, 1932)
- Google snippets only

A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1674-1676 (Oxford, 1935)
- Google snippets only

A calendar of the court minutes, etc., of the East India company, 1677-1679 (Oxford, 1938)
- Google snippets only

William Foster (ed.), The English Factories in India: 1655-1660 (Oxford, XXXX)

William Foster (ed.), The English Factories in India: 1661-1664 (Oxford, 1923)
- Google Book snippet view only

George Birdwood, Report on the old records of the East India Office with supplementary notes and appendices (London, 1890)

George W. Forrest (ed.), Selections from the letters, depatches, and other state papers preserved in the Bombay secretariat, Home series, vol.1 (Bombay, 1887)
 - Selections fron the Surat letters, 1630-1700, pp. 3-116
- Selections from the Surat diaries, 1660-1781, pp. 177-450


Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642-1656


Mary Anne Everett Green (ed.), Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money, 1642-1656 (London, 1888)


Calendars of State Papers: Colonial, America and West Indies


W. Noel Sainsbury (ed.), Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, vol. 7: 1669-1674 (London, 1889)


Calendars of State Papers: Domestic Series: Charles II


Green, Mary Ann Everett (ed.), Calendar of state papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles II, 1665-1666 (London, 1864)]

Green, Mary Ann Everett (ed.), Calendar of state papers, domestic series, of the reign of Charles II, 1667 (London, 1866)

Daniell, F.H. Blackburne (ed.), Calendar of state papers, domestic series, March 1st, 1675, to February 29th, 1676 (London, 1907)


Carte Calendar


Search Carte calendar, 1660-1667, vols. 30-61


County resources


ESSEX

Add SEAX resource

LINCOLNSHIRE

- Lincs to the Past


Crop yields


National medieval crop yields database
- The database is the creation of Bruce M. S. Campbell, Professor of Medieval Economic History within the School of Geography, Archaeology, and Palaeoecology at The Queen’s University of Belfast (QUB).
- The “Database” may be searched by crop, harvest year, manor, estate, county, region, and any combination of the same. All that is required is that users identify themselves by registering. The yields given are yields per seed, gross of tithe (assumed to have been every tenth sheaf deducted in the field) and net of seed. The database cannot be amended but a “Wiki” page is available where any corrections and additions can be noted along with other relevant comments. It is anticipated that the database will be corrected, added to, and extended as more data become available. Meanwhile, the “Chronologies” facility offers a series of reconstructed annual chronologies for each of the principal crops and combinations of the same. These have no counterpart for any other country or period before the 19th century and will be of particular value to archaeologists, historians, economists, environmentalists, and agronomists. They have been derived from the spatially and chronologically discontinuous raw yield data using the regression facility available within the STATA statistical software package.
- Required citation: Bruce M. S. Campbell (2007), Three centuries of English crops yields, 1211‑1491 [WWW document]. URL http://www.cropyields.ac.uk [accessed on day/month/year]


Currency converter


- Roman numeral and date converter


Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College, London


Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College, London

Project: Mapping the medieval countryside
- "Digitisation for BHO of 29 volumes of the Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem, the single most important source for the study of landed society in later medieval England"
- "The team at King's, working with colleagues at the University of Winchester, will create an additional database of the material for 1399-1447, allowing map-based and other statistical analyses of the data"
- Press release, 13/02/12

See Blackwell's Companion to Digital Humanities


E-Document repository examples


- GRF library of English antiquarian books & documents


Dutch language


HereDutchHere

- Dutch Sailors and Ships of The 17th Century


Dutch text & image resources


Linschoten-Vereeniging


Events


Friday, April 20th, 2012

CASA Smart Cities: bridging physical and digital
Senate House, UCL, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU London
09.00-18.00
- Hosted by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Saturday, March 24th, 2012-Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Hack Day, TNA
TNA, TNA


Funding bodies


AHRC

-See Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme, 2006-2010

ESRC


Genealogy


Medieval Genealogy index & search


Group knowledge sharing examples


- The portable antiquities scheme


Hearth Tax, London

Hearth Tax, London & Middlesex: 1666


Hearth tax, London & Middlesex: 1666


Hearth Tax, London & Middlesex: 1662


Hearth tax, London & Middlesex: 1662


Hearth Tax, Westminster: 1664


Hearth tax, Westminster: 1664


History of Parliament Online


See Image gallery for portraits of members of parliament, constituencies, and parliamentary sessions[2]

See Terms of Use and Copyright

See Members, 1604-1629, available late 2012[3]
See Members, 1640-1660: not yet available
See Members, 1660-1690
See Members, 1690-1715


Humanities Research Institute: Sheffield


Humanities Research Institute: Sheffield


HRI Digital


HRI Digital services


HRI Online


HRI Online publishing services
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Digital Humanities Congress 2012: Sheffield


Digital Humanities Congress 2012: Sheffield, 6th-8th September

- Conference website
- The Network of Expert Centres in digital humanities
- Centernet: an international network of digital humanities centres:

- Proposals for papers to be sunmitted by April 30th, 1012

Studies in Digital Humanities


New online journal: Studies in the Digital Humanities.


Image search


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


Institute of Historical Research: Digital initiatives

Historians' Online Research Environments


- IHR ongoing project
- Launched February 2012
- See Histore
- See Histore blog
- See WordPress blog technology site


History Spot


History Spot collaborative area

History Spot Project Blog


IHR Digital Seminar


IHR Digital Seminar
Tuesdays, 5.15 p.m.

Convenors: Seth Denbo (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities), Richard Deswarte (History Data Service, University of Essex), Beth Hartland (KCL), Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire), Peter Webster (IHR)

Seminars are normally streamed live online at HistorySpot

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012: Adam Farquhar (The British Library), Andrew Prescott (KCL), Melissa Terras (UCL): The Future of the Past (round table session): S261 (Senate House, second floor)


Centre for Metropolitan History


Ongoing projects

Life in the suburbs


Life in the suburbs: health, domesticity and status in early modern London


Locating London's past


Locating London's past


JISC


See JISC

JISC initiatives of interest:

See Old Maps Online
- The site incorporates access to collections at the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Moravian Library in the Czech Republic and the prestigious David Rumsey Collection in California
- Other collections to be added later this year include those from Harvard University, the New York Public Library, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Library at Oxford and several major European libraries

See [JISC Digitisation and Content Programme 2011-2013]
- Strand A:

- Strand B:

- Strand C: Clustering Digital Content


  • Includes, Old Maps Online (see above)


JISC Digitisation and Content Programme Blog

List of Blogs for the JISC Community


Interesting miscellaneous web tools


Ancestry Atlas


Inventories


Journals of the House of Commons


The Journals of the House of Commons, From August the 15th 1651, to March the 16th 1659, vol. 7 (London, 1813)


Latin tuition


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


Legal resources


The Journal of Legal History
- Founded 1980, issued 3x per annum


Local historical societies


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


London Lives Project

Main website


London Lives


Additional datasets


Additional datasets
- Parish records
- Tax records
- Other records


User wiki


User wiki


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


Marriage licences


Armytage, George John, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. ?: 1660-1668 (London, 1892)
Armytage, George John, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. ?: 1669-1679 (London, 1892)
Armytage, George John, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. ?: 1680-1686 (London, 18XX)
Armytage, George John, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. 1: July 1687-June 1684 (London, 1890)

Chester, Joseph Lemuel, Allegations for marriage licences issued by the dean and chapter of Westminster, 1558-1699; also, for those issued by the vicar-general of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660 to 1679 (London, 1886)



Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)


Museum of London Archaeology

- London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre Online Catalogue
- LAARC New Deposits


National Archives (Kew), online search tools


E170 (search tool by place for available taxation data)


National Archives (Kew): Lab APIS


See National Archives Labs overview
See Domesday on a map


Newspapers


- Raglinen educational archive of rare historic newspapers

The British Newspaper Archive
- Brightsolid in partnership with the British Library
- Oldest newspapers are:

  • Birmingham gazette (1741-1871)
  • Bristol Mercury (1716-1900)
  • Caledonoan Mercury (1720-1867)
  • Derby Mercury (1727-1900)
  • Ipswich Journal (1720-1800)
  • Newcastle Courant (1711-1900)

Norwich Textiles


http://www.norwichtextiles.org.uk/image-search


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)


Parish Registers: London & Environs


Hint, William H., The registers of St. Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, vol. 4: burials, 1653-1752 (London, 1908)


Parish registers: Surrey


Surrey Parish Chest


Regnal years


- Table of regnal years of English sovereigns


Richard Smyth's Obituaries


Ellis, Henry (ed.), "The obituary of Richard Smyth, secondary of the Poultry compter, London: being a catalogue of all such persons as he knew in their life: extending from A.D. 1627 to A.D. 1674" (London, 1849)


John Strype: Survey of the cities of London and Westminster


See List of Parishes
See List of illustrations

See Perambulation of towns within five miles of London
- Kensington
- Hammersmith
- Chelsea
- Fulham
- Putney
- Wandsworth
- Battersey
- Clapham
- Camberwell
- Lambhith, alias Lambeth
- Newington-Butts
- Rotherhith
- Deptford
- Greenwich
- Stepney
- Poplar and Blackwal
- St Paul Shadwell
- St Leonard's Bromley
- Stratford le Bow
- West Ham
- St Mary Low Leyton
- Walthamstow
- Wansted
- Hackney
- Stoke Newington
- Iseldon, vulgarly Islington
- Highgate
- St Pancras
- St Mary le Bone


John Rushworth, Historical Collections


John Rushworth, Historical collections: the third part; in two volumes (London, 1691)


Search tools


- AIM 25
- Connected histories: British history sources, 1500-1900
- C18th Connect: Eighteenth century scholarship online

British Library Discovery

  • Use OR to bring more results: Leeds OR Bradford
  • Use NEAR to find two words close to each other: Shakespeare NEAR war
  • Use "quote marks" to find exact phrases
  • Use brackets for complex searches: Inn AND (Southwark OR Lambeth)
  • Use NOT to exclude results: Austen NOT Jane
  • Use a * to pick up variant spellings: Rob*n* will find Robins, Robbins, Robyns and Robinson


"the Discovery System is an integration platform built using Service Oriented Architecture principles. This enables system extensibility, by writing reusable components, and integration with other systems.

The software uses Microsoft .NET platform technologies and written in C#. The data store is a high-performance, document-based, open source MongoDB database. Search and taxonomy (subjects) functionality are powered by Autonomy indexes.

The web user interface is Microsoft .NET MVC(Model-View-Controller) – for displaying search results, browsing, and displaying document details. The map functionality is powered by OpenLayers and JQuery.

The core of the system is the Enterprise Service Bus (Neuron), which enables communication between all parts of the system."[4]

Open Library

- Open Library API


Shipping


'Three Decks': Sailing war ship database & wiki
- As of 08/12/11 there were 17,975 ships, 20,604 seamen, 557 actions/battles listed on this site


Society of Genealogists Catalogue


Search SOGCAT


Survey of London


Vol. 1: Parish of Bromley-by-Bow (XXXX, XXXX)

Vol. 2: Parish of Chelsea, Part 1 (XXXX, XXXX)

Vol. 3: Parish of St. Giles-in-the-fields, Part 1 (Lincoln's Inn Fields) (London, 1912)

Vol. 4: Parish of Chelsea, Part 2

Vol. 5: Parish of Giles-in-the-fields, Part 2 (London, 1914)

Vol. 6: Parish of Hammersmith

Vol. 7: Parish of Chelsea, Part 3 (The Old Church)

Vol. 8: Parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch

Vol. 9: Parish of St. Helen, Bishopsgate, Part 1

Vol. 10: Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, Part 1

Vol. 11: Parish of Chelsea, part 4 (The Royal Hospital)

Vol. 12: Parish of All Hallows Barking-by-the-Tower, Part 1 (The parish Church) (London, 1929)

Vol. 13: Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, Part 2 (Neighbourhood of Whitehall, vol. 1)

Vol. 14: The parish of St Margaret Westminster, Part 3, vol. 2 (London, 1931)

Vol. 15: All Hallows Barking-by-the-Tower, Part 2 London, 1934)

Vol. 16: Charing Cross (Parish of St. Martin-in-the_Fields, Part 1)

Vol. 17: The Village of Highgate (Parish of St. Pancras, part 1) (London, 1936)

Vol. 18: The Strand (Parish of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Part 2 (London, 1937)

Vol. 19: Old St. Pancras and Kentish Town (London, 1938)

Vol. 20: Trafalgar Square and Neighbourhood (The parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Part 3) (London, 1940)

Vol. 22: Bankside (The parishes of St. Saviour and Christchurch Southwark) (London, 1950)

Vol. 23: South Bank & Vauxhall (The parish of St. Mary, Lambeth) (London, 1952)

Vol. 24: King's Cross neighbouhood: the parish of St Pancras, part IV (London, 1952)

Vol. 25: St. George's Fields (the Parishes of St George the Martyr, Southwark and St Mary Newington) London, 1955)


Visual material


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


Victoria County History


Victoria County History Explore (Internet Archive copy)

H.E. Malden (ed.), The Victoria county history of Surrey, vol. 1 (Westminster, 1902) (Internet Archive copy)

H.E. Malden (ed.), The Victoria county history of Surrey, vol. 2 (Haymarket, 1905) (Internet Archive copy)

H.E. Malden (ed.), The Victoria county history of Surrey, vol. 3 (London, 1911) (Internet Archive copy)
- Godalming hundred
- Blackheath hundred
- Wotton hundred
- Reigate hundred
- Copthorne hundred
- Effingham hundred
- Woking hundred
- Godley hundred
- Elmbridge hundred
- Kingston hundred (Includes Kew, Kingston-upon-Thames, Long Ditton, Malden, Petersham, Richmond, anciently Sheen)

H.E. Malden (ed.), The Victoria county history of Surrey, vol. 4 (London, 1912)
(No Internet Archive copy; BHOL partial copy)
- Brixton hundred (including Barnes, Battersea, Bermondsey, Camberwell, Deptford, Lambeth, Merton, Mortlake, Newington, Putney, Rotherhithe, Streatham, Tooting Graveney, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Southwark Borough with Christchurch)
- Wallington hundred (Indluding Beddington, Carshaléton, Cheam, Mitcham, Morden)
- Tandridge hundred (including Godstone, Oxted)


Web development: API examples

The National Archives, Kew


See National Archives web developers conference: March 24th & 25th, 2012

See The National Archives Labs
- All datasets made available under Open Government Licence forpublic sector information
- Download site for Lab datasets

See Discovery search engine: API information


API examples

Legislation API: Developers


See Legislation API: Developer inormation

See Legislation.gov.uk: website

See National Archives photostream on Flickr


Domesday Map API: website


See Online Domesday Book: Places


London Blitz API & database, 1940: London Fire brigade: background


See Guardian article on London Blitz API & database, 1940: London Fire brigade records


Museum APIs


See Museum APIs
- Includes British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme, National Gallery, and Museum of London

See Museum and Gallery APIS


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 to search for finding aids and to seek context on topics


See FamilySearch Research Wiki page on London parishes

  • Access indidivual wiki pages on London parishes, with pointers to the location of published and manuscript parish registers and other parish records, both digital and non-digital


The Victorian Web
- Technical & editorial history of the Victorian Web
- Citation policy and format
- Terms & conditions


Woodhead, J.R. (1966)


J.R. Woodhead, The Rulers of London 1660-1689: A biographical record of the Aldermen and Common Councilment of the City of London (London, 1966)
  1. ↑ http://www.paulhyb.homecall.co.uk/news/TAUN1725.HTM, viewed 17/01/12
  2. ↑ "The History of Parliament is collaborating with the National Portrait Gallery, the Palace of Westminster Collection and the Parliamentary Archives, as well as other owners, to provide images of as many of the people featured in our biographies as possible."
  3. ↑ Andrew Thrush, John P. Ferris (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, 6 vols. (?London, 2010)
  4. ↑ http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/03/the-discovery-service/#more-505, viewed 21/03/12

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