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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.

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]

Blogs to follow

See British Library Blogs
See Hermeneutic.ca blog
See Historians Online Virtual Research Environment (HISTORE) blog
See History Spot Project Blog
See JISC Digitisation and Content Programme Blog
See Manuscripts Online Project Blog
See Geoffrey Rockwell (TAPoR) blog
See TNA blog

List of Blogs for the JISC Community

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

C18th & C19th Collections Online

Rediscover the Nineteenth Century: The creation and organization of Nineteenth Century Collections Online

- Gale Cengage Learning
- In 2003, Gale Cengage Learning changed the landscape of primary source digitization for research with the release of Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- Webcast on May 29th 2012

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)

Caribbean primary sources

Web sources

http://www.caribbeanroots.co.uk/Resources.html

www.tombstones.bb (free) - volunteer project to transcribe tombstones and burial records in Barbados & Antigua

http://www.plantations.bb (free) - database of plantations and owners/managers compiled by Ronald Hughes in Barbados

http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com (subscription but some free) - indexes and transcriptions to a variety of Jamaican records and publications

Comité de Liaison et d'Application des Sources Historiques - Educational resources website dedicated to the history of St. Bartholomew and focusing on the slave trade, slavery and abolition and their impact on this island of the Lesser Antilles

Transatlantic slave trade database includes the names of 67,000 Africans liberated from illegal slavers tried at the Mixed Commission Courts in Sierra Leone and Cuba. Many of those liberated in Cuba later settled in Trinidad, Guyana and Belize as apprentices; many liberated in Sierra Leone migrated as free migrants in the 1840s to Jamaica and other islands

Discussion groups

Caribbean Family History Group - blog for two groups: in Lambeth (London) and Solihull (West Midlands) who run courses and events on Caribbean genealogy

Caribbean Genealogical Web Project. This may be also available through your internet provider's newgroup facility at soc.gen.west-indies. This site also has links to country specific discussion groups

Google groups has access to the Caribbean Genealogical Web Project discussion group and some public and private regional groups. For example, Tamarind Tree Lime for Bajans and discussions about Barbados

Caribbeanancestry.com is a social networking site people with Caribbean ancestry - you need to register to access the site

Pharos Online Courses

Pharos Teaching & Lutoring Limited

Guy Grannum is a tutor for the first online Caribbean Family History course through Pharos Tutors - using pdfs and online chat it aims to introduce researchers with Caribbean ancestors to sources available in the UK and online to help you trace your family. The course costs £45.99 for 5 sessions.

Over five weeks the course covers:

Introduction to Caribbean Genealogical Research
Archives and Internet Resources
Life Cycle Records
Migration and Settlement
Sources for Researching Enslaved People and Slave Holders

The dates for the this year are yet to be agreed. Register your interest with Pharos.

There are many other courses on Pharos Tutors which may prove useful - such as English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish family history; military records, passenger lists; using The National Archives online; US genealogy; immigration to the USA; and writing your family history.

Guy is also a tutor for Pharos Tutors course The National Archives Catalogue - Finding People. This course costs £33.99 for three sessions. The next session starts on 23 April 2012.

Carte Calendar

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

Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

CELL MA/MRes

CELL MA/MRes

Are you interested in the CELL MA/MRes?

Posted January 4th, 2011 by Dr Robyn Adams

CELL is now accepting applications for entry to the MA/MRes for the academic year 2012-13!

The MA/MRes in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies provides a research qualification unique in the United Kingdom. It has been designed for students with an established interest in archival research, critical editing, life-writing and intellectual histories. The central aim of the programme is to train students in the skills they require to pursue these interests.

The compulsory core course provides the skills required for archival research in manuscript and early modern print production. The course is taught by seminars, workshops and field trips to relevant institutions including the Plantin-Moretus Print Museum in Antwerp. A Latin class enables even beginners to become sufficiently familiar with Latin primers and dictionaries to be able to make ad hoc translations of Latin phrases, sentences and short texts. Students are also trained in IT to ensure that they have access to the full range of resources needed for modern scholarship. Modular courses on a range of topics, including life writing and early modern reading, encourage students to use these skills intellectually and creatively, as does the dissertation.

If you would like more information, contact r.adams@qmul.ac.uk or explore our website for more details.

Courses

See Writing Lives from Letters: The Archive and Production of Historical Biography

- Course leaders: Lisa Jardine & Olivia Smith

Projects

• See Digitizing Correspondence

- List of digital editions and archives
- This list is not comprehensive. If you would like to suggest an addition, please send details to Jan Broadway mailto:editor@admin.xmera.org

- See Letters of a Stuart Princess: the Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
- To be published by OUP
- Volume 1: 1603-1631; Volume 2: 1632-1642; Volume 3: 1643-1662
- "Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), the daughter of King James VI & I, and sister of Charles I, also known as Electress Palatine of the Rhine or Queen of Bohemia, was both a popular and controversial figure in seventeenth-century Europe

See Hook Folio Online

- Project homepage: http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/cell/Hooke/Hooke.html

- Under the guidance of Robyn Adams the entire manuscript has been transcribed by Jenni Thomas and Anna Winterbottom. An edition of the images and transcriptions is available on the project page. The transcriptions have been encoded in XML using the CELL standard for manuscript transcription and the Transcriber's Workbench software developed by Mind Magic Ltd. The online interface was developed by Jan Broadway using PHP, MySQL and Javascript

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]

Crowd sourcing

Articles

Holley, Rose, 'Crowdsourcing: How and Why Should Libraries Do It?', D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2010, Vol. 16, No. 3/4

DHapi: Transcribing Handwritten Documents, ver. 09/05/12

Examples

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program: National Library of Australia: Text Correction

Picture Australia: National Library of Australia: Creation and addition of images.

FamilySearchIndexing: Latter Day Saints: Text transcription of records.

Distributed Proofreaders: Project Gutenberg: Creation of Ebooks

Galaxy Zoo: International University Collaboration: Classification of digital photos

Old Weather
- Launched October 2010, led by Oxford University, and under Zooniverse umbrella, which also developed GalaxyZoo
- Lucinda Donnachie is a Digital Project Manager at the National Maritime Museum. She manages the Museum's collections website as well as crowdsourcing projects (on Old Weather team)
- Clive Wilkinson is research manager for the Recovery of Logbooks and International Marine Data (RECLAIM) Project http://icoads.noaa.gov/reclaim, a part of NOAA's Climate Database Modernisation Program. He is based at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia

[Zooniverse - Real Science Online]

KCL Crowdsourcing project, 2012

Delicious stack: Crowdsourcing

Manuscript crowdsourcing blogs & examples

Brumfield, Ben W., 2010: The Year of Crowdsourcing Transcription, Wednesday, February 2, 2011

- This blog was started to track my own work developing FromThePage to transcribe Julia Brumfield's diaries. As I type, beta.fromthepage.com hosts 1503 transcribed pages—of which 988 are indexed and annotated—and volunteers are now waiting on me to prepare and upload more page images. Major developments in 2010 included the release of FromThePage on GitHub under a Free software license and installation of the software by the Balboa Park Online Collaborative for transcription projects by their member institutions.
- Probably the biggest news this year was TranscribeBentham, a project at University College London to crowdsource the transcription of Jeremy Bentham's papers. This involved the development of Transcription Desk, a MediaWiki-based tool which is slated to be released under an open-source license. The team of volunteers had transcribed 737 pages of very difficult handwriting when I last consulted the Benthamometer. The Bentham team has done more than any other transcription tool to publicize the field -- explaining their work on their blog, reaching out through the media (including articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times), and even highlighting other transcription projects on Melissa Terras's blog.
- The Balboa Park Online Collaborative is going into collaborative transcription in a big way with the Field Notes of Laurence Klauber for the San Diego Natural History Museum. They've picked my own FromThePage to host their transcriptions, and have been driving a lot of the development on that system since October through their enthusiastic feature requests, bug reports, and funding. Future transcription projects are in the early planning stages, but we're trying to complete features suggested by the Klauber material first.
- Text Encoding Initiative: Manuscript Description

Blog: On the Written, the Digital, and the Transcription

Manuscript crowdsourcing software

DM: Tools for digital annotation and linking

DM: Tools for digital annotation and linking

- "DM is an environment for the study and annotation of images and texts. It is a suite of tools, enabling scholars to gather and organize the evidence necessary to support arguments based in digitized resources. DM enables users to mark fragments of interest in manuscripts, print materials, photographs, etc. and provide commentary on these resources and the relationships among them. A principle objective in this project is to continue to develop our understanding of scholarly work processes in order to effectively support research as it is practiced now, while opening the door for new methods of scholarship to emerge."

- YouTube presentation of DM basic functionality

FromThePage

FromThePage

- The San Diego Museum of Natural History is transcribing the field notes of herpetologist Lawrence Klauber.
- Southwestern University is transcribing the Mexican War Diary of Zenas Matthews.
- Gavin Robinson is transcribing the his great-grandfather's letters from a WWI prisoner of war camp.

Scripto

Scripto: Crowdsourcing documentary transcription

- Versioning history
- Editorial controls
- PHP library powered by wiki technology
- Not a CMS (Content Management System), nor a GUI
- Scripto CAN be used to integrate a custom transcription GUI into an existing CMS, with the user providing the GUI and CMS
- Scripto Alpha is being used on the US War Department Papers
- Feb 2012 released Scripto plugin for Omeka. Omeka is a free, open source web publishing platform for online digital archives.
- Progress updates on Twitter: @ScriptoTool.

T-PEN ver. 2.0

T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation)

- Released T-PEN version 2.0 at www.t-pen.org, May 2012

• • 1. Users can now upload their own image set for transcriptions. These sets must be comprised of jpeg files and have to be zipped together. This kind of project is automatically designated as private. The manuscript shelf mark is not listed in T-PEN's catalog and the project leader can add a maximum of five additional users to the project. The images are hosted on T-PEN under the terms of the Fair Use section of the US Millenium Copyright Act. To upload your images, select the "Advanced' tab on the landing page and follow the instructions.

• • 2. T-PEN now fully supports crowd-sourcing projects. These projects can be fully public (so both the project attributes and content can be modified by anyone) or have limited access. These projects are listed under the "Public Projects" tab on the landing page. Any project can be designated as public using the options in the Project Management page. All projects that have been T-PEN use cases at the the Center for Digital Theology will be listed as public projects (content will be readable only).

• • 3. T-PEN has been providing access to support tools for transcribers. These tools are available on a split screen display. To date we have provided access to various language dictionaries, a dictionary of Latin abbreviations, and the Latin Vulgate Bible. We know that soon many T-PEN users will want tools for transcribing manuscripts that are not pre-modern Latin. To that end, T-PEN now permits users to identify a URL for a tool that a user may want to have displayed. Under the "options" tab on project management, a user can add the name and the URL of the tool and that will be added to the buttons on the Transcription User Interface. Please note: Users should be aware that this "i-frame" set up does provide full browser functionality. If you are using a tool which requires authentication in advance (especially if it is via an institutional proxy), we recommend you establish the authentication first in that browser before loading that tool. You can do this by loading the tool in anther tab and completing the authentication process (login, etc.). When T-PEN is loaded in the same browser, but different tab, that authenticiation will persist.

Wikisource

Help:Proofread
- Introduction to proofreading on Wikisource

Maryland Institute of Technology in the Humanities: API development

API Workshop, Maryland, 25-26th February, 2011

Speakers (1) George Oates (Open Library) (2) Mano Marks (Google Maps) (3) Raymond Yee (Data Unbound) (4) Kirrily Robert (Freebase) (5) Peter Keane (UT Austin)

- Funded by Office of the Digital Humanities start-up grant

Currency converter

- Roman numeral and date converter

Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College, London

Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College, London

Professor Prescott

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

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

Dutch language

HereDutchHere

- Dutch Sailors and Ships of The 17th Century

Dutch text & image resources

Linschoten-Vereeniging

Epigraphy

Current Epigraphy

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

Fedora Commons

See Fedora Commons initiative

- Open source techologies to manage, preserve and link digital content
- Fedora = "Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture"

Funding bodies

AHRC

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

ESRC

Genealogy

London Family History Centre (at Kew)

LFHS

Medieval Genealogy index & search

Group knowledge sharing examples

- The portable antiquities scheme

Hearth Tax, London

Hearth Tax, London & Middlesex: 1662

Hearth tax, London & Middlesex: 1662

Hearth Tax, London & Middlesex: 1666

Hearth tax, London & Middlesex: 1666

Hearth Tax, Westminster: 1664

Hearth tax, Westminster: 1664

Hermeneutica

See Hermeneuti.ca - the rhetoric of text analysis

- A collaborative project by Stéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell
- Stéfan Sinclair: Professor of Digital Humanities, McGill University
- Geoffrey Rockwell

See Hermeneutica.ca blog

See Voyeur

- A web-based text analysis environment, part of the Hermeneuti.ca, a collaborative project to develop and theorize text analysis tools and text analysis rhetoric

- What you can do with Voyeur:

• use texts in a variety of formats including plain text, HTML, XML, PDF, RTF and MS Word
• use texts from different locations, including URLs and uploaded files
• perform lexical analysis including the study of frequency and distribution data; in particular
• export data into other tools (as XML, tab separated values, etc.)
• embed live tools into remote web sites that can accompany or complement your own content

- Voyeur is a work in progress – it is currently in beta. Some things don't work properly, some planned features aren't available yet. In particular, here are some weaknesses that we recognize:

• lack of more advanced linguistic processing (lemmatization, parts of speech, semantic awareness)
• lack of XML-aware analytic features (though XML is a valid input format)

the current default skin (configuration of tools) is not well-suited to reading texts
some of the user documentation is a bit bare
other funcitonality:

• proximity searching of terms
• multi-word (n-gram) views (though you can search for specific phrases)

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 Digital Exposure of English Place-Names (DEEP)

- "In England, the historical developments of place-names over time have been systematically surveyed since 1922 by the specialists of the English Place-Name Society (EPNS). Examining an extensive range of documentary sources in local and national archives, and gathering the knowledge of local communities and experts, the EPNS has built up an 86-volume county by county survey of England’s place-names – detailing over four million variant forms, from classical sources, through the Anglo-Saxon period and into medieval England and beyond to the modern period. JISC’s Digital Exposure of English Place-Names (DEEP) project will digitise all these forms, and make them available as structured data. The corpus will be comprise a gazetteer within JISC’s Unlock service, meaning that researchers will be able to cross-query the dataset, and use it to search their own digital documents and databases for any historic place-name form. The gazetteer data will also be made available in structured XML, meaning that it will be possible to experiment with methods of data mining and visualisation that are not possible with the paper volumes. In addition to the digitisation, a network of experts will be convened to correct and enhance the dataset"

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

- Strand B:

- Strand C: Clustering Digital Content

• Includes, Manuscripts Online: Written Culture from 1000 to 1500
  • See Manuscripts Online Project Blog

• 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)

Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands

Ask a Librarian

Het Geheugen van Nederland
- website is a publication of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, to which the Copyright Act of 1912 and the Databank Act of 1999 are applicable
- Participating institutions

• • Atlases from the Scheepvaartmuseum
  • Dutch topography at the Leiden University Library (Bijzondere Collecties Leiden)

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

LSE Digital Library

LSE Digital Library

LSE Digital Library Exhibitions

Maritime/Naval history

Naval-History.net
- 5000 daily web visitors

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. ?: 1679-1687 (London, 1890)
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)

News Networks: University of East Anglia

See Early modern newspaper collections online

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)

Planned IHR palaeography video traning course
- "The IHR Digital and Research Training departments within the Institute of Historical Research are currently in the process of adapting face to face courses for online delivery, which will eventually appear on History SPOT. One of those ventures is a palaeography course created in partnership with other SAS institutes." (09/05/12)

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)

Project Bamboo

See Project Bamboo homepage

- Building for the Humanities research (1) Research applications (2) Shared infrastructure

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

Spatial analysis

Hypercities

Hypercities: "collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment"

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)

TAPor

Project director: Geoffrey Rockwell

Visual material

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

Victoria County History

VCH Explore: Selected digital assets

Victoria County History Explore

VCH: Surrey: vols 1-4

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)

VCH: main web site

VCH main website

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

Leverstock Green Chronicle

- 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.

Family Search Research Wiki

- 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

Modern Language Association

See MLA Evaluation wiki

Text resources by period

C18th

ADD SOURCES

C19th

The Victorian Web

- Technical & editorial history of the Victorian Web

- Citation policy and format

- Terms & conditions

Woodhead, J.R. (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