Revision as of 01:03, September 3, 2011

Research tools

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

= 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

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

Image search

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

Inventories

Latin tuition

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

London parishes

A London parish map for C17th London is available at XXXX

Newspapers

- Raglinen educational archive of rare historic newspapers

Palaeography

- National Archives London - Palaeography Tuition
- Early modern palaeography online course with practice exercises

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

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