MRP: Research tools

Research tools

Editorial history

19/08/11, CSG: Created page

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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.

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Archaeology

- London Archaeology online journal

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Bankruptcy

Taunton Journal, 1725-1627, reports of bankruptcy

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Bodleian Library

- Bodleian library guide to resources

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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

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Building history=

Building history- use of wills and inventories

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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

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

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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)

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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)

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County resources

ESSEX

Add SEAX resource

LINCOLNSHIRE

- Lincs to the Past

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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]

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Currency converter

- Roman numeral and date converter

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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

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Dutch language

HereDutchHere

- Dutch Sailors and Ships of The 17th Century

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Dutch text & image resources

Linschoten-Vereeniging

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Genealogy

Medieval Genealogy

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Group knowledge sharing examples

- The portable antiquities scheme

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Image search

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

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Interesting miscellaneous web tools

Ancestry Atlas

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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

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Legal resources

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

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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

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London streets and parishes

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

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London online books

- University of Pennsylvania online London & Westminster book list

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Regnal years

- Table of regnal years of English sovereigns

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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

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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

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Visual material

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

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Victoria County History

Victoria County History Explore

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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

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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)