MRP: Missing places

Missing places

Editorial history

23/12/11, CSG: Created page

There is a need to do research from primary sources on a number of English private and public buildings, and on specified English rural and urban local areas, together with a good number of ports and towns in continental Europe and the former Ottoman Empire; on the west coast of India and around the Arabian Gulf; and in Barbados and Jamaica. The end product would be a profile of the specified place

How you can help

There is a need to do research from primary sources on a number of English private and public buildings, and on specified English rural and urban local areas, together with a good number of ports and towns in continental Europe and the former Ottoman Empire; on the west coast of India and around the Arabian Gulf; and in Barbados and Jamaica. The end product would be a profile of the specified place

You could contribute to this work in two ways.

Firstly, by suggesting novel primary sources relevant to an understanding of these places, in the early and mid seventeenth century, and particularly in the period 1650-1669.

Secondly, by contributing a draft profile of the specified place, supported by reference to primary (and secondary) sources.

Primary source suggestions and draft profiles can be submitted using the standard place template.

Possible primary sources

Mercatoris, Gerardi, Atlas Minor (Amsterdam, 1634)
- Viewable as Google E-Book or as downloadable PDF
Sanson, Nicholas, L'Europe en plusieurs cartes et en divers traittés de geographie et d'histoire (Paris, 1683)
- Viewable as Google E-Book or as downloadable PDF
- Maps are reasonably well reproduced, though many maps are over split pages

Index of missing places

The following is an index of places for which profiles are sought. By clicking on the link you can access possible research questions, together with possible primary sources