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British History Sources: Web Resources

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General

http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/articles/
Articles and resources on making history
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
A vast repository of full-source texts. Search by simple keyword, or do an advanced search for more specific references.

Medieval Britain and Europe

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/som.php
Medieval Soldiers Database
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/contents.htm
Records of an English village (Earls Colne), 1375-1854

Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe

EEBO Early English Books Online
Digital images of every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

ProQuest. This resource has been provided by a generous donation from Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemper Lorraine, '48.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online
http://www.quelle.org/emes/research.html
Full-Text Primary Sources for Early Modern British History
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Britain_1486-1688
Primary Sources for early modern British history
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html
Early Modern Electronic Texts
http://gutenberg.cc/Renascence_Editions.htm
Renascence Editions of Early Modern Texts
http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/htdocs/index.html
Early Stuart Libels
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7
Primary sources for 17th C British history
http://www.bibliomania.com/2/1/59/106/frameset.html
Diary of Samuel Pepys
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=43
Journals of the House of Commons, 17th Century
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=44
Journal of the House of Lords, 17th Century
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=123
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial (17th C)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=47
Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James 1
http://www.constitution.org/eng/conpur.htm
S.R. Gardiner,ed. Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=101
Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, secretary of state during the English republic and head of British intelligence
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=114
Quarter Sessions records for Middlesex, 17th Century
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/contents.htm
Records of an English village (Earls Colne), 1375-1854
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=45
Thomas Burton’s Parliamentary Diary, 1653-1659
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/diary/index.htm#70000005
Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1617-83
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Evelyn%2c%20John%2c%201620-1706
Diary of John Evelyn
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=83
Collected 17th Century Parliamentary Statutes
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=606
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294965/posts
American Colonists’ Library
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Bolles.html
Bolles Collection on the History of London
http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/upgrade/content.html
Clergy of the Church of England Database
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/index.php/category/sources/primary-sources
Primary Sources for Early Modern British and European History. Use the links on the left-hand side to look through collections on specific themes, regions, and chronological periods.
http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/
Map of Early Modern London

Eighteenth-Century Britain and Europe

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online
http://gutenberg.cc/Renascence_Editions.htm
Renascence Editions of Early Modern Texts
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads
http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/contents.htm
Records of an English village (Earls Colne), 1375-1854
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
Digital libraries of 18th and 19th century periodicals (eg. Gentleman’s Magazine)
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/pbrowse.pl?item=jnl
Digital libraries of 18th and 19th century periodicals (eg. Gentleman’s Magazine)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=8
Includes records of proceedings in Parliament, higher clergy, office holders in central government and the Survey of London.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=237
Judicial notebooks of Henry Norris and the Hackney Petty Sessions books (18th C)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=234
London Politics in the Eighteenth Century
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=233
Joshua Johnson’s letterbook: letters from a merchant to his partners in Maryland
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=8&gid=47
History and Proceedings of the House of Commons (18th C)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=8&gid=68
Primary Sources for 18th C religious history
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=780
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial (18th C)
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/research/around-1800/
British newspaper coverage of the French Revolution
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/index.php/category/sources/primary-sources
Primary Sources for Early Modern British and European History. Use the links on the left-hand side to look through collections on specific themes, regions, and chronological periods.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/upgrade/content.html
Clergy of the Church of England Database

Nineteenth Century Britain

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=9
Primary Sources for British History (19th C)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=230
London radicalism, 1830-1843
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=9&gid=68
Primary sources for 19th C religious history
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://old.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Bolles.html
Bolles Collection on the History of London

Crime

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Old Bailey Criminal Records (1674-1834)
http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngintro.htm
The Newgate Calendar
http://www.earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/index.php/category/themes/law-order/crime
Crime in Early Modern Europe
http://earlymodernweb.freehostia.com/wikindx/index.php
Crime, Law, and Order 1500-1800

Witchcraft

http://history.hanover.edu/early/wh.html
Early Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts
http://www.geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz/witch.html
Virtual Library: The Witch Hunts

British Imperialism

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=780
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial (18th C)
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/period.aspx?period=7&gid=123
Calendar of State Papers, Colonial (17th C)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook34.html#India%20Under%20the%20British
Primary sources for British Imperialism
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=4143
Primary Sources for Colonial India
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/colonial.html
Primary Sources for Colonial America
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294965/posts
American Colonists’ Library

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