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* 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 Leverstock Gren, now a suburb of Hemel Hempstead
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* 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.
 
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Revision as of 08:16, August 24, 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



Image search


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



Inventories



London parishes


A London parish map for C17th London is available at XXXX



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.