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Editorial history

19/08/11, CSG: Created page


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






Archaeology

- London Archaeology online journal



Bodleian Library


- Bodleian library guide to resources



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



Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company


A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1635-1639

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

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1655-1659

A Calendar of the Court Minutes of the East India Company, 1660-1663



County resources


ESSEX

Add SEAX resource

LINCOLNSHIRE

- Lincs to the Past



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]



Currency converter


- Roman numeral and date converter



E-Document repository examples


- GRF library of English antiquarian books & documents



Dutch language


HereDutchHere

- Dutch Sailors and Ships of The 17th Century



Genealogy


Medieval Genealogy



Group knowledge sharing examples


- The portable antiquities scheme



Image search


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



Interesting miscellaneous web tools


Ancestry Atlas



Inventories



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



Legal resources


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



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



London streets and parishes


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


London online books


- University of Pennsylvania online London & Westminster book list



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)


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)



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)



Regnal years


- Table of regnal years of English sovereigns



Search tools


- AIM 25
- Connected histories: British history sources, 1500-1900
- C18th Connect: Eighteenth century scholarship online



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



Visual material


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



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


Victoria County History


Victoria County History Explore