MRP: Research tools
Contents
- 1 Research tools
- 2 = Book owners
- 2.1 County resources
- 2.2 Currency converter
- 2.3 E-Document repository examples
- 2.4 Group knowledge sharing examples
- 2.5 Image search
- 2.6 Interesting miscellaneous web tools
- 2.7 Inventories
- 2.8 Latin tuition
- 2.9 Local historical societies
- 2.10 London streets and parishes
- 2.11 London online books
- 2.12 Newspapers
- 2.13 Palaeography
- 2.14 Regnal years
- 2.15 Search tools
- 2.16 Visual material
- 2.17 Wiki examples
- 2.18 Victoria County History
Research tools
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
County resources
LINCOLNSHIRE
Currency converter
- Roman numeral and date converter
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
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
Inventories
Latin tuition
- National Archives London - Beginner's Latin
- National Archives London - Advanced Latin
Local historical societies
British Association of Local History
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
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
- Connected histories: British history sources, 1500-1900
- C18th Connect: Eighteenth century scholarship online
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.
- 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
