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A London parish map for C17th London is available at XXXX | A London parish map for C17th London is available at XXXX | ||
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Revision as of 06:30, August 27, 2011
Contents
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
- Web based digital image repository of C17th and earlier vellum manuscripts and early published books
- See - Laws of England section of the website
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
Regnal years
- Table of regnal years of English sovereigns
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.
- A useful wiki for quick overviews on London parishes, with pointers to the location of published and manuscript parish registers and other parish records
