Civil War Petitions
Petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars.
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Early Modern Resources is a research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced research, study and teaching.
Primary sources
- Substantial digital editions of full text transcriptions, usually searchable and/or downloadable; many have accompanying page images
- High-quality image libraries of texts and documents, usually with searchable metadata but not full text
- Collections of images of artworks, artefacts and maps (again, usually with searchable metadata)
- Databases or calendars, mainly containing abstracts or summary information about sources rather than full transcriptions/images
- Anthologies: transcriptions of personally selected collections of texts or single texts; may be full text or extracts; probably more suited to teaching than in-depth research
Reference
- Bibliographies
- Open access e-journals
- Palaeography and transcription resources
- Dictionaries and language resources
- Useful tools
- Portals
Interpretations
- Exhibits: multimedia presentations in which objects and images are the primary focus, with varying degrees of textual analysis or narrative
- Text essays: text-based (or primarily so) articles, analyses and commentaries; relatively conventional and ‘print-like’ in form
- Hypertext essays: more heavily textual than exhibits, but created for the Web to exploit its hyperlinking and multimedia capabilities
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Latest Additions
Elizabethan Star Chamber Project
A work in progress: new indexes and some transcriptions of Elizabethan Star Chamber cases.
Epidemic Disease in London
Six papers on epidemic disease in London from the 14th to 19th centuries.
Witches of Lorraine
Abstracts of around 400 witchcraft trials from the Duchy of Lorraine, and other material including a bibliography
First Fleet Online
A database and other resources about the first convicts transported to Australia in 1787.
The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England
A research project and corpus of petitions from seventeenth-century England.
Early Modern London Theatres?(EMLoT)
A research database and educational resource about London theatres which developed before, during and shortly after the life of Shakespeare.
The London Stage Database
A database of plays, performances, performers and theatres in London from the 1600s to the end of the 18th century.
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
Database of of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660.
REED Patrons and Performances
Resource on professional performers on tour in the provinces – their patrons, the performance venues they used and the routes they took across the kingdom