Early Modern Resources

Alan Macfarlane's research website

Guardian obituary (2003)

Telegraph obituary (2003)

Interview (2001)

An aggregator for early modern blogs (EMR)

Blog by four students of early modern philosophy based at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Otago in New Zealand, for the research project “Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism”.

an entertaining and informative blog focusing primarily on early modern popular literature (Roy Booth)

Discussions of the ways in which the early modern period has been represented in movies, with further reading and web resources (EMR)

Exhibition to mark 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s death, includes sections on her youth, the court, representations, threats to the crown, the final years (National Maritime Museum)

Re-enactment society’s website

weblog with announcements of conferences and other news of interest to those studying early modern women

Bibliography at The Untimely Past

Website on Michel Foucault (Ben Attias)

Article on Elton's approach to history (1998)

Web site for the novel by Tracy Chevalier; includes sections on the book (and the paintings mentioned in it) and on Vermeer

Guardian obituary (2003)

Tom Sykes' website and blog about early modern history, in particular, events around the reign of King Charles II.

blog by a military historian of the British Civil Wars (particularly interested in supply systems and the economic and social impacts of armies), with added interests in social and women’s history, historiography and theory (Gavin Robinson)

An online ‘jaunt around Restoration London’ inspired by a ‘tale of Restoration intrigue’ written by Molly Brown, which stars Aphra Behn (and ‘a cast of thousands’ including Nell Gwyn, the dukes of
York and Monmouth and the earl of Rochester)

Professor in the English department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, specializing in the English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English language.

Dr. Joe Rock is a consultant historian of Scottish material culture and the pages indexed on the left contain the results of his research. Most of this material is un-published but some is re-published here, with revisions.

Guardian obituary (2001)

Research website – main interests in early modern cultural history and urban history

Guardian obituary (1999)

Eulogy by Robert Darnton

Website for a re-enactment group of sixteenth-century France

Short article (Manchester Jewish Studies)

(Gosport Living History Society)

Website of Lucy Inglis, historian of Georgian London.

Cavaliers and musketeers, historical and fictional, from seventeenth-century France and England