Early Modern Resources

Fully searchable digital edition of all 4000 depositions, examinations and associated materials in which Protestant men and women of all classes told of their experiences following the outbreak of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October, 1641

long essay on “the largest popular republican rising in Irish history” (Andrew Flood)

Includes extracts from Swift, Addison, The Tatler, Smollett, Boswell: vivid and illuminating materials providing insights into the city (Norton Topics Online)

a new scholarly edition of the text of this diary of a turbulent period in British history as seen by a London merchant; it provides images of the manuscript, a faithful transcript of those images, and a rendering in modern English, with a sophisticated search facility (Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller, and Colette Moore)

(Internet Modern History Sourcebook) Primary source document extracts, useful for teaching. Mainly on France, a little on Spain and England

This electronic archive presents images of manuscripts and digital transcriptions from the Adams Family Papers: correspondence between John and Abigail Adams, Diary of John Adams, Autobiography of John Adams.

Text of Abraham Cowley’s essay on 17th-century English agriculture (Modern History Sourcebook)

In the 17th century, there existed, just outside the City of London, an area famed and feared for its lawlessness, the ‘sanctuary’ or ‘liberty’ of Whitefriars, colloquially known as Alsatia. The project here is to gather the documents and materials, analyse them and seek to understand the part it played in the making of London.

An online exhibit of political cartoons (Lilley Library)

seminar paper by Matthew Shaw (British Library Research Archive)
originally given at University of Birmingham, March 2006

Primary sources and other web resources (Internet Modern History Sourcebook)

A site to accompany an American documentary on the American Revolution: bibliography, discussions and essays, web resources (H-Net)

Bibliography of suggested readings for a course on 1763-89 by members of the H-OIEAHC discussion list.

A selection of images of Washington and related artefacts (Maine Historical Society)

(The History Place)

an online exhibit to mark the 225th anniversary of the battle, it includes timeline, historical background, biographies, personal accounts (including letters by soldiers), maps, bibliography (Massachusetts Historical Society)

the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights online (NARA)

Drafting the documents: a chronology, background, selection of documents (Library of Congress)

Useful short essays for students (Gilder Lehrman Institute)

Etext of the memoir of David Perry, a soldier in the American revolutionary wars (Denise G Jones)

‘The aptly-named Olive Branch Petition represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.’ This virtual exhibit includes the original text and other documents, background on the causes of the revolution, George III, colonisation, the war itself, and the developing relations between Britain and the American colonies from the early seventeenth century (The National Archives, UK)

essay on political and economic connections between Morocco and England in the 16th and 17th centuries

exhibit looking at five areas just before the arrival of Europeans, and at the subsequent contacts between them and the new arrivals from 1492-1600. Six sections, including the life and myths of Columbus, ‘inventing America’, ‘Europe claims America’ (Library of Congress)

Large collection of scanned documents relating to English law and government from The National Archives in London.

(Was ‘Folk Magic in Britain’) An exploration of objects, such as witch-bottles, written charms, horse skulls, that that were concealed in and around buildings as spells or counter-spells; sections on each of the various kinds of object, links, book list (Brian Hoggard)

essay by Liam Brunt (U. Oxford)
Discussion papers in economic and social history, 32 (1999)

A database of images of the colonial Americas from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825. (John Carter Brown Library)

Primary source materials from eighteenth-century America, useful teaching resource (EarlyAmerica.com)

text of the autobiography, with additional links (Ellen Moody)

Fully searchable database of academic works on or relating to Bach studies (Yo Tomita)