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)

18thConnect gathers together a community of scholars that shapes the world of digital resources, offering federated search for digital archives and peer-review of included digital resources and archives.

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)

information about and extensive transcripts from the 1798-99 journal of a British seaman in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary wars; includes accounts of naval operations, sailors’ health and punishments, and personal views on slavery, religion, and morality (among other things) (University of Miami Richter Library)

Abraham Adcock was an eighteenth century British musician and organ builder; he was a regular performer at Handel’s Foundling Hospital concerts and was considered to be the greatest exponent of the trumpet in the country.

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

includes early music archive and music history links (Gordon J Callon)

Site has sections on biography, bibliography, recent studies and general information on Smith (Edward J Harpham)

Includes biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv (Kari Boyd McBride)

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

online exhibition to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist (London, 1661), reflecting the porous relationship between the two fields in the early modern period

The site has 1700+ images, 200+ complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material, a searchable database (Adam McLean)

Annotated Links for Theatre History and Early Music (REED)

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