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Interpretations

Resources that primarily consist of secondary interpretative material (though may have some primary sources), including text and visual essays and online exhibitions.

Before 'Farm to Table': Early Modern Foodways and Cultures
a collaborative research project about the ways that food was grown and harvested, marketed and sold, eaten and imagined
  • consumption
Box Office Bears
Box Office Bears explores the widespread, surprising, and sometimes alarming recreational interactions between humans and animals in Shakespeare’s time
  • britain
  • cultures
Circulation of Knowledge in the 17th-Century Dutch Republic
browse and analyze around 20,000 letters written by and sent to 17th century scholars who lived in the Dutch Republic
  • correspondence
  • learning
  • netherlands
  • networks
City Women in the 18th Century
website for an outdoor exhibition of 18th-century women traders in Cheapside, London
  • c18th
  • commerce
  • london
  • women
The Development of British Children’s Literature in the 18th-Century
a compendium of influential texts, authors, and scholars that helped shape the development of children's literature during this period
  • c18th
  • literature
Epidemic Disease in London
six papers on epidemic disease in London from the 14th to 19th centuries.
  • disease
  • london
  • urban
Esther Inglis (c1570-1624): Calligrapher, Artist, Embroiderer, Writer
website dedicated to Esther Inglis, Franco-Scottish writer and artist, with biography, bibliography, research updates and more
  • biographical
  • scotland
  • women
The Gentleman's Magazine: the 18th Century Answer to Google
online exhibition of the University of Otago Library collection of the Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1866), 'an inexhaustible mine of information for scholars of eighteenth century life'.
  • c18th
  • learning
Golf in Scotland 1457-1744
web exhibit showcasing of some of the earliest sources for the history of golf in Scotland
  • scotland
  • society
Heading West: Mapping the Territory 1540-1900
online exhibition presenting impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900
  • americas
  • colonial
  • exploration
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Case studies and interactive visualization tools of 18th-century social networks.
  • correspondence
  • networks
Medieval and Early Modern Orients
a project that seeks to further knowledge and understanding of the early interactions between England and the Islamic Worlds
  • colonial
  • cultures
  • travel
The Mind is a Collection
The Mind Is a Collection is a born-digital museum of early modern cognitive models.
  • ideas
  • material culture
Nation of shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s
website for a 2001 Bodleian exhibition, focusing on the development of printed trade cards and similar materials
  • britain
  • commerce
People, Property and Charity: The Clothworkers' Company, 1500-1688
the benefactors, property acquisitions, bequests and charitable activity of The Clothworkers’ Company in the City of London, late 15th to late 17th century
  • commerce
  • london
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
  • arts
  • place
SHALT: Shakespearean London Theatres
project to increase public awareness of sites of the London theatres of Shakespeare's time
  • london
  • theatre
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital reconstruction of the early modern social network.
  • networks
Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, 1550-1700
TIDE aims to investigate how mobility in the great age of travel and discovery shaped English perceptions of human identity.
  • travel
Virtual Pauls Cross Website
a website that enables us to experience the delivery of John Donne’s sermon for Gunpowder Day, November 5, 1622 as an event that unfolds over time on a particular occasion in Paul’s Churchyard
  • london
  • religion
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