England

History Sources (selected by Newton Key

Access to Archives (A2A)
(cataloges describing archives held locally in England and Wales, The National Archives)
Book of Common Prayer
(dozens of editiions of Books of Common Prayer, and related works, see also 1662 Book of Common Prayer)
Bracton Online
(Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, c. 1250s)
Britain
(wider list of annotated links, History Favorites, Eastern Illinois)
British History Online
(extensive sources, Institute of Historical Research - includes)
- Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
Clergy of Church of England Database
(ongoing project, search prosopographical database of clegy, c. 1500-1800)
Culture24
(news, exhibition reviews, and resources from UK museums, galleries, archives and libraries - includes)
- Breaking The Chains - Bristol and the Slave Trade
DEEDS (Documents of Essex England Data Set)
(private Latin charters and medieval property exchange documents, University of Toronto)
Early Modern England
(part of Rutgers University's subject research guides, particularly History - American and British)
Early Modern England, 1485-1714
(blog for textbook; see also related timeline, office holders, and names & dates of important figures)
Early Modern England Source
(research aids such as archives, news, conferences; also one may join related EMESlist)
Eighteenth-Century Resources
(mainly English, links to history, arts, cultural sites, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, Newark, archived since 2006)
English Reformation
(part of a personal Reformation project, includes primary sources, timelines, biographies)
ExLibris
(texts from and extensive bibliographies on English Dissenters and early English music)
Institutes and Libraries
- English Local History
  (Centre for Local History site, University of Leicester, includes presentations on early modern women's words, penance, manor court surveys)
- Borthwick Institute for Archives
  (University of York)
- Kent Archaeological Society
  (includes content pages and many articles from Archaeologia Cantiana, 1858-present)
Gardiner's Atlas of English History
(all maps from A School Atlas of English History, ed. S.R. Gardiner, 1892, particularly good on battles)
Gothic Art for England, 1400-1547
(V & A Museum guide to exhibit, with online exhibit, maps, teaching resources)
Historical Resources
(maps, images, databases, Medieval Leicester and beyond, David Postles)
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium
(downloadable book of everyday life)
London
- British Library
  (including Manuscript Catalog, London)
- Centre for Metropolitan History Projects
  (mainly London, current and past projects)
- Charles Booth Online Archive
  (London poverty maps and survey into life and labor in London, 1886-1903)
- Collage
  (Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery, searchable, image database)
- CPL Database
  (College of Physicians of London and Irregular Medical Practitioners, 1550-1640)
- London Old Maps
  (see also, Greenwood's Map of London 1827)
- PhotoLondon
  (samples from galleries of depositories around London)
- Royalty Restored or London under Charles II, by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (1885?)
Luminarium
(includes 16th-Century and 17th-Century English Literature: biographies, original sources, essays)
Materials Relating to the Goodwin-Fortescue Dispute
Paleography (Medieval and Early Modern English)
(samples, transcriptions, tests)
Medieval English Legal History
(index and paraphrase of printed Year Book Reports, 1268-1535, Boston University, School of Law)
Medieval English Towns
(numerous primary documents)
Milton
- Milton Reading Room
  (poems, prose and related criticism)
- Milton: Rights and Liberties
  (8th International Milton Symposium)
Museum of English Rural Life
Oliver Cromwell
(life quotes, bibliography, images maintained by Cromwell Association and Cromwell Museum)
Puritanism on the Web
(sources by Puritans of England and New England, hosted by le Project Albion)
Richard III Society, American Branch
(basic information and extensive collection of online texts and documents on/from fifteenth-century England)
Tudor History Materials
(lectures, writings, and related materials of Prof. John Guy)
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture
(exhibition with prints and commentary)

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last updated on June 20, 2014