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General

BUBL catalogue of internet resources for the humanities, grouped under subject headings; strong on history. Lists links, with helpful detail about the contents of each site. Search facility

HUMBUL a mine of information on humanities, continually developing. Searchable

WWW Virtual Library History good on non-European history (part of the massive WWW-Virtual Library)

Voice of the Shuttle History lists a wide variety of resources; again, good outside Europe. Don't forget the VOS main home page which takes you to a range of related disciplines (art and art history, politics, women's studies to name just a few)

History Sourcebooks project three main sourcebooks of both primary and secondary sources on line (Ancient, Medieval and Modern) with a number of sub-headings (eg, Women's, African, Islamic)

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web (Smithsonian Institute) an excellent resource

BBC Online History primarily aimed at schools, but there really is something for every one here

The Labyrinth Medieval Studies (based at Georgetown University) a collaborative project providing a rich web of resources for medievalists

H-Net home site for the h-net discussion networks. Not just for members of discussion lists (except for a few password-protected groups): access to their archives, bibliographies and other resources. No matter what your interests, there'll be at least one network to serve them!

Electronic bibliography of historiography full e-texts of important historical works; 'aims not only at providing reliable texts for reading and teaching purposes, but also at supplying some particularly useful instruments for research into the history of modern European culture'

The History Journals Guide (Stefan Blaschke)

Arts & Humanities Data Service aims to 'collect, preserve and promote re-use of the electronic resources which result from research in the arts and humanities'. Searchable catalogues and also advice on best practice in collecting and recording digital data

ESRC Data Archive similar service for the social sciences (and history produced from that perspective, especially social and economic history)

Early modern: general

Early Modern Bibliographies (at this site) bringing together a range of online bibliographies for the study of early modern history

Reviews in Early Modern History (at this site) links to online book reviews and web reviews for the early modern period

Early Modern England Source conference listings, resources, including lists of e-journals and e-texts; bookshelf; search facility

Early Modern Colloquium at University of Michigan: 'webliography' of early modern resources; links to departments, organisations, scholars etc

Early Modern Culture resources quite small but interesting list of links (including links to sites on music and dance)

UCLA Centre for Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Yale Medieval and Renaissance Resources

Useful early modern links(University of Oxford)

WWW-VL Early Modern Europe (Stephanie Marra) sections on general and specialist topics aswell as information on organisations, journals etc

Lectures on early modern European history (Steven Kreis)

Cogweb Early Modern Resources (Francis Steen) a site 'devoted to exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to literary and cultural studies'; but you don't need to worry about what that means to find this site both fascinating and useful, covering as it does literature, linguistics, cognitive science, psychology and early modern studies. Early modern (especially long eighteenth century) literary resources, bibliography and more

New Historians of Early Modern France(William Beik, Emory University) listings (by author and subject) of current research in progress on early modern French history

Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Medieval and Renaissance Web (WESSWEB)

Italian Renaissance/Early Modern (Richard Hooker et al) 'designed as a learning module in the form of a "research textbook"'

Cambridge English Renaissance Electronic Service ongoing research projects, links to resources, an online newsletter (Harvest)

Luminarium (Anniina Jokinen) Renaissance England resources

Life in Elizabethan England (Maggie Secara) from the Compendium of Common Knowledge

Useful Resources (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies)

Voice of the Shuttle Renaissance & Seventeenth-century English literature

Tudorhistory.org (Lara Eakins) everything you ever wanted to know about the Tudor monarchs, and other useful resources: chronologies, glossaries, maps etc

Renaissance: the Elizabethan world (Maggie Secara) includes a 'compendium of common knowledge', information on heraldry, discussion groups and more

Norton Topics Online: Sixteenth Century and Early Seventeenth Century England

Seventeenth-century French Studies Resources

Shakespeare's Life and Times: subject map (Internet Shakespeare Editions)

Seventeenth/Eighteenth-century Studies (Jen Boyle) a list of interdisciplinary links

Time Traveller's Guides (Channel 4) fun as well as educational:
Tudor England
Stuart England

Long eighteenth century

International Society for 18th Century Studies bibliographies, listings of forthcoming conferences etc around the world, c18 resources, c18 societies

Jack Lynch's 18th Century Resources fully searchable or browse the subject categories. A marvellous resource. See also his homepage

C18-l 'an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of eighteenth-century studies', with an excellent range of bibliographies

Eighteenth-century Scottish Studies Society

18th-Century History (History1700s.com)

Norton Topics Online: Restoration and Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period

Eighteenth-century England 'A site created by and for Literature Students at the University of Michigan'; interesting and varied topics, and shows what can be done in this line

The Academy of Projectors (Marteau's Publishing House) Listing of current research projects in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century history

Time Traveller's Guide: Napoleon's Empire (Channel 4)

E-texts (general)

Pages/sites containing online versions of more narrowly-focused, topic-based primary source materials will be found under the relevant topic heading in Early Modern Themes

British primary documents includes selection of early modern texts, printed and archival

Early English Books Online 'Freebies' from EEBO (otherwise a subscription service)

Electronic Texts and Images (Hanover College)

Internet Library of Early Journals minimum 20-year runs of digitised journals, including three from the eighteenth century, with search facility

The Spectator Project (Rutgers) 'an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler and The Spectator and of the eighteenth-century periodical in general'. Fully searchable digitised runs of The Spectator currently available

Luminarium anthology of early modern English literary texts (Anniina Jokinen)

Michigan Early Modern English Materials (UVa Electronic Texts Center)

Montpellier Early Modern English Documents

Renaissance Electronic Texts

Eighteenth-century Studies E-texts (CMU Eighteenth-century Studies group)

Digital Book Index () lists a wide-ranging mix of texts, primary, secondary and reference, most free to access (it's clearly stated if there's a charge)

Project Gutenberg

Electronic Resources for Early Modern History (OTDS) only two texts currently available

Renascence Editions a selection of English texts printed between 1477-1799

Seventeenth-century England an interesting selection of texts (very good on British Civil Wars) [currently unavailable, January '04]

Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I, 1063-1610 (University of London/History of Parliament) an online, searchable version of the CSPD (an indispensable resource for many subjects in early modern British history), which hopefully will be expanded chronologically in the future. Other useful texts available at this site include Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords

The American Colonists' Library (Rick Gardiner) primary sources relating to early American history

The Plymouth Colony Archive (University of Virginia) 'a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies'

Massachusetts Bay Colony 1640-1700

George Washington Papers (Library of Congress) 'because of the wide range of Washington's interests, activities, and correspondents, which include ordinary citizens as well as celebrated figures, his papers are a rich source for almost every aspect of colonial and early American history'

Virginia Records 1606-1737 (Library of Congress) from the Thomas Jefferson Papers; a wide range of documents and manuscripts has been digitised: courts, Virginia Company, General Assembly records, etc

Archiving Early America primary source materials from eighteenth-century America

Classics of American Colonial History (Dinsmore Documentation) books and articles (pre-1923) on colonial America

E-journals

Listing of journals' websites and e-journals (Early Modern England Source)

Online Articles Index (History Journals Guide)

The Early Modern Journal 'an interdisciplinary journal for graduate students'

Renaissance Forum

Early Modern Culture: An Electronic Seminar

Early Modern Literary Studies

Journal of Seventeenth-century Music

Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life

The Early America Review (appears to have acquired some truly irritating advertising since I last visited)

Laberinto publishes 'theoretical and/or cross-disciplinary readings of Spanish and Spanish-American texts and cultural productions from the early modern period'

Marteau's Publishing House Journal (Olaf Simons et al) 'A journal devoted to the years 1680-1720': distinctive and attractively presented, this includes illustrated articles in several languages, recent books and reviews; conference information and calls for papers; and the 'Academy of Projectors', with information about current researchers and their projects in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century topics. In other words, much more than just a journal

In addition, some print journals provide useful online information. Examples:

Eighteenth-century Studies

Explorations in Renaissance Culture

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Journal of Early Modern History

Renaissance Studies

Seventeenth-century News

Sixteenth Century Journal online

Studies in Eighteenth-century Culture

Archive for Reformation Research/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (German language site)

Visual images and maps

Images of history on the web (David Mattison) notwithstanding its title, this is really about finding photographic images on the web. Nonetheless, it gives many tips and links that should also be useful for finding other types of image

Art History Resources on the Web (Chris Witcombe)

WWW-VL Art History: Large Image Collections

Map History Gateway (Tony Campbell) including a highly impressive listing of images of early maps on the web

The Web Gallery of Art a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture c.1150-1750, currently containing over 7,000 images (includes a postcard service!)

Artpics: Seventeenth-century Dutch Paintings (Bernard Huyvaert) an excellent art resource: over 700 good quality digitised images, including the famous and less famous Dutch painters (also a smaller collection of fifteenth/sixteenth-century Netherlandish painters

National Portrait Gallery (GB) online search facility for the gallery's collections

Artserve (Australian National University) a huge database (130,000) images with a strong Renaissance/early modern presence

Early modern cartographic resources (EMLS)

New World maps (Hargrett Library)

Dutch City Maps (George Welling) mid-seventeenth century town and city maps, available in gif and jpg formats

Maps of Scotland (National Library of Scotland) images of 'the earliest surviving detailed maps of Scotland, made by Timothy Pont over 400 years ago, in the 1580s and 1590s'. There is also biographical material about Pont, and useful essays on what the maps reveal about facets of late sixteenth-century Scotland

American Architecture: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Jeffery Howe) photographs of various forms of architecture, from wigwams to industrial buildings

Useful tools

MEMDB medieval and early modern data bank: so far, data primarily relating to prices and currency

Early Modern Dictionaries fully searchable database of a range of early modern dictionaries

Ian's English calendar a handy little resource: quickly check day of the week, regnal years, ecclesiastical calendar, etc

Concordance to Great Books this tool has an eclectic selection of books available for word searching, with quite a few medieval and early modern texts in there. It's limited, though, as the name suggests, to well known texts and authors [currently unavailable, January 2004]

Early Modern Palaeography (Dave Postles) online materials for a taught course

The Web Chronology project a very useful resource: world history chronology from 5,000,000BC to the present, regional and cultural chronologies

Eighteenth-century Chronology (Jack Lynch)

Romantic Chronology (Laura Mandell, Alan Liu et al)

Early Modern Resources: www.earlymodernweb.org.uk

This page last updated 4 July 2004 by Sharon Howard

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