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Studying History (Internet Modern History Sourcebook) some useful links to resources on using primary sources, philosophies of history, reference and primary source materials etc.
Historiography Course (Peter Gray) covers the main themes of current interest; not specifically on the early modern period but most of it is relevant to early modernists, and the strong showing of early modern historians in the reading lists highlights their contribution to wider historiographical issues and debates
the untimely past bibliographies (Jeffrey Hearn) online bibliography relating to 'the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, and allied areas of theory/practice'
Reviews in Early Modern History (at this site)
Historians
NB: I'm using the term 'historian' broadly, to refer to academics who have significantly contributed to historical knowledge and debate on the early modern period, whatever their disciplinary or departmental labels
Joyce Appleby (Google Directory)
Fernand Braudel
Peter Burke
J C D Clark
Natalie Zemon Davis
Norbert Elias
G R Elton
Michel Foucault
Carlo Ginzburg
Christopher Hill
Peter Laslett
Thomas Babington Macaulay (Google Directory)
Alan Macfarlane
Lewis Namier
John Plumb
Roy Porter
Simon Schama
David Starkey
Lawrence Stone
Keith Thomas
E P Thompson
Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre)
Early modernity on film (at this site) my fledgling exploration of film representations of the early modern period
The Purpose of the Historical Novel full text in English translation of a 1935 essay by Lion Feuchtwanger
Girl with a Pearl Earring a site for the recent novel by Tracy Chevalier; includes sections on the book (and the paintings mentioned in it) and on Vermeer
Invitation to a Funeral an online 'jaunt around Restoration London' inspired by a 'tale of Restoration intrigue' written by Molly Brown, which stars Aphra Behn (and 'a cast of thousands' including Nell Gwyn, the dukes of York and Monmouth and the earl of Rochester)
Time Traveller's Guide to Stuart England (Channel 4 History) and also Time Traveller's Guide to Tudor England blending education and entertainment; see also BBC History Online which usually has plenty of material relevant to the early modern period
Le Poulet Gauche a re-enactment group of sixteenth-century Calais
Madame Bonancieux's Cavalier Page cavaliers and musketeers, historical and fictional, from seventeenth-century France and England. A real delight
L'Age d'Or - French and English Baroque in a word, sumptuous: a Baroque Living History Society, dedicated to 'Reliving its splendour'. But, by way of contrast:
Plimoth-on-Web a splendid web resource in its own right, this is the 'virtual' version of Plimoth Plantation, the well-established living history museum of the early puritan settlers of Massachusetts. Includes a virtual tour, all sorts of information on the museum and its activities, especially the 1627 Pilgrim Village and Hobbamock's Homesite
The 1642 Living History Village (Gosport Living History Society)
The Mary Rose includes a virtual tour of this sixteenth-century battleship, which sank in 1545, was recovered by archaeologists in the 1980s and put on display at the Naval Museum in Portsmouth
George Washington: Pioneer Farmer virtual museum of the first American president's life as a farmer rather than a politician
The Sealed Knot English Civil War re-enactment society
English Civil War Society possibly a more sober society (at least, only the Sealed Knot's site has a 'Beer Tent')
The League of Diggers and Levellers if you prefer to think of the 'English (or British) Civil Wars' as a revolution, here are the re-enactors for you [site 'under reconstruction']
The Siege Group beyond battles and banquets: this group aims at a broader re-enactment of seventeenth-century life (click on the photo)
The Varnum Continentals American Revolution (a Continental Army brigade)
The Bath Preservation Trust ... which leads naturally to:
The Jane Austen Information Page
The Pitcairn Island Virtual Shopping Mall the ultimate twenty-first-century-early-modern experience? It's online, it's for sale, it's even hand-carved... To be more serious, you can also visit the Pitcairn Island Website and ponder the ongoing popular meanings of 'the Mutiny on the Bounty'; it has an excellent range of Pitcairn and Bounty related resources
Early Modern Resources www.earlymodernweb.org.uk
This page last updated 19 March 2004 by Sharon Howard
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