UNITING THE KINGDOMS
BRITAIN 1534 - 1707

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Latest update,
Peter Jacobs,
Margaret Hosking
July 2007
 

 CATALOGUE

First, consult the catalogue.
This may seem obvious, but many students fail to fully investigate the resources of our own library,
which has very extensive collections on this period of British history, including microfilm copies of all books published in English 1473-1700.
For primary documents, add the word SOURCES to your search.
PEOPLE and INSTITUTIONS can also be subject headings.
For contemporary publications from the 16th and 17th centuries,
add the word EARLY WORKS TO 1800 to your search - this will lead you to the microfilms of
Early English Books.

In either Basic search or Guided Keyword search use terms such as:
Subject Heading or Keywords from subject heading:
Great Britain -- History --  .....then browse subdivisions, such as:
Great Britain  History Tudors  1475-1603
Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603... and Henry VII,  Henry VIII, Mary etc
Great Britain -- History -- 16th century........or 17th century
Great Britain  History  Stuarts 1603-1714
James I, 1603-1625 ...,                  James II, 1685-168...,
Restoration, 1660-1688...,                 Revolution of 1688 ... ,
William and Mary, 1689-1702  

  Great Britain -- History, Military -- 1603-1714......or.....16th century....or.....17th century
Great Britain -- Foreign relations  --France etc
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
England and Wales History Civil War, 1642-1649.
England --Relations--Ireland 
England --Relations-- Scotland
England -- Relations --Wales

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

World history

Britain  in General

Have a browse!  Other more specific titles are:

Spartacus Internet  Encyclopaedia of  British History: 1500-1950
Fairly lightweight, but well organised.

Reference collection 283.03  O4

Ollard, S L.  A dictionary of English church history. 1919

Scotland

Ireland

 Reference collection  941.5003 B8125h
The Hutchinson encyclopedia of Ireland : an A-Z guide to its people, places, history and culture,  ed. Ciaran Brady. 2000

Reference collection  941.5 M131b
Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture,  ed W. J. McCormack   1999

Empire

Reference collection 903 O52h
Historical dictionary of European imperialism,  J. S. Olson, 1991

Reference collection  325.34203 P173d
Palmer, A.W.  Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth.   1996

ATLASES 

Reference collection  911.41 C972p
The Penguin atlas of British & Irish history. 2001

Reference collection 941.5 D8587a
Duffy, S. Atlas of Irish history. 1997

Special collections (RB Oversize) 912.42 B632b

Blaeu, W.J. Blaeu's atlas of England. Scotland, Wales and Ireland.  [1970]
Facsimile of maps 1645-1654.

Reference collection 941.06 G272c
Gaunt, P.  The Cromwellian gazetteer.  1987

Reference collection 911.42  N554a

CHRONOLOGY

Reference collection 942.06 C771e

Cook, C. English historical facts, 1603-1688. 1988       

Reference collection 941.07021 C771b

BIOGRAPHY

Reference collection  920.041  B157b
British biographical archive.  1984-.
Cumulation of 324 English language biographical reference works originally published between 1601 and 1929.  Full text microfiche with a  printed index.

Reference collection   920  D55 o
Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000,  ed.H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison,  60 vols, 2004
Each article in the new edition has a link to the original  article from the  1885-  edition.

Reference collection 942.05 R869w
Routh, C.R.N.  Who’s who in Tudor England.  1990.

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES

General and Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Premier
Replaces Academic Search Elite. This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago

Project Muse
full text  access to University Press and other scholarly electronic journals in the social sciences, humanities etc  since the mid 1990's.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

General

Reference collection   941.0016  R524b 
Richardson, R. C.   British economic and social history : a bibliographical guide.  3rd ed.   1996.

Tudor

Reference collection 942.05016 R28.2
Read, C.  Bibliography of British history, Tudor period, 1485-1603. 2nd ed. 1959.

Reference collection 941.06  M874s
Morrill, J.S.  Seventeenth century Britain, 1603-1714.  1980.

Reference collection 941.0016  G689
Grose, C L.  A select bibliography o f British history, 1660-1760.  1967,c.1939.       

Ireland

Scotland

Reference collection 941.0016 H23
Hancock, P.D.  A bibliography of works relating to Scotland 1916-1950.  2vols.

Empire

Reference collection   909.0971241 P844b 
Bibliography of imperial, colonial, and Commonwealth history since 1600, ed. Andrew Porter, 2002.

Religion

Reference collection 274.206 A438c
Allison, A.F. and Rogers, D.M.  The contemporary printed literature ofthe English Counter-Reference collectionormation between 1558 and 1640: an annotated catalogue.  1989-1994.  2v.
     
Reference collection 274.1  M662r
Milward, P.  Religious controversies of the Jacobean Age:  a survey of printed sources.  1978.      

Women

Reference collection 305.409415 B812w
Brady, A. Women in Ireland: an annotated bbliography.  1988.

Reference collection 305.40941 C899w
Crawford, P. Women in early modern England, 1500-1800.  1989.

Reference collection   305.40942 F795h
Hear the word of the Lord : a critical and bibliographical study of Quaker women's writing 1650-1700, R. Foxton, 1994

Reference collection 305.4016  F893w
Frey, L. Women in Western European history; a select chronological, geographical and topical bibliography...1982 and suppl.1986.  

Literature

Reference collection 820.9  D866e
Duggan, M.M.  English literature and backgrounds, 1660-1700.  1990.  2v.
        

Historiography

Reference collection 941.0016  E51
Elton, G R.  Modern historians on British history, 1485-1945:  a critical bibliography  1945-1969.  1970.
        
Reference collection 941.0072 W337w
Watson, Charles A.  The writing of history in Britain: a bibliography of post 1945 writings about British historians and biographers.  1982.
       

Military

WEB RESOURCES

British History 16thC-17thC

H-Albion:  the H-Net discussion network for British and Irish history, especially their links

The Proceedings of the Old  Bailey London 1674 to 1834
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at  London's central criminal court.  Contains 100,621 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834


Uniting the kingdoms 1066-1604 (from the UK National Archives)

Citizenship : a history of people, rights and power in Britain  (from the UK Natinoal Archives)

Making of the United Kingdom  from Spartacus - scroll down for content.
Covering the early modern period from 1485 to 1750, it charts the influence of the Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian dynasties on the creation of the eventual United Kingdom.

Tudors

Seventeenth Century

SOURCE MATERIALS

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS

OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES

901  E58
The English experience:  its record in early printed books published in facsimile.  1968-79.  964v. and index.
 This set consists of facsimiles of texts published in the period 1475 and 1640 - 'important' items selected from Pollard and Redgrave's short title catalogue.  Supplements 1 & 2 provide a catalogue/index to items reproduced in this series. 

Reference collection 015.42 T463Z.B
[Thomason Tracts.]  Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661.  1908.  2v. 
 This is the index to the microfilm set Microfilm Per 15.  The cross index from Thomason Tract number to reel number is next to the volumes in the Reference collectionerence collection. The tracts span the period 1640-1661 and are listed chronologically in the catalogue (first Tracts, then Newspapers), with an index of authors 'names and a subject index.  Note that the title index is very limited, an entry being made only when the author of the tract is unknown and no subject entry has been given.