Britain 1689-1815

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EuroDocs > History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents > 1689 - 1815

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• Treasures of the National Archives: Tudors and Stuarts

Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.

(1485 - 1714; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).

• Treasures of the National Archives: Eighteenth Century

Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.

(19th century; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).

• Treasures of the National Archives: Nineteenth Century

Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.

(20th century; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).

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• Constitutional States

A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

(16th - 18th centuries; transcriptions)

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• Sources: 17th Century

Includes extensive official and private records of Parliament, and the urban history of London, Glasgow, Cardiff and other major cities.

From British History Online

(17th century, transcriptions)

• Sources: 18th Century

Includes records of proceedings in Parliament, higher clergy, office holders in central government and the Survey of London.

From British History Online

(18th century, transcriptions)

• Sources: 19th Century

Includes Ordnance Survey maps, records of higher clergy, and the Survey of London and other sources relating to civic government and urbanisation.

From British History Online

(19th century, transcriptions)

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• A Vision Of Britain Through Time

Digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time.

Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps.

(19th - 20th centuries; maps, reports, transcriptions)

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• National Portrait Gallery

120.000 portraits of famous British men and women from the 16th Century to the present day.

Explore the collection in a variety of ways.

(16th century - present; image facsimiles)

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• The Portsmouth and Macclesfield Collections

A collection documenting Sir Isaac Newton's writings and ideas, consisting primarily of letters to and from 17th and 18th century scientists.

(17th - 18th centuries; facsimiles)

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• Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (CCEd)

Searchable database of principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales.

(1540-1835)

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• 17th-19th century British Religious, Political and Legal Tracts

A part of the University of Missouri Library's Digital Library.

(17th-19th centuries; full-text searchable database of facsimiles)

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• Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807

An online exhibit of the Parliamentary Archives including primary documents and other records.

(1600-1807; facsimile images, commentary and instructional modules)

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• Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online

Fully searchable transcripts of over 100,000 criminal trials

held in London's central criminal court.

A joint project of the University of Sheffield and the University of Hertfordshire.

(1674-1834, facsimiles & transcriptions with background essays)

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• Documents Illustrating Jacobite History

Over 100 documents on the history of Jacobitism and the Jacobite kings.

Digitized by Noel S. McFerran as a part of The Jacobite Heritage.

(1680-1861; transcriptions with modernised spelling)

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• Key 17th, 18th to 19th century geological literature

Digitized key books and maps relating to specimens held in the Geological Collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

The collection can be searched by title, subject or name.

(17th - 19th centuries; book and manuscript facsimiles)

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• Bill of Rights

(1689; transcription)

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• King William Addresses Parliament on the French Question

(31 December 1701; transcription).

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• The Pirate Page

A collection of documents and maps

(Facsimiles)

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• Naval History: Great Britain

A collection of contemporary documents and lists.

(1546-1817; transcriptions).

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• The Battle of Vigo, Spain, During the War of Spanish Succession

From the journals of British Admiral Sir George Rooke, recounting battles against the French and Spanish forces.

(17 - 23 October, 1702; transcriptions)

Digitized by David Stewart of Hillsdale College.

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• Vive la différence! The English and French Stereotype in Satirical Prints, 1720-1815

Caricatures of French stereotypes by the English, and vice versa.

(1720-1815; facsimiles)

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• Prints from the Curzon Collection: Images of Napoleon and British Fears of Invasion

Collection of 1400 prints from Britsh and European publications from the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

Browse by title, subject, or name.

(1789-1815; facsimile images)

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• Exploration, Fur Trade and the Hudson's Bay Company

Government and company documents regarding English and French interests.

(18th - 19th centuries; searchable facsimiles).

• In Pursuit of Adventure:The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company

Searchable full-text database of the Masson Papers, digitised by McGill University.

(1790 - 1820; searchable facsimiles with added transcriptions).

• Canada in the Making: Primary Sources in Government Documents

Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada.

(1760 to the present; transcriptions).

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• Memoir on the English Aggression

(October 1750; transcription).

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• United States of America: The Colonial Era

(17th-18th centuries; transcriptions)

• United States: Revolutionary Era

(1765-1783; transcriptions)

• British - American Diplomacy

A collection of numerous treaties and documents from the Avalon Project.

(1782-1863; English transcriptions).

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• Proclamation of 1763

Regarding the American acquisitions

• Edmund Burke, Speech on conciliation with America

(22 March 1775; transcription)

• Proclamation of Rebellion

King George III's reaction to the American colonists.

(English transcription; 23 August 1775)

• Reform of Parliament 1750-1832

With first-person accounts and commentary.

(Transcriptions)

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• Political Pamphlets of Dr. Samuel Johnson, including:

An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain (1756)

The False Alarm (1770);

Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands (1771);

The Patriot (1774), and Taxation No Tyranny (1775)

From Frank Lynch's Samuel Johnson website.

(Transcriptions).

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• Gentleman's Magazine

A searchable journal featured in the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ).

(1731-1750; facsimiles)

• Annual Register

A searchable journal featured in the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ).

(1758-1778; facsimiles)

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• British Museum: London 1753

Online tour of London as it appeared around the 1753, the year the British Museum was founded there.

(1753; images)

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• Factory Reformers and Child Labour 1750-1900

With accounts of eyewitnesses and participants, plus commentary.

(Transcriptions)

• Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

(1792; Transcription)

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• History of the Workhouse

Includes poor laws, various acts and amendments, lists, maps, and more.

(1601-1900; facsimiles and transcriptions)

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• Working Class Movement Library

Collection recording over 200 years of organising and campaigning by ordinary men and women.

Browse the collection or view the galleries.

(18th - 20th centuries; facsimiles, images and descriptions]

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• British Cartoon Prints

Digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress.

"The cartoons highlight aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater."

(1780-1830; searchable database of facsimiles)

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• Histpop: Online Historical Population Reports

200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British Isles with a wealth of textual and statistical material.

(1801-1937; searchable data files, essays and analysis)

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• Edmund Burke, Reflections On The Revolution In France And On The Proceedings In Certain Societies In London Relative To That Event In A Letter Intended To Have Been Sent To A Gentleman In Paris

From Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

(1790; English transcription)

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• High Price of Provisions:

An Investigation of the Cause by Thomas Robert Malthus

(1800; English transcription).

• The Corn Laws by T. R. Malthus

Observations on the effects of the Corn Laws.

(1814; English transcription).

• Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn

(1814; English transcription).

• The Nature of Rent by T.R. Malthus

Inquiry into the nature and progress of rent

(1815; English transcription).

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• A Convention to Regulate the Commerce

Between the Territories of The United States and of His Britannick Majesty.

(1815; English transcription).

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• Declaration Concerning the Convention Regulating Commerce and Navigation

between the United States and Britain.

(1815; English transcription).

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• Records of an English Village 1375-1854 (Earls Colne, Essex)

An impressive local history collection, comprising church, state, estate and personal records.

(1375 - 1854; transcriptions)

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• Sources of British History

Britannia Internet Magazine collection of significant charters, histories, chronicles, accounts, laws and summonses.

(English transcriptions)

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• Historical Directories of England and Wales

Local and trade directories valuable for local and family history.

Searchable by location, by decade, or bykeyword.

(1750 - 1919; facsimiles)

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• BOPCRIS: British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service

Subject index and abstracts of British official publications, some available in full-text format.

(1688 to the present; English transcriptions)

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• Gathering the Jewels: The Website for Welsh Cultural History

Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.

(Medieval to 20th century; facsimiles and photographs)

• Powys Digital History Project

A documentation project of Powys County, Wales

(Medieval to present; facsimiles, Latin and Welsh transcriptions and English transcriptions and translations)

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• Scotland's People

Huge and exemplary website combining a searchable database of wills and testaments

with full transcripts of the originals and some sample facsimiles.

Includes auxiliary helps such as guides to handwriting and to Scottish occupations.

(1500-1901; facsimiles and transcripts)

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• The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS)

Searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.

(1235-1707; manuscripts and translations)

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• Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and Associated Archives

A project of the Edinburgh University Library

(1550-1740; facsimiles).

• Digital Maps of Scotland

A project of the National Library of Scotland

(1560-1928; facsimiles).

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• Great Britain Historical GIS Project

A major online Geographic Information System for Great Britain

Combining historical atlases and gazeteers with a database of demographic and socio-economic statistics.

Directed by Humphrey Southall of the University of Portsmouth.

(Facsimiles and transcriptions).

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EuroDocs > History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents > 1689 - 1815

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