Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900
From the webpage:
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace. We have produced this short video guide to introduce you to the key features.
Twenty-two remarkable resources can be searched by place, person, or keyword. Some of the sources require subscriptions but the vast majority do not. A summary of the resources would fail to do them justice so here is a list of the currently searchable resources:
- British History Online
- British Museum Images
- British Newspapers, 1600-1900
- Cause Papers in the Diocesan Courts of the Archbishopric of York, 1300-1858 From the description: “A particular strength of the project is the care taken to ensure that all spelling variants for surnames and place names are searchable under standard forms, while the database also provides the original spellings.”
- Charles Booth Archive
- Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835
- Convict Transportation Registries Database (The full dataset as a CSV file.)
- Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration
- History of Parliament (Public corruption isn’t new.)
- House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
- John Foxe’s The Acts and Monuments Online (In case you are looking for the Antichrist.)
- John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
- John Strype’s Survey of London Online
- Lane’s Masonic Records
- London Lives 1690-1800
- Nineteenth-Century British Pamphlets
- Origins.net
- Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913
- Transcribed Papers of Jeremy Bentham (Workaholics take note: Betham produced ten to twelve pages a day for forty years. Until he was in his eighties. And people are volunteering to transcribe it.)
- Victoria County History
- Witches in Early Modern England
As you probably assume, there is no binding point for any person, object, date or thing across all twenty-two resources with its associations to other persons, objects, dates or things.
As you explore Connected Histories, keep track of where you found information on a person, object, date or thing. Depending on the granularity of pointing, you might want to create a topic map to capture that information.