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Link Clergy of the Church of England, 1540-1835

Makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing...

Genealogy, Ecclesiastical History, Church history, 19th century, 18th century, 17th century, 16th century, Early modern, History view
Link THE SECRET HISTORY OF BRITISH ART COLLECTIONS

This link allows you to view 'Bought with Love: The Secret History Of British Art Collections', a BBC series of programmes about art collectors,...

Collections, Collectors, Society of Dilettani, Earl of Arundel, Arundel Marbles, Grand Tour, 18th century, 17th century view
Link The Old Bailey On-line

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever...

Justice, London, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Modern, Legal system, Crime, History view
Link William Harvey Du Motu Cordis (1628)

University of Glasgow, book of the month, June 2007, William Harvey's work on the circulation of the blood, Du Motu Cordis.

Blood, Circulation, 17th century, Anatomy view
Link The Down Survey of Ireland (William Petty)

Trinity College Dublin project to create a consolidated digital atlas of the 1650s ‘Down Survey of Ireland’ surveyed by William Petty.

This...

Down Survey, 17th century, Surveying, Historical Maps, William Petty view
Image collection Effects of Civil War?

The print shown here, The World Turned Upside Down, comes from the English Civil War period and is a good early example of political comment in...

English Civil War, 17th century, Cromwell, prints view
Document Some 17th century clerical jokes from Nicholas Le Strange's Jest Book

Some 17th century clerical jokes from Nicholas Le Strange's Jest Book, published as Nicholas Le Strange, Lippincott, Merry Jeasts, 1974...

Religious history, Humour, The Church of Enga, Clergy, 17th century view
Document Improving Vision: The Moral Focus of the Sense of Sight in Seventeenth-Century Text and Textile, Jean Lambert

In early modern culture, the eye was widely deemed to be the pre-eminent organ of the sensorium on account of its contribution to the intellectual...

17th century, eye, Morality, embroidery view
Document Agricultural revolution week 1 slides

Introduction

Agricultural history, agricultural revolution, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century view
Document Disorder and Resolution: William Blake’s ‘London’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘London 1802’ by Alex Deamer

In this essay I examine the differing attitudes towards disorder and resolution in William Blake’s ‘London’ and William Wordsworth’s ‘London 1802...

William Blake, William Wordsworth, 17th century, romanticism view
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