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| Information on Kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI, and Queens Jane Grey, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Provides details of Henry VIII's wives, and biographies of important people in Tudor history, genealogical trees, chronologies, and descriptions of life and architecture in Tudor England. | |
| Derived from the Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate Papae Nicholai IV. Contains the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291 2. For nearly 250 years virtually all ecclesiastical taxation of England and Wales was based on this extremely thorough and detailed assessment and it is a unique source for the medieval period. | ||
| An illustrated Anglo Norman verse, written in England in the late 1230s or early 1240s, and preserved in this manuscript from 1250-60. A masterpiece of mid thirteenth century English illumination, the present manuscript preserves evidence for the study of the hagiographical writings about St Edward sponsored by Henry III (1216-72), and also for the complexity and sophistication of English pen and wash narrative art in this period. | ||
| Materials relating to medieval English towns. Includes capsule histories of selected locations, a glossary, related links, and the full text of a thesis entitled The Men Behind the Masque: Office Holding in East Anglian Boroughs, 1272-1460. | ||
| Extensive resources devoted to the art, history, literature and culture of the Romantic period. Contains searchable electronic text editions, scholarly resources, conference information, research features and book reviews. | ||
| Over 140 entries that examine the struggle for parliamentary reform in Britain between 1700 and 1832. Topics include Parliament in the 18th Century, Radical Publishers and Reform, The Scottish Martyrs, and Reform of The Monarchy. | ||
| Provides an overview of an Elizabethan outfit, complete with drawings to illustrate the various layers. Features information about underpinnings such as corsets, pictures of 16th century clothes, costume patterns, hat styles, colours and fabrics used, dress accessories, detailing and decoration, and examples of dress typically worn in other countries during the period. | ||
| Includes full text and extracts of fifteenth nineteenth century sources about Richard III (1452-1485); a hypertext edition of Shakespeare's play; essays on Richard III in history, drama, and literature, and resources for teaching. | ||
| Biographies of journalists, publishers, illustrators, artists, and cartoonists, such as Charles Dickens, John Tenniel, William Blake, and William Hogarth. Also covers newspapers and journals, both national and provincial, including The Times, The Edinburgh Review, and Blackwood's Magazine, as well as radical 19th century publications like The Poor Man's Guardian and The Black Dwarf. | ||
| Documents covering English legal history such as the Magna Carta (1215), The Trial of William Wallace (1306), The Trial of Sir Thomas More (1535) and The English Bill of Rights (1689). | ||
| Database of ballads, texts, images, bibliographies, and basic information about the Robin Hood stories and other outlaw tales. | ||
| Part of a larger collection of eighteenth century materials covering art, religion, culture and science. Resources are broken down into British, European and American history. | ||
| Scanned versions of the complete texts of nine emblem books printed in early modern England, providing a source for the study of daily life in the 16th and 17th centuries, and for the analysis of reading practices, printing history, the use of allegory, and the relationship of word to image. | ||
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