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Time Period - Seventeenth Century


Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/


American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
The American memory web site aims to provide electronic access to holdings at the Library of Congress which relate to the United States. |description|


An American Time Capsule: Three centuries of Broadside and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
The American Time Capsule web site has been developed by the rare books and special collections division of the Library of Congress to provide access to printed ephemera held by the Library of Congress. |description|


Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project aims to provide access to documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government over the World Wide Web. |description|


British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.|description|


Centre for Metropolitan History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html

The Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) was established in 1988 and promotes the study and appreciation of London's character and development. |description|


Chronology of Russian History
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono.html
The chronology lists major events of Russian history between 860 and the present. |description|


Concise History of the British Newspaper
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html


Danish Data Archive
http://www.dda.dk/


Digital Archive of Architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/


Dutch City Maps from Blaeu's Toonneel
http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/maps/blaeu.html
This site, created by George Welling from the University of Groningen, provides access to facsimile copies of maps from Blaeu’s ‘Toonneel der Steden’ published in 1652. |description|


Early Canadiana Online
http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq



Electric Scotland
http://www.electricscotland.com/
"Electric Scotland's Scottish History" is a large Web site offering information on early Scottish history, battles, culture, literature, and music. |description|


The English Emblem Book Project
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/

The English emblem book project was set up with the aim of making full text emblem books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries available online. |description|


Eurodocs: Belgium Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/belgium.html


Eurodocs: Irish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ireland.html


Eurodocs: Italian Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/italy.html


Eurodocs: Spanish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/spain.html


Exploring the West from Monticello: a Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html


Finland 500 Years on the Map of Europe
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/mapseng.html
This site takes the form of an online exhibition showing the way in which Finland has been represented in maps over the last 500 years. |description|


Historical Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_main.html
Historical maps from the University of Texas provides access to hundreds of historical maps from around the world. |description|



AHDS History
http://ahds.ac.uk/history/index.htm
AHDS History 'collects, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching'. |description|




History of France: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/france.html
The History of France: primary documents site provides links to over sixty documents relating to French history from the ninth century to the present day. |description|




History of Germany: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html
The History of Germany: primary documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to German history from the ninth century to the present day. |description|




The History of Mathematics
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/

The History of Mathematics web site created by, David Wilkins of Trinity College, Dublin, concentrates on mathematicians of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |description|




History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html
The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. |description|




Map Collections: 1500-2002
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html




McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
The Archive for the History of Economic Thought web site from McMaster University provides access to a variety of material relating to economic history. |description|



The Medici Archive
http://www.medici.org/


History of the Monarchy
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp
This site, which forms part of the British Monarchy web site, provides a brief history of all the monarchs of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom. |description|



National Archives of Canada
http://www.archives.ca/

The web site of the National Archives of Canada holds both general and detailed information on their holdings. |description|




Netherlands Historical Data Archive
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/dd_nhda/dd_nhda.htm


Out of the Past: 400 years of Lesbian and Gay history in America
http://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/
Out of The Past explores the importance of history in creating identity, and documents the history of gay men and women in the United States over four centuries. |description|



The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
http://www.patrin.com/

Patrin is a web resource which covers aspects of Romani culture and history. A wide variety of material is covered by the site. |description|




Project Wittenberg
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
Project Wittenberg, created under the direction of Bob Smith of Concordia Theological Seminary, provides a gateway to Lutheran texts; texts by Luther, texts about Luther and works of other Lutherans. |description|




Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
http://proni.nics.gov.uk/

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland. |description|




Quaker Archives Database
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakint1.htm
The Quaker Archives Database from the University of Leeds special collections department has created a name index of many of the older documents in The University Library's Carlton Hill archive. |description|




Renaissance Forum: An Electronic Journal of Early-modern Literacy and Historical Studies
http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/EL_Web/renforum/
Renaissance forum : An electronic journal of early-modern literacy and historical studies
is a biannual refereed full text electronic journal published by the University of Hull. |description|



Scottish Economic History Database, 1550-1780
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html
The Scottish economic history database has been developed by Alex Gibson, Department of Geography, Exeter University. |description|


Storia di Venezia
http://www.storiadivenezia.it/

This web site has been produced by a group of academics at the University of Venice and provides a history of Venice from the city's foundation to the present day.|description|



Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~slavery/



Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
The Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress web site provides online access to material held by the Manuscripts Department at the Library of Congress. |description|




Tyburn Tree: Public Executions in Early Modern England
http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/index.htm
This site originally created by Zachary Lesser, now expanded and maintained by Charlie Mitchell at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides a wide variety of information about public executions in early modern England. |description|




Urban Past: an International Urban History Bibliography
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybib.html
The urban past: an international urban history bibliography was compiled by Gilbert Stelter from the University of Guelph and was originally designed as a resource for students at this institution. |description|




Virtual Jamestown
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/page2.html
The Virtual Jamestown project, hosted by the Virginia Center for Digital History, aims to create an online resource on the history of Jamestown, Virginia in the seventeenth century. |description|




Virtual Library: History - German History
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/heidelberg/gh/gh.html




Witchcraft in Salem Village
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
The Witchcraft in Salem Village web site provides access to primary source material on the witchcraft trial in Salem Village, (now Danvers) Massachusetts in 1692. |description|




Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/quaker/

The Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Projects aims to increase access to and awareness of collections of Quaker material relating to Yorkshire. |description|



October 2005