HS2000 Historical Research Methods

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HS2000 Historical Research Methods

• Sources for Early Modern History
• Dr Bernard Attard
• Dr Dvid Gentilcore

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State Papers

• Calendars of State Papers (domestic, foreign,
  colonial, Venetian).
• Letters and Papers of Henry VIII
• Acts of the Privy Council
• Acts of Parliament
• State trials

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Manuscript original

• Local Record Offices.
• Problem of calligraphy.

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Printed

• Diaries and journals (Pepys, Ralph Josselin).
• Contemporary histories.
• Texts in history of ideas (e.g. Luther).
• Literary (e.g. Milton)
• Modern anthologies
• Camden Society series (Camden Miscellany)

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Quantitative and other media

• Visual
• Numerical, e.g. UK Data Archive

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On-line

• Main Library Home Page Leicester Digital
  Library E-Books.
• Early English Books on-line.
• Historical Directories.

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Some current early modern topics

• A comparison of the witch trials in England and
  Scotland in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
  centuries.
• The Aftermath of the first English Civil War The
  search for settlement and the road to the
  republic.
• The Gentleman's Magazine Tracing the rise of the
  middling sort.
• Alehouses and licensing laws in C16th Leicester.