England

England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Middle Ages

Economic and Social History, History | England, fifteenth century, fourteenth century, medieval-history, migration, sixteenth century, war and conflict

England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation. The information within this database has been drawn from a variety of published and un-published records – taxation assessments, letters of denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and grants – and offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the origins, destinations, occupations and identities of the people who chose to make England their home during this turbulent period.

Data type: temporal, text

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Early English Laws

Law and Legal Studies, Legal History | England, law

The Early English Laws project publishes online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215.

Data type: images, text

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Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

Installation and Sound Art (History, Theory and Practice), Visual Arts | 19th-century, England, illustration, illustrations

This dataset consists of 868 scanned images of wood-engraved illustrations from the year 1862. These images can be viewed at high quality using Zoomify/Javascript platforms, as well as interrogated against bibliographic descriptors and iconographic descriptions. A key output of this phase of the project is the updating of the platform, enhanced features and the mapping of Iconclass codes that allow the database to be searched in different languages.

Data type: images

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Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Classical Reception, Classics | 17th-century, 20th-century, 21st-century, class, education, eighteenth century, England, Greek, Latin, nineteenth century, working class

Collection of encounters between consciousness of social class and Greek & Latin Classics

Data type: audio, text, video

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Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

Economic and Social History, History | 16th-century, Early Modern, England, letters

Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608) is one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. She is renowned for her reputation as a dynast and indomitable matriarch and perhaps best known as the builder of great stately homes like the magnificent Hardwick Hall and Chatsworth House. The story of her life told to date typically emphasises her modest birth, her rise through the ranks of society, her four husbands, each of greater wealth than the last, and her ambitious aggrandisement of her family. Bess of Hardwick's letters, which number almost 250 items of correspondence, bring to life her extraordinary story and allow us to eavesdrop on her world. Her letters allow us to reposition Bess as a complex woman of her times, immersed in the literacy and textual practices of everyday life, as her correspondence extends from servants, friends and family, to queens and officers of state.

Data type: images, temporal, text

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100 Ballads

Music, Traditional Music | crime, Early Modern, England, music, seventeenth century

Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. This website concentrates on over 100 resoundingly successful examples that you can investigate through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials. Whether you are interested in music, art, love, gender, tragedy, politics, family life, crime, history, humour or death, you will find something to engage you here.

Data type: audio, images, text

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England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550: Resident Aliens in the Middle Ages

Early English Laws

Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration

Classics and Class in Britain, 1789-1917

Civil War Petitions

Bess of Hardwick’s Letters

100 Ballads

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