British political history, 1485-1714 (Paper 4)

• 1641 Depositions Online: fully searchable digital edition of the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library, comprising transcripts and images of all 8,000 depositions
• Ancient Petitions, Henry III-James I: searchable database of over 17,000 images from the series of Ancient Petitions, which draws together petitions addressed to the king, to the king and council, to the king and council in parliament, to the chancellor, and to certain other officers of state
• Bibliography of British and Irish History*: bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth; contains over 500,000 records, and provides links to online texts where availableCoram Rege Roll of Elizabeth I, 1581 (U.K. National Archives)
• British History Online*: digital library of printed primary and secondary sources for British history, divided into subjects: administrative and legal history; ecclesiastical and religious history; economic history; intellectual, scientific and cultural history; local history; parliamentary history; urban and metropolitan history
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge Histories series (includes The Cambridge history of political thought)
• Connected Histories: digital resources for early modern and 19th century British history.  Facilitates complex searching by names, places, and dates
• Early English Books Online*: digital library of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, 1473-1700
• Early Modern Resources: gateway for free-to-access electronic resources relating to the early modern period (c.1500-1800)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online*: digital archive of over 180,000 titles (33 million pages), including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, published during the 18th century
• Empire Online*: online collection of original documents relating to empire studies; includes exploration journals, periodicals, government papers, maps
• English Broadside Ballad Archive: high-quality facsimiles of 8,000 English broadside ballads of the 17th century, as well as facsimile transcriptions, recordings where a tune is extant, detailed cataloguing of the ballads, and background essays and resources on ballads
• English Short Title Catalogue*: catalogue of over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 (chiefly in English)
• Gale primary sources*: digital archive of 3 million pages of British newspapers (national and regional), newsbooks and ephemera
• Iter Bibliography*: bibliographical database covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700); contains over 1.1 million records
• Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online*: digital library containing a large repository of state papers, chronicles, accounts and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, for the study of Britain and its place in the world, c.1100-1800
• Official Publications LibGuide: A guide to the official publications collections held within the Cambridge University Libraries.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*: biographies of over 57,000 individuals
• Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707*: fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707
• State Papers Online*: digital library of British government documents, 1509-1714
• UK Parliamentary Papers*: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688

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