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Cheapside, one of the most important streets in early modern London, ran east-west between the Great Conduit at the foot of Old Jewry to the Little Conduit by St. Paul’s churchyard. The terminus of all the northbound streets from the river, the broad expanse of Cheapside separated the northern wards from the southern wards. It was lined with buildings three, four, and even five stories tall, whose shopfronts were open to the light and set out with attractive displays of luxury commodities (Weinreb and Hibbert 148). Cheapside was the centre of London’s wealth, with many mercers’ and goldsmiths’ shops located there. It was also the most sacred stretch of the processional route, being traced both by the linear east-west route of a royal entry and by the circular route of the annual mayoral procession.
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If you are on this page, you have likely been invited to contribute an encyclopedia page to
Even when you are working with the best possible sources, answers may prove elusive and require a bit of digging. The purpose of this page is to provide you with an annotated list of the resources used most often by the
Before you begin your research, it is important to think ahead and reflect on the research questions that you will need to answer. You are performing the work of a forensic historian; it’s up to you to gather information about the past and to examine and critically assess it. Then, you can mobilize your research to write about the topic that
The most important thing in the research stage of your project is to keep good records. Record your search terms/strings for any searches you perform in electronic catalogues, databases, and reference tools. Copy and paste any references and passages that look promising into a document, text file, or spreadsheet file. Be sure to record citation information and/or your sources for all excerpts, notes, and references. In your notes, distinguish carefully between quotations (the words of your source) and paraphrases (your words).
Be aware of the nature of the source you are reading: is it a
You also want to be aware of the nature of the resource or research tools you are using to find and access sources. The more you know about your research tools, the better you’ll be able to find what you need. Here are some questions to ask about each resource you use:
Digital resources are either open-access or restricted. Open-access resources are freely available to anyone with internet access. Restricted resources are password-protected or protected by a subscription paywall. Your university may or may not have purchased access to the resources behind a subscription paywall. To check, make sure that you are attempting to access a particular resource through your library’s server. If your university allows you to access its networks over a VPN (Virtual Private Network) client, you may be able to connect directly to subscription resources from your laptop or from home without having to enter a username and password for each resource. (If you are a UVic student, you’ll find VPN client installation instructions on the University Systems webpages.)
You’ll notice that our project maps
As mentioned above, it is important that you have reflected on the research questions you will need to answer prior to beginning your research and certainly before presenting your results in the form of an encyclopedia article.
Different types of articles will need to address different research questions, but generally all location articles in
You may find many references to your street/site/playhouse from before
When you have completed your research, see our page about how to Prepare Your Encyclopedia Article.
We have divided the following list of resources into two general categories:
Need a saint’s name, a literary term, a musical definition, or anything else for which you might turn to Wikipedia?
Make sure you check your library’s catalogue to see what your own university has!
It’s a good idea to search the websites and online catalogues of libraries that specialize in London history. If nothing else, a catalogue lets you know that a book or article exists. You may then be able to order copies of critical monographs and articles (although not rare books) through your own library’s interlibrary loan service.
You can also derive a lot of useful information from the catalogue entries, especially about manuscript sources. Although you won’t be able to call up manuscripts from these libraries without actually going to the library, the metadata in the catalogue is often sufficiently detailed to give you the information you need (e.g., a date, a name, a transfer of ownership).
Some library catalogues now include scans or photographs of selected materials, which means you can do some primary research without even leaving your desk. At
The following resources may help to determine the name of a street, site, or playhouse.
Be cautious with the following sources:
In your article, you might comment on whether a site or playhouse is visible in any later maps of the city. For playhouse locations,
Here are a few readily available maps of London from the
There’s an excellent modern scholarly map of London’s footprint in
Check out
Google Maps and Google Earth won’t show you what early modern London looked like. The basic footprint of the streets, however, has not changed much from early modern to modern-day London, and you may find it useful to walk the streets of London virtually to get a sense of how far it is from one point to another. In addition, our users like to know what occupies a site now. We often hear from people who have walked the streets of London with our website open on a mobile device.
A gazetteer is a geographical index or dictionary
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Images are both an informative and aesthetically pleasing way to enhance your encyclopedia article. However, it is vital that we only use images for which we can obtain proper permissions. Fortunately, a number of sites offer freely available images, and simply ask that we credit them. If you find an image to illustrate your article, send us the stable URL and we will upload the image into our database.
It is often difficult to track down information on early modern Londoners, and is typically much easier to find information on men and aristocrats than on women and non-aristocrats, the latter of whom are often simply missing from the historical record. We recommend you try the following resources:
full textsearch, not just a
personsearch. Even if the person you are researching does not merit a full biographical entry in the ODNB, he or she may well be mentioned in another person’s entry.
a site providing records of Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies between 1400 and 1900. The records of the companies are a rich source of information about people. The database includes Clothworkers, Drapers, Goldsmiths (1600-1700), and Mercers. Membership records from other livery companies will be added in the future. We often link to ROLLCO directly from our personography.
Edward Sugden’s
Fran Chalfant’s dictionary of Ben Jonson’s London is useful for finding references to London in Ben Jonson’s plays.
contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
The images were digitized from the
Students often find
Note that a search will turn up references that appear in the item record and references that appear in the full-text transcriptions. We need to be aware that not all the texts listed in
The
The journal
Alan B. Farmer and
Zachary Lesser’s
We also recommend
See also Syme’s caveat about widely used secondary sources for the study of theatre history.
You may find other scholarly sources that are not listed here. If you think they
would be relevant to other researchers like you, let your professor or the