One of the goals of this website is to provide access to academic articles about the history of England from the Tudor to Victorian periods. We have noticed how difficult it is to find articles, as many are scattered in various online journals, databases and university websites. This section will list articles that freely available online – we provide some basic information, abstracts and introductions, and links to these articles. They cover a wide variety of topics and periods, and we will be adding to these consistently – there are thousands of such articles that are on the web, and we hope to list as many of them as possible.
We currently have just over 200 articles posted to EarlyModernEngland.com. If you know of any articles that should be added, please let us know.
Here are some of the articles:
The politics of London air : John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium’ and the Restoration
Gladstone and Laura Thistlethwayte, 1865–75
New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England
The art of gunnery in Renaissance England
Religious Reform and Religious Orders in England, 1490-1540: The Case of the Crutched Friars
Shakespeare’s Henry V & the Geneva Bible
Restoring the Royal Household: Royalist Politics and the Commonwealth Recipe Book
Appetite and Ambition: The Influence of Hunger in Macbeth
The Rhetoric of Mortality: Elizabeth I’s Use of Death
Authorized Discourse at the Kenilworth Entertainments
Reflections on “Imitatio” as an Educational Ideal of English Humanism
Gender and Translation in Early Modern England
Population and agrarian change in an eighteenth century Shropshire village
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, 1549
Crop Nutrition in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Devon
“Now Inhale the Gas”: Interactive Readership in Two Victorian Boys’ Periodicals, 1855–1870
Polite consumption: shopping in eighteenth century England
Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London
Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England
Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker’s The Honest Whore
When Women Ruled the World: The Glorious Sixteenth Century
Sketches from the Life of Ragusan Merchants in London in the Time of Henry VIII
Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Frances Corbett, 1635-1660
Trading options before Black-Scholes: a study of the market in late seventeenth-century London
Looking with ears, hearing with eyes: Shakespeare and the ear of the early modern