Ralph Houlbrooke

Great-Britain

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Websites

http://diarysearch.co.uk/index.html Christopher Handley: The Diary Research Website.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/projects/isham Warwick University Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Constructing Elizabeth Isham, 1609-1654.

http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/ Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary University of London.

http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/NABS/  Centre for Narrative and Auto/Biographical Studies, University of Edinburgh

http://human.ntu.ac.uk/research/perdita/index.html Perdita: Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Catalogue – about 400 manuscripts compiled by women in the British Isles, including autobiographical material and accounts.

http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/ Royal Historical Society Bibliography. Best guide to historical publications about Britain (ongoing).

www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/docs/histsocs.html British Record Societies and their publications.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/

Guides to the contents of the National Archives at Kew and to those of local record repositories in Britain and Ireland.

Online editions

http://www.pepysdiary.com/

http://www.pepys.info/

Two editions of the most famous of all English diaries. They both use Henry B. Wheatley’s edition of 1893-9 rather than Robert Latham’s and William Matthews’s comprehensively revised edition of 1970-83

http://history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/TheAutobiography.pdf (Transcription of Elizabeth Isham’s ‘Booke of Rememberance’ by Isaac Stephens)mpiled by Christopher Handley and published by Hanover Pr

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/machyn MS of Henry Machyn: ‘A London provisioner's chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machyn: manuscript, transcription, and modernization’, ed. by Richard W. Bailey, Marilyn Miller, and Colette Moore