English Historical Documents, 1660-1714David Charles Douglas, Andrew Browning "English Historical Documents is the most comprehensive, annotated collection of documents on British (not in reality just English) history ever compiled. Conceived during the Second World War with a view to ensuring the most important historical documents remained available and accessible in perpetuity, the first volume came out in 1953, and the most recent volume almost sixty years later. The print series, edited by David C. Douglas, is a magisterial survey of British history, covering the years 500 to 1914 and including around 5,500 primary sources, all selected by leading historians Editors. It has over the years become an indispensable resource for generations of students, researchers and lecturers. EHD is now available in its entirety online. Bringing EHD into the digital age has been a long and complex process. To provide you with first-rate, intelligent searchability, Routledge have teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research (one of the research institutes that make up the School of Advanced Study, University of London http://www.history.ac.uk) to produce EHD Online. The IHR's team of experts have fully indexed the documents, using an exhaustive historical thesaurus developed by the Royal Historical Society for its Bibliography of British and Irish History. The sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more. Each section of documents and many of the documents themselves are accompanied by editorial commentary. The sources cover a wide spectrum of topics, from political and constitutional issues to social, economic, religious as well as cultural history."--[Résumé de l'éditeur]. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 32 |
THE MONARCHY | 40 |
PARLIAMENT | 131 |
PUBLIC FINANCE | 255 |
THE CHURCH | 348 |
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE | 422 |
TRADE AND PLANTATIONS | 518 |
SCOTLAND | 580 |
IRELAND | 687 |
ARMED FORCES | 772 |
FOREIGN AFFAIRS | 828 |
SOVEREIGNS POLITICIANS AND SOME OTHER MEN | 874 |
APPENDICES | 924 |
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