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Archives and libraries

Archives Hub: A Gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges 

Austrian Archives 

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 

Bibliothèque nationale de France

British Library

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC

Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden 

Library of Congress

National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), London

National Library of Scotland

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

The Church of England Record Society

 

Early modern documents online

Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent Online

Christian Classics Ethereal Library 
 'Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification'. Large array of Christian texts available in full online.

Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (CPT) brings together hundreds of religious texts from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras into a single full-text, fully searchable database.

Earls Colne, Essex: Records of an English Village, 1375-1854 

Early English Books Online

Early Modern Holiday Calendar for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales 

Foxe's Book of Martyrs online

Hanover Archive of Reformation Texts and Documents  
Index to a wide range of key Reformation documents online

History Data Service  
Guide to a wide range of electronic data resources, principally in British social history

H-Net  
Broadbased service for research in the humanities and social sciences

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

ITER
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance 

Project Gutenberg

Transcriptions of SP/12, State Papers Domestic, Elizabeth I

The Labyrinth - Resources for medieval studies

Virtual Norfolk 

 

Web resources for research

Abebooks.com 
Effective and broad-based American and international second-hand book search service

Alibris 
Reasonable US-based book search site, but tends to be pricey

Antiquarian Booksellers Online 
European book search service

Bibliophile.net 
International, searchable network of independent rare- and out-of-print book dealers

British History Online

Cambridge online palaeography course

Catholic Encyclopedia Online 

Grian Books: Scottish History Pages 
Online list of second-hand and rare books in all areas of Scottish history

Humbul Humanities Hub 

Independent Booksellers' Network 
A useful although not especially wide-ranging British-based search service

JStor Online Journal Archive

L'Ex-Libris 
Reasonable although limited French-language booksearch service

Oddvolumes.com 
London-based searchable list and want board for odd volumes of multivolume sets

Oxford DNB 

Royal Historical Society on-line bibliography of British history

Still Waters Revival Books 
A Canadian hard-line Calvinist publisher which produces good-quality and low-priced hardbound photocopies of out-of-copyright editions of a number of Reformation texts. 

UK BookWorld 
British-based large-scale book search site

Research centres

Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan 

Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies - Toronto

Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies, University of Birmingham, England 

Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, The University of Arizona

Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Geneva

Institute for Historical Research - London

Institut für Europäische Geschichte - Mainz

Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte - Zurich

Luther Center, Wittenberg

Society for Renaissance Studies

St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute

University of Aberdeen Centre for Early Modern Studies 

Warwick Network for Parish Research 

 

Journals and publishers

American Historical Review

Ashgate 

Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 

Cambridge University Press 

Catholic Historical Review

Central European History 

English Historical Review 

German History 

Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Journal of Early Modern History 

Journal of Modern History

Oxford University Press 

Palgrave Macmillan 

Past and Present 

Reformation

Sixteenth Century Journal 

Seminars outside Birmingham

Institute of Historical Research Tudor and Stuart Seminar

Conferences

European Reformation Research Group 

Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

 

 

 


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