Introduction to State Papers Online and the Sixteenth Century State Papers, 1509–1603
Stephen Alford University of Cambridge DOWNLOAD PDF Parts One and Two of State Papers Online give us practically all the sources we need to investigate the government of the Tudor kings and queens in microscopic detail. Never before have students and their teachers been able to inspect the archives that formed the backbone of the Tudor state so carefully and so easily. Here is Tudor government...
The Tudor State Papers in The Yelverton, Cotton and Harleian Manuscript Collections
Simon Adams University of Strathclyde DOWNLOAD THE PDF VERSION The Yelverton, Cotton and Harleian Manuscript Collections [1] The key dates in the establishment of the State Papers as a formal archive are the creation of the State Paper Office in 1578 and the appropriation in 1612 of a large section of the Cecil Papers at Salisbury House by Sir Thomas Wilson, the Jacobean Keeper of the State...
State Papers of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I: the Archives and the Documents
Stephen Alford University of Cambridge DOWNLOAD PDF Today’s Archive The first thing to understand about the sources that you can read in State Papers Online is that they really belong together. Over four hundred years ago they comprised the day-to-day working papers of the King’s or Queen’s Principal Secretary, sometimes called the Secretary of State. Very late in the sixteenth century, for all...
The Collection of the Cecil Papers, Hatfield House Library, Hertfordshire
Stephen Alford University of Cambridge DOWNLOAD PDF The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts [1] In 1872 the Reverend J. S. Brewer, classical scholar and editor of the great series of Letters and Papers of the reign of King Henry VIII, completed his first report on the papers in the collection of the Marquess of Salisbury at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire. Even an editor as experienced...
Politicians and Statesmen II: William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98)
Stephen Alford University of Cambridge DOWNLOAD NOW If there is one man who shaped the State Papers it was William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary (1558-72) and Lord Treasurer (1572-1598). Burghley was many men rolled into one, the consummate servant of the Crown: in Britain today he would be Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cabinet Secretary,...
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This collection delivers access to the official records of the secretaries of state serving the ruling monarch of the day, encompassing every facet of early modern government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions, and intelligence. Part I delivers the complete series of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era.
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This collection contains State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, and Ireland together with the Registers (Minutes) of the Privy Council for the sixteenth century. These documents record the relationship between England and the rest of Europe, as well as the relationships among the European states, both Catholic and Protestant.
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State Papers Domestic for the Stuart era (1603-1714) is the richest primary source archive of its kind to cover national affairs in England the seventeenth century. The manuscripts and accompanying calendars are vital to any scholar's understanding of this turbulent century of civil strife, revolution, and regicide. Users can explore the nature of monarchy, the details of religious conflict, and the emergence of party politics.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714
State Papers Online, 1509-1714, published in four seamless parts, offers researchers a groundbreaking online resource for understanding two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. The largest digital manuscript archive of its kind, State Papers Online, 1509-1714 gathers together sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
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State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782, when the State Papers series ends.
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Part IV completes the State Papers of the Stuart period and contains volumes of documents from, to, and about all the countries of Europe. Many of these countries have lost their own collections from this period, increasing the rarity and value of these British State Papers. All the great international themes of the seventeenth century play out in document after document, making them an essential resource for not only British but European history: marriage alliances, revolutions, wars and treaties, trade and commerce, and religion.
State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782: Part IV Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey
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State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century Part IV covers nations and events at the borders of Europe and European power, through letters, memorials and treaties pertaining to Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Saxony, Prussia, Russia, Turkey and the Barbary States. It also includes papers sent to the British Secretaries of State from foreign ministers in England, and ‘confidential’ and intercepted letters, discussing wars, colonial ambitions and diplomatic alliances. These series of State Papers complete the picture of European statecraft and diplomacy presented throughout the State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century collection.
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This collection focuses research on British domestic politics and society in an age punctuated by plots, rebellions, uprisings, and financial crises. Part I offers researchers online access to approximately 300,000 folios from the reigns of King George I, King George II, and part of the reign of King George III, plus military, naval, and plantation registers, sheriffs' lists, and State Papers of Scotland and Ireland.
