For browsing for topics, for overviews, for beginnings of bibliographies and for authors in the field, consult:
Encyclopedias
Topical
Oxford Companion to British History R.R. DA34.O93
Oxford History of England. Consolidated Index. R.R. DA32.A1R36 1991
Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. R.R. DA375.H57 1996
A companion to Stuart Britain [Course reserve
DA375 .C684 2003]
Historical Dictionary of European Imperialsim. R.R. D217.H57 1991
Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies R.R. E45.E53 1993
Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation R.R. BR302.8.O93 1996
The Quakers [R.R. BX7731.2.B37 1988]
Biographical Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [Also available in print: R.R. DA28.O95 2004]
Dictionary of American Biography R.R. E176 .D563
Women in World History R.R. HQ1115.W62 1999
Who's who in Europe, 1450-1750 R.R. D106.K36 2000
Rulers and Governments of the World, vol.2: 1492-1929 R.R. D11.5.R67
Statistics
British Historical Statistics R.R. HA1134.M58 1988
For secondary print literature in monographic form, consult:
Bibliographies and Catalogs
Bibliographies
Reader's Guide to British History R.R. DA34.R43 2003
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial and Commonwealth History since 1600. R.R. DA123.B53 2002
Restoration England, 1660-1689. R.R. DA445.S3 1971 [Note publication date]
Women in Western European History R.R. HQ1587.F7
Bridge is your access point for materials held by Carleton and St. Olaf. You will also probably want to use World Cat, which covers most academic libraries in the United States. Play around in Bridge with keywords and then note the linked Library of Congress Subject Headings. You will have better luck in World Cat with subject searches and then limit by date, language and format to those materials in which you'll be most interested.
Great Britain History Restoration
Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714
Great Britain History Charles II
Great Britain History 1660-1714
Great Britain Civilization 17th century
Great Britain Colonies America
Great Britain Economic Conditions 17th century
Great Britain Intellectual Life 17th century
Great Britain Politics and Government 1603-1714
Great Britain Religion 17th century
Great Britain Social Conditions 17th century
Great Britain Social Life and Customs 17th century
Great Britain Constitutional History
Education England History
Women England History
Scotland History 17th Century
Scotland History 1660-1689
Ireland History 17th Century
Ireland History 1660-1689
For reviews of monographs, check:
Book Review Sources
Institute of Historical Research: Reviews in History Great resource from Great Britain. Note "author's response" to continue the conversation about the resource.
Book Review Index [R.R. Z1035.A1B6] Includes a good number of scholarly reviews with substantive reviews.
Book Review Digest [ R.R. Z1219.B72, 1906-] for items older than databases cover well; primarily brief reviews.
Combined retrospective index to book reviews in scholarly journals, 1886-1974 [R.R. Z1035.A1C6]
Each of the databases below will also contain reviews.
For journal literature, consult:
Indexes, Abstracts and Databases
Primary index:
Historical Abstracts The major source for scholarly articles and reviews in this field.
Disciplinary online indexes:
ATLA [Religion]
EconLit
Sociological Abstracts
Gender Watch
Multidisciplinary Index:
Academic Search Premier
Fulltext databases:
JSTOR Beware the "moving wall" (i.e. the most recent 3-5 years of many journals are not included)
Project Muse Does not have the "moving wall" issue. Both of these databases cover only a certain select number of titles.
Note: Many databases now include full text. With the SFX (or "Find it" button) software, you can search in a discipline-based tool like Historical Abstracts and be sure of a good search engine and excellent number of journals indexed, and still have access to all the full-text available.
As you find references to journal articles, pay particular attention to items published in the following journals:
English Historical Review
Past and Present
Journal of Economic History
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Historical Journal
Journal of British Studies
Albion
History Today
Scottish Historical Review
Irish Historical Studies
SAMPLE ROUTES TO PRIMARY SOURCES IN PRINT
Sourcebooks/Collected Editions
Crown and Parliament in Tudor-Stuart England; a documentary constitutional history, 1485-1714
The law and working of the constitution; documents 1660-1914
Life and work of the people of England : a pictorial record from contemporary sources : the seventeenth century
English Historical Documents
Poems on affairs of State; Augustan satirical verse, 1660-1714 [also available through EEBO]
More of these collections may be found by searching Bridge:
By subject: "Subject Heading" SOURCES
By title keyword: DOCUMENT* or READINGS or SOURCE*
Published Memoirs/Journals/Letters/Personal Accounts/Autobiographies/Collected Papers
Personal disclosures : an anthology of self-writings from the seventeenth century
Particular friends : the correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
Calendar of the correspondence of Richard Baxter
The works of George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
The life and letters of Sir George Savile, bart., first marquis of Halifax .
Thomas Osborne, earl of Danby and duke of Leeds, 1632-1712 (Includes his correspondence)
The correspondence of John Locke
The diary of Samuel Pepys
The entring book of Roger Morrice (1677-1691)
The poems and letters of Andrew Marvell
For other sources of this type, search Bridge:
By subject: Subject Heading CORRESPONDENCE
PERSONAL NARRATIVES
REMINISCENCES
INTERVIEWS
DIARIES
By title keyword: MEMOIR*
AUTOBIOGRAPHY*
DIARY
LETTERS or CORRESPONDENCE
SPEECHES
By author (if the name is known)
Government and Church Documents
Debates of the House of Commons, from 1667 to 1694
For other sources of this type, search Bridge using:
Name of body with a keyword search; appropriate subject headings
Contemporary (i.e. of the times) Print Sources
EEBO: Early English Books Online
Google Books [Should know author and title to search this easily; not yet complete]
Journals of the House of Commons -- access through Bridge (by title)
Journals of the House of Lords -- access through Bridge (by title)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Consult the web for access to articles and for primary materials which have been digitally reproduced
The Open Web
Librarians' catalogs of websites:
Infomine Websites "collected" by academic librarians -- full descriptions and subject headings
Librarians' Index to the Internet Aimed more at public library patrons but still useful for many topics
Scout Report Reviews of web sites; searchable by keyword and Library of Congress Subject Headings
Gateways to Digital Collections
OAIster is an catalog of digital collections. You can choose text or image and search by keyword. It will tell you about the responsible party (authority).
Best of the History Websites
Google -- Search google with your keywords AND add "digital collections" (with quotation marks) to your search. This phrase is used by authoritative sites so it will bring up useful items. This is a better strategy than using google images
