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THEMES: English Civil War

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ONLINE RESOURCES

BIOGRAPHIES

 

Valentine Greatrakes

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/valentinegreatrakes.aspx

 

British Dictionary of National Biography

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Greatrakes,_Valentine_%28DNB00%29

 

 

 

KING'S EVIL

King's Evil, Scrofula

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archivespec/collections/spotlight.aspx

 

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/techniques/kingsevil.aspx

 

Marc Block, The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France, J.E. Anderson, Trans. (London: Routledge Revivals, 2015).

 

 

 

OTHER

Great Fire of London, 1666

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/great_fire_01.shtml

 

Samuel Pepys Diary Entry on Great Fire

http://www.pepys.info/fire.html

 

Great Plague of 1665-1666

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/great-plague/

 

English Restoration

https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/English_Restoration.html

 

http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensoftheunitedkingdom/thestuarts/charlesii.aspx

 

 

HISTORICAL ARCHIVE

Robert Boyle work diaries

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/workdiaries/WD26Clean.html

 

 

GRAPHICS and TIMELINES

 

TIMELINES

 

English Civil War

http://www.historyonthenet.com/chronology/timelinecivilwar.htm

 

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/civilwars_timeline_noflash.shtml

 

 

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