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    GREATRAKES Online Resources

    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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