Not to be outdone by Brett over at Airminded , via my referrals page I’ve recently discovered a couple of new blogs.
1692 in America is a day-by-day description of several events from 1692, including the Salem witch trial and the reconquest of New Mexico but also some less well-known events. It draws on a wide range of sources and is a really interesting way of presenting the material. A great idea, and one that it will be great to see develop as the narratives unfold.
Gilbert Mabbott is by a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The blog is about the author’s work on Mabbott and the London news industry during the 1640s. There’s already some really interesting snippets about the author’s exploration of the Thomason Tracts, for instance on the relationship between Mabbott and Henry Walker.
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13 August 2008 at 3:50 pm
Investigations of a Dog » New blog and CSPD online
[...] Mercurius Politicus linked to Gilbert Mabbott, a new blog about print culture in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. From this blog I discovered that Calendar of State Papers Domestic is starting to appear on Google Books. There’s a James I volume available with full access. I’m hoping that the rest of the series, particularly the Charles I volumes, will follow soon. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t as they’re all in the public domain. Since the original documents were under Crown Copyright and the calendars were published by HMSO in the 19th century the copyright must have expired by now. Despite that, British History Online are trying to charge money for access to digital versions of the calendars for the reigns of James I and Charles I. I always thought that was a bad decision. If all of the volumes end up being freely available on Google it’s going to look even more stupid. [...]