Elizabethan England and Renaissance Sites
Prepared for Ms. Fennessy
February 4, 2014
MLA Format
Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University and C.W. Post Campus' B.
Davis Schwartz Memorial Library. Two excellent sites to use when working
on note cards, source cards and works cited page.
Databases & Reference eBook Collection
ALL Databases and eBook Collections, on the Research page, of the Media
Center’s website provide information on the Elizabethan Era. MEDIA
CENTER WEBSITE: RESEARCH
**REMEMBER you will need the Remote Access Codes to use the databases & the eBook
Collections from HOME.
Websites
Intute
A great search engine/directory that was created by a consortium of seven
United Kingdom Universities, working together with a whole host of
partners. Site archived as of July 2011. http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Best of History Websites
Search the Database-This link is the result of a search for “Elizabeth”
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/early-moderneurope/reformation-discovery
History of the United Kingdom: PRIMARY Source Documents
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Pri
mary_Documents
Primary Sources
Eyewitness Accounts of People and Events in Tudor England
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/primary.html
Renaissance: The Elizabethan World
http://www.elizabethan.org
Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/home.html
Eyewitness to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm.htm
Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England
http://www.odu.edu/ao/instadv/quest/shakespeare.html
Modern History Sourcebook: Queen Elizabeth I
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/elizabeth1.asp
Description of Elizabethan England, 1577 from the Holished Chronicles
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1577harrison-england.html
History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME8_INDEX.HTML#Plate44
Shakespeare Resource Center: Elizabethan England
http://www.bardweb.net/england.html
BBC: British History : The Tudors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml
BBC: Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036rw5q
BBC: Poverty in Elizabethan England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/poverty_01.shtml
Elizabethan Era
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/
PBS In Search of Shakespeare
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/events/list.html
The Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare’s Globe
www.bardweb.net
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
Shakespeare’s Life and Times
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLTnoframes/intro/introsubj.html
Folger Shakespeare Library
http://www.folger.edu
http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=1583
Renaissance English Drama and Literature
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/dramasoc.htm
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/
John Lyly (1554-1606)
An Elizabethan Poet and Playwright
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/jlyly.htm
Famous Elizabethan Pirates
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-elizabethan-pirates.htm
Elizabeth and the Sea Dogs
http://journeytohistory.com/history101/English%20Sea%20Dogs.html
Queen Elizabeth I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/elizabeth_i/#
item-article-06
Elizabeth I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/elizabeth_i_01.shtml
BBC: The Sceptred Isle
Trading, Slavery and Piracy and the Spanish Armada
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/54.shtml
Elizabethan Clothing
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-clothing.htm
Elizabethan Costuming Page
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/
The Renaissance: History
Provides numerous links to the Renaissance
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Renaissance_Sites/History.
html
VOS: Voice of the Shuttle
Renaissance and 17th Century
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2749
BBC History: Kings and Queens Through Time
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/kings_queens/index_e
mbed.shtml
Royal Navy History
http://www.royal-navy.org/
The Army and Navy in Elizabeth’s Time
http://www.bartleby.com/215/1420.html
Elizabethan Exploration and Foreign Policy
http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/361/361-19.htm
Ten of the Greatest British Naval Victories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1255826/Ten-greatestBritish-naval-victories-A-look-nations-hardest-fought-battles-sea.html
Super Guns of Elizabeth I’s Navy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7899831.stm
Poverty in Elizabethan England (article by Paul Slack)
This is available in FULL TEXT through Ebscohost.
http://www.historytoday.com/paul-slack/poverty-elizabethan-england