Early Modern England: Lecture 1 - General Introduction

Selected reading: Named section and worked examples.

How to study this source

• How do we know what happened?

  criticismNamed section and worked examples

  Reconstruct the main argument and identify the assumptions linking it to the route’s question.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• National Archives: immigration records

  US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Library of Congress: newspapers

  Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Library of Congress: maps

  Library of Congress. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• National Archives: citation guidance

  US National Archives. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Early Modern England: Lecture 2 - "The Tree of Commonwealth": The Social Order in the Sixteenth Century

  Keith Wrightson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.