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Description
State Papers Online, 1509-1714, is a searchable archive of 16th and 17th century State Papers, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne.
It offers original historical materials, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators to present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain.
This collection of primarily Early Modern materials consists of:
- Facsimile images of almost three million State Papers
- Direct linking between the facsimile images of the manuscripts and their individual calendar entries
- Hyperlinking between all references in the calendar indexes and the calendar entries
- The Irish Manuscript Commission series of Calendars of State Papers Ireland
- The manuscripts collections of Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley) and his successor, Robert Burghley, from the National Archives and the British Library (Lansdowne Collection), as well as the complete twenty-four volumes of the Calendars of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House and the Haynes/Murdin transcriptions
An international resource
The global reach of the series offers researchers the scope to explore documents covering Britain's diplomatic relations and trade in Europe and with the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. You can read letters from popes, cardinals and bishops, Holy Roman emperors, and the kings of France and Spain as well as rulers, diplomats, counselors, and agents from every other country in Europe. By providing little-studied volumes online, State Papers Online, 1509-1714 represents enormous potential for new research.
You have access to the following collections:
- Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
- Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
- Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
- Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
Useful if you study:
- History
- Politics
- Law