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History On-Line: Sixteenth Century
www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/
Period/sixteenth.html
Portal site with world history links.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The early modern West
www.fordham.edu/halsall
/mod/modsbook1.html
Huge general resource with links to different time periods plus articles and documents on world history.

Timeline: 16th Century
www.fsmitha.com/time16.htm
All the major events of the century that occurred throughout the world.

Renaissance Exploration, Travel and the World Outside Europe
www.wwnorton.com/nael/16century/
topic_2/welcome.htm
Good article on the exploration and exploitation of the 16th century.

World Civilizations: Discovery and Reformation
www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee
/REFORM/CONTENTS.HTM
A thoroughly engaging account of the Reformation and the age of discovery. The author gives a truly European account of the 16th century.

Thomas Hariot's A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
www.nps.gov/fora/hariotreport.htm
When Ralegh was ready to attempt the first permanent English colony in the New World, he sent the 25-year-old Hariot along as an historian and surveyor. This site has his account of the year he spent in America.

Sir Walter Raleigh's American Colonies
www.btinternet.com/~richard.towers
/jim/raleigh1.html
Gives detailed information of the expeditions to the New World that Ralegh financed.

The Mughals: Akbar
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/
MUGHAL/MUGHAL.HTM
Akbar's reign – 1556 to 1605 – mirrors almost exactly that of Elizabeth I. His empire included most of northern India.

African Timelines Part III: African slave trade and European imperialism
www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/
hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
Africa in the 16th century, specifically dealing with the growth of the slave trade.

Books

An Historical Walk through William Shakespeare's London by Paul Garner (Louis London Walks, 1999) £2.99
Pocket-sized guide includes maps and clear directions to up to 30 separate places of interest, giving you the history, facts and scandals at each site.

Court, Kirk and Community: Scotland 1470-1625 by Jenny Wormald (Edinburgh University Press, 1991) £10.50
Best general survey of 16th-century Scotland.

Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, passion and a kingdom lost by Jenny Wormald (Tauris Parke, 2001) £10.95
Very readable account of Mary Queen of Scots gives a fascinating insight into Scottish politics as well as an account of her reputation since her death in 1587.

Tudor Ireland: Crown, community and the conflict of cultures 1470-1603 by S G Ellis (Longman, 1985). Currently out of print; may be available through libraries and specialist bookshops.
Standard textbook on Tudor Ireland.

Renaissance Diplomacy by Garrett Mattingly (David & Charles, 1988) £8.95
Gives accounts of ambassadors and embassies, with evidence about the crucial relationship between Spain and England.

Armies of the 16th Century: The armies of England, Scotland, Ireland, the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands 1487-1609 by Ian Heath (Foundry Books, 1998) £24.95
A detailed study of the armies of the British Isles and the Low Countries during the Tudor period, including the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland.

Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's adventurers gambled and won the New World by Giles Milton (Hodder & Stoughton, 2001) £6.99
Vividly evokes the courage and hardships of the 16th-century English colonisers.
Roanoke: Solving the mystery of England's lost colony by Lee Miller (Pimlico, 2001) £10
Controversial account of the first English colonists in Virginia.

Atlas of World History by Jeremy Black (Dorling Kindersley, 1999) £29.99
Digital cartography and historical research combine to present a visual insight into the rise and fall of empires.

The Penguin History of the World by J M Roberts (Penguin, 1995) £12.99
A revised edition of this survey of world history, it contains 90 maps and gives a sound account of 16th-century events.

The Perspective of the World: Civilization and capitalism 15th-18th century. Volume III by Fernand Braudel (Phoenix Press, 2001) £16.99
Detailed but readable, a fascinating and classic account of the growth of the world economy, written from a European perspective. Many illustrations.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy (Fontana, 1989) £14.99
New account of the economic and political relationships between Europe and the great empires of the rest of the world.

The Rise of the West: A history of the human community, with a retrospective essay by William McNeill (Chicago University Press, 1991) £17.50
Classic account of the relationship between Europe and the great empires of the rest of the world.

Events that changed the world through the 16th century by Frank W Thakeray (Greenwood Press, 1999) £31.95
Significant events and their impact are carefully described and analysed in this student resource.

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