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Guildhall Library and Art Gallery
http://collage.nhil.com/collagedev/
categories/history.html
Has some 17th-century images of the Great Fire, the Great Plague,
the Gunpowder Plot and many other incidents in the capital's history.
Books
Restoration London by Liza Picard (Phoenix, 1998) £8.99
Picard constructs an enthralling picture of 17th-century London, using
contemporary sources such as diaries, memoirs, advice books and government
archives.
The London Rich: The creation of a great city, from 1666 to the present
by Peter Thorold (Penguin, 2001) £12.99
Looks at the re-building of London after the Great Fire and provides an
understanding of British social history from 1666 to the present.
Samuel Pepys by Stephen Coote (Hodder, 2000) £7.99
Examines the career and private life of the famous diarist. Illuminates
the politics of his time and events such as the Fire of London, the Dutch
wars, the Great Plague and the brief but fateful reign of James II.
His Invention So Fertile: A life of Christopher Wren by Adrian
Tinniswood (Jonathan Cape, July 2001) £25
Wren was a key player in the Great Fire of London and the creation of
the most enduring of all London monuments, St Paul's Cathedral.
Around the world
Websites
Black and Asian History Map
www.channel4.com/blackhistorymap
Gateway to websites about black and Asian history across the British
Isles. You can search for sites by location (via the map), time period
(via the timeline) or subject (via the search facility).
World History Chart
www.hyperhistory.com
2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history, navigable via a
timemap that shows what was happening where in the world at any given
time. Sections include 'People', 'History', 'Events' and 'Maps'.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Contains collections of historical texts that aim at a more 'holistic'
approach to world history.
History On-Line: Seventeenth-century Resources
www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/
Period/seventeenth.html
Portal site with extensive links to sites mainly concerned with European
and North American history.
Books
1688: A Global History by John E Wills (Granta, 2001) £20
A survey of the world during the year of the Glorious Revolution. A readable
and informative panorama.
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, 1994)
£12.99
A revised edition of this survey of world history. The book contains 90
maps and gives a sound account of 17th-century events.
The Perspective of the World: Civilization and capitalism 15th-18th
century (vol. 3) by Fernand Braudel (University of California Press,
1992) £24.95
Detailed but readable, a fascinating and classic account of the growth
of the world economy, written from a European perspective. With 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 relationship 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.
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