Under the direction of the FreeBMD Project Founder Graham Hart, this very ambitious project has the ultimate goal to provide free Internet access to the Civil Registration index information from England and Wales. At its essence, the Civil Registration system was designed to record all of the births, marriages, and deaths in England and Wales, and has been in place since 1837. As such, it is one...

Readers interested in British social history will find much to intrigue them in Intoxicants & Early Modernity: England, 1580-1740. This research project explores the significance of intoxicants such as tobacco (which was introduced to England in the 1570s) as well as alcohol, coffee, tea, and opium to "the economic, social, political, material, and cultural life of England between the sixteenth...

Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is a digital humanities project that allows users to examine the social networks of early modern England. Six Degrees was created by a team of scholars across the United States and is hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. While this project may especially appeal to historians as well as philosophy and English literature scholars conducting research, it is...