General Resources

Primary Sources
Harrison, William Harrison’s Description of England in Shakspere’s youth. : bbeing the second and third books of his Description of Britaine and England  edited from the first two editions of Holinshed’s Chronicle, A.D. 1577, 1587, by Frederick J. Furnivall London : Published for the New Shakspeare Society, by N. Trübner, 1877-81. 3 Vols

Hadyn, Hiram (Ed.) The portable Elizabethan reader New York : Viking Press, 1946.

Smith, Sir Thomas De republica Anglorum Edited by Mary Dewar Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Stubbes, Phillip Anatomy of abuses in England Vaduz : Kraus, 1965. 2 vols

Secondary Sources
Barber, Peter London. A History in Maps London : The London Topographical Society in association with The British Library, 2012.

Barrett, L. Beer Tudor England observed : the world of John Stow Stroud : Sutton Publishing, 1998.

Byrne, M. St. Clare, Elizabethan life in town and country London: Methuen, 1961, c.1925.

Doran, Susan The Tudor Chronicles 1458-1603 london : Quercus, 2008.

Ford, Boris (Ed.) The Cambridge cultural history of Britain. Volume 3. Sixteenth-century Britain Cambridge ; CUP, 1992, c.1989.

Hibbert, Christopher The English. A social history 1066-1945 Glasgow : Guild Publishing, 1987.

Kaplan, Steven L. (ed.) Understanding popular culture : Europe from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century Berlin ; New York : Mouton, 1998, c1984.

Nicholls, Mark A History of the modern British Isles, 1529-1603. The Two Kingdoms Oxford : Blackwell, 1999.

Ordish, T. Fairman Shakespeare’s London Williamstown, Mass., Corner House, 1975.

Pritchard, R. E. (Ed.) Shakespeare’s England. Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean times Stroud : Sutton, 2003.

Prockter, Adrian and Taylor, Robert The A to Z of Elizabethan London London: Harry Margary in association with Guildhall Library, 1979.

Reay, Barry Popular cultures in England, 1550-1750 London ; New York : Longman, 1998.

Rowse, A. L. The Elizabethan Renaissance. The life of society London : Macmillan, 1971.

Smith, Lacey Baldwin The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World New York : Paul Hamlyn, 1967.

Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan world picture Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1979, c1943.

Wagner, John A. Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world  Phoenix, Arizona ; Oryx Press, 1999.

What life was like in the realm of Elizabeth. England AD 1553-1603 Alexandria, Virginia : Time-Life Books, 1998.

Youings, Joyce Sixteenth-century England London : A. Lane, 1984.

Websites
The Anatomy of Abuses by Philip Stubbes 1583

Early Modern Hub

Map of Early Modern London

Modern History Sourcebook: William Harrison (1534-1593): Description Of Elizabethan England, 1577 (from Holinshed’s Chronicles)

Renaissance – The Elizabethan World

A Survey of London. Reprinted From the Text of 1603

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