Projects

CELL is home to a number of archive-based research projects of relevance to the time period 1500 – 1800 (including how that period has been interpreted and was prefigured). We are especially interested in projects that utilise electronic resources, that are interdisciplinary in their agenda and that involve engagement with the wider community. Members of the CELL research team are involved in managing their own projects; developing existing projects in collaboration with other scholars; and providing consultation and technical advice to projects in related areas.
CELL has defined a set of standards for use by projects transcribing manuscripts: Transcription Standards

ProjectCorrespondence of Francis Bacon

The Francis Bacon Correspondence Project under the direction of Alan Stewart is dedicated to producing a new critical edition of correspondence to and from the philosopher, parliamentarian, scientist, essayist, lawyer and politician Francis Bacon (1561-1626).

ProjectDigitizing Correspondence

This project brings together a number of strands arising from the individual correspondence projects in which CELL is involved. It is particularly concerned with how the networks of correspondence that existed in early modern Europe might be reproduced by interactions between distinct projects online.

ProjectDiplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585 - 1597

Thomas Bodley's signature

The letters of Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, which relate to his diplomatic service in the years prior to his bibliographical activities offer a rich resource for Early Modern Studies.

ProjectGabriel Harvey's Livy Online

This project will produce a digital edition of Gabriel Harvey's annotated copy of T. Livius Patavini, Romanae historiae principis, decades tres, cum dimidia (Basle, 1555). This volume was the subject of Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton's seminal article “Studied for Action”: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy.

ProjectHooke Folio Online

The Hooke Folio

In May 2006 a long lost manuscript of the papers of Robert Hooke was returned to the archive of the Royal Society. Lisa Jardine played a significant role in the recovery of the folio, which she described as 'an absolute treasure trove of new information about the day to day activities of the early scientific establishment'.

ProjectLetters of a Stuart Princess: the Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

The seal of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia

“The Letters of a Stuart Princess: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia” – published by Oxford University Press.

  • Volume 1: 1603-1631
  • Volume 2: 1632-1642
  • Volume 3: 1643-1662

ProjectLetters of William Herle

The letters of William Herle, intelligencer and diplomat for the Elizabethan court, offer a unique resource for Early Modern studies. Written over the period 1559-88, Herle's previously unedited, unpublished and overlooked letters are richly textured.

ProjectPilots and Papers

Here you will find the results of pilot projects run by CELL, papers concerning particular research issues and examples of approaches used in our research activities.

ProjectWilliam Dugdale (1605-1686)

Jan Broadway has now published the first full-length biography of William Dugdale, the seventeenth-century historian and herald. Accounts of Dugdale's life have in the past drawn heavily on his autobiography, which Jan in her previous work has shown to be misleading in many respects.

ProjectWorkdiaries of Robert Boyle

Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle's workdiaries, written between 1647 and 1691, are a vivid record of observation and experimentation by one of founding fathers of modern science. These modest-looking bundles of papers and stitched books, some stained with chemicals and covered with notes and comments, reveal the methods and procedures of Boyle's scientific enquiries.