February 12, 2019, by Angela Shearsmith

On trial: The Cecil Papers

We are pleased to bring you trial access to The Cecil Papers

The Cecil Papers

The Cecil Papers is a major collection of early-modern historical documents from the reigns of Elizabethan I and James I/VI. More than 150,000 pages have been digitised in full colour to create a definitive online archive of almost 30,000 manuscript documents written by some of the most significant figures of Elizabethan and Jacobean history. These are accompanied by the complete Calendar of the Cecil Papers, featuring summaries and/or transcripts of many documents and two eighteenth-century volumes of selected transcriptions.

Key events covered in this collection include:

• The clandestine plans for James’ accession to the English throne
• Mary Queen of Scots’ imprisonment and execution
• Tudor re-conquest of Ireland
• The Spanish Armada
• Military events in the Low Countries
• Gunpowder Plot
• The Main Plot and imprisonment of Sir Walter Raleigh
• Early English settlement of America

The trial will run until  6th March 2019. Do let us know what you think. Please send your feedback to collections@nottingham.ac.uk

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