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Making the most of SPO1 Isabel Holowaty, OULS History Librarian

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  1. Making the most of SPO1 Isabel Holowaty, OULS History Librarian I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  2. Intro • State papers (SP) contain correspondence between the sovereign and his/her ministers and chief officers and between the latter and their subordinates concerning affairs of state, supplemented by reports, estimates of expenditure, accounts of moneys received, records of military affairs, proposals and plans for the government of the country, and petitions from individuals. Original mss in The National Archives (Kew), BL, etc. Microfilmed and partially held in URR K11.1-2. • State Papers Domestic (SPD) All the state papers accumulated in the offices of the principal Secretaries of State from the access of Henry VIII onwards. Summaries have been published in calendars. • Calendar of State Papers (CSP) A chronological listing of summaries of what the editor deems to be the essential data contained in a series of documents. Not always accurate summaries; selective; varying quality; numbering system different to the original mss. Started in 1840 by State Paper Office; still ongoing. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  3. Intro • Subscription only to Part 1 : Domestic Papers, The Tudors 1509-1603 • Other parts not (yet) available in Oxford: • Domestic Papers (Stuarts) 1604-1714 SPO 3 • Foreign Papers (Tudors & Stuarts) 1509-1714 SPO 2 & 4 I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  9. Calendars in BHO http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ Calendar State Papers in British History Online • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII • Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, 1547-80 • Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1603-1610 • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (Charles I) • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (Interregnum) • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (Charles II) • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (James II) • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (William and Mary) • State Papers, Domestic; Calendar (Anne) • Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies • State Papers, Foreign; Calendar • State Papers, Ireland; Calendar • State Papers, Milan; Calendar • State Papers, Scotland; Calendar • State Papers, Spain; Calendar • State Papers, Venice; Calendar Note: BHO doesn’t include modern rev. eds. Calendars in BHO are full-text searchable. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  10. Prefaces to Calendars • Useful for editorial notes and history of archives & calendars • Useful list of abbreviations • New editions come with “conversion tables” Preface and Editorial Note to Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the reign of Mary I, 1553-1558 / C. S. Knighton (London, 1998) pp.xxvii I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  11. Researching the Tudors • Biographical research • Tudor government & administration • Social policy and conditions • Economic policy and conditions • Intellectual history; church history • Historical events • Regional as well as national British history • Search by SP and CSP references I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  12. Click on Research Tools. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  13. Select Calendar Prefaces I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  15. Intro Citations: • CSPD EdwVI 223 = Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-53, entry no. 223 (15 May 1549) • CSPD 1598-1601 p393 = Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Elizabeth, 1598-1601 (1867) page 393 • LP, V, p147, 313 = Letters & Papers, foreign and domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Volume V: 1531-32 (1880), page 147, entry 313. • TNA SP 11/1 = The National Archives, State Papers 11/1 (Queen Mary I) • RO / PRO SP 12/238 f.36 = The National Archives, State Papers 12/238 folio 36 (Queen Elizabeth I) http://go.galegroup.com/mss/researchTools.do?userGroupName=oxford&prodId=SPOL Dates: Calendar years v regnal years • Some documents are dated by the regnal year rather than the calendar year. The regnal year starts on the day the monarch came to the throne. Example:1 Elizabeth I means the first year of the reign of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I came to the throne on 17 November 1558, so 1 ElizabethI means some time between 17 November 1558 and 16 November 1559. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  16. Accessing SPO1 • Via OxLIP+ or SOLO • Search for SPO or State Papers in title field. • Listed in Early Modern, 1500-1800 section in History subject list on OxLIP+. • Doesn’t like Firefox. Use IE. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  17. Searching • All – searches all in words in all calendars volumes, including indexes • Calendars/transcript entries – all words in calendar /transcript entries • Document title – only within titles of calendar/transcripts • Document Reference number – search for mss in particular series or vol. of that series • Place of writing • Author/writer • Recipient I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  18. Index in a Calendar I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  19. Searching • Search full-text of calendars • Limit by reigns / years • Wildcards: Witch* • Proximity operators • Within: Queen w3 Scots • Near: Neville n3 Sir I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  25. Fuzzy searches • Fuzzy search settings can enhance your search by retrieving near matches on a term or terms : Low, Medium, High • full-text search on “bishop" with fuzzy searching set at Med will return results containing “bishop," “bishops," “archbishop,“ etc. Examples: habour~low queen~med “king of england”~high I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  27. Searching • Full-text searching: • Calendars & transcripts • Use wildcards, fuzzy searches, limits • Refine to collection and indexes I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  28. Ref searches Example: Visitation of Monasteries (1536) Document Ref.: SP 1/102 f.84 Calendar Entry: LP x, 364 Task: • Search for MSS by Document Reference • Search for Calendar by calendar entry & title • Browse by MSS • Browse by Calendar I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  29. 1. Search for MSS by Document Reference I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  30. Select Document reference number index I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  31. Ignore TNA, PRO, etc. Not case sensitive. Use correction punctuation. Enter string in quotation marks to search as a phrase. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  32. Ignore Expand the Calendar entry. View full citations or view mss I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  35. Search for the whole file by leaving out the folio number. Need a min. number of characters. E.g. the following won’t work: SP 1* SP 1/* I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  36. You can sort by document reference number I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  37. View mss I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  38. Rotate the mss. Re-size the mss. Switch to full-screen. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  39. Citing mss or calendar I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  40. 2. LP x, 364 Search for calendar by document title, entry number and reign I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  41. Click on Browse Volume is part of the Calendar volume title, not calendar entry or document title I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  42. 3. Browse for SP 1/102 f.84 I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  45. Click on Browse Calendar I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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  47. 4. Browse for LP x, 364 I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  48. If you only have the entry number, you will have to guess the page! I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  49. Use page number if you have one. I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

  50. HMCS PAUL E. J. HAMMERThe Uses of Scholarship: The Secretariat of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, c. 1585–1601English Historical Review, 1994; CIX: 26 - 51. p39 If you only have a vol. & page number, use Browse I.D. Holowaty 17 June 2009

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