Sunday, May 11, 2008

Question from France - Cities and towns

First things first, very nice webiste. It has helped me with my researh project. I still have a question though, and i don't think it was covered on your site. I wanted to know, how was the cities like in tudor times (16th century,in England)? Like the attractions like castles, churches, architecture? I can't find any information on this so hopefully you'll have an answer. Links are always good too. Thank you very much in advance.

I am in 9th grade, i have an essay to write on the cities and towns in England during shakespeare's time.

2 comments:

Lara said...

Howdy! I'm glad that you have found at least some of the site useful so far. As you've seen, I haven't gotten around to doing much with cities as a whole yet, although I am eventually going to try to add stuff like that to the Architecture, Towns and Cities section: http://tudorhistory.org/places/

Here are a few link you might find helpful:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/urban_mapping/
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html
(These are actually more medieval, but you might find them interesting and helpful)

Here's some info on London specifically:
http://elizabethan.org/compendium/27.html

Anonymous said...

For my research paper on Shakespeare, I'm using a book by James Barter called "A Travel Guide to Shakespeare's London". It's a small book. but it tells very interesting details about London in the late-16th to early 17th centuries. Check it out from the library, it might help. They have whole chapters on architecture.