New blog and CSPD online
Mercurius Politicus linked to Gilbert Mabbott, a new blog about print culture in the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. From this blog I discovered that Calendar of State Papers Domestic is starting to appear on Google Books. There’s a James I volume available with full access. I’m hoping that the rest of the series, particularly the Charles I volumes, will follow soon. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t as they’re all in the public domain. Since the original documents were under Crown Copyright and the calendars were published by HMSO in the 19th century the copyright must have expired by now. Despite that, British History Online are trying to charge money for access to digital versions of the calendars for the reigns of James I and Charles I. I always thought that was a bad decision. If all of the volumes end up being freely available on Google it’s going to look even more stupid.
Comment by Christopher Thompson — 8:29 am, 24 April 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
It is very helpful to have the link to the CSPD 1611-1618 on your post. I am a bit puzzled, however, because when I search for this on Google Books here in the UK, this volume does not appear.
Comment by Gavin Robinson — 8:50 am, 24 April 2008 [permanent link to this comment]
That’s strange because I found it through a normal book search on Google UK. I just searched for “state papers domestic” and it was the second result.