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Datasets available under CC-BY and/or OGL, mostly relating to the British Civil Wars.

Recent additions

  • September 2026:
    • for Nehemiah Wharton's letters, see TEI repository.
    • army-pay/essex-army-accounts now includes indexes of people and places.
    • propositions/horses now includes:
      • human-readable plain text versions of horse accounts.
      • CSV file with entries as tabular data.
      • XSL files for creating above text and CSV files from XML.
      • older XML files with better nesting of tags, but probably worse place identification.
    • authors moved to pd-data repository and re-released under CC0.
  • June 2026:

Contents

  • army-pay: catalogues of pay warrants and transcripts of treasurers' accounts.
    • essex-army-accounts: transcripts of the accounts of the treasurers for the Earl of Essex's army.
    • warrants: catalogue of sub-series of pay warrants in TNA, SP 28.
    • establishment: transcript of establishment and rates of pay for Essex's army.
    • military-careers: notes, references, and examples about sources for tracing the careers of parliamentarian military units and personnel.
  • authors has moved to pd-data repository where it is re-released under CC0. This dataset is a list of over 1,900 authors of publications and theses relevant to the British Civil Wars, most with Wikidata IDs.
  • bucks-loss-accounts: catalogue of parish loss accounts from Buckinghamshire.
  • compounding: structured data about cases and people listed in Calendar of the Committee for Compounding.
  • nma-procurement: catalogue of records of buying equipment for the New Model Army, with background information about the procurement system.
    • nma-at: notes and references about the establishment of the New Model Army's artillery train.
  • propositions: data about the system of voluntary contributions to the parliamentarian war effort known as the Propositions. This level gives background information about the system, and references to further relevant documents which have not been transcribed here.
    • horses: transcripts of account books listing horses contributed on the Propositions from TNA, SP 28/131.
      • signs: data about building signboards in London, extracted from the horse lists in TNA, SP 28/131.
    • south-essex: accounts of money collected for the Propositions and '5th and 20th' assessment in the southern division of the county of Essex.
  • sheffeild-troopers: data about trooper's in James Sheffeild's horse troop in Essex's army.

See delimited text documentation for more details of file formats.

Where these datasets are partly or wholly under the Open Government Licence, this will be stated in their readme files.

Copyright in all documentation is held by Gavin Robinson and waived under CC-BY.

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