Wikidata:WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales

Welcome to WikiProject Early Modern England and Wales (WP EMEW) !

The purpose of this project is to improve Wikidata's coverage of England and Wales in the 1500s and 1600s. In pursuit of this goal, we will partner with the collaborative Viae Regiae (Q105547906) project as they work to build a Gazetteer of Early Modern England and Wales (Q105548625).

The EMEW gazetteer will identify the places of the period and plot them on a map, with a particular focus on understanding the developing transport links between them.

A charter for the collaboration can be found on the Viae Regiae website

Short URL: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WP_EMEW or https://w.wiki/32fZ

Scope edit

Areas of particular interest will include:

Geographical edit

Places that were important, such as /churches, /schools, /monasteries, /manors, /inns, /settlements, /ports, /castles, navigable /rivers, /bridges, ...
Locations of events - battles, other happenings
/Place IDs -- identifiers for places in gazetteers, online information sources, and other resources

Non-geographical edit

/People -- who were the people connected to the places, and what were the relationships between them ?
Artefacts

Documents edit

Documents of the time that identify and describe the places, including maps, books, inquisitions, wills, and court records.
Links to style guides for documents and other sources.
/Sources subproject focused on manuscript and printed resources including atlases, loose maps, itineraries, diaries, and gazetteers, as well as reference works relating to these items.