Below are various books and other sources of information on the 17th century (which I have conveniently decided means 1603-1714; i.e. from the death of Elizabeth I to George I). Older material is quite often out of copyright in many countries and available online. I have added links where appropriate but you are cautioned that any downloading is your own responsibility and that it is up to you to check what legal framework may be applicable in your case.
Further down you will find fiction from and about the period, as well as suggestions for movies set in the period. The lists are by no means exhaustive and will be added to when I find the time.
Suggestions are gratefully received.
Enjoy!
By topic
Diaries, memoirs, letters etc.
Antiquities & Memoirs of the Parish of Myddle, County of Salop by Richard Gough
Memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury
Memoirs of the Marshal Duke of Berwick
The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston
The Letters of John Chamberlain
Letters of Philip, Second Earl of Chesterfield
The Diary of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1622-1624)
Correspondance of the family of Hatton
Correspondance of Colonel N. Hooke, 1703-1707
The correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and his brother Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester; with the diary of Lord Clarendon from 1687 to 1690
The Private Diary of William First Earl of Cowper
A woman's life in the court of the Sun King: letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, 1652–1722, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, translated by Elborg Forster
The Diary of John Evelyn
Memoirs of the Count of Grammont by Anthony Hamilton
Memoirs of Simon, Lord Lovat
The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough
Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough
Memoirs of Mary Queen of England, ed by R. Doebner
Queen Mary of Modena: Her Life and Letters by Martin Haile
Original Letters of the Duke of Monmouth, in the Bodleian Library
The Entring Book of Roger Morrice [1677-1691]
Miscellaneous Writings by Sir Thomas Overbury (including his Characters)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
A Relation of the Great Sufferings and Strange Adventures of Henry Pitman, Chyrurgion to the Late Duke of Monmouth
Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon
Memoirs, biographical and historical, of Bulstrode Whitelocke : lord commissioner of the great seal, and ambassador at the court of Sweden, at the period of the Commonwealth
A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II by Bulstrode Whitlocke
Fashion
A Visual History of Costume: The Seventeenth Century by Valerie Cumming
A Handbook of English Costume in the 17th Century by C Willet and Phillis Cunnington
Costume and Civilization: Louis XIV and Versailles by Diana de Marly
Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England by Aileen Ribeiro
For Our Royal Person: Master of the Robes Bills of King-Stadholder William III by Patricia Wardle
The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and Their Wares in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Spufford
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart and Susan North
Men's Costume 1580-1750 by Zilla Halls
Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II (National Portrait Gallery)
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns by Jenny Tiramani , Susan North
Van Dyck and the Representation of Dress in Seventeenth Century Portraiture by Emilie Gordenker
Women's Costume 1600-1750 by Zilla Halls
Games & Sport
Book of Games by Francis Willughby
The Compleat Gamester: or, Full and easy instructions for playing at above twenty several games upon the cards with variety of diverting fancies and tricks upon the same now first added ; as likewise at all the games on the tables, together with the royal game of chess and billiards (1725; originally published in 1674) by Charles Cotton
Pallas Armata: The Gentleman's Armoire
Paradoxes of Defence by George Silver
Practice in Two Bookes by Vincento Saviolo
Robert Dover's Cotswolds Olimpicks
Sports and Games of the Renaissance (Sports and Games Through History) by Andrew Leibs
Quick introduction to the rules of real tennis
Traicté contenant les secrets du premier livre sur l'espee seule, mere de toutes armes by Henry de Sainct-Didier
The True Arte of Defence by Di Grassi
House & home
Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior 1620-1920 by Peter Thornton
Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800 by Raffaella Sarti
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
Literary
Works by Francis Beaumont
Works by Margaret Cavendish
Digital Cavendish (about Margaret Cavendish)
Works by Pierre Corneille
– Le Cid
– Horace
– Polyeucte
Works by Thomas Dekker
Works by John Donne
Elizabethan songs "in honour of love and beauti"
Works of John Fletcher
Works by John Ford
Works by Thomas Heywood
Works by Lasse "Lucidor" Johansson
Works by Ben Jonson
Works by John Marston
Works by Philip Massinger
Works by Thomas Middleton
Old English ballads, 1553-1625, chiefly from MSS
The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt.
Works of William Rowley
Works by James Shirley
Tudor and Stuart Love Songs
Works by Johan Webster
Works by Lady Mary Wroth
Religion, Magic & Philosophy
Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes
The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England by James Sharpe
The Book of Common Prayer, King James, Anno 1604
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler
The Casebooks Project: A digital edition of Simon Forman’s & Richard Napier’s medical records 1596–1634
Daemonologie by James I/VI
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England by Carol F. Karlsen
The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot
Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland by Christina Larner
Works by William Laud (vol 1, vol 2, vol 3, vol 4, vol 5 , vol 6, vol 7)
The Last Witch of Langenburg: Murder in a German Village by Thomas Robisheaux
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries by Carlo Ginzburg
Reformation: Europe's House Divided by Diarmid MacCulloch
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
The prophesie of Mother Shipton, in the raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Fortelling the death of Cardinall Wolsey, the Lord Percy and others, as also what should happen in insuing times (1641)
The Salem Witch Hunt: A Brief History with Documents by Richard Godbeer
The Trial of Tempel Anneke: Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663 by Peter A. Morton
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe) by Bengt Ankarloo
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack
Witch Hunt: The Persecution of Witches in England by David and Andrew Pickering
Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers & Witch Finders of the Renaissance by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Thomas Potts
Thirty Years' War
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson
Ofredsår : om den svenska stormaktstiden och en man i dess mitt by Peter Englund
Sedan stack vi staden i brand : en legoknekts dagbok från trettioåriga kriget [Ein Söldnerleben im Dreißigjährigen Kriege], edited by Jan Peters and translated by Åke Blix
The Swedish army and navy during the Thirty years’ war : from a national to a multinational force by Lars Ericson Wolke
By geography
Europe in general
Early Modern European Society by Henry Kamen
England, Scotland & Ireland
A Companion to Stuart Britain by Barry Coward
A Court in Exile: The Stuarts in France, 1689-1718 by Edward Corp, Edward Gregg, Howard Erskine-Hill and Geoffrey Scott
A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven by Cynthia B. Herrup
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria by Katie Whitaker
A Survey Of London: Written In The Year 1598 by John Stow
The Act for the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford
Anna of Denmark, Queen of England: A Cultrual Biography by Leeds Barroll
The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture by R.O. Bucholz
The Bishops' Wars: Charles I's Campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640 by Mark Charles Fissel
Brief Lives by John Aubrey
Britain in Revolution 1625-1660 by Arthur Woolrych
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood
Cavalier: The Story of a 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
Cavaliers and Roundheads: English at War, 1642-49 by Christopher Hibbert
Cavaliers: The Royalist Army at War by John Barratt
Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason by Christopher Hibbert
Charles I: A Political Life by Richard Cust
Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660 by Trevor Royle
Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760 by Lorna Weatherill
The Court and Character of King James I by Anthony Weldon
Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England by Linda Levy Peck
The Court of William III by Edward Grew and Marion Sharpe
The Cradle King: The Life of James I by Alan Stewart
Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men by Antonia Fraser
The Cromwellian Protectorate by Barry Coward
Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England ed. Kevin Sharpe and Peter Lake
Debates of the House of Commons from the Year 1667 to the Year 1694
Early Stuart Libel
England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642 by David Cressy
The English Civil Wars: 1640-1660 by Blair Worden
The English Civil War At First Hand by Tristram Hunt
The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652 by Ian Gentles
English Society 1580-1680 by Keith Wrigtson
Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard
The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-1642 by Conrad Russell
The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700 by Elizabeth Howe
The Favourite: Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough by Ophelia Field
God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick
Gunpowder: The Players Behind the Plot by James Travers
Henrietta Maria: Charles I's Indomitable Queen by Alison Plowden
His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren by Adrian Tinniswood
Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
Institutes of the Law of England by Edward Coke; part 1; part 2, part 3; part 4
James I (Seminar Studies In History) by S.J. Houston
James II: The Triumph and the Tragedy (English Monarchs: Treasures from the National Archives) by John Callow
King Charles II by Lady Antonia Fraser
The King in Exile: James II, Warrior, King and Saint by John Callow
The King's Henchman: Henry Jermyn, Stuart Spymaster and Architect of the British Empire by Anthony Adolph
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh and Don Jordan
The Life and Works of Sir Henry Mainwaring (vol. 1; vol. 2)
The Life of Henry Prince of Wales, Eldest Son of James I by Thomas Birch
The Life, Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke of Monmouth, &C., to His Capture and Execution by George Roberts
The Making of a World Power by James Scott Wheeler
The Making of King James II: The Formative Years of a Fallen King by John Callow
Marlborough: Britain's Greatest General: England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
Marlborough: His Life and Times by Winston S Churchill
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650-1744 by Christopher Hibbert
Mary of Modena by Carola Oman
Material London, ca. 1600 by Lena Cowen Orlin
Memorials of Affairs of State in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James I. Collected chiefly from the original paper of the right honourable Sir Ralph Winwood by Edmund Sawyer
Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 by Robert Brenner
The Nature Of The English Revolution: Essays by John S. Morrill
The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I by John Adamson
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
Parliamentary Taxation In Seventeenth Century England: Local Administration And Response by Michael J. Braddick
The Personal Rule of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe
Playing the Scottish Card: the Franco-Jacobite Invasion of 1708 by John S. Gibson
The Political World Of Thomas Wentworth, Earl Of Strafford, 1621–1641 by J. F. Merritt (Editor)
Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1637-49 by David Scott
Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of King James' Bible by Adam Nicholson
The Prince and the Infanta: The Cultural Politics of the Spanish Match by Glyn Redworth
The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities, of King James by John Nichols (vol. 1; vol 2; vol 3; vol. 4)
Remember remember the Fifth of November: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot by James Sharpe
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War by John Stubbs
Restoration: England in the 1660s by N.H. Keeble
Restoration London: Everyday Life in the 1660s by Liza Picard
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
Royalists and Royalism During the English Civil Wars by Jason McElligott, David L. Smith
The Rule of Law, 1603-1660: Crowns, Courts and Judges by James S. Hart jr
Sex in Elizabethan England by Alan Haynes
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, by David & Ben Crystal
The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623 by Alexander Samson
Strafford in Ireland, 1633–41: a study in absolutism by Hugh F. Kearney
The Stuart Age: England 1603-1714 by Barry Coward
The Stuart Courts by Eveline Cruickshanks
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford by C.V. Wedgwood
To Walk in the Dark: Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646 by John Ellis
Treason by Words: Literature, Law & Rebellion in Shakespeare's England by Rebecca Lemon
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown by Maureen Waller
Unnatural Murder: Poison In The Court Of James I: The Overbury Murder by Anne Somerset
The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England by Adrian Tinniswood
Visions of the Courtly Body: The Patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court by Christiane Hille
War in England 1642-1649 by Barbara Donagan
Why Was Charles I Executed? by Clive Holmes
William and Mary: The Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John Van Der Kiste
Witch Hunt: The Persecution of Witches in England by David and Andrew Pickering
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill
Women and Property: In Early Modern England by Amy Louise Erickson
Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 by Sara Mendelson, Patricia Crawford
France
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV by Anne Somerset
Eminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France by Jean-Vincent Blanchard
Louis XIII, the Just by A. Lloyd Moote
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King by Lady Antonia Fraser
Madame De Maintenon: The Secret Wife of King Louis XIV by Veronica Buckley
The Man Who Would Be King: Life of Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France by Christine Pevitt
Mazarin: The Crisis of Absolutism in France by Geoffrey Treasure
Richelieu and Olivares by J. H. Elliott
Germany
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany by Kathy Stuart
Italy
Gusto for Things: A History of Objects in Seventeenth-century Rome by Renata Ago
Netherlands
Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by J.L. Price
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age by Maarten Prak The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age by Simon Schama
Spain
Diego de Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar by F.H. Lyon
Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar : el Maquiavelo español by Fernando Bartolomé Benito
Richelieu and Olivares by J. H. Elliott
Richelieu and Olivares by J. H. Elliott
Sweden
Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697 by A. F. Upton
Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Veronica Buckley
Postgång på växlande villkor : det svenska postväsendets organisation under stormaktstiden by Magnus Linnarsson
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