Useful Links
Education
Mother teaching children to read--Folger Shakespeare Library
Grammar schools--Bartleby
Mantuan taught in grammar schools--Folger Shakespeare Library
Apprenticeship--Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds
General information on educations--Bartleby
Elizabethan education--The Guild School Association
Coote,
The English Schoolemaster
--University of Toronto
License to teach--T. Godwin, University of Victoria
Textbook Printing at Cambridge University by D. Mc Kitterick--Textbook Colloquium
Education of William Lilly, astrologer--Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds
Other autobiographies and diaries
Hornbook--Folger Shakespeare Library
Catholic Primer--Folger Shakespeare Library
Schoolbook with doodles and picture of school master--Folger Shakespeare Library
Literacy
Literacy in an English village--Appleby Magna
Statute printed in black letter--Folger Shakespeare Library
Orality and Literacy
Some thoughts on orality and literacy--Bernard Hibbits, Pitt Law School
The Written and Spoken Word--Media and Communications Study Site, University of Wales
Printing
The Gutenberg Bible--Goettingen University
The Gutenberg Bible--The British Library
Gutenberg and printing--Ransom Center, University of Texas
Medieval and Renaissance printing--Online Resource Book
Foxe's Book of Martyrs--CETI, University of Pennsylvania
Book Trade
Charter of Cambridge University Press--T. Godwin, University of Victoria
Norwich Stationers--T. Godwin, University of Victoria
Writing
Secretary alphabet--Dave Postles
Brinsley's secretary alphabet--Catholic History
Samples of various early modern hands--Dave Postles
Samples of various early modern hands--Charles Lehman
Scottish handwriting--Scottish Archives Network
Various early modern European hands
Bishop James Sharp's Letterbook--University of Glasgow Libraries
Reading
Inventory of a woman's library--Folger Shakespeare Library
Reading in a study--Folger Shakespeare Librar
y
Frances Wolfreston, book owner--Folger Shakespeare Library
Dissemination of Information
Broadsides and Newsbooks--Folger Shakespeare Library