England’s Immigrants 1330-1550
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation. It is the result of a major research project, representing a collaboration between the University of York, The National Archives and the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which ran between 2012 and 2015.
While a database of medieval people drawn from original sources is always valuable, the particular interest for book historians is the helpful addition of numerous advanced search fields, that enable you to search by occupation, social status, place of origin etc. The presence of drop-down choices within this make it possible to highlight with great ease those who were described as printers, bookbinders, limners, parchmeners, scribes, scriveners, and host of other trades.
https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/
Matthew Payne, Hon. Treasurer
