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the most valuable set of documents connected with
English history; greatly preferable to all the sheepskins in the Tower and other places, for informing the English what the English were in former times; I believe the whole secret of the seventeenth century is involved in that hideous mass of rubbish
123:. Between 1660 and 1664 Barlow offered the tracts, together with two copies of a manuscript catalogue to the university for £4,000 but the sale was not agreed. Thomason remained hopeful that they would be sold, and in his will dated 1664, he charged his three executors (Barlow, Thomas Lockey, and
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in London, methodically collected and preserved the works over two decades. The tracts consist of a broad range of writings, including sermons, songs, political speeches, debates, opinions, jokes, gossip, news reports, descriptions of the trial and execution of
Charles I, accounts of Civil War
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battles, reports from
Parliament, and several regularly appearing publications that historians consider the forebears of modern newspapers. Thomason's collection represents approximately 80 percent of the published works released in England during this period.
233:. Because of their rarity and fragile condition, the originals are not available to general researchers. However, the library maintains paper facsimiles in its rare books collection, and in 1977 University Microfilms International released a set of 256
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Many of the publications that comprise the collection are exceedingly rare. In fact, some are not known to exist anywhere else. The tracts are bound into some 2,000 volumes and housed at the
British Library's main building at
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in May 1684 to dispose of them on her family's behalf. Over the next four decades various members of the Sisson family (descendants of Samuel Mearne) endeavoured to sell the collection on numerous occasions to
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Thomason frequently made handwritten annotations on the tracts, providing such information as publication dates and the authorship of anonymous works. During the turbulent years of the Civil War and
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After
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Catalogue of pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the
Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640–1661
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consists of more than 22,000 pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, books, and news sheets, most of which were printed and distributed in
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there (Report of the
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reels containing the entire collection. The microfilms are available at research libraries around the world.
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Stoker, David (1992), "Disposing of George
Thomason's Intractable Legacy 1664–1762",
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Thomason
Collection of Civil War Tracts: History of the Collection and its Collector
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Thomason appears to have entrusted the collection to the care of
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British Government Documents in the Microform Reading Room
79:(died 1666), who maintained a shop in the churchyard of
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from 1640 to 1661. The collection represents a major
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Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
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178:one of the trustees of the newly established
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186:purchased the collection on behalf of
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833:Imperial War Museum stamp collection
153:Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth
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808:H.M. Customs and Excise Collection
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194:donated the collection to the new
157:James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
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813:H.M. Stationery Office Collection
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838:Inland Revenue Stamping Archive
788:Foreign and Commonwealth Office
743:Contributions Agency Collection
963:Turner Collection of Forgeries
958:Treasury Excise Correspondence
823:Harrison & Sons Collection
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206:Significance of the collection
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184:John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
71:Compilation of the collection
908:R.P.S.L. Handouts Collection
863:Landmark Trust Lundy Archive
728:Campbell-Johnston Collection
562:Leyden Medical Dissertations
417:Volume 2 at Internet Archive
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393:(2 volumes ed.), London
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496:National Reports Collection
368:10.1093/library/s6-14.4.337
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411:Preface by G.K. Fortescue.
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41:social history of England
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486:Francis Place Collection
329:"Thomason, George"
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758:Crown Agents Collection
653:Stefan Zweig Collection
389:British Museum (1908),
372:(subscription required)
335:Encyclopædia Britannica
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1019:St Mary-le-Bow Debates
993:Wilson-Todd Collection
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898:Photograph Collection
778:Fitzgerald Collection
713:Bojanowicz Collection
638:Lansdowne manuscripts
552:Harold Pinter Archive
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708:Blackburn Collection
117:University of Oxford
81:St. Paul's Cathedral
1059:Preservation Office
938:Sherborn Collection
858:Langmead Collection
818:Harrison Collection
783:Fletcher Collection
773:Feldheim Collection
738:Chinchen Collection
669:Beudeker Collection
623:Harleian Collection
603:Arundel Manuscripts
582:Thomason Collection
476:Ettridge Collection
169:"Honest Tom" Martin
136:Palace of Whitehall
109:The Queen's College
57:English Restoration
953:Tapling Collection
933:Shelley Collection
923:Seymour Collection
868:McInroy Collection
848:Kaluski Collection
843:Johnson Collection
798:General Collection
733:Chismon Collection
723:Burnett Collection
633:King's manuscripts
618:Egerton Collection
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527:Durrell Collection
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343:Gillies, Stewart,
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685:Burney Collection
648:Syriac Collection
643:Stowe manuscripts
628:Royal manuscripts
613:Cotton Collection
547:Hannas Collection
532:Eccles Collection
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121:Bishop of Lincoln
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