Project:Progress

This page gives an overview of the progress of this project.

Category:Default form categories lists subcategories for each basic entity type and shows the total number of pages of each type.

Data structures

Properties, forms and templates were finalised on 10 May 2020. No major changes are expected in the immediate future.

For the current state of the data structures, see:

• Help:Create a page for a brief overview of the different types.
• Help:Data structures for a more detailed look at the properties and how they're used for each type.
• Special:Properties for a list of all semantic properties. Each property page gives more details of what it means and how it's used.
• Category:Type definitions for values that can be used for Property:Is instance of. More need to be added, especially for military units.
• Category:Property values for other property values that are not instances or classes of entities. Many more need to be added, especially military ranks.

Places and administrative areas

• Category:Addresses lists all settlements, buildings, streets, islands, bridges and land that currently have pages. This is now over 18,000 pages.
• Category:Areas lists all administrative areas such as counties.

Scotland

Scotland represents the country and gives links to subordinates.

• Category:Counties of Scotland lists all shires of Scotland by their English names, including some alternate names.
• Category:Counties of Scotland by Gaelic name lists all shires of Scotland by their Gaelic names.
• Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of Scotland lists 99 (believed to be all) shire and burgh constituencies.
• Concept:Settlements in Scotland lists around 6,000 populated places, mostly derived from Ordnance Survey data.
• 165 pages for Scottish islands:
  • Map of Scottish islands
  • List of Scottish islands

England

England represents the country and gives links to subordinates.

We now have a page for every:

• county: Category:Counties of England lists all shires and probably all corporate counties, plus a few large divisions of counties and other areas that have special status.
• National Character Area (England).
• shrievalty. These are jurisdictions of sheriffs and are always represented separately from the county or city they are named after.
• parliamentary constituency: listed in Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of England and Wales.

We now have over 12,000 settlements in England. At least 1,000 are still missing. See Category:Addresses.

Wales

Wales represents the country and gives links to subordinates.

We now have a page for every:

• county:
  • Category:Counties of Wales lists all shires and probably all corporate counties by English names.
  • Category:Counties of Wales by Welsh name lists all shires and probably all corporate counties by Welsh names.
• National Landscape Character Area (Wales).
• shrievalty. These are jurisdictions of sheriffs and are always represented separately from the county or city they are named after.
• parliamentary constituency: listed in Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of England and Wales.

So far we only have a few example populated places, mostly near battlefields.

People and animals

• Category:Authors includes over 1,200 people who wrote sources relevant to the British Civil Wars but were not alive at the time.
• Category:Agents lists people and animals who were alive during the British Civil Wars. Includes:
  • about 750 regicides and MPs who never had peerages
  • all saddlers and harness makers who supplied the New Model Army in 1645-46
  • a small selection of other people
  • one horse.

Allegiance

• Concept:Parliamentarian and Protectorate personnel should list all people who were members of organizations whose allegiance was to the Parliamentarian and Protectorate forces but it needs more testing when we have more parliamentarian units and personnel. Then concepts can be created for other factions.

Units

• Category:Units lists all organizations that we class as units. This can include military units, ships, committees, livery companies, households.
• New Model Army#Tactical_subordinates lists all original regiments of the New Model Army formed in 1645.
• Short Parliament:
  • House of Lords, Short Parliament
  • House of Commons, Short Parliament

Events

• Category:Events lists all events.
• a selection of battles and sieges in Great Britain, including every battle that is covered by the Battlefields Trust:
  • Map of combat events
• every day of the Short Parliament:
  • House of Lords
  • House of Commons

Sources

• Category:GLAMs lists archives and libraries that hold manuscripts or early printed copies. Only three examples for now.
• Category:Open access has subcategories listing sources that are free to view online.

Manuscripts

• Category:Collections lists collections within GLAMs. For now these are only manuscript collections but they will later include early printed books.
• Category:Manuscript texts lists manuscripts that still exist and whose location and catalogue reference is known.
• Category:Lost manuscript texts lists manuscripts that no longer exist, or whose location is unknown, or that do not have catalogue references.

TNA, SP 28 (aka Commonwealth Exchequer Papers) has a page for every piece but not yet for every item. Pay warrants from 1642 to 1648 have extra levels that are not represented in TNA's catalogue but are not yet catalogued at folio level.

Books

• Category:Books (major editions) gives the simplest overview of books that are currently represented here. Mostly a few tests and some especially important reference books.
• Century of the Soldier (Helion)#Contents lists all books in this series that are about the British Civil Wars and that were published up to March 2020. Forthcoming titles are not yet included.

Articles and chapters

• Category:Articles lists journal articles and chapters in edited collections.
• Category:Serial publications lists journals and series of monographs. Only a small selection so far.
• Midland History is a journal with linked contents for all articles relevant to the British Civil Wars up to March 2020.

Theses

• Category:Theses lists unpublished theses and dissertations. Only a small selection so far.