Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800.
Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800. Complements EEBO (Early English Books Online), which covers the period up to 1700
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles.
Google have digitized many public domain books, newspapers and journals. To find these Primary Sources, go to the Advanced search, and limit by publication date (e.g. 1837-1901 = Victorian Era).
The British Cartoon Archive holds collections by over three hundred cartoonists. Many of these have been digitised and catalogued, and can be found among the 170,000 digitised items on the BCA website.
Provides access to 30,000 images. Includes the ability to view virtual books with 'Turning the Pages', and to view online exhibitions and the highlights tour.
Digitised despatches and reports relating to New Zealand from selected volumes of the British Parliamentary Papers. Includes reports, statutes, correspondence and other documentation, beginning in the 1830s.
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.
The CERL Portal provides access to distributed databases containing manuscripts materials, printed works, photographic material and other special materials. The focus lies on manuscripts materials, but the Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) and the English Short-Title Catalogue can be included in the search as well.
JISC Library Hub Discover gives free access to the merged online catalogues of many major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.
Online database of information about more than 6,000 collections in the UK's museums, galleries, archives and libraries. Cornucopia can tell you what is available and where to see it.
A collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant writings which includes the principal works of the most eminent writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, and also those of lesser-known authors of the period.
This collection includes hundreds of seminal works. It represents the full range of ideas and opinions that sparked and sustained Catholic reform during the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries.
A project to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215.
Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800.
Full text of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, plus important works from the Americas, published between 1701 and 1800. Complements EEBO (Early English Books Online), which covers the period up to 1700
Explore Europe's cultural collections. Europeana provides cultural heritage students, professionals, teachers, and researchers with free digital access to European cultural heritage material. The site includes cultural heritage material from over 4,000 different institutions, giving access to millions of cultural heritage items from across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and more.
Google have digitized many public domain books, newspapers and journals. To find these Primary Sources, go to the Advanced search, and limit by publication date (e.g. 1837-1901 = Victorian Era).
Access to information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. More recent parliamentary publications are available from the Parliament Website.
Search a diverse body of online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500, including: literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books.
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London (1560–1640).
The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women. Explore over 175,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day.
NCCO is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the nineteenth century.
Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first eight collections are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; Photography: The World through the Lens; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; and Women: Transnational Networks.
The proceedings of the Old Bailey criminal court between 1674 and 1913. A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published.
The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first).
PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1665. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
A searchable electronic index to the "science" content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals. Use to find references to scientific topics within short stories, satirical poems, travelogues and articles on unrelated areas.
Discover 4 million articles and 350,000 pages free online. Although some titles are in Welsh, most are English language. Hosted by the National Library of Wales.
Selected journals in the humanities and social sciences, with coverage ranging from as early as 1665. To find these Primary Sources, limit by date range (e.g. 1837-1901 for the Victorian Era).
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and it's theories, practices and consequences.
Primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Content includes: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first four collections released are: -Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange -British Politics and Society -British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture -European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. The first eight collections are Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society; British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection; Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest; Photography: The World through the Lens; Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925; and Women: Transnational Networks.
