Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.
Rare printed British journals, periodicals and newspapers of the eighteenth century. All items are full text searchable.
A wide variety of material including: Exploration journals and logs; Letter books and correspondence; Periodicals; Diaries; Official Government Papers; Missionary papers; Travel writing; Slave papers; Memoirs; Fiction; Children's Adventure Stories; Traditional folk tales; Exhibition Catalogues and guides; Maps; Marketing Posters; Photographs; and Illustrations, with many in colour.
(EHD) is a comprehensive collection of documents on British history covering the years 500 to 1914. Originally published in 13 volumes and decades in the making, this resource contains over 5,500 selected primary sources with extensive introductions and annotations by scholars in the field. Included are statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more.
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Currently contains an index for 1801-2004, and full text for 1840-1891 and 1901-1904
This set of online journals includes 10 consecutive years of the following 6 British journals from the 18th and 19th century: The Annual Register (1758-1778), Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863), The Builder (1843-1852), Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750), Notes and Queries (1849-1869) and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-1777).
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
Original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, together with printed publications, photographs and interactive maps. The material covers the end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’; the onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front; the post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.
Presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous ‘Beatus’ and ‘Psalter’ maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts.
This extraordinary resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Includes pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Primary documents.
Complete digital edition of The Times (London).
The project is a collaborative effort by 56 scholars, distinguished and emerging, who have gathered 41 clusters of documents in their fields of expertise. The clusters range from a few hundred to a several thousand pages. Each editor also provides a scholarly essay that explores the documents she/he has assembled and places them in historical context. These sources were generated in a wide range of languages. Each document not in English (and each image and each handwritten document) is accompanied by an abstract that summarizes its significance and makes it accessible for online searches. The collection includes audio and video material as well as texts drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles and a wide range of publications.
Women’s voices can be found at all levels of imperial history. As agents of empire, women were active as missionaries, educators, health-care professionals and women’s rights advocates. As opponents of empire, women were active in nationalist and social reform movements and as conservers of culture. As people in the vanguard of cultural interaction, women often forged a middle path of innovation in education, health and family life that drew on both imperial and host cultures.
This is a collection of digitized Second World War military maps. You can access by either clicking on the Military and Intelligence subject category or by searching Second World War.