British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (BWLD) includes the immediate experiences of nearly 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters. Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before.
Comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century, a microfilm collection of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons to printed ephemera by well-known and lesser-known eighteenth-century authors.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) features page images of almost every work printed in the British Isles and North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700. Over 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to EEBO. From the first book printed in English through to the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War, EEBO's content draws on authoritative and respected short-title catalogues of the period and features a substantial number of text transcriptions specially created for the product.
An extensive collection of philosophical texts, plus access to Stith Thompson’s revision of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and other reference sources.
--Burney Collection of 17th-18th century newspapers
Includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers
3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks & ephemera
National & Regional papers from British Isles