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.
Includes Parliamentary papers consisting of a collection of Kings speeches, messages to Parliament, ... from the Restoration in 1660 to ... 1796, as well as books, broadsides and pamphlets published between 1701 and 1800.
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.
Includes Parliamentary papers consisting of a collection of Kings speeches, messages to Parliament, ... from the Restoration in 1660 to ... 1796; tracts, books, pamphlets and other documents published between 1701 and 1800.
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.
Marked up texts designed for data mining projects.
EEBO-TCP is the product of a fruitful partnership between industry and academia. ProQuest's commerical product, Early English Books Online (EEBO), contains the digital page facsimiles of about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. To accompany EEBO's page images, the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) is creating structured SGML/XML text editions for a significant portion of the EEBO works. The current database (30/03/06) contains 521.5 million words, 2.3 million unique forms, in 11,462 documents. For more project information, please visit the Text Creation Partnership Web site.
Searchable collection of English prose works from the period 1500-1700, by writers from the British Isles.
Early English Prose Fiction is a balanced and representative survey of fictional prose in English from the period 1500-1700, comprising more than 200 works. The collection explores the rich diversity of prose fiction preceding the emergence of the realist novel as its dominant form.
An immense collections from major research libraries in digital form. Works from the 18th, 19th and 20th century are fully searchable and full PDFs may be downloaded by UChicago users after logging in with CNetID.
An extensive collection of philosophical texts, plus access to Stith Thompson’s revision of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and other reference sources.
A full-text collection of books, political pamphlets and ephemera from the period 1460-1850, scanned from the Goldsmith-Kress Library of Economic literature. The collection has strengths in travel literature, technology, political science and global economic development.
Covers the history of Western trade, encompassing the coal, iron, and steel industries, the railway industry, the cotton industry, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation. It is also strong in the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century. Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850, Part II: 1851-1914, Part III: 1890–1945, Part IV: 1800-1890.
A full-text collection of pamphlets, books and newspapers, printed mainly in London between 1640 and 1661, assembled by George Thomason, a London bookseller, and held at the British Library. The Thomason Tracts are fully integrated into the EEBO database.
Websites and Portals
Freely-available collections of primary sources and bibliographies.