Coverage: 1100-1900

Provides access to facsimile images of letters, poems, plays, novels, and other literary works of British authors over seven centuries.

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Coverage: 19th century

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an index with more than 20 million records for books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications, reference material, and archival collections. This database includes The Wellesley Index for Victorian Periodicals, The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, and American Periodicals Series.

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Coverage: 1473-1700

Early English Books Online contains over 140,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement. All titles are full text digital facsimiles from the Early English Books microfilm collection. Highlights of the collection include works by Shakespeare, Malory, Erasmus, Newton, and Galileo.

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Coverage: 1701-1800

Provides access to works from history, geography, various social sciences, fine arts, music, art, architecture, medicine, science, technology, literature, language, religion, philosophy, and law. Resources include books, pamphlets, broadsides, and reference works. Significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the UK, along with important works from the Americas, are included. ECCO is based on The English Short Title Catalog (ESTC).

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Shared digital repository of millions of library books and journals converted from print resources owned by research institutions around the world. HathiTrust Digital Library does not permit downloading or viewing the full text of books that are still under copyright. 

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Coverage: 18th-20th centuries

A digital collection of full-text and color images of rare books, ephemera, maps, posters, slag dictionaries, children's chapbooks, street cries, playbills, cartoons, and other materials relating to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Victorian London. This database also includes a chronology, interactive map, essays, visual galleries, and exhibitions. Topics covered include the underworld, religion, women and gender, politics, popular music, urban topography, slang, working-class culture, prostitution, the Temperance Movement, and police and criminality.

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Coverage: 1450-1850

The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection covers the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution, and the development of modern capitalism. Resources include rare books and primary source materials covering a variety of subjects, including commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport.

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Coverage: 1545-1900

Nearly 26,000 pamphlets bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Collections include Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection (1800-1900), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection (1545-1900), Hume Tracts (1769-1890), Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (1792-1868), Selections - University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection (1799-1900), Selections - London School of Economics and Political Science (1800-1899), Selections - University of Bristol (1800-1899), and Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (1761-1900).

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Access to full text resources covering a variety of topics from the 19th century, including British politics and society, diplomatic and cultural exchange between Asia and the West, British theatre and music, and European literature from the Corvey Collection. Content is drawn from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and ephemera.

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NOTE: History Sleuth students: The British Politics and Society unit includes more than 400 documents on the "Jack the Ripper" killings. Scroll down to the "Whitechapel Murders Papers."

Coverage: 1800-1900

Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society during the 19th century. 

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Coverage: 1681-1939

Provides access to hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. Formats include magisterial quarterlies, scholarly and professional organs, coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. 

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Coverage: 19th century

C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an index with more than 20 million records for books, periodicals, newspapers, government publications, reference material, and archival collections. This database includes The Wellesley Index for Victorian Periodicals, The Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Periodicals Index Online, and American Periodicals Series.

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Coverage: 1843-2020

Provides full text access to over 150 years of The Economist, a premier weekly publication providing timely reporting, concise commentary, and comprehensive appraisal of global news, spanning centuries and continents.

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Coverage: 1685-1835

Access rare eighteenth century newspapers and periodicals from around the world. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include social customs, world events, colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

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Coverage: 1888-2021

A key international business paper based in London, The Financial Times Historical Archive provides access to fully searchable digital reproductions of every issue from 1888-2021. Coverage includes critical financial and economic events, industry, energy, international politics, and more recently management, personal finance and the arts.

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Coverage: 1791-2003

Archive of the historical The Guardian and The Observer British newspapers, including full page digital reproductions of every page from all available issues. 

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Coverage: 1800-1900

Provides access to periodicals published in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. 

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Coverage: 1785-2019

Complete searchable digital archive of The Times (London), except for the Sunday edition. Includes all articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos. 

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Coverage: 1574-1757

Provides access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, English conflicts with the Spanish and French, maritime history, plantations, and slavery are all covered in this database.

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Coverage: 1800-1926

From one of the most important periods of legal development, this archive is a comprehensive full text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.

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Contains works pertaining to the United States, Britain, Ireland, Canada, as well as English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Resources include published trial transcripts, popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, unofficially published trial documents, official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, arbitration sessions, and books and pamphlets about specific trials. Topics include adultery, commercial law, constitutional law, dueling, elections, impeachment, international law, land, military offenses, murder, sexuality, slavery, torts, treason, and wills.

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Coverage: 1545-1900

Nearly 26,000 pamphlets bringing together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Collections include Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection (1800-1900), Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection (1545-1900), Hume Tracts (1769-1890), Knowsley Pamphlet Collection (1792-1868), Selections - University of Manchester British Political Pamphlets Collection (1799-1900), Selections - London School of Economics and Political Science (1800-1899), Selections - University of Bristol (1800-1899), and Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection (1761-1900).

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Coverage: 1509-1714

State Papers Online is published in four parts covering two hundred years of British and European history. Includes documents from the 16th-18th century British government, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts. 

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