British and World Literature: Primary Sources

A wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature.

Coverage includes Asia & West Diplomacy & Cultural Exchange, British Theatre, British Politics and Society, Corvey Collection of European Literature, Europe and Africa, Photography, Science-Technology-and Medicine, Women, Science Part 2, Children-Literature and Childhood, Mapping the World, and Religion. Expand your search with the Artemis Primary Sources link on the database home page.

Full-text of 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. Includes most titles published in the United Kingdom during this period as well as a number of items published in the Americas.

From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online contains 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 in full digital facsimile from the Early English Books microfilm collection. This database contains over 100,000 titles published from 1474-1800 in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Electronic Enlightenment is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century — reconstructing one of the world's great historical “conversations”.

This collection of manuscripts, ephemera, photos, video, and other archival material documents popular culture in Britain and America from 1950 – 1975.