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Manuscripts and Texts OnlineThis section offers a treasure trove of online materials in British and Irish history. A new subsection (at the bottom) includes sites accessible only via license.For maps, photographs, manuscript illuminations, and other images, see Visual Resources. AHDS History The History section of the Arts and Humanities Data Service provides access to digital resources created by historical research, learning and teaching. AHRC Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL) Includes editions of materials related to Bacon, Boyle, Erasmus,
Army Records A varied collection of sources from The National Archives. Avalon Project at Documents in law, history, and diplomacy, from all eras and world regions, but including a hefty dose of British materials.
Images and soundfiles from the Bodleian Library’s collection of 36000 early modern English ballads. (Charles) Booth Online Archive A searchable resource of the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886-1903, as well as the Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967. Britannia Documents From descriptions of Boudicca's rebellion to the Yalta conference agreement, this site offers basic teaching texts in British history. Created by the
British Library Online Gallery British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution. Selected texts, especially good for teaching.
Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Maintained at UCLA, this site aims to facilitate access to all digitized medieval manuscripts on the web. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts CELT offers a searchable database of contemporary and historical texts in Irish culture. Chaucer: The Electronic Canterbury Tales A treasure trove of links, including Middle English and Modern English editions. Based at the The Court of Chivalry
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.
Facsimiles of reports on major events from the Armada through the Napoleonic wars.
Links to other sites on the web.
Provides searchable collections of literary and historical sources.
Primary sources along with commentaries.
The Henry III Fine Rolls Project is publishing the Fine Rolls of Henry III from 1216 down to 1248, along with a search engine.
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy is an ongoing project of the Royal Irish Academy, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Archives of Ireland. It provides searchable sources on Irish foreign policy since 1919.
A useful selection for teaching. ITN Source
LION is an online electronic 'library' of English and American literature, made up of the primary texts themselves and accompanying 'secondary' or critical material. From the PCC and the CCC. A nice collection of online sources from The National Archives. A fully searchable online edition of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London from 1674 to 1834.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury The National Archives at
With links to many sites, and a dazzling set of links to medieval and early modern household and cooking texts that are on the web. An online repository of works published in English between 1477 and 1799.
Designed for teachers as well as researchers, this site provides images, transcriptions, translations, and commentaries of this twelfth-century text created for the anchoress Christina of Markyate.
A project of the National Archives of Scotland that offers digital copies of wills and testaments.
Selected Letters of Florence Nightingale
A scholarly and searchable edition of John Strype's classic work. Makes available to teachers and students texts which are otherwise not readily available in student editions.
Includes online access to the modern debates of the Commons and Lords. An online anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports produced between 1794-1918. Professor Steve Taylor has transcribed texts and scanned images related to the Irish Potato Famine. A searchable edition of tablets excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England, including an introduction, reference guide, and other supporting materials. Provided by the Online Library of
A searchable index and paraphrase of printed Year Book Reports, 1268-1535, compiled by David J. Seipp. Includes lists of Year Books, bibliography, and links, for most entries, to images of the original Vulgate editions.
Licensed SitesThese sites are accessible only upon payment of a fee (either by individuals or institutions). Some publishing firms (especially Adam Mathews Publications and TannerRitchie Publishing) produce extensive fee-only digital collections, and we have not attempted to reproduce their catalogs here. We offer this list for information purposes only; IBIS Links neither endorses these sites nor receives advertising income from them.Contains twenty versions of the Bible, with particular attention given to Renaissance period. For a searchable modern Bible, see Bible Gateway.
Offers facsimiles and searchable text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. EEBO offers facsimile pages of virtually every English language book printed between 1473 and 1700. Offers more than 200 works from the period 1500–1700.
Claims to cover "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas." Provides access to a ten-year rolling archive of the Financial Times and Europe Intelligence Wire.
Facsimiles of feminist books and periodicals, based on a collection begun in the late 1800s. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Provides access to the more than 10 million pages of parliamentary papers produced since 1801.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online The numerous sources available through MEMSO include: Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1225-1509; Rymer's Foedera, 1066-1383; Letters and Papers of Henry VIII; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1547-1626; Acts of the Interregnum, 1642-1660; Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1306-1546; Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1488-1548; Register of the Privy Council of Scpotland, 1545-1676; and much, much more. Women's Writers Project. Searchable texts by pre-Victorian women writers A subset of this project is Renaissance Women Online.
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