Editions

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1641 Depositions Online Ireland, voxpop, wars/revolutions digital edition of 4000 depositions, examinations and associated materials in which Protestant men and women told of their experiences of the rebellion by the Catholic Irish in October 1641
A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563 Britain, politics searchable scholarly edition of this diary of a turbulent period in British history as seen by a London merchant
Aaron Thomas: The Caribbean Journal of a Royal Navy Seaman c18th, maritime, wars/revolutions the journal of a British seaman in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary wars; includes accounts of naval operations, sailors’ health and punishments, and personal views on slavery, religion, and morality
Adams Family Papers : An Electronic Archive Americas This electronic archive presents images of manuscripts and digital transcriptions from the Adams Family Papers.
Alciato’s Book of Emblems poetry An edition of Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum liber or Book of Emblems.
Bess of Hardwick’s Letters correspondence, Tudors, women A digital edition of the correspondence of Bess of Hardwick.
Bluestocking Corpus: Letters by Elizabeth Montagu correspondence, women A corpus of letters written by Elizabeth Montague between the 1730s and 1780s.
Casebooks Project magic, medicine Digital edition of casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, two of the most popular astrologers in early modern England.
Chymistry of Isaac Newton magic, science An edition of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts and new research on Newton’s chymistry
Civil War Petitions medicine, voxpop, wars/revolutions Petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars.
digiberichte.de Europe, travel Digitized travel accounts of late medieval and early modern Europe
Digital Archive of Renaissance and Early Modern Inaugural Lectures Europe, Italy, learning, manuscripts a digital collection of searchable descriptions, digital photo-reproductions and codified transcriptions of inaugural lectures given from the Renaissance to the beginning of the eighteenth century
Digital Cavendish literature, women Scholarly editions of the works of Margaret Cavendish, and other resources for research.
Digital Quaker Collection religion DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Early Americas Digital Archive Americas a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820
Early English Books Online (EEBO) TCP books EEBO-TCP is a partnership to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from Early English Books Online.
Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) manuscripts Transcriptions, metadata and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Early Print digital, print, useful tools Developing a digital library of English books published before 1700 and a range of tools for computational exploration and analysis.
Early Stuart Libels poetry, politics A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources.
ECCO-TCP: Eighteenth Century Collectons Online books, writing More than 2000 freely accessible, accurately rekeyed texts of English titles printed between 1701 and 1800 (ECCO and Text Creation Partnership).
Emory Women Writers’ Resource Project women, writing Edited and unedited texts by women writing from the seventeenth century through the early twentieth century (early modern/c18th collection)
English Broadside Ballad Archive music, print culture site for early modern English ballads providing full transcriptions and images, search facilities, sung versions of ballads, and background essays
English Prose Drama Database (EProseD) drama EProseD contains more than 1,600 plays written by more than 350 different authors from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.
Folger Digital Texts drama, Shakespeare free, high-quality digital texts of Shakespeare’s plays, meticulously edited on the basis of current scholarship; searchable and downloadable
French Emblems at Glasgow France, print culture French Emblem Books of the 16th century, along with their Latin versions when appropriate.
Hearth Tax Digital Britain, economy, society A platform for the publication and dissemination of research and analysis on hearth tax records.
Hooke Folio Online science The Hooke Folio contains extracts from the Royal Society’s Journal Books and rough minutes for the period of Hooke’s secretaryship
Hortus Nitidissimis science This web site is the culmination of a project to make available one of the great florilegias of the 1700s, the Hortus Nitidissimis.
In Mozart’s Words Mozart, music multilingual access to an annotated version of the voluminous correspondence of Mozart and his family (1400 letters)
John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments Online Britain, reformations, religion Digital edition of the 16th-century editions of John Foxe’s protestant martyrology.
Jonathan Swift Archive writing The Jonathan Swift Archive makes available digitized texts of Jonathan Swift’s prose works, transcribed from a great variety of early printed editions.
Latin Texts of Early Modern Europe Europe, language, Latin, learning Latin Texts of Early Modern Europe projects are dedicated to building a digital library of the humanistic Respublica Litterarum
Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592 – 1597 Spain, wars/revolutions 174 letters of Philip II, King of Spain, from the time of naval war against England and France, 1592 - 1597.
Letters of William Herle Project Britain, letters, politics online edition of the letters of William Herle, Elizabethan spy and diplomat
London Lives 1690 to 1800 ~ Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis Britain, courts, local government, manuscripts, poverty, urban, voxpop A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets for eighteenth-century London. Includes criminal justice, parish poor relief, hospital and guild records.
MarineLives courts, maritime, public history collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669
Mary Wroth’s Poetry: An Electronic Edition poetry, women Electronic edition of Mary Wroth’s poetry.
Medicine in the Americas, 1619-1914: A Digital Library Americas, medicine A digital library project that makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century.
Modern Philosophy Source Europe, philosophy primary sources for the history of thought; includes texts by several major authors of the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
New York Society Library: First Charging Ledger (1789-1792) Americas, books, c18th, print culture The Library’s earliest surviving charging ledger (July 1789 - April 1792) is a window into the reading habits of over five hundred members of the Society Library
Newton Project philosophy, religion, science Project to make all Newton’s printed and manuscript writings freely available online, covering his scientific work, theological texts and alchemical tracts
Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 crime, justice, London, voxpop a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913; over 197,000 trials and biographical details of approximately 2,500 men and women executed at Tyburn
opening the Geese Book music, religion A multimedia resource presenting the pre-Reformation mass liturgy sung by choir boys in Nuremberg
Plymouth colony archive Americas, material worlds A searchable collection of texts including court records, wills, maps, town and fort plans, architectural and material culture studies
Primeros Libros Americas, books, Mexico, print culture a digital collection of the first books printed in Mexico before 1601
Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories, 1740-1810 Americas, consumption, family/household, manuscripts A searchable version of information contained in the transcriptions of 325 probate inventories from the Chesapeake region for 1740-1810.
Renaissance festival books consumption, Europe, revelry 253 digitised Renaissance festival books that describe the magnificent festivals and ceremonies in Europe between 1475 and 1700
Richard Brome Online Britain, drama an online edition of the Collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome
Romantic Circles Electronic Editions literature, Romanticism A searchable archive of texts of the Romantic era.
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online manuscripts A digital archive of manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books from c. 1450-1720, including research and teaching resources for late medieval and early modern manuscript studies.
South Seas - Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific Australasia, c18th, exploration South Seas is an online information resource for the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800.
Strype’s Survey of London and Westminster Britain, urban electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, including maps and plates, introductory essay and bibliography
The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735 Britain, material culture, visual arts primary sources and research tools for the study of the arts in early modern Britain
The ARTFL Encyclopédie France, philosophy, science electronic edition of Diderot and d’Almebert’s Enyclopédie
The Bodin Project bibliographies, France, history of ideas, scholars project to make available online materials to enhance knowledge and understanding of Jean Bodin
The Breadalbane Collection Scotland an eclectic gathering of 16th century documents of the Campbells of Glenorchy which provides unique insight into early modern Scottish life
The Cullen Project c18th, correspondence, illness, medicine The Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
The Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585-1597 Britain, letters, politics digital edition of letters from Thomas Bodley’s 12 years of diplomatic business in Europe, 1585-97
The Great Parchment Book Ireland, London, preservation A digital edition of the Great Parchment Book, a survey of the City of London’s estates in 17th-century Ireland.
The Hartlib Papers learning, letters, science full-text electronic edition of Samuel Hartlib’s correspondence
The Holinshed Project Britain, historiography, identities, writing Parallel digital editions of the 1577 and 1587 Holinshed Chronicles with historical background and project information.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791 Canada, encounters, reformations the entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
The Making and Knowing Project manufacture, material culture, practice, public history Reconstructing the 16th-century workshop of BNF MS FR 640 at Columbia University
The Martin Marprelate Press: A Documentary History print culture, religion primary documents connected with the hunt for the press that produced the Martin Marprelate tracts (1588-89)
The Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing women, writing Online editions of women’s writing that circulated in a variety of forms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The Montaigne Project philosophy, writing searchable edition of the Essais with corresponding digital page images from the Bordeaux copy.
The Poly-Olbion Project Britain, geography, poetry, topography Poly-Olbion is an expansive poetic journey through the landscape, history, traditions and customs of early modern England and Wales.
The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England local government, politics, voxpop A research project and corpus of petitions from seventeenth-century England.
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 government, Scotland A fully searchable edition of the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from 1235 to the union of 1707
The Shakespeare Quartos Archive drama, Shakespeare, writing a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays, with an interactive interface for detailed study
The Thomas Gray Archive c18th, poetry The Thomas Gray Archive is a long-term research project dedicated to studying the life and work of eighteenth-century poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771).
The Travel Journal of Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712) learning, medicine Lister’s journal of his three years studying medicine in France, enhanced by information about people and places he visited
The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle Home Page science Robert Boyle’s workdiaries are a vivid record of observation and experimentation by one of the founding fathers of modern science.
Verse Miscellanies Online poetry, print culture a searchable critical edition of seven printed early modern verse miscellanies
Virtual Jamestown Americas, Virginia The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and “the Virginia experiment”.
Visualizing English Print (VEP) books, corpora, datasets, useful tools Plain text corpora of Early Modern English texts and visualization tools to explore them
Walpole’s correspondence Britain, politics electronic version of The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Correspondence
William Shakespeare in quarto drama, Shakespeare, writing 107 copies of the 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto before the 1642 theatre closures

Image Collections

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Anglo American Legal Tradition Britain, government, law Documents from Medieval and Early Modern England from the National Archives in London
Bibliothèque Bleue Online France, print culture Digitized versions of Biblioth
Board of Longitude discovery, maritime, science papers of the Board of Longitude and the 18th-century scheme for the determination of longitude
Broadside Ballads Online performing arts, print culture a digital collection of printed songs made between the 16th and 20th centuries, featuring the Bodleian digital collections of ballads, with links to other resources
Cause Papers in the Church Courts of the diocese of York Britain, courts, local government, voxpop a searchable catalogue and scanned images of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard in the Church Courts of the diocese of York
CESAR - Calendrier Electronique des Spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime drama, France, theatre CESAR is a dynamic resource at the service of all those with an interest in the French theatre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Correspondence of William of Orange 1549-1584 Netherlands, politics all the surviving correspondence associated with William of Orange, including letters, commissions, petitions, instructions and speeches
Digital Image Collection - Folger Shakespeare Library arts, drama, literature The Folger’s Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 50,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more.
Early Music Online music digitised images of some of the world’s oldest surviving volumes of printed music
Henslowe-Alleyn digitisation project drama, manuscripts digital archive (images and catalogue) of manuscripts of the actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626)
Key 17th to 19th century geological literature science digitised versions of 17th to 19th century geological literature in the University of Oxford libraries.
Newton Papers science digital collection of Newton’s manuscripts held by the Cambridge University Library
Papers of Sir Joseph Banks Australasia, exploration, science the wide-ranging papers of the eighteenth-century naturalist, traveller, correspondent and royal adviser
The Linnaean Correspondence c18th, catalogues, science online edition of the correspondence of the botanist Carl Linnaeus, including summaries in English
The Linnean Collections science Digital repository for Linnaeus’ collections, comprising specimens of plants, fish, shells and insects, as well as books, letters and manuscripts.
York’s Archbishops Registers religion 20,000 images of the Archbishops of York Registers, 1225-1650, with a searchable index.

Databases and Calendars

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15c Book Trade books, digital, material culture, print project using material and documentary evidence to investigate the introduction of printing in the West
18thConnect c18th, federated search, writing 18thConnect is an online finding aid and scholarly community in the field of eighteenth-century literary and historical studies.
Annotated Books Online books, print culture A digital archive of early modern annotated books and virtual research environment for scholars of historical reading practices.
Broadside Ballads Online performing arts, print culture a digital collection of printed songs made between the 16th and 20th centuries, featuring the Bodleian digital collections of ballads, with links to other resources
Cause Papers in the Church Courts of the diocese of York Britain, courts, local government, voxpop a searchable catalogue and scanned images of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard in the Church Courts of the diocese of York
CESAR - Calendrier Electronique des Spectacles sous l’Ancien Régime drama, France, theatre CESAR is a dynamic resource at the service of all those with an interest in the French theatre of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Churchwardens’ Accounts of England and Wales local government, material worlds, religion A database of surviving churchwardens’ accounts from the earliest known (c.1300) to c.1850.
City and Region: Urban and Agricultural Rent in England 1400-1914 agriculture, GIS, money, statistics A collection of rental data for London, Essex and Kent, with maps, visualisations, and downloadable raw datasets
Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 biographies, religion A database of clerical careers with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the 16th- to mid-19h century
Connected Histories: British History Sources 1500-1900 Britain, federated search federated search of a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain
Database of Italian Academies Italy, learning a detailed searchable database for locating printed material relating to the Italian learned Academies active in Bologna, Naples, Padua and Siena in the period 1530-1700, and now held in the British Library
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks drama Database of of every playbook produced in England, Scotland, and Ireland from the beginning of printing through 1660.
Dugdale Catalogue Britain, learning a catalogue of the correspondence of William Dugdale from 1635-1686, with links to transcriptions where available
Early Modern Letters Online manuscripts Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) is a combined finding aid and editorial interface for basic descriptions of early modern correspondence.
Early Modern London Theatres (EMLoT) London, theatres A research database and educational resource about London theatres which developed before, during and shortly after the life of Shakespeare.
Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker books, c18th ded­i­cated to in­dex­ing free­ly-a­vail­a­ble dig­i­tal fac­sim­iles of eight­eenth-cen­tury texts and cross-ref­er­enc­ing them to accurate bib­li­og­raph­i­cal ref­er­ence sources
Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database language A database enabling users to investigate the social, regional and lexical distribution of phonological variants in eighteenth-century English
Elizabethan Star Chamber Project courts, crime A work in progress: new indexes and some transcriptions of Elizabethan Star Chamber cases.
English Short Title Catalogue catalogues, print culture fully searchable version of the key union catalogue for early modern British printed works
Europa Inventa: Early European Objects in Australasian Collections manuscripts Europa Inventa is the first systematic description of medieval/early modern European manuscripts, art works and objects held in Australasian libraries, galleries and museums.
First Fleet Online Australia, crime, punishment A database and other resources about the first convicts transported to Australia in 1787.
Intoxicants and Early Modernity, England 1580-1740 consumption, material culture Intoxicants and Early Modernity explores the period between the introduction of tobacco in the 1570s and the ‘Gin Craze’ of the early eighteenth century.
Locating London’s Past London A GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to 17th and 18th-century London.
Lost Plays Database drama a forum for scholars to share information about lost plays in England, 1570-1642
Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England literature, manuscripts, politics A database of early Stuart manuscript pamphlet literature.
Material Evidence in Incunabula material worlds, print culture database of the material evidence of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.
PLRE.Folger books, learning a database companion to the print volumes in the series Private Libraries in Renaissance England
RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 literature, women A database about which female authors were read, by whom, and how texts by women circulated in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Records of Earl’s Colne Britain, communities, local government Database of wide range of surviving records relating to the village of Earl’s Colne, Essex
Renaissance Cultural Crossroads books, encounters, language A list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641
Robert Hooke’s Books books, learning, science An online source on the library of the 17th-century virtuoso Robert Hooke (1635-1703).
Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the 18th century rebellion, slavery A database of newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of escaped slaves.
Sloane Printed Books Catalogue learning, science The Sloane Printed Books catalogue lists books which belonged to Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
The art world in Britain 1660 to 1735 Britain, material culture, visual arts primary sources and research tools for the study of the arts in early modern Britain
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640 Britain, courts, government records of the Court of Chivalry during its heyday between 1634 and 1640, covering a wide variety of topics relating to the social, political and cultural history of the period
The Digital Miscellanies Index poetry A searchable record of more than 1,600 poetic miscellanies published between 1680 and 1800
The Early Novels Database (END) novels High-quality metadata about novels published between 1660 and 1850.
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe books, France, print culture project using database, web interface and GIS technology to map the 18th-century French book trade
The Inner Temple Admissions Database biographical, catalogues, law The Inner Temple Calendars provide a social and administrative history of the Inner Temple
The Lady’s Magazine: Understanding the Emergence of a Genre print culture, women An annotated index of the content of the Lady’s Magazine from 1770 to 1818.
The London Stage Database drama, London, theatres A database of plays, performances, performers and theatres in London from the 1600s to the end of the 18th century.
The Mind is a Metaphor culture, ideas, literature The Mind is a Metaphor, is an evolving work of reference, an ever more interactive, more solidly constructed collection of mental metaphorics.
The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945 (UK RED) print culture, reading the reading experiences of British residents and travellers between the invention of the printing press in 1450 and the end of the Second World War
The Records of London’s Livery Companies Online (ROLLCO) urban, work website providing records of Apprentices and Freemen in the City of London Livery Companies between 1400 and 1900
The Rembrandt Database art, artists, Netherlands, Rembrandt an inter-institutional research resource for information and documentation on paintings by Rembrandt or attributed to him
The Sloane Letters Project correspondence, medicine, science Descriptions and metadata for the correspondence of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753)
Who were the Nuns? Europe, reformations, religion, women A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800
Witches of Lorraine courts, France, witchcraft Abstracts of around 400 witchcraft trials from the Duchy of Lorraine, and other material including a bibliography

Artworks

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Archive of Early American Images Americas A database of images of the colonial Americas from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, 1492 to ca. 1825
British Printed Images to 1700 Britain, print culture, prints A digital library of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain
Cranach Digital Archive Germany, visual arts an interdisciplinary collaborative research resource, providing access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Europa Inventa: Early European Objects in Australasian Collections manuscripts Europa Inventa is the first systematic description of medieval/early modern European manuscripts, art works and objects held in Australasian libraries, galleries and museums.
John Slezer’s Engravings of Scotland prints, Scotland More than 70 original engravings digitised by NLS from the first ever pictorial survey of Scotland, published by military engineer John Slezer in 1693.
The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection Europe, prints, visual arts Digitised collection of works by ‘one of the most skilled etchers of his or any other time’, keyword search or browse themes.

Maps

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John Speed proof maps Britain High quality scans of Cambridge University Library’s set of 66 proof maps prepared for John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, which was published in 1611/12.
Locating London’s Past London A GIS interface enabling researchers to map and visualize textual and artefactual data relating to 17th and 18th-century London.
Map of Early Modern London Britain, urban MoEML maps the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London.
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761 Atlantic world, revolutions, slavery an animated map of the spatial history of the Jamaican slave insurrection
Strype’s Survey of London and Westminster Britain, urban electronic edition of John Strype’s 1720 Survey of London, including maps and plates, introductory essay and bibliography
The Down Survey of Ireland Ireland, wars/revolutions the Down Survey of Ireland (1656-58) is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world
The Kraus Map Collection Americas, Europe digitised collection containing a wide range of individual maps and atlases of Europe and America
The Selden Map of China China, trade, travel Official website of the Selden Map of China at the Bodleian Library, including digitised image of the map and information about it and its restoration

Anthologies

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A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789 Americas, pamphlets, wars/revolutions translated and curated primary sources concerning the Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789
Court Depositions of South West England, 1500-1700 women, work A digital edition of 80 fully transcribed depositions relating to 20 cases heard in church courts and Quarter Sessions 1556-1694.
Early Modern Texts - Philosophers and Philosophy Topics philosophy some classics of early modern philosophy prepared with a view to making them easier to read
Jamaica and Slavery in the Age of Revolution Caribbean, slavery excerpts from letters written by Simon Taylor, an 18th-century Jamaican slaveholder and plantation owner
Luminarium literature, writing Anthology of English literature, medieval to 18th century