A digital collection, mostly early modern European printed books and images, that supports browsing by themes. For example, Family , Procreation, Birth, Early Youth, and so forth.

Diaries and letters of approximately 500 women. Like the material included in "Early Encounters" and "North American Women’s Letters and Diaries", which are produced by the same publishers, the texts in this database are deeply indexed and fully searchable. All letters have been re-keyed, rather than reproduced as page images.

In addition to strictly literary works, contains letters, chronicles, and religious writings.

The Privy Council and Related Bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers, a collection of papers presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, an essential guide to those papers.

Ephemera, pamphlets, college records, exam papers, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, account books, pedagogical treatises, government documents, anatomy books, midwifery texts, manuscript journals, poetry, novels, ballads, drama, receipt books, literary manuscripts, travel writing, and conduct and advice literature.Comprises five sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.

Published and unpublished sources selected for their capacity to document the history of everyday life. Sources include court records, administrative records, petitions, wills, inventories, tax records, financial documents, military records, church records, memoirs, diaries, unpublished essays, commonplace books, printed broadsides, and printed books. Also included are 164 objects, such as clothing, jewelry, and home furnishings. The collection is organized around twenty themes: Family life; Birth, marriage, death; Health and medicine; Land and property; Possessions; Work and employment; Poverty; Agriculture; Finance; Trade and economics; Law and order; Politics and government; Foreign affairs; War; Monarchy; Religion; Scholarship, science, and the humanities; Arts, literature, and culture; Travel; and Women’s history. In addition to these themes, documents can be browsed by region and date of creation.

Every play submitted for licensing to the English Inspector of Plays between 1778-1824 (John Larpent), along with contextualizing documents like correspondence, diaries, notes, playbills, artwork, biographical documents, scrapbooks, realia, and auxiliary documents like addresses, interludes, preludes, and songs.

Transcribed letters between correspondents in Europe, the Americas and Asia, covering the 17th and 18th centuries. Difficult to search--doesn't support Boolean queries, only single word or phrase searches. Features Enlightenment "figures". Correspondents can be browsed by name, nationality, or occupation. Includes Electronic Enlightenment Biographies (under the section "Lives": browse biographies by nationality or occupation of subject) and the apparently-defunct Reading Room, which is a small reference library of dictionaries, encyclopedias (including biographical encyclopedias), and a short bibliography of Enlightenment journals and newspapers.

15th century to the present. Emphasis on the British Empire. Collection tilts heavily toward the 18th century, 19th century, and early 20th centuries.

Roughly 4,500 monographs and pamphlets, and more than 400 periodicals documenting women's history around the world. Books have both Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Gerritsen Subject Terms. Somewhat more than half of the material in the collection is in English, and the remainder is in German, French, and other European languages.

1500-present. Business records, shipping manifests, correspondence, government reports, pamphlets, statistical records, maps, photographs, paintings, prints, advertising, and other artifacts, thematically arranged by the following commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver, spices, sugar, tea, timber, wheat, wine, and spirits.

Letters, diaries, journals, account books, printed guidebooks, published travel writing, paintings, sketches, and maps that document the experiences of Englishmen and Englishwomen who took the Grand Tour in the Early Modern period.

Selections from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Documents Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse.

Treatises and monographs, from the collections of Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia. Covers international law, comparative law, foreign law, Roman law, Islamic law, Jewish law, and ancient law.

Legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other European countries.

Unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations that document Anglo-American trials, with coverage of the British Empire. Digitized from the collections at Harvard University, Yale University, and the Bar of the City of New York.

Books, pamphlets, periodicals documenting the economic history of the West, very broadly defined, including political writings, works on international relations, international trade and commerce, and slavery, travel narratives, legal cases, and government publications. Based on the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at Harvard University, The Making of the Modern World includes more than 60,000 books and 450 journals.

Manuscripts, state papers, chronicles, accounts and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. Covers Britain, 1100-1800.

Digitized from the following microfilm sets: Black Death: Sources concerning the European Plague: Series 1: Rare Printed Sources from the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuttel, c1470-1822 (Part 1: 1474-1621; Part 2: 1621-1824); Crown Servants: Series 1: The Papers of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, 1593-1641, from Sheffield City Libraries; Crown Servants: Series 1: The Papers of The Wynns of Gwydir, 1515-1690 and the Clenennau Letters and Papers, 1584-1690 from the National Library of Wales; Crown Servants: Series 3: The Lauderdale Papers, c1647-1682 from the British Library, London; Early Music (Part 1: The Pembroke Choir Books and other Music Manuscripts from Pembroke College, Cambridge; and Part 2: Music Manuscripts, 1500-1793, from the National Library of Scotland); English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1704: Popular Culture, Entertainment and Information in the Early Modern Period; Foxe and the English Reformation, c1539-1587: Collected manuscript sources from the British Library, London; History of Science and Technology Series 1: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753 from the British Library, London (Part 1: Science and Society, 1660-1773; Parts 2 and 3: Manuscript Records of Voyages of Discovery, 1450-1750; Parts 4 and 5: Alchemy, Chemistry and Magic; Parts 6, 7 and 8: The History of Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy; and Part 9: Cultural History); Masculinity: Men Defining Men and Gentlemen (Part 1: 1600-1800, Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford); Medieval and Early Modern Women (Part 1: Manuscripts from the British Library, London; and Part 2: House Books, Correspondence and Manuscripts owned by women from the British Library, London); Renaissance Man: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700: Series 1: The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608 (Part 1: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford; Part 2: John Dee’s manuscripts from Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Part 3: John Dee’s Manuscripts and Annotated Books from Cambridge University Library; Part 4: John Dee’s Manuscripts and Annotated Books from the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Parts 5-6: John Dee’s Annotated Books from the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, London; and Parts 7-8: John Dee’s Manuscripts and Annotated Books from the British Library, London); Receipt Books, c1575-1800 (Part 1: From the Folger Shakespeare Library); and Spanish Historical Writing About the New World, 1493-1700 from the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University Part of Adam Matthew Research Source.

Over 230 manuscripts, authored by women, that document life in Early Modern England.

British State Papers Domestic, Foreign, Scotland, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council. Each document is keyed to its entry in the Calendar of State Papers.

Shipping manifests from nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866.

The Ferrar Papers (Magdalene College, Cambridge), along with transcripts of select documents. Also includes the four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London. Does not include items that were once part of the collection but are so no longer; nor does it record any of those volumes from the Ferrars' library which are to be found in the Old Library at Magdalene.