12th century through the 20th. Over 3,500 French language texts.

Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's famous 28 volume Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de lettres, along with Douglas Gordon's "18th Volume". Part of ARTFL.

Focus on the nineteenth-century, but covers all periods. Includes historical, philosophical, theological, political, and art history texts as well as essays, speeches and other non-literary material.

Full text collection based on the Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle.

Almost 1,700 texts documenting Irish history. All periods are represented, but the bulk of the texts come from seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Digitized from the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft edition (1984).

Almost every book printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, regardless of language, and English-language books printed elsewhere in the same time period.

Based on the English Short Title Catalog, includes almost every book printed in England,Ireland, Scotland, and Wales during the 18th century, regardless of language, along with thousands of English-language books printed elsewhere in the same time period. Includes some serials.

Collection of collection of books dealing with magic, the occult, folklore, popular superstition and fairy tales of the German Renaissance. Part of Archives Unbound.

All 127 volumes of the Weimar edition of the works of Martin Luther.

Hundreds of influential British periodicals (literary, political, religious, and more) published between 1680 and 1940.

Over 700 scholarly journals. 1700-present.

1685-1835. Over 270 newspapers and periodicals from across the British Empire, but mostly from Britain.

Digitized from the largest collection of English language, seventeenth and eighteenth century newspapers in the world. Newspapers mostly from British Isles, but includes titles from mainland Europe, India, North, and Caribbean. Part of Gale Primary Sources: Newspaper and Periodical Databases (formerly Gale NewsVault).

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.

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.

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

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

190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse.

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.

TRIAL. Digitized version of the UPA microfilm set French Royal and Administrative Acts, 1256-1794. Part of Archives Unbound.

A cartographic representation of records in the British Library's Incunabula Short Title Catalog.

Ceased. European case law dating back to 1163, and statutory law from 1235.

Popular printed works from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, including recipe books, almanacs, how-to books, hagiographies, prayer books, popular fiction, romans de chevalerie, songbooks, burlesques, and more. Part of the ARTFL Project.

1685-1921. 266 books. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Wide range of sources, including parish records, workhouse records, court record, criminal records, coroners' records, guild records, and hospital records documenting crime, poverty, and social policy in 18th century London. Intended as a companion to the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674-1834.

The largest body of texts ever published detailing the lives of ordinary people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court, with summaries or transcripts of testimony.

Travel narratives and related documents about travel in France, from Medieval through 19th century.

French language travel narratives and related documents about travel in Italy, from Medieval through the early 20th century.