British Literary Manuscripts Online contains two collections: British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 and British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and renaissance. British Literary Manuscripts Online, c.1660-1900 provides fascimile images of literary manuscripts including letters, diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, essays, journals and more. The collection traces the development of literary movements from the classicism of the Pope and Johnson to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and the gothic novels of the Brontes. British Literary Manuscripts Online, Medieval and Renaissance provides fascimile images of letters, poems stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and other materials from around 1120 to 1660. Works consist primarly of those in the Middle and Early Modern English.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) covers many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science. Starting with the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this is an electronic collection of 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement Dates of Coverage: Varies by publication

As the definitive resource in its category, Early European Books allows unlimited access to thousands of pre-1701 books and rare incunabula printed in Europe. It embraces the two-and-a-half centuries following Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the mid-15th century, which witnessed an unprecedented proliferation and dissemination of literature throughout Europe. In keeping with the tenor of the time, religious works dominate, but there is no shortage of secular material concerning every field of human thought and activity.

Electronic Enlightenment is a wide-ranging collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period. Full-text searching gives you the ability to search across letters, documents, manuscripts, and scholarly annotations linking people across Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. Items are available in over 11 languages including English, French, Germany, and Italian.

Empire Online from Adam Matthew provides manuscript, printed, and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials cover the last five centuries and are accompanied by secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps, and an interactive chronology. It charts the rise and fall of empires around the world. Empire Online provides exploration of colonial history, politics, culture, and society. It is organized into five sections: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire The Visible Empire Religion & Empire and Race, Class, Colonialism, Imperialism.

English Short Title Catalogue Resource Type: Bibliographic Database Title/Alternate Title: English Short Title Catalogue (Catalog) Subjects Covered: Comprehensive bibliography that includes items printed in the British Isles, Colonial America, the United States (1776-1800), and Canada in any language. Also, items printed wholly or partly in English, or other British vernaculars, in any other part of the world Contents: The holdings of over 1,500 libraries around the world are represented Dates of Coverage: Includes all the material processed up to December 1997. Chronologically, the scope of the ESTC extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800

This bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750, the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery. The original bibliography was co-developed by John Alden and Dennis Landis, Curator of European Books at The John Carter Brown Library. The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846 is a foremost repository of rare books and materials and is a center for advanced research in history and the humanities.

The New Oxford Shakespeare presents a new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves and drawing on textual and theatrical scholarship. The three interconnected print publications provide a platform for Shakespeare studies. Publications include the Modern Critical Edition, Critical Reference Edition, and Authorship Companion.

Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO) provide annotated texts of writers active between 1485 and 1837. University of North Texas subscriptions include: Renaissance Drama, Renaissance Prose, and Shakespeare. This includes authors such as Marlowe, Kyd, Chortatsis, Greene, Carey, Guicciardini, Hooker, Nichols, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and more.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714, published in four parts, offers researchers an online resource for understanding two hundred years of British and European history, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne. This archive consists of facsimile images of almost three million British State Papers which are linked to calendar entries.