English Language & Literature

Gale Primary Sources cross searches all Gale digital archives. These primary source collections provide pages of newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs.

AMExplorer allows users to search across multiple Adam Matthew collections that include millions of pages of social sciences and humanities primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries.

ProQuest One Literature provides content and tools to support the study of literature from a variety of sources including diverse primary texts, criticism, full-text journals, book reviews, dissertations, eBooks, reference material, audio, and video.

Contains digitized images of historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from the British Isles. Searches Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers and Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers simultaneously.

Contains full-text articles published in hundreds of British periodicals during 1680s-1930s. Includes magisterial quarterlies and scholarly & professional organs, as well as coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines.

Contains rare newspapers and journals printed between 1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of the long eighteenth-century social, political and literary life.

Includes digitized images of every page of the (London) Times.

Contains digitized images of the pages of mainstream American, British, Irish, and Scottish newspapers and other periodicals, including The New York Times (1851-2007), The Guardian & Observer (1791-2003), The Irish Times (1859-2010), The Scotsman (1817-1950), American Periodical Series Online (1730s-1930s) and more.

Contains scanned images of 17th and 18th century newspapers from the United Kingdom.

Access guaranteed through May 2027
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets covering the period 1672-1737.

Contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the Restoration and Victorian era.

Contains digitized images of rare print and manuscript texts on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain from 1450-1910.

Contains works published in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America from 1473-1700. Includes novels, pamphlets, broadsides, calendars, sermons, almanacs, and much more.

Contains works published in Great Britain and the early Americas during the eighteenth century.

Contains works of prose fiction published in the British Isles during the eighteenth century. Includes epistolary, gothic, and sentiment novels, as well as documentary fiction plus allegorical narratives and satires.

Contains maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books devoted to colonial history, politics, culture and society.

Contains dramatic works published in the British Isles from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Includes Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, as well as Medieval morality plays, mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas.

Contains poems published in the British Isles from the eighth century to the early twentieth century. Includes canonical and lesser known poets, including women poets.

Contains poems published by poets in the British Isles and the British Empire, including Commonwealth and ex-colonial countries.

Contains materials focused on the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.

Contains manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books on the study of global commodities in world history. Explore the origins of the commodity -- coffee & tea, spices, silver & gold, opium, cotton, etc. -- their first uses, the trade that developed and the ways in which these items were marketed and consumed.

Contains digitized images of the parliamentary papers produced between 1801-1900.

Contains primary sources from the Long 19th century, including works in Western as well as non-Western languages, sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions around the globe.