English Language & Literature

Identifies and describes books, serials, pamphlets & other ephemeral materials printed in English speaking countries from the beginning of printing in the British Isles (approximately 1472) through 1800.

ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, including manuscripts.

Contains images and contextual background information on world dress and fashion throughout history.

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 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.

A massive digital library bringing together materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, libraries at partner institutions, and other commercial digitization schemes. Includes searchable access to millions of volumes, including books and serial publications.

Brings together 16th- and 17th-century British State Papers and links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable Calendars, offering behind the scenes glimpses of the workings of the Tudor and Stuart governments.