For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
A fully searchable library of over 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose plus biographies, bibliographies and key secondary sources.
Thousands of titles, including works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
A comprehensive record of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions published or produced worldwide between 1960 and 2014. Containing over 140,000 annotated entries, this collected information is an essential tool for anyone engaged in research on Shakespeare or early modern England.
Features literary sources for studying the Romantic period. The collection offers an insight into the working methods of the poet and the wider social, political and natural environment that shaped much of his work and that of his contemporaries.
This collection comprises one of the most important archives of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere--including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and more--with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers.
A comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm set, which has aimed to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, and other works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. The library has access to both ECCO and ECCO 2.
Content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
Lists noteworthy publications (including articles, books, and reviews) that have a bearing on the Victorian period. The Bibliography annually indexes over 400 journals, representing scholarship in a range of disciplines.
Simultaneously search or browse across the following archives: Times Digital Archive, 17th-18th century Burney collection newspapers, 19th century British Library newspapers. Parts 1 and 2, TLS historical archive, Illustrated London news historical archive, Economist historical archive, Listener historical archive