General Reading
- Barbara Caine, English Feminism
- Kathryn Gleadle, British Women in the Nineteenth Century
- Philippa Levine, Victorian Feminism
- June Purvis (ed.), Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945
- Jane Rendall, Women in an Industrialising Society: England 1750-1880
- Jane Rendall, The Origins of Modern Feminism
- Susie Steinbach, Women in England, 1760-1914
Modern Records Centre Extracts
See digitised archives from the Modern Records Centre here
Electronic Resources
- ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online, an online corpus of texts published in Britain from 1700-1800
- Women Writers Online, 1400-1850 Full text searchable copies of texts from a range of women writers.
- British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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Old Bailey Online, a searchable site which gives the proceedings of the London court for the period after 1674 and is a wonderful source of the social history of the period: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
Newspapers, periodicals and other prints:
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John Johnson Collection of Early Ephemera: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/johnson/
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See also the collection of broadside ballads: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm
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The British Museum's prints and drawings: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
Parliamentary:
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House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-2003: see Library e-sources page (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/main/tealea/arts/history/electronicresources/) for direct access and access via Athens. Full text is searchable for 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary papers.
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BOPCRIS: British Official publications 1688-1800: www.bopcris.ac.uk A full set of 18th, 19th and 20th Century British Official Publications consists of approximately 250,000 Parliamentary Papers and an unknown number of non-parliamentary publications.