Research resources
Electronic Research Tools
There are some essential electronic resources of primary printed texts, for which you will need a Warwick password:
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JISC Historical TextsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window- an online corpus of texts published in Britain from 1475 to the nineteenth century
- Burney NewspapersLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window. The British Library's Burney collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century newspapers gives access to a vast array of newspapers and periodicals.
- Eighteenth Century JournalsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window: another useful resource for newspapers and periodicals from 1685 onwards
- Empire OnlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window- has some documents relating to the colonial and trading ventures of the period:
- There are more useful primary sources at British History OnlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window(including the Journals of both Houses of Parliament, local histories of counties, and religious records):
- Old Bailey OnlineLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, 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. An allied resources isLondon LivesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, which chronicles individuals in London from 1690 onwards.
- you can search across some databases, including Old Bailey Online and London Lives viaConnected HistoriesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window
- The British Museum collections databaseLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window- excellent for exploring visual prints
- TheV&A collections databaseLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, very good for exploring material culture:
- British Printed ImagesLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowto 1700:
- English BalladsLink opens in a new window, where you will find texts and even the music for ballads:
- Transactions of the Royal Society from 1665 onwardsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window- searchable journal of the scientific body
There are also some very useful bibliographical aids:
- C18-L: Resources for 18th-century studies
across the disciplines, which has an interdisciplinary bibliography on as many aspects of 1660-1830 as possible:http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm -
The English Short Title Catalogue, which lists over 460,000 printed items published between 1473 and 1800, giving the archival location of all known copies (and hence allows you to supplement both EEBO and ECCO, which do not hold copies of all printed items):http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list
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The Bibliography of British and Irish History, an essential starting point for many project which allows you to search for articles and books by author, title, keyword or subject:http://apps.brepolis.net/bbih/search.cfm
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JSTOR, which gives access to lots of on-line copies of journals:http://uk.jstor.org/
You might also find the following useful in tracking down material:
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Early Modern Resources, which is a gateway to a wide variety of electronic resources for the early modern period:http://earlymodernweb.org.uk/emr/
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Eighteenth Century Resources, another gateway to on-line material for 1660 onwards:http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html
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COPAC (union catalogue of British research libraries):http://www.copac.ac.uk
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British Library catalogue:http://blpc.bl.uk
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Library of Congress catalogue:http://catalog.loc.gov
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Index to Theses:http://www.theses.com
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ISI Web of Knowledge:http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/
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ITER (Bibliography of the Middle Ages and Renaissance):http://iter.library.utoronto.ca/
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Modern Languages Association bibliography, for secondary material relating to literary themes:http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=MLA;FSIP
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The Clergy database, giving information about clerics:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/