Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digitized library representing most of the significant English- and foreign-language texts published in Great Britain and the colonies during the eighteenth century. Subject access to this collection is provided by the British Library’s online English Short Title Catalogue.
The online English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a free website from the British Library, provides bibliographic records for all surviving letter press material published in the British Isles and North America before 1801.
The project includes materials from the British Library and more than 2,000 participating institutions, with holdings information noted in the bibliographic records. The full text of many works listed here is included in the databases Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO). ESTC complements EEBO and ECCO by providing more comprehensive bibliographic records and more in-depth subject/genre access.
This is a freely accessible site. Contents may change without warning.
NCCO is an ongoing digitization project focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Drawn from libraries worldwide and representing multiple languages, the collection includes books, newspapers, periodicals, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, pamphlets, maps, and more.
The database contains the following subject collections:
C19 Index is a dynamic and growing resource, including a full range of 19th century source material and provides integrated access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives.
C19 Index includes:
Books
•Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue
•The Nineteenth Century
Periodicals
•American Periodicals
•British Periodicals
•Cotgreave's Index
•An Index to Legal Periodical Literature
•Cumulative Index to Niles' Register 1811–1849
•Periodicals Index Online
•Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
•Stead's Index to Periodical Literature
•The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Official Publications
•House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
•Proceedings of the Old Bailey
•The U.S. Serial Set
Archives
•Archive Finder
Newspapers
•Palmer's Index to The Times
Reference
•The "Bookman" Directory of Booksellers, Publishers and Authors
•Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism
Archive Finder links ArchivesUSA and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the UK and Ireland, providing researchers with access to primary source material repositories and microfiche finding aids for thousands of archive and manuscript collections.
The Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of sex, sexuality, and gender research and gender studies research.
Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century periodicals. Included in the collection is Godey's Lady's Book, The Civil War: A Soldier's Perspective, African American newspapers, American county histories and various other newspapers, gazettes and collections.
Full facsimile run of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Presents a vivid picture of British and world events — including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts, and science — with coverage in the first issue ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria’s fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace. Includes full color imaging of every page.
From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the Victorian city.
A finding aid to the collections of The National Archives, UK, at Kew. Also includes a selection of rare documents relating to women's suffrage in the UK and the British Empire.
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