BU Subscriptions
- British History Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes primary and secondary sources on the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800.
Politics & Law
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises (1800 - 1926) This link opens in a new window
This collection provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
- Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources (1600 - 1970) This link opens in a new window
This collection consists of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries in northern Europe. Included are crucial sources of historical statutes and regulations for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Theater & Art
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to a digital streaming video collection of unique films of current, leading British theatre productions, musicals, and operas. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
- Shakespeare Survey Online This link opens in a new window
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies, and of the year's major British performances.
Literature
- Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
Contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473–1700
- Women Writers Online This link opens in a new windowWomen Writers Online contains full-text editions of more than 300 texts by English and American women published between 1526 and 1850. It also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. The site also includes links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive digital collection that aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera.
Additional Online Primary Source Collections
- Archives HubUse the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your research, both physical and digital. Search across descriptions of archives, held at over 390 institutions across the UK.
- British PatheBritish newsreels covering all of the twentieth century.
- Digital BodleianCollections include Parliamentary history, 18th century entertainment, and medieval manuscripts.
- Euro Docs: History of the United KingdomPrimary Documents organized in a directory that provides links to primary materials on UK history from antiquity to the present.
- National Archives of EnglandGuide to locating primary materials held by the British National Archives. Limited online access.
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey"A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,752 trials held at London's central criminal court, and 475 Ordinary’s Accounts of the lives of executed convicts."
- Darwin Correspondence ProjectThis project helps expand our understanding, not just of Darwin's life and ideas, but also the lives and ideas of his friends, family, and colleagues
- Carlyle Letters OnlineDuke University Press is proud to present this digital archive based on the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
- Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts Digital EditionThe Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand. Through digital reunification, it is now possible to access, read, and compare high quality images of original manuscripts whose material forms are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections.
- Parker Library on the WebThe Parker Library is a treasure trove of rare medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as early printed books. Almost all manuscripts in the Parker Library collection have been fully digitised and are available in this exhibit, along with associated bibliographic references and annotations made by scholars from around the world.
