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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
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Collection of 18th century books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc. published in the UK.
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 & Series I: Supplement
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Page images and searchable full-text of Early American Imprints, Series I Evans & Series I Supplement.
American Broadsides and Ephemera 1749-1900
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Over 30,000 broadsides and ephemeral publications.
Empire Online
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Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.
English Short Title Catalogue (British Library)
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A comprehensive, international union catalog listing early books, serials, newspapers and selected ephemera printed before 1801.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds
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190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
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Includes the full text of both the 1755 and the 1773 editions of A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson.
Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage
British plays licensed between 1737 and 1824 as well as documents that provide their social context.
18th Century Connect
William Blake Archive
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Eighteenth-Century Book Tracker
This site indexes freely-available digital facsimiles of eighteenth-century texts and cross-references them to standard bibliographical reference sources.
Digital Collections of 18th Century Periodicals
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
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The largest single collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English news media available from the British Library
The Tatler
(1709-1711)
The Spectator
(1711-14)
The Female Spectator
Johnson's Rambler
Key Scholarly Journals
American Literature
American Literary History
Early American Literature
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
English Literary History (ELH)
European Romantic Review
Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Modern Language Quarterly
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association
Studies in Romanticism
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
William and Mary Quarterly