Core English Literature
- MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) This link opens in a new windowThe MLA International Bibliography is the core database for English language and literature.
- Gale Literary Sources (formerly Artemis Literary Sources) This link opens in a new windowIndexes over a million full-text articles from scholarly journals & literary magazines, critical essays, topic overviews, biographies, & more.
18th Century Interdisciplinary
- 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA full-text/full-image searchable digital archive of about 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom; digitized by the British Library.
- British Periodicals This link opens in a new windowThe full text of hundreds of periodical titles from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowEighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Eighteenth Century Fiction This link opens in a new windowThis collection brings together 96 complete works of English prose from the period 1700 - 1780 by writers from the British Isles.
- Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815 This link opens in a new windowBritish periodicals of the eighteenth century.
- Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
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An online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times (London).
19th Century Resources
- 19th Century British Newspapers This link opens in a new windowNational, regional and local British newspapers from the holdings of the British Library. Includes the full text of 71 newspapers, totalling over 3 million pages.
- 19th Century UK Periodicals This link opens in a new windowSubjects covered include women, children, leisure and sport, humour, anthropology, travel, missionaries. colonies. Totals over 2.1 million digitized page images.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowFully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science
Other Subject Databases
- British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowIincludes approximately 100,000 pages of material assembled from numerous bibliographies and from newly conducted research. Alongside the published material are 4,000 facsimile pages of previously unpublished manuscripts
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers all aspects of history, excluding that of Canada and the US, from the late fifteenth-century on.
- JSTOR Collection This link opens in a new windowIn addition to fully-searchable journal backfiles, also includes current issues for some titles as well as collections of primary-source documents such as their '19th century British pamphlets'.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowOnline access to a comprehensive selection of important journals and ebooks in the humanities and social sciences.
- Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 This link opens in a new windowAn important portal for slavery and abolition studies. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, social justice issues and the continued existence of slavery today.