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British Eighteenth-Century Studies Electronic Resources: Primary Sources: Full-text and Facsimile Texts

Links to selected electronic resources for British eighteenth-century studies.

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General Primary Sources -- British eighteenth-century texts

Here are key electronic resources that include primary source texts with a relatively broad focus in full-text and/or facsimile from Britain in the long eighteenth century .

British Newspapers and Periodicals

Here are links to electronic resources focused on historical newspapers, periodicals, and journals covering Britain in the long eighteenth century.

See also "General" sources like ECCO, above. 

Ballads, Broadsides, Playbills, and Ephemera

Here are resources that include ballads, broadsides, playbills, and other ephemera from the long eighteenth century in Britain.

See also General primary sources above and separate page in this LibGuide for Primary Sources: Images

Economics, Government and Legal Documents, State Papers

Here are links to primary source documents focused primarily on the topics of British eighteenth-century economics, government and state, and legal issues.

Literature--Drama, Fiction, Poetry

Here are links to electronic resources that focus on Engilsh literary primary source materials that include the long eighteenth century.

Sociology, Lived Experience, and Letters

Special Topics -- America and the British World, Slavery, Women, Art, Grand Tour, etc.

Resources listed here cover primary source materials for particular locations, groups, and experiences connected to the long eighteenth century in Britain. See also following box for Newspapers & Periodicals--Special Topics: America and the British World

Newspapers & Periodicals--Special Topics: America and the British World

Papers of Individuals

Here are selected collections of correspondence and papers of particular individuals, both British and American.

Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill online

Literature -- Special Topics: American, French, and German

Here are links to electronic resources that focus on literary primary source materials that include the long eighteenth century in America and other parts of the world.

Eighteenth-century World Texts

Digitized Texts in Large Online Collections

Theatre

Music