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Articles (from magazines)
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19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale)
Full text journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age.  Subscription includes Series 1: New Readerships and Series 2: Empire. [more info]
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Gale NewsVault
Search or browse both the index of19th Century British Newspapers and the full text of 19th Century US Newspapers and Times Digital Archive at once.
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Reference Information
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Cambridge Histories Online (Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge Histories Online provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature... [more info]
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Dictionary of Old English: A to G (University of Toronto)
The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (600 - 1150 A.D.) of the English language... [more info]
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Videos
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Films on Demand
A streaming video resource containing thousands of educational videos in 8 subject areas.  Includes access to archival films and newsreels. [more info]
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Articles (from journals)
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19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale)
Full text journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age.  Subscription includes Series 1: New Readerships and Series 2: Empire. [more info]
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Bibliography of British & Irish History (Brepolis)
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides historical data on the British Isles from 55BC to present.  Secondary sources only. [more info]
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Biography
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online (Oxford University Press)
Biographies of 55,000 men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past from the earliest times. No living person is included in the dictionary.
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Books / Book Chapters
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Bibliography of British & Irish History (Brepolis)
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) provides historical data on the British Isles from 55BC to present.  Secondary sources only. [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome.  Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari.  C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research. [more info]
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Drama
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ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
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English Verse Drama (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of more than 1,500 works by 450 named and 230 anonymous authors ... [more info]
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Letters & Diaries
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British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries (Alexander Street Press)
Primary source database offering women's diaries and letters... [more info]
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Manuscripts
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus (University of Toronto)
A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts... [more info]
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News Articles
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney. [more info]
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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
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Poetry
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ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale)
Provides digital editions of nearly all books published in Great Britain in the 18th century... [more info]
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English Poetry Full-Text Database (Chadwyck-Healey)
Full-text of 1,350 English and British poems from the Anglo-Saxon period to the end of 19th century ... [more info]
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Primary Sources
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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney. [more info]
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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette. [more info]
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Websites
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English Short Title Catalogue
Indexes over 460,000 that were published between 1473 and 1800 primarily in Britain and North America. [more info]
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Middle English Dictionary (University of Michigan)
A comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available. [more info]
 
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