Manuscripts Online enables you to search a diverse body of primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500. Resources include literary manuscripts, historical documents, and early printed books. The Library only has access to free content.

This resource offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of social history in the modern era (1937-1956). Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs.

Launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives. Still growing, it is an important source for qualitative social data in the UK.