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Early Modern History

17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection represents the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
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Connected histories
Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, with ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.
Defining gender, 1450-1910
A broad range of thematically organised documents from 21 libraries in five sections offering c. 50,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field.
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Early modern books
Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700. An integrated search across both Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Early European Books (EEB) allows scholars to view materials from over 225 source libraries worldwide. EEBO's content draws on authoritative short-title catalogues of the period and features many text transcriptions specially created for the product. Content from Europe covers the curated Early European Books Collections from 4 national libraries and London's Wellcome Library.
Empire online
Offers approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969. The images are sourced from about ten different libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia.
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England's Immigrants
Fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation (1330-1550). The information in the database has been drawn from a variety of published and un-published records – taxation assessments, letters of denization and protection, and a variety of other licences and grants – and offers a valuable resource for anyone interested in the origins, destinations, occupations and identities of the people who chose to make England their home during this period.
Europeana Newspapers
Allows you to search and view headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from newspapers from a selection of European countries, dating from 1618 to the 1980s.
London Lives 1690-1800
London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners. The resource includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives and is supplemented by fifteen datasets created by other projects.
Medieval Londoners Database
The Medieval Londoners Database allows you to search for details about people who lived in London, Southwark or Westminster between c. 1100 and c. 1520, including their names, gender, occupations, craft memberships, citizenship status, civic office, and neighbourhoods (ward, parish, and streets, if available), and other characteristics.
Petitions to the Westminster Quarter Sessions, 1620-1799
Includes transcriptions of petitions submitted to the Justices of the Peace at the Quarter Sessions for Westminster from 1620 to 1799.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
Fully searchable archive of 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court between 1674 and 1913.
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
Digitised collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692, and a new transcription of the court records.

State papers online : the government of Britain, 1509-1603
An archive of the complete series of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era, encompassing every facet of early modern government including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence.
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