EEBO is a full text primary source archive of nearly every book published in English in the Early Modern period. It covers all subjects including literature, science, religion, politics, and more.
Dates: 1473-1700 CE
A primary source archive of the relatively unknown writing of early modern women authors in the British Isles, from poetry to diaries, speeches to almanacs.
Dates: 1500-1719 CE
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Primary sources focused on everyday English people's political, religious, working, trading and administrative lives, though the sources include many records from the elite. Documents include diaries, letters, local government papers, church records, wills, and more.
Dates: 1284-1843 CE
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Full text of core British primary and secondary sources for medieval to modern history (with primary focus on 13001800 CE). Primary sources focus on government records and include parliamentary records, land transfers, privy council papers, and more.
Dates: 11th Century CE - 20th Century CE
Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works.
Dates: BCE to present
Primary source archive documenting 200 productions of Shakespeare and other playwrights performed in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, interviews, oral histories, posters, props, performance photographs, and more.
Dates: 1997-2016 CE
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Over 200 prompt books from the 17th-20th centuries, historical editions and adaptations from the 17th-19th centuries, works composed by Shakespeare's contemporaries, and diaries of Gordon Crosse documenting 500 UK performances from 1890 to 1953.
Dates: 16th Century-20th Century CE