British economic and social history, 1700-1880 (Paper 10)

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Part I, Paper 10
  • Newspapers and periodicals online (see also the University Library's newspaper page):
  • 19th Century British Pamphlets Online*: links to some of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, some of which have been digitised.
  • Bibliography of British and Irish History*: bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth; contains over 500,000 records, and provides links to online texts where available
  • British History Online*: digital library containing printed primary and secondary sources for British history, divided into subjects: administrative and legal history; ecclesiastical and religious history; economic history; intellectual, scientific and cultural history; local history; parliamentary history; urban and metropolitan history
  • Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge Histories series; relevant titles include The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, The Cambridge Social History of Britain, and The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
  • Clergy of the Church of England Database: database of the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-19th century
  • Connected Histories: digital resources for early modern and 19th century British history.  Facilitates complex searching by names, places, and dates.
  • Discovery*: online access to the National Archives' collection of digitised public records
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online*: digital archive of over 180,000 titles (33 million pages), including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, published during the 18th century
  • Electronic Enlightenment*: wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century
  • English Short Title Catalogue*: catalogue of over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 (chiefly in English)
  • John Johnson Collection*: digital archive of thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera, published from the 18th-early 20th centuries; divided into collections: advertising; book trade; crime; entertainment; prints
  • London Lives 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis: project making available, in fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about 18th-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners; includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives, and provides access to historical records containing 3.35 million names
  • Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue: catalogue of over 1.2 million items published in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
  • Online Historical Population Reports Website (Histpop): online access to complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland, 1801-1937
  • Open Research Exeter: University of Exeter's open access repository for images and multimedia; Exeter's special collections are particularly strong in Victorian popular culture
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*: biographies of over 57,000 individuals
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913: fully searchable database of nearly 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court
  • Queen Victoria's Journals*: website containing digitization of Queen Victoria's journals
  • SciPer*: searchable index to the science content of sixteen 19th-century general periodicals
  • TUC History Online: website covering the history of the Trades Union Congress
  • UK Parilamentary Papers*: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688
  • A Vision of Britain Through Time: website bringing together historical surveys of Britain, 1801-2001; includes maps, election reports, statistical trends and travel writing
  • Who's Who/Who Was Who*: biographical dictionary, published annually since 1849

(Resources marked * denote those subscribed to by the University Library; should any of the links not work, go to the eresources & ejournals page and try accessing the resource from there.)