Eighteenth Century Collection Online - Law encompases the development of law in the British Empire between 1701 and 1800. Topics include acts, criminal and international law, appellants’ cases and more.

Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this reference work covers the “long” Enlightenment, "from the rise of Descartes' disciples in 1670 to the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815 coverage includes Western Europe, North America, Brazil, Iberian, Russian, Jewish, and Eastern European cultures."

Europeana – the European digital library, museum and archive – gives users direct access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.

The digital content is selected from that which is already digitised and available in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The prototype aims to have representative content from all four of these cultural heritage domains, and also to have a broad range of content from across Europe.

"This digitized resource was created in 2005-07 through the Harvard Library Digital Initiative, based on the materials of the 1950s Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System (HPSSS), which is currently held in the collection of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in Harvard's H. C. Fung Library. The HPSSS, developed by sociologist Alex Inkeles and social psychologist Raymond Bauer during the late 1940s and early 1950s, interviewed several hundred Soviet refugees who had left the USSR during and after WW II and lived in West Germany, Austria, and the US. A series of interviews with the refugees was conducted between 1949 and 1953, and about 330 candidates were selected for in-depth interviews. The Web site materials consist of summaries of the English and Russian transcripts of 705 interviews with the Soviet refugees, as well as indexes and interview guidelines. Inkeles and Bauer published the results of their research in How the Soviet System Works (with anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, 1956) and The Soviet Citizen: Daily Life in a Totalitarian Society (1959). The Web site is conveniently organized for easy navigation. Readers can display results by either page citation or relevance, and view relevant pages as readable text or as scanned images of the original typed interview records. (Currently, only English-language interviews are displayed as text. Cyrillic interviews appear only as scanned images of the original transcripts.) Readers can enlarge the size of both English and Cyrillic images for easier reading and can convert them to PDFs for printing. The digital resources of the Harvard Project provide researchers of the Soviet system with precious firsthand accounts of life in the Soviet Union prior to the early 1940s." J. Song, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, from Choice Online

This collection, as part of JSTOR, contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. They have been underutilized within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The digitization of more than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions will provide researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.

This database provides full-text access to over 22,000 American and British legal treatises.

Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this reference book explores the "long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles from Roman times to the present day."

Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this is a reference work to "twenty centuries of life in Scotland, covering archaeology, architecture, climate, and languages, as well as historical movements, events and people."

Available on-line through Oxford Reference Online this is an excellent reference work on all aspects of the Renaissance in 14th to 17th century Europe. It also includes a table of European ruling houses and a table showing the dates when cities and countries changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

Although this is only the catalog of the collection (not full-text) it is an amazing resource of approximately 400 manuscripts created by women in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries. The manuscripts consist of accounts, autobiographical material, cooking recipes, medicinal recipes, poetry, and religious writings.

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