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This resource provides the content available on:
UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL)
19th Century Books digitised by the British Library.
Content from both can be searched at once, or individual collections can be selected and browsed. How to use Historical Texts
Please see separate entries for access to EEBO and ECCO.
Contains complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
A collection of over 330,000 works of English and American literature covering poetry, drama, and prose from the 8th to the 21st centuries, as well as thousands of critical articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries. Online Guide to Literature Online from ProQuest
Primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500, including literary manuscripts, historical documents and early printed books which are located on websites owned by libraries, archives, universities and publishers.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
Presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. searching help
Unprecedented diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives. Unparalleled selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 ebooks enables breadth and depth of study.
Current scholarship available from 14,000 dissertations and theses showcases the latest research in literary studies and uncovers a treasure trove of reference citations.
Authoritative resources bring together the world’s largest collection of poetry, prose, and drama from the eighth century to today — ranging from the classic canon to the growing contemporary catalog of works.
Multimedia, including video and audio, allows teachers to showcase multiple performances of a work to open students to new interpretations that challenge assumptions.
Author and Literary Movement Pages enable connections across literary, cultural, and historical themes and act as a jumping off point for assignments.
Oxford Handbooks in Literature bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in Literature. How to use Oxford Handbooks Online
OSEO currently includes writers active between 1485 and 1901, plus Classical Latin authors — from Jane Austen, Jeremy Bentham, Catullus, Dickens, Donne, and Dryden through to Virgil and Wordsworth
Currently providing access to novels, and other writings, from the 18th and 19th century, you can support your research using the comprehensive introductions, clear explanatory notes, chronologies, and bibliographies available in every book.
To access, connect to the VPN or choose the the 'log in via your institution' option.
“Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. searching help
The collected Works of the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The edition not only makes the texts accessible to scholars and theatre practitioners, but also begins to explore their theatricality visually, serving as inspiration to encourage more frequent staging of Brome's works.
Contains the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, including access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey. How to use Romanticism: Life, literature and landscape: A short video tutorial
Showcases rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Webinar on using Shakespeare in Performances
More than 460 periodical runs published between the 1860s and the 1930s, covering a range of subjects; from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. Notable authors include Walter Bagehot, Aubrey Beardsley, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Ford Madox Ford, W. M. Rossetti, and Tobias Smollett. Also, original periodical versions of many literary works are included, for example as well as De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Gaskell's North and South and Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. searching help
Gale Literature is an integrated research platform bringing together multiple literary resources from Gale:
Gale Literary Index
Gale Literature: Criticism; Resource Center; Contemporary Authors; Dictionary of Literary Biography; LitFinder; Scribner Writer Series; Something About the Author; Twayne's Author Series.
A multi-disciplinary databases with access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines, as well as over 3 million images. Quick tips on searching JSTOR
A collection of over 330,000 works of English and American literature covering poetry, drama, and prose from the 8th to the 21st centuries, as well as thousands of critical articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries. Online Guide to Literature Online from ProQuest
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
With a worldwide circulation of over 135,000, the New York Review of Books is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of important books is an indispensable literary activity.
Esquire called it "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language." The Review publishes long-form reviews and essays, often by well-known writers, original poetry, and has letters and personals advertising sections that had attracted critical comment.
Unprecedented diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives. Unparalleled selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 ebooks enables breadth and depth of study.
Current scholarship available from 14,000 dissertations and theses showcases the latest research in literary studies and uncovers a treasure trove of reference citations.
Authoritative resources bring together the world’s largest collection of poetry, prose, and drama from the eighth century to today — ranging from the classic canon to the growing contemporary catalog of works.
Multimedia, including video and audio, allows teachers to showcase multiple performances of a work to open students to new interpretations that challenge assumptions.
Author and Literary Movement Pages enable connections across literary, cultural, and historical themes and act as a jumping off point for assignments.
Over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers. Subjects covered include cinema, cultural studies, drama, history, literature, mathematics, modern languages, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.Most journals available online from 1995 or 1996 onwards PDF guide to searching Project MUSE Video Tutorials on using Project MUSE (YouTube)
For over a century, the Times Literary Supplement has been the world's leading cultural magazine, with essays and reviews on the most significant books, ideas and art of our times, proud to be publishing the best and brightest writers about the broadest range of books and ideas. Every week you’ll find over 40 reviews and essays, from Shakespeare to Schopenhauer, popular theatre to political theory.
Online archive of the TLS. As well as literature, the paper includes reviews of theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions.
Access is via Gale Primary Sources.
Areas of interest to medievalists include Classics, English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, Theology and Philosophy, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Music, and Theatre.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
A comprehensive bibliography of Shakespeare-related scholarship and theatrical productions from 1960 onwards, covering books, articles, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews, audiovisual materials, and electronic media. PDF guide to using the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
A collection of performances and interviews of a number of classic and Shakespearean productions, including: live productions to watch in full or break down by scene, act or speech; interviews and documentaries featuring the cast and creative teams behind each production, as well as detailed study guides, authored by experts in the field.
A platform which contains plays by more than 150 playwrights; scholarly texts; tools, such as character grids, words and speeches graphs, part books and monologue search; production stills from the V&A performance archive. Video User Guides from Drama Online
Audiobook versions of many classic English language novels, plays, and poetry. Including works by Austen, Beckett, Dickens, Melville and Shakespeare. searching help
Unprecedented diversity with access to hard-to-find texts from black and world writers supports diversity in scholarship and perspectives. Unparalleled selection of content including 1,200 full-text journals, 500,000 primary works, 20,000 historic literary criticism sources, 1,300 videos, and 20,000 ebooks enables breadth and depth of study.
Current scholarship available from 14,000 dissertations and theses showcases the latest research in literary studies and uncovers a treasure trove of reference citations.
Authoritative resources bring together the world’s largest collection of poetry, prose, and drama from the eighth century to today — ranging from the classic canon to the growing contemporary catalog of works.
Multimedia, including video and audio, allows teachers to showcase multiple performances of a work to open students to new interpretations that challenge assumptions.
Author and Literary Movement Pages enable connections across literary, cultural, and historical themes and act as a jumping off point for assignments.
The online academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
The Chaucer Encyclopedia provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the life, times, works, sources/analogues, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s – d. 1400). It also makes accessible the approaches readers have taken to understanding Chaucer's oeuvre, as well as the analogues and sources (direct or intermediary, contemporary or from the distant past) of Chaucer's works. Providing nearly 1400 entries, more than any similar work on the market today, The Chaucer Encyclopedia is the best source for a new generation of students and scholars.
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present. Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.
A collection of historical archives (modern to present), newspapers and periodicals (17th to 19th centuries) including:
Archives Unbound
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
The Economist Historical Archive,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive,
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Series 2, Empire),
Political Extremism and Radicalism,
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from different news sources.
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community. This newspaper is available via Gale OneFile.
The link below will help you find Royal Holloway PhD theses, UK theses through British Library's EThOS service and theses and dissertations from other countries through ProQuest.
The online academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present. Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
Over 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business. Full Text
A series of online research guides in a range of subjects including American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Environmental Science, Victorian Literature,Geography, Classics and Philosophy. Each guide contains a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic. Video User guide (YouTube)