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Includes a selection of sources from the British Library on the medieval and early modern periods.

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william shakespeare; quartos; william caxton; geoffrey chaucer; canterbury tales; gutenberg bible; treasures; digital

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Treasures in full: Shakespeare's plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Gutenberg's Bible

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View the digital editions of 21 plays by Shakespeare printed in quarto, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Gutenberg Bible

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Digital Repository of Ireland Search Results

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The Repository excludes, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all express or implied warranties of any kind in relation to any digital object or metadata; in particular, the Repository shall not be liable for any loss or damage (i) which may be suffered or incurred by you or a third party in respect of the use by you of any digital object or metadata, or (ii) which may arise directly or indirectly in respect of the use by you of any digital object or metadata.

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Digital Collections at Oxford University

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Digital Collections at Oxford University

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ODL - Digital Initatives at Oxford University

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The Bodleian Library (known as "the Bod") is the library at the University of Oxford.

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bodleian libraries; digitised manuscripts; digitized manuscripts; digital.bodleian; artstor; early manuscripts at oxford university; thomas gray; william godwin; first world war poetry; wilfred owen; jane austen; marconi ; cairo genizah; harambam; medieval islamic views of the cosmos; shikshapatri; gough map; selden map

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Bodleian Libraries | Digital Collections

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A list of digitized Bodleian Libraries special collections.

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A home for the discovery of digitised material and research outputs from the University of Cambridge and beyond

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images of medieval graffiti in medieval England arranged by church.

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T he Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey was established in 2014 with the intention of undertaking the very first large- scale survey of early graffiti inscriptions in the county of Suffolk. It is an entirely volunteer led, community archaeology project, that is changing the way we look at our medieval church heritage.

The Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (SMGS) is a continuation of the multi award winning Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey (NMGS). By undertaking surveys in both of these counties, which between them contain in excess of 1100 surviving medieval churches, it is hoped to establish an entirely new understanding of how the medieval population interacted with their church as both buildings and institutions.

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T he Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey was established in 2014 with the intention of undertaking the very first large- scale survey of early graffiti inscriptions in the county of Suffolk. It is an entirely volunteer led, community archaeology project, that is changing the way we look at our medieval church heritage.

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Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

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Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

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A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

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Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court

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A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. If you are new to this site, you may find the Getting Started and Guide to Searching videos and tutorials help…

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Archival material relating to the formal admission of women to the University of Oxford, including admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters.

October 2020 marked one-hundred years since women were granted the right to matriculate and therefore to take degrees at Oxford. Despite the significance of this landmark year, women had studied at the University long before 1920. In fact, they had been making their mark on the University and advocating for women's access to an Oxford education since the 1860s.

Education and Activism: Women at Oxford, 1878-1920, is a digital archive project that commemorates the centenary year by bringing together records of the former women's colleges (Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, St Anne's, St Hilda's and St Hugh's) into a central digital archive. Through the digitization of more than 7,000 archival images, this project will change the way that we understand and research the history of higher education in Oxford, the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Archival material relating to the formal admission of women to the University of Oxford, including admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters. October 2020 marked one-hundred years since women were granted the right to matriculate and therefore to take degrees at Oxford.

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History of Ireland: Primary Documents - EuroDocs

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EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

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EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

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Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural) and it includes the British Isles.

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EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations

Prehistoric and Ancient Europe

Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Shoah (Holocaust)

These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions.
Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
In addition you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation.
The sources cover a broad range of historical happenings (political, economic, social and cultural).
The order of documents is chronological wherever possible.

No guarantee of accuracy is implied or assumed, particularly for remote links over which the webmaster has no control.

The Library of Congress provides tips for citing electronic sources from this website ( eurodocs.lib.byu.edu).

You may also wish to search the following portals:

EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
A EuroDocsBot is designed for site maintenance.
Feel free to get in touch: hacken @ byu.edu

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Prehistoric and Ancient Europe Medieval and Renaissance Europe Shoah (Holocaust) These open access sources are readily available to all -- without fees or subscriptions. Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation.

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The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.

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Medical Heritage Library – online access to seven centuries of medical history

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The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) began in 1995 at Indiana University and is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more. VWWP contains scores of authors, both prolific and rare.

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The Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP) began in 1995 at Indiana University and is primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres - poetry, novels, children's books, political pamphlets, religious tracts, histories, and more.

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The history of imperialism is covered extensively on the world wide web. The sites listed below have been selected to demonstrate some of the high quality resources available.

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History in Focus: Empire - Web Resources

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This BBCi History website, The British Empire, provides a number of useful essays and resources on the Britain's imperial and colonial history. The focus is on a handful of topics, namely British India, aspects of Commonwealth history, and general overviews of Britain's colonial acquisitions.

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Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century

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Runaway Slaves in Britain: Bondage, Freedom and Race in the Eighteenth Century

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This has created a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped. Many were of African descent, though a small number were from the Indian sub-continent and a few were Indigenous Americans.

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Runaways is an Leverhulme Trust funded initiative led by School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow.

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There are four major sections: Images (digitised pictures of interest to Celticists), Text Archive (links to PDF files of rare material), Celtic Noticeboard (an area devoted to announcements of forthcoming conferences, events, vacancies, publications etc.) and Celtic journals (tables of contents of Celtic Studies journals).

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Introduction

The aim of the Celtic Digital Initiative (CDI) is to make scarce resources available in an electronic format to students and scholars, both within UCC and beyond. This initiative has been jointly funded by the Department of Early and Medieval Irish and by the Quality Promotion Unit (from its Quality Improvement Fund) and is an ongoing project; material is continually added to the site as time and finances allow.

There are four major sections: Images (digitised pictures of interest to Celticists), Text Archive (links to PDF files of rare material), Celtic Noticeboard (an area devoted to announcements of forthcoming conferences, events, vacancies, publications etc.) and Celtic journals (tables of contents of Celtic Studies journals).

In the field of Celtic Studies, we are particularly fortunate in having good digital textual resources. Within Medieval Irish Studies, for example, we have the Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language; two wonderful manuscript sites: Early Manuscripts at Oxford University and Meamram Páipéar Ríomhaire / Irish Scripts on Screen; and two excellent sites focused on texts: Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae and Celt: Corpus of Electronic Texts.

However, the standard editions of many of the texts available on these sites, along with detailed studies of them, are often only preserved in hard-to-access books and journals, many of which are out of print. Providing this material in electronic format completes the set of digital tools necessary for a thorough examination of our medieval literary culture in the Irish language; the case is similar for sources in the other Celtic languages.

What is ultimately needed is a complete digital archive which can accommodate the main Celtic Studies journals along with the many important books, monographs and periodicals which are out of print or difficult to access. Ideally, such a digital resource would be self-financing by relying on subscriptions from libraries and individual scholars, and would be able to generate income to help to keep the archive up to date. The Celtic Digital Initiative is a small first step in this direction, showing how such a resource might function within Celtic Studies.

Kevin Murray/Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh
Roinn na Sean- agus na Meán-Ghaeilge

This article is copyright © CDI 2019

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Celtic Digital Initiative - Digital resources

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The aim of the Celtic Digital Initiative (CDI) is to make scarce resources available in an electronic format to students and scholars, both within UCC and beyond. This initiative has been jointly funded by the Department of Early and Medieval Irish and by the Quality Promotion Unit (from its Quality Improvement Fund) and is an ongoing project; material is continually added to the site as time and finances allow.

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The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

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The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy

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Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

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This consists of three databases: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, the Intra-American Slave Trade Database, and the African Names Database.

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Drawing on extensive archival records, this digital memorial allows analysis of the ships, traders, and captives in the Atlantic slave trade. The three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information. You can rea…

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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

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American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement

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Read, search, and print this work at American Journeys, a digital library of early American exploration and settlement. Brought to you by the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day

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This includes both primary and secondary sources.

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The most comprehensive online resource on Jewish history, politics and culture.

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Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.

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Their collection focuses on American history but also includes sources on early modern British history.

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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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LibGuide to Digital Collections (Christopher Newport University)

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This is probably the most comprehensive research guide that exists, covering all time periods, countries, continents, and regions.

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These resources provide access to collections of libraries around the world that would otherwise not be available for use or would require extensive travel to access.

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LibGuides: Primary Sources Home: Digital Collections

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The Westminster Assembly (1643-1653) was both the largest parliamentary committee of the English civil war and the last of the great post-Reformation synods. The Assembly is perhaps best known as the creed-making body behind the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, documents which have guided Presbyterian and Reformed churches for centuries.

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The Westminster Assembly Project exists to make the writings of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1653) and its members available to scholars and to the general public.

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Welcome to the Virtual Vault. Here you have the chance to see images of historical documents close to actual size, enabling you to carry out research online...