History

This is joint project of the British Library and Chadwyck-Healey .

Although the overall range of content is from 1891 to 2000, the majority of back-files go up to 1995.
Subject areas covered include arts, business, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology, and the social science

Mass Observation Online provides integrated access to almost 400,000 digital images of material from the Mass Observation Archive (MOA). In addition, it functions as a finding aid for all material held on Adam Matthew Publications microfilm, and in the Mass Observation Archive.How much material can I copy?Images from this collection may be downloaded, printed and photocopied for educational purposes including course packs. (See FAQ's in MOA for further information.)Can I use images in my essays?Yes. Links may be created for essays submitted electronically. Photocopies and printouts of images may be used to accompany printed essay material.

Includes biographies for 4,100 authors, and also online access to a number of reference works, such as The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms and The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English . There are also links to relevant websites for primary texts and critical and biographical material.

Early English Books Online:
The scanned images and full-text digital versions of over 125,000 books published in English up to 1700, from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the English Civil War

Eighteenth Century Collections Online:
A digital collection of all the books published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth century, comprising some 33 million pages from more than 180,000 titles. The collection includes books in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and Welsh. Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains a variety of printed materials including books, Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements published from 1700-1799 and the content is comprised from eight subject areas:

History and Geography
Social Science
Fine Arts, Music, Art & Architecture
Medicine, Science and Technology
Literature and Language
Religion and Philosophy
Law
General Reference

British Library 19th Century collection:
Over 65,000 recently digitised editions from the British Library's 19th century collection, comprising over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible titles.

UK Medical Heritage Library Collection (UKMHL)

The UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL) is the culmination of a three-year project between Jisc, the Internet Archive, the Wellcome Library and nine other partner institutions to digitise more than 15 million pages in over 66,000 works. The Wellcome Library have provided their entire 19th Century collection, while the other participating libraries have contributed selections from their special collections, to encompass a broad and diverse range of relevant publications from the period.

Sporting full colour page images, PDF downloads and searchable OCR full text for all publications, The UKMHL collection is a valuable resource. The subject areas covered are broad and include topics such as consumer health, sport and fitness, food and nutrition as well as medicine and medical practices, providing a valuable resource for study in the medical humanities and beyond.

The “Visualising Medical History” sister-project has created powerful visualisation tools unique to the UKMHL collection, which researchers can use to search the content in new and hitherto untapped ways. The visualisations are available in a separate “Labs” area.

There are currently over 40,000 records providing details of books and articles, UK university lecturers (teachers), UK current and past research (theses), and evaluated links to history-related websites.