Aaron Thomas: Caribbean Journey of a Royal Navy Seaman
extensive transcripts from the 1798-99 journal of a British seaman in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary wars; includes accounts of naval operations, sailors’ health and punishments, and personal views on slavery, religion, and morality (among other things) (University of Miami Richter Library)

The Account Book of Richard Latham
The accounts book of an eighteenth-century Lancashire farmer in searchable database format (Lorna Scammell)

Aemilia Lanyer Includes biography, bibliography, e-text, listserv (Kari Boyd McBride)

Of Agriculture (1650)
Text of Abraham Cowley’s essay on 17th-century English agriculture (Modern History Sourcebook)

Arts & Humanities Data Service
The AHDS aims to ‘collect, preserve and promote re-use of the electronic resources which result from research in the arts and humanities’. Searchable catalogues of the available datasets, as well as advice on best practice in collecting and recording digital data

Alchemy Website
The site has 1700+ images, 200+ complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material, a searchable database (Adam McLean)

The American Colonists’ Library
Primary sources relating to early American history (Rick Gardiner)

American Revolution: Charters of Freedom
the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights online (NARA)

American Revolution: The Olive Branch Petition
‘The aptly-named Olive Branch Petition represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.’ This virtual exhibit includes the original text and other documents, background on the causes of the revolution, George III, colonisation, the war itself, and the developing relations between Britain and the American colonies from the early seventeenth century (The National Archives, UK)

The ‘Analyst’ Controversy
Texts and resources relating to the controversy generated by 1the philosopher George Berkeley’s criticisms of Newton’s mathematics in 1734 (David R Wilkins)

Selected Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
(Representative Poetry Online)

Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
resource for poetry, biography and sources (Ellen Moody)

Archiving Early America
Primary source materials from eighteenth-century America, useful teaching resource (EarlyAmerica.com)

Aristotle’s Masterpiece
digitised version of the (in)famous manual of sex and pregnancy, first published c.1680 (Ex-Classics)

Art History: Large Image Collections
(WWW-VL)

Art History Resources on the Web
(Chris Witcombe)

The Art of William Hogarth
Described as ‘a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work’, the quality of the images is very good and it’s easy to navigate (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)

Artchive
Extensive and wide-ranging resource for images and information about artists (Mark Harden)

Artpix
An excellent art resource: 15th/16th-century Netherlandish and 17th-century Dutch painters, and some Italian renaissance (Bernard Huyvaert) (NB: Wayback Archive: I cannot guarantee that all the images will have been archived)

Artserve
a huge database (130,000) images with a strong Renaissance/early modern presence (Australian National University)

The Autobiography of Anne Murray, Lady Halkett: An e-text of the 1875 edition
a work in progress (about halfway through at May ‘06), with additional links (Ellen Moody)

Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Searchable database of information from the Bath Chronicle 1770-1800 (Bath & North East Somerset Council)

Best Witches
A very useful and wide-ranging set of resources (Joan Pontius) (NB: Wayback Archive)

Bible: King James Version
fully searchable electronic (SGML) edition of the King James Bible (University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative)

Blackletter Ballads
A selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ballads (L E Pearson)

Bodleian Broadside Ballads Project
30,000 ballads online, from the Bodleian Library’s collections, fully indexed and searchable by author, title, subject etc. There are also woodcut images and some musical scores (Bodleian Library)

Books of Common Prayer
Links to various online versions of the Anglican prayer book, including the 1552, 1559 and 1662 editions (Reformed Episcopal Church)

British History Online
A rapidly expanding range of primary and secondary sources for British history (University of London/History of Parliament Trust)

British primary documents
Includes selection of early modern texts online, printed and archival (Richard Hacken)

British Women Romantic Poets
An “online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women” written between 1789 and 1832 (University of California Davis)