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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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 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)

1737 Canting Dictionary
transcription (in XML format) of N. Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary (Liam Quin)

The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
a scholarly online edition of Newton’s alchemical manuscripts, which include laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances, and his transcriptions from other sources (William R Newman, Indiana University)

Classics of American Colonial History
Books and articles (pre-1923) on colonial America (Dinsmore Documentation)

The Clusius Project
research project on the rise of European botany as a field of specialist, scientific expertise during the 16th-century, and particularly focusing on the botanist Carolus Clusius, including a digitized collection of 1,300 of his letters in a searchable database (Leiden University)

The Complete Newgate Calendar
The complete text (searchable) of the 1926 edition of this eighteenth-century source (University of Texas, Law in Popular Culture collection)

Calendar of State Papers Domestic, James I, 1603-1610
An online, searchable version of the CSPD for these years (an important resource for many subjects in early modern British history), which may be expanded chronologically in the future (University of London/History of Parliament)

Nicholas Culpeper’s The English Physitian
digital edition of Culpeper’s 1652 treatise on herbal medicine (Electronic Texts in the History of Medicine)

Defoe’s Review
annotated digital edition of Daniel Defoe’s early periodical, in weblog format, facilitating reader interaction and ongoing discussions about the text, early modern print culture and modern digital technologies; fully searchable (Christopher Flynn, Natalie Roxburgh)

The Diary of Martha Ballard
At the heart of this sophisticated site is the diary (of over 1400 pages) kept by Martha Ballard, a late-eighteenth-century midwife and healer in Massachusetts. There is also an archive of primary sources used in the project, which can be browsed in a variety of ways including under topic headings (such as domestic life; religion; law and justice; midwifery and birth). For teachers, also offers practice in reading handwriting, guided exercises in such crucial historical skills as the interpretation of conflicting evidence, and an excellent section on the use of primary sources (Film Study Center, Harvard University)

Digital Book Index
Lists a wide-ranging mix of texts, primary, secondary and reference, most free to access (it’s clearly stated if there’s a charge)

Digital Locke Project
a pilot project for a fully searchable scholarly online and print edition of the manuscripts of the British philosopher John Locke (Paul Schuurman et al)

Early Americas Digital Archive
a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820, an inter-disciplinary project ‘committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies’ (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities)

Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports
An online sourcebook of themed extracts (Rictor Norton)