America in Caricature 1765-1865
An online exhibit of political cartoons (Lilley Library)
American almanacs and colonial identity
seminar paper by Matthew Shaw (British Library Research Archive)
originally given at University of Birmingham, March 2006
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)
Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project
Searchable database of information from the Bath Chronicle 1770-1800 (Bath & North East Somerset Council)
The ‘bloody papist’: murder, papists and propaganda in early modern prose pamphlets
NB: link to download MS Word document
article by Lynne Robson (Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance)
From Renaissance Journal, 2:1 (2004)
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)
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas
online exhibition exploring Europeans’ attempts ‘to “read” native cultures of the Americas’ (and vice versa); six thematic sections, including ‘promotion and possession’, ‘viewers and the viewed’, ‘colonial fictions, colonial histories’ (University of Pennsylvania Library)
The Damned Art
online exhibit of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology (University of Glasgow Library)
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)
Early Eighteenth-Century Newspaper Reports
An online sourcebook of themed extracts (Rictor Norton)
Early Modern English Medical Wills, Book Ownership, and Book Culture
article by Christine Cerdeira using wills of medical practitioners to explore book ownership and culture
From Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 12:2 (1995)
Early Modern Whale
an entertaining and informative blog focusing primarily on early modern popular literature (Roy Booth)
Editions Marteau
Range of late seventeenth/eighteenth-century texts, including treatises on money, and broadsides and newssheets (Marteau’s Journal)
Eighteenth-century Book Culture
Bibliography (James May)
Eighteenth-century Children’s Literature
Bibliography (James May)
Eighteenth-century Illustrations and Prints
Bibliography (James May)
Eighteenth-century Journalism and the Periodical Press
Bibliography (James May)
Eighteenth-century Women Writers, Readers and Publishers
Bibliography (James E May)
English Caricature Prints 1720-1820
A useful resource (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
English Short Title Catalogue
free and fully searchable version of this key resource for early modern printed works in English (British Library)
English Short Title Catalogue bibliography
bibliography of works using and about the ESTC (John Bloomberg-Rissman, Robert Lang and Dione Shastid)
From the Bottom Up: Popular Reading and Writing in early America
Online exhibit of cheap print in colonial north America; categories include death, ballads, entertainment, politics (Library Company of Philadelphia)
Internet Library of Early Journals
Minimum 20-year runs of digitised eighteenth- and nineteenth-century journals, with search facility
Joe Miller’s Jests
digital edition of an eighteenth-century jokebook (Kevin Shay)
John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The new electronic edition: incorporating four early print editions (with facility to compare different editions), searchable, with additional resources, bibliography etc. (Humanities Research Institute, Sheffield University)
Famous American Trials: John Peter Zenger Trial
Resources relating to the 1735 trial of a Boston printer that is regarded as a landmark in the development of a free press (Douglas Linder)
Mapping the celtic fringe in early modern Britain
PhD thesis (1998) by Christopher Ivic, exploring ‘the discursive production of national and cultural identities in early modern Britain and Ireland’ (Theses Canada Portal)
A nation of shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s
Website of a 2001 Bodleian exhibition, focusing on the development of printed trade cards and similar materials, with many images of examples (Bodleian Library)
Open Emblem Portal
a useful resource for emblem book researchers, with a directory of online sources (there is a log in box on the front page but there don’t seem to be any restrictions on using the directory) (University of Illinois Library)
Outlaws and Highwaymen
Presents a wide range of texts (including ballads, newspaper reports, fictional stories, memoirs), as well as an outline history, bibliography and links (Gillian Spraggs)
