Librarian
Library Digital Resources
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Search through hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, all available in full text. Also allows searching for cartoons, photographs, illustrations, and other images. Covers 1680 - 1930. - NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
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A rich collection of primary sources created or published in the nineteenth century. - Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003) This link opens in a new window
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The complete run of the world’s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Covers 1842 - 2003. - Making of the Modern World This link opens in a new window
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Search across primary documents in economic history from major British and American libraries. Covers 1450 - 1914. - LION: Literature Online This link opens in a new window
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Search through the full text of British, American, and Canadian literature, poetry, and drama, from the 7th century through the 20th century. Also includes audio versions of Shakespeare's plays. - ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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A digital repository of hundreds of thousands of images. Documentation is included. Learn to use ARTstor better with tutorials on YouTube. NOTE: If you're having browser trouble with ARTstor, please see these troubleshooting tips. - Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window
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Includes images from hundreds of sources and thousands of artists, from prehistory to the present, from the Bridgeman Art Library.
Online city information and overviews
- Old Bailey Online: 1674-1913Searchable databases of court proceedings, 1674-1913. Also known as the Old Bailey Sessions Papers.
- UK Data ServicesCarleton does not have access to much of this data, but it is a great place to search for what is out there.
- Kindred BritainA social network of nearly 30,000 people connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation.
Online Maps
- Locating London's PastBuilding on John Rocque's 1746 map of London, this site allows you to relate an eighteenth-century representation of the metropolis to the first accurate OS map of London (1869-80), and to a modern Google Maps environment.
Free Online Literary Resoures
- The William Blake Archive
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- Wordsworth Variorum Archive
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- Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians (British Library)
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- Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
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A massive collection of out-of-copyright books, transcribed and downloadable in multiple formats. Free for anyone to use.
Images and Art online
- The British Museum
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- Geffrye Museum
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- Museum of London
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- The Victoria and Albert Museum
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- What Jane Saw
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Google Tricks
- Google Advanced Search OperatorsIncludes advanced techniques to limit searches in specific ways, such as only to .gov websites or only to websites that include numbers within a particular number span that you choose.
