Digital Resources for Archaeology

Newspaper archive which combines the Burney Collection and Nineteenth Century Newspaper archives shown below. Useful if you need to work over a larger time frame.

Burney Collection of 17^th and 18^th Century Newspapers:

http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/start.do?prodId=BBCN&userGroupName=new_itw

Nineteenth Century Periodicals ( magazines etc):

http://find.galegroup.com/ukpc/start.do?prodId=NCUK&userGroupName=new_itw

Nineteenth Century Newspapers:

http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/start.do?prodId=BNCN&userGroupName=new_itw

Full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.

British Library Newspaper Resources:

http://www.bl.uk/eresources/newspapers/colindale2.html

This is a fantastic resource offered by the British Library but you will need a British Library Readers Card to access them from outside the British Library. This provides remote access to a number of newspaper archives not available through the Robinson Library and includes Early American Newspapers Online, Australian Newspapers Online and others.

Dutch Newspapers Online:

http://kranten.kb.nl/

A fantastic resource if you’re working on anything relating to the Netherlands, this archive provides free access to Dutch language newspapers from 1600-1900. The site is not in English but judicial use of Google Translate can help you navigate it without much difficulty!

Other Newspaper Archives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives

Wikipedia has a fantastic list of online newspaper archives, both historical and modern. Many of these are behind pay walls and are not subscribed to by the Robinson Library, but a good number are free to access by anyone.

Early Modern Resources

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PUBLISHED WORK 1473-1900: DIGITISED COLLECTIONS ONLINE

Virtually any published English-language work from the early modern period onwards is now available via the miracle of digitisation. These digitised collections are enormously valuable for research on material culture, consumer habits, social values and so on. You can access the Robinson library’s huge collection of databases here http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/resources/databases/

Early English Books Online (EEBO):

http://ecollections.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. This isn’t easy to search, because the keywords are very restrictive.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO):

http://ecollections.mimas.ac.uk/index.html

Basically EEBO for the eighteenth century – but far more easy to search. Digital facsimiles of over 180,000 published works. Includes books, pamphlets, essays etc.

The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera:

http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/home.do

A collection of popular culture items in print – theatre posters, advertisements, popular prints etc

Bodleian Digital Images Library:

http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/digitalimagelibrary/

Hathi Trust:

http://www.hathitrust.org/

Nearly 11 million digitised texts here – browse by theme on Calalogue Search. This resource is fantastic if you’re looking for obscure texts or periodicals that are not available elsewhere. For those working on maritime projects there’s a full back catalogue of Lloyds List and Lloyds Register available here.

Internet Library of Early Journals:

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Page images of long (but not complete) runs of several eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals, including The Annual Register (1758-78), Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1843-63), The Gentleman’s Magazine (1731-50), and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1757-77).

Pamphlet literature (political, legal and religious tracts):

http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?page=home;c=pam

Important collection of 20,000 English tracts from the mid seventeenth-nineteenth century.

Street Literature (Revolution and Romanticism):

http://www.crcstudio.org/streetprint/index.php?c=1

Collection of British street literature (from street ballads through chapbooks and tracts to valentines), mostly from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Medieval and Post-Medieval Resources

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Internet Medieval Sourcebook:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.asp

British Library Digitised resources:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/

Search here for fully digitised manuscripts held in the BL

EGIL:

http://www.egil.nottingham.ac.uk/

Electronic gateway for Icelandic (saga) literature

History Data Service:

http://hds.essex.ac.uk/history/about/introduction.asp

Essential starting point, bringing together over 650 separate studies transcribed, scanned orcompiled from historical sources. The studies cover a wide range of historical topics, from the seventh century to the twentieth century. Examples of topics covered include: nineteenth and twentieth century statistics, manuscript census records, state finance data, demographic data, mortality data, community histories, electoral history and economic indicators. Use of the data requires registration, and access (where applicable) to relevant software programmes.

Connected Histories:

http://www.connectedhistories.org/

Essential portal for digital resources 1500-1800 – most of the things in here are available through the database section of the Robinson Library Website

British History Online:

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/

Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources forthe medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Very good for historical geography (including OS maps), and for antiquarian texts. The Victoria County History (for most counties) is accessible here, as are all volumes of the English Heritage Survey of London. For the Victoria County History see also http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/

Internet Modern History Sourcebook:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

A large (if eclectic) collection of scanned/online resources on European and American history.

Revolutionary Players:

http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/

Digitised resources from the West Midlands region, relating to the development of the Industrial revolution (1700-1830)

Euro Docs:

http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_United_Kingdom:_Primary_Documents

Provides links to online or digitised versions of primary documents in British History.

Classical Resources

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Electronic Resources for Classicists http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html

Primary sources – literature

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TGL):

http://www.tlg.uci.edu

Full text database of virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between Homer (8th century BC) and AD 600. Available as an electronic resource via Robinson.

Perseus Digital Library:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper

Excellent starting point for all things Greek and for many things Roman. An extensive collection of images and of Greek and Latin texts, translations, essays and many other useful tools for studying ancient Greek and Latin language, literature, and culture.

Bibliotheca Teubneriana

Latin text equivalent of the above, but Robinson does not have this series electronically – look up the texts by author and consult the relevant volume in the library. Note that www.thelatinlibrary.com has most of Latin literature in the original if you want to find an online version quickly.

Primary sources – epigraphy (inscriptions)

The key resources here are Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum (CIG), Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL), some of the multiple volumes of which can be found in Robinson. It is often much easier to use the online resources below than to navigate the complexities of the CIG/IG/CIL paper volumes, which are not written in English. Better still, some of these online resources are searchable not only by the relevant CIL/IG/CIL number (helping you to locate specific inscriptions) but also by keyword, so you can also find new inscriptions you don’t yet know about.

Any inscription in CIL is identified by two numbers, volume and id (e.g.: CIL VI 1188).

An online version of CIL (with images of each inscription) can be found at:

http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/index_en.html

Searchable Greek Inscriptions:

http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/

Electronic Archive of Greek and Latin Epigraphy:

http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/sonst/adw/edh/index.html

Epigraphy database (Latin inscriptions):

www.manfredclauss.de

Duke Papyrus Archive:

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/

For Britain, the key source is RIB (Roman Inscriptions of Britain), the various fascicules (sub-volumes) of which are available in Robinson. For an online version of RIB Volume 1 (Inscriptions on Stone) see http://www.roman-britain.org/epigraphy/rib_index.htm. RIB 1 contains inscriptions on stone found before 1954 – for those found subsequently see RIB Volume 3, published in 2009. There are also numerous fascicules covering inscriptions made on other types of surface (metal, tesserae, etc).

Information on any British inscription prefixed by RIB (eg RIB 2027) can be located by consulting the relevant RIB volume.