Databases
Databases
Romanticism : Life Literature and Landscape
Publication coverage: 1768-1903
Provides access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers of the Romantic period..Publication coverage: 1670s to 1970s
Shakespeare in Performance is a collection of over 1,000 digitized rare and unique prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library.Publication coverage: Early 20th century -1980s
Socialism on Film is a collection of digitized films originally produced in communist countries during the 20th century..Publication coverage: 1969-1974
The Nixon Years consists of the complete digitized files of the United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office regarding Richard Nixon’s presidency of the United States.Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
Publication coverage: 1818 – 1970s
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History is a collection of digitized manuscripts, diaries, travel journals, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and ephemera created by American women travelers in the 19th and 20th centuries.Publication coverage: 1779-1930
Victorian Popular Culture is a collection of digitized primary sources depicting popular entertainment in Britain, the United States, and Europe in the 19th century and early 20th centuries.Publication coverage: 1590-1790
Provides a comprehensive record of the history of the Virginia Company of London, an English joint-stock company chartered to establish colonial settlements in North America.Women in the National Archives
Publication coverage: Digitized documents: 1903-1962 and Finding aid: Circa 18th century – 1990s
Women in the National Archives includes original documents related to the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire, and the colonial territories, along with a finding aid to women’s studies resources located in the National Archives (U.K.)Publication coverage: 1829-2015
Over 200 world’s fairs and exhibitions, spanning 1829-2015, are represented in this database that explores the phenomenon of international expositions.
Features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Designed for teaching and learning about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
LEGISinfo is a federal website that provides information about legislation before Parliament. View full-text bills and previous versions of bills going back to the 37th Parliament in 2001, as well as information about the bill's movement through Parliament. Also includes essential data, including bill numbers, titles, and the text of most bills, from 1994-2000.
With more than 4,000 titles and 2.3 million pages, this library includes an expansive archive of treaties, U.S. federal statutes and regulations, U.S. federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
This American database brings together legislative histories on major legislation, briefs from Supreme Court cases, accounts of labor riots from the not-so-distant past, reports on working conditions of today, and more. Every title has been assigned one (or more) 18 new title-level subjects. Unique to this database is a chart of landmark court cases related to labor and employment law.
Interdisciplinary collection on medieval studies combines primary sources and interdisciplinary scholarship from a global perspective.
Rare Book Hub is designed to assist collectors, booksellers, libraries, auction houses, appraisers, educators, researchers, and prospective collectors. It is a resource for information pertaining to rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints (works on paper). The service was created to provide information and clarity to the field, particularly with respect to values. Services include a unified search of upcoming auctions in the books and paper field at over 150 international auction houses and a database of more than 13 million transaction records documenting the sale of books and related material.