Learning and Teaching: Archive material: Historical Texts

Historical Texts

Early European Books This link opens in a new window
traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) draws on resources from over 2000 libraries, including the British Library, the American Antiquarian Society and the Bodleian Library. It features an archive of monographs, or short works, from the 1700s – when the popularity of one-off and self-contained works inspired by arts, culture, public affairs, history and science was at its height.
Historical Texts This link opens in a new window
containing the full text or page images of over 300,000 books published in England before 1800.
JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new window
Open access eBooks available from JSTOR from a wide range of subjects. The titles are easy to use, with no DRM restrictions and no limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

Hathi Trust Digital Library Extensive collection of texts in the public domain