Research Guides: English + Literature + Print History and Culture: Restoration & 18th C.

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English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) indexes English or English-language letterpress materials published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473-1800, including Pollard and Redgrave (1473-1640), Wing (1640-1700), Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, and Evans' Early American Imprints, Series I (1639-1800). Materials indexed in ESTC may be available in Early English Books Online or Literature Online, or in the microform STC collection on Gelman's third floor.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.

Internet Library of Early Journals
Offers digital images for at least 20-year runs of three 18th-century journals: Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Also includes several 19th-century periodicals.
Leeds Database of Manuscript English Verse
A database of detailed information about the items of English poetry contained in the 17th and 18th century manuscripts in the Brotherton Collection. Currently contains records for some 6,600 separate poems from over 160 different manuscripts.

Eighteenth-Century Studies
Archives works of the eighteenth century from perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises, and poems of the period are kept here (& some nfluential texts from before 1700 or after 1800 as well), along with criticism.
Voice of the Shuttle: Resotration & 18th C. Resources
Extensive links to conferences, listservs, digital archives, journals, and other materials related to Restoration and 18th-century studies.