Online subject resources

Most of the resources below are freely available on the internet. In addition, the Library subscribes to a vast range of online resources: see other pages within this guide for subscription e-books, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Online tutorial

• Welcome to the internet for English (online tutorial for internet skills for students of English)

English subject gateways

• Higher Education Academy: English
• Voice of the Shuttle: Literature (in English)
• English literature on the web
• Literary resources on the Net (Rutgers University)
• INTUTE: Arts and Humanities: see English Studies and American Studies
• Academic info: American literature gateway, American literature links and English literature links
• BUBL Link including the Literature and rhetoric section.

Medieval and early modern

• ORB online reference book for medieval studies
• Labyrinth (University of Georgetown)
• Caxton's Chaucer (British Library)
• Middle English Compendium: a collection of resources including the Middle English dictionary, a hyperbibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a corpus of Middle English prose and verse.
• Luminarium: medieval, Renaissance and 17th century English literature
• Shakespeare Quartos Archive

Renaissance and 17th-18th centuries

• Royal Shakespeare Company performance database
• 18th century resources (Rutgers University)

19th century

• Romantic circles (University of Maryland)
• Victorian women writers project (University of Indiana)
• Victoria research web
• Victorian web

Modern

• Contemporary writers (UK and Commonwealth - from the British Council)
• Modern word
• Contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English

Societies and associations

• English Association (University of Leicester)
• Poetry Society (UK)
• Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA): UK based professional association to promote the humanities

Other specialist sites

• Archives Hub: a guide and links to UK archives
• Literary Gothic
• British and Irish authors on the web
• Illustrated London News: a historical pictorial weekly newspaper archive covering the period 1842 to 2003