Cross search, view and download the full text of over 460,000 texts published in the late 15th to the long 19th century

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Description

With Historical Texts you can cross search, view and download the full text of over 460,000 texts published in the late 15th to the long 19th century from these collections: 

  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) 
  • 65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection
  • UK Medical Heritage Library (UKMHL)

It includes content ranging from the Romantic to the Victorian period and covers a wide range of subject areas including English literature, history, geography, science, social science, religion and medicine.

Materials include books but also pamphlets, sermons, prayer books, sheet music, broadsides, newsbooks and much more.

Useful if you study:

  • English
  • History
  • History of Medicine
  • Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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