Primary source, noun
In scholarship, a document or record containing firsthand information or original data on a topic... Primary sources include original manuscripts, periodical articles reporting original research or thought, diaries, memoirs, letters, journals ... government documents, public records, eyewitness accounts, newspaper clippings, etc... —definition from the Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science
Features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, United Kingdom. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 have been digitized. This collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into 17th and 18th century England.
Digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom, totalling nearly 1 million pages. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library.
Purchase was made possible by Hal F. and Barbra B. Higginbotham.
British literary manuscripts online contains facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials dating from roughly 1120-1900. Searching is based on tags and descriptive text associated with each manuscript.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War. Funding was made possible by a gift from William Buice, Class of 1961.
The repository provides "long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in-copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and more!
Making of the modern world provides full-text and full-page-image access to books from 1450-1914, and pre-1906 serials. It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.