18thConnect

A digital “aggregator” that gathers together information about and links to the best primary and secondary texts that are available in digital form, either freely available on the Web or available by subscription; all materials aggregated by the 18thConnect search portal are peer-reviewed; the site includes scholarly projects that have been peer-reviewed by our editorial board

Digit.En.S The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century

An open-access digital encyclopedia, a project led by the GIS Sociabilités / Sociability since 2017

Eighteenth-Century Collections Online – Text Creation Partnership

ECCO-TCP resulted from a a partnership with Gale, part of Cengage Learning, created to produce highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts from among the 150,000 titles available in Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) database

Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive

A peer-reviewed digital archive and research project devoted to the poetry of the long eighteenth century

The Grub Street Project

A digital “edition” of 18th-century London established in 2005, featuring maps and topographical information, works published and sold in London during the long eighteenth century, people who lived in, worked in, visited, or were influential in London during the period, and new essays about London and its people

London Lives 1690 to 1800: Crime, Policy, and Social Policy in the Metropolis

A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names

London Stage Database

Aims to capture and present the rich array of information available on the theatrical culture of London, from the reopening of the public playhouses following the English civil wars in 1660 to the end of the eighteenth century

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674–1913

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court

Thomas Gray Archive

A peer-reviewed digital archive and research project devoted to eighteenth-century poet, letter-writer, and scholar Thomas Gray (1716-1771), author of the acclaimed “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (1751)