The proceedings of the Old Bailey in London describe approximately 200,000 trials between 1674 and 1913, and are the largest single source of information about ordinary people ever published. Whether you are an academic historian or a family historian, you can search and read them all here. This new release includes trials from 1835 to 1913.

John Stow's Elizabethan classic, A Survey of London, was first published in 1598. However, London was dramatically transformed following the Great Fire of 1666 and so an updated, expanded version was published by John Strype. This online edition presents the text, street plans and illustrations of Strype's classic work.

Benito Pérez Galdós (1843—1920) is one of Spain's greatest novelists. This unique, 'open critical text' of his novel Torquemada en la hoguera (1889) includes the text of all surviving versions of the novel, including manuscripts, word-by-word collations, indices and a wealth of background material.

This archive documents the growth of diverse forms of commentary on the visual arts (particularly paintings) in Russia from the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries. It includes over 100 primary texts, English translations, 300 journal and newspaper reproductions of works of art and comprehensive critical annotations.

This work was composed in France around 1170 and became one of the most popular romances of the Middle Ages. Only seven complete manuscripts and three fragments survive. This online edition enables study and analysis of the text in its full manuscript context.

A comprehensive, scholarly synopsis of the material relating to science, technology, and medicine which appeared in 16 general periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900. More than 15,000 articles are described, with references to over 5,500 individuals, 2,000 publications, and 1,000 institutions.

John Foxe's (1517—1587) The Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs retells the history of the English Protestant martyrs from the fourteenth century to his own time. This British Academy publication presents a new, definitive edition based on a textual reconstruction of the four editions published in his lifetime.

The Carpenter Collection (collected 1929—1955), documents British and American folklore and folklife, principally traditional song and drama. This Online Catalogue describes Series I of the collection, incl. 14,000 pages, 179 dictaphone cylinders, 220 12-inch acetate discs and approx. 560 photographs.

Samuel Hartlib (c.1600—1662), a great seventeenth-century 'intelligencer' and man of science, set out to record all human knowledge and make it universally available for the education of all mankind. This full-text electronic edition of over 25,000 folios of correspondence realises Hartlib's vision some 300 years later.