th to long 19 th century texts EEBO ECCO amp BL 19 th Century Introduction to Historical Texts What is Historical Texts Historical Texts is a full text digital archive enabling you to cross search view and download over 350000 texts published in the late C15th to the long ID: 465290
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Over 350, 000 late 15
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to long 19
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century texts (EEBO, ECCO & BL 19th Century)
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What is Historical Texts?
Historical Texts is a full text digital archive enabling you to cross search, view and download over 350,000 texts published in the late C15th to the long C19th.It contains three collections:
Early English Books Online (EEBO) (1473-1700)Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800)65,000 texts from the British Library 19th Century collection (1789-1914)Including a wealth
of content ranging from the Romantic to the Victorian period and coverage subject areas including English literature, history, geography, science, social science, religion and medicine.Materials include books, pamphlets, sermons, almanacs, sheet music, broadsides, newsbooks
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
The scanned images, and full-text digital versions where available, of over 125,000 books printed
in Britain and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere, from the first book published in England up to 1700.Authors include Shakespeare, Galileo, Bacon, Chaucer, Spenser and Margaret Cavendish.Introduction to Historical Texts 3
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
A digital collection of more than 180,000 titles published in Great Britain and its colonies during the eighteenth
century, including works in languages other than English (e.g. French, German, Latin and Welsh)Works include Daniel Defoe, Newton, Culpepper, Alexander Pope, Thomas Paine, Voltaire.Introduction to Historical Texts 4
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65,000 British Library 19th century texts
Over 65,000 recently digitised editions from the British Library's 19th century collection, comprising over 25 million pages of previously rare and inaccessible titles.
Authors include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Jules VerneIntroduction to Historical Texts 5
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Key features
Cross-search EEBO, ECCO and 65, 000 texts from the British Library C19th collection for the first timeView and search the full text (where available) as well as the bibliographic information for texts
View images and full text side by sideDownload whole publications (PDF) and individual images (JPEG)View publication date histogram for search resultsIntroduction to Historical Texts
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Search
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Advanced search
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Browse
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Results
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Saving searches, items and settings
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Viewer
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Viewer (side panels open)
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Viewer (search panel)
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Viewer (details panel)
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Benefits for researchers
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Time saving – reducing need to travel to holding libraries to view textsAccess to rare and, in some cases, previously inaccessible textsFull text searching across the 65,000 texts from the BL C19th collection for the first timeView ECCO full text for the first timeCross search EEBO, ECCO and 65,000 BL 19th century texts in one place to quickly discover related material View full text and images side by side for first timeSlide17
Further information
Introduction to Historical Texts Website: http://
historicaltexts.jisc.ac.ukSupport materials: http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/supportDevelopment roadmap: http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/developmentroadmapHelpdesk: historicaltexts@jisc.ac.uk
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