There are so many digital archives available for public browsing, many of which are highly specialized around specific topics and collections. Your librarian can help you identify which ones might contain primary sources suitable for your research.
Here are just a few commonly used primary source databases that are available through the library.
Contains full text periodicals on British life from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth.
Consisting of every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
Contains titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
Contains reference titles, slave narratives, images, primary sources and vetted websites.
Includes digitized images of American magazines and journals. Five series are: 1 (1691-1820), 2 (1821-1837), 3 (1838-1852), 4 (1853-1865), 5 (1866-1877)
Provides a detailed record of what women wore, what they ate, what they read, the conditions which they worked, and how they amused themselves.