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Early English Books Online for Museums (MLAG member libraries)

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Early English Books Online (EEBO) provides more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640), the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661, and the Early English Books Tract Supplements.

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Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Science, Engineering and Technology
  • Social Sciences

All humanities disciplines concerned in any way with the printed record of early modern England and the English-speaking world, principally: bibliography and textual studies, cultural studies, English and literary studies, gender studies, history, history and philosophy of science, history of art and architecture, history of law, intellectual history and the history of political thought, linguistics, music and the history of music, philosophy and theology/religious studies. EEBO may also be of some relevance to teaching and research in classics, medieval and modern languages and Oriental studies.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Research

Resource Types

  • archive only resources
  • research materials

Further information

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1473-1700.

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