Society for Renaissance Studies.
A list of online databases for early modernists.
Spencer’s Letters.
Transcripts of diplomatic and other papers relating to Spencer’s years in Ireland.
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
The library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Essentially a detailed catalogue, though some of the material has been digitised. The original materials are publicly available at the library itself (Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London).
Web Gallery of Art.
Originally a Renaissance project, this site has expanded into a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts, decorative arts and architecture from the 3rd to 19th centuries.
Records of Early English Drama (REED).
A University of Toronto international project establishing the broader context of medieval and early modern theatre to 1642 through historical documents containing evidence of drama, secular music, and other forms of entertainment and ceremony.
Broadside Ballads Online.
A Bodleian Libraries resource, featuring the Bodleian’s digital collections of ballads, with links to the English Broadside Ballad Archive and to the folk song scholarship of the Roud Broadside Index.
Early Modern Crime and the Law.
Resources and materials related to crime in early modern Britain.
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP).
University of Michigan portal for the Text Creation Partnership database of a plain text corpus of over 50,000 books printed in England prior to 1700.
Digital Quaker Collection (DQC).
A plain text searchable database of 17th- and 18th-century Quaker texts.
Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP).
Basically a detailed catalogue compiled from ESTC, EEBO and other sources.