The National Library of Ireland has produced a digital version of the source material used to create two key reference works for Irish studies, Richard Hayes’ Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilization and Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation: Articles in Irish Periodicals.
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This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque’s 1746 map.
https://www.locatinglondon.org/
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London Lives makes available, in a fully digitised and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about eighteenth-century London, with a particular focus on plebeian Londoners. This resource includes over 240,000 manuscript and printed pages from eight London archives and is supplemented by fifteen datasets created by other projects. It provides access to historical records containing over 3.35 million name instances. Facilities are provided to allow users to link together records relating to the same individual, and to compile biographies of the best documented individuals.
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A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. If you are new to this site, you may find the Getting Started and Guide to Searching videos and tutorials helpful.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
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Digital Witchcraft Collection is part of the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. It contains more than 3,000 books, manuscripts, and related materials. More information about the content of the collection is available on the Collection Overview page.
An online selection of 104 English language books from the Witchcraft Collection is available to search, browse by title, or browse by author. These titles were digitally scanned from microfilm by Primary Source Media in 1998. The resulting full text scans were later made available to Cornell University Library to enable free public access.
https://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/w/witch/digital.html
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The objective of the project is to initiate the digitization of the National Folklore Collection (NFC) so that:
Project partners: National Folklore Collection, UCD, the National Folklore Foundation and UCD Digital Library Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
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The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Read more about their digitisation.
All thirty-two counties for 1901 and 1911, searchable by all information categories, are now available on this site. Corrections and improvements will be ongoing, and we are very grateful to all users who have submitted corrections to us. A small amount of material is missing from the site, and will be placed online as soon as possible.
Surviving census fragments and substitutes for 1821-51 are a valuable, if limited, resource for the pre-Famine period. Read more about these records.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
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The online catalogue contains over 2 million entries. The vast majority of entries relate to departmental records, modern court records and testamentary material.
https://www.nationalarchives.ie
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The work of LC Labs is to support digital transformation at the Library of Congress. It is guided by the Library of Congress Digital Strategy.
https://labs.loc.gov/about/?st=gallery
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Berghahn Books supports practical open access policies that help make scholarship available to a broader audience in a sustainable way.
In addition to offering gold open access options that uphold publication mandates instituted by our authors’ funding partners, we also participate in initiatives, such as Knowledge Unlatched, which provide collective funding opportunities for selected titles.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/open-access/
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