CMU LibGuides: History: 79-206: Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window
Over 100,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the English language in any country from 1475 through 1700. Database Guide
Early European Books This link opens in a new window
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, together with all pre-1701 works in European languages printed further afield. Database Guide
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more. Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, includes over 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes) works published in the UK during the 18th century plus thousands from elsewhere. Items are primarily in English - though other languages are included.
Eighteenth Century Journals: A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c1685-1835 This link opens in a new window
Contains unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals between 1685 and 1835. Subjects include class and social structure, domestic and foreign affairs, colonialism & empire, literature, drama, theater, music, economics, the industrial revolution, slavery, and much more.

English Crime and Execution Broadsides
This collection of nearly 600 broadsides highlights crime and capital punishment, primarily in England, as seen through the popular press in the 18th and 19th century.

English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867) This link opens in a new window
More than 100,000 of the most important early English law case.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digitized books, journals, and government documents from all countries and time periods.
Text-mine (full text search) over 17 million digitized works and create customized collections. HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries. Offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey
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
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive & Transcription Project
Court records, personal letters, sermons, maps, etc.

Finding More Primary Sources

The resources listed here are not the only ones available. Many others are in print or microform and can be found by searching library catalogs, like CMU's library catalog, or Worldcat, a database of library holding though out the world (though mainly U. S.). Use some of these terms combined with your topic. For this class, sources might be the best bet.

personal narratives
diaries
sources
correspondence
interviews
pamphlets
speeches
early works to 1800

For example:

witches and sources
occult and sources

It's best to have the term sources, etc. searched as a subject to get the most relevant materials.

There are also additional primary sources listed at:

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