HER is an easy-to-use, active learning tool designed to help Digital Humanists efficiently and effectively automate the identification of entities like persons or places in large text corpora. It offers a whitebox solution for robust handling of different types of entities, different languages, styles, and domains, and varying levels of structure in texts.

The Archive of Dulwich College in London, England, holds thousands of pages of manuscripts left to the College by its founder, the eminent actor Edward Alleyn (1566-1626). This archive includes his personal and professional papers and those he inherited from his father-in-law Philip Henslowe (d. 1616). As a group, these manuscripts comprise the largest and most important single extant archive of material on the professional theatre and dramatic performance in early modern England, the age of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, Chettle, and so many of their contemporaries and colleagues.

Samuel Hartlib (c1600-62), a great seventeenth-century 'intelligencer' and man of science, set out to record all human knowledge and make it universally available for the education of all mankind. His correspondence, which runs to over 25,000 folios of original materials, came to the University Library in the 1960s. The full-text electronic edition realises Hartlib's vision some 300 years later.

The project's objective was to create a complete electronic edition with full-text transcription and facsimile images of all 25,000 seventeenth-century manuscripts. This seven-year project culminated in the publication in 1996 of two CD-ROMs by University Microfilms in Michigan. An enlarged edition, incorporating many Hartlib materials from libraries around the world, was published on CD-ROM by the Humanities Research Institute in July 2002. This new, online edition provides free access to all the content available on the original CD-ROM versions. Full introductory and background information will be made available shortly.

The Grub Street Project is a digital edition of eighteenth-century London. By mapping its print culture, literature, and trades, it aims to create both a historically accurate visualization of the city's commerce and communications, and a record of how its authors and artists portrayed it.

Experience Shakespeare’s Globe productions from anywhere in the globe, any time.

Globe Player streams incredible filmed productions from Shakespeare’s Globe, with fresh titles and old favourites added throughout the year.

Glasgow University Library's pre-eminent position in the Emblem field derives from its ownership of the Stirling Maxwell Collection of Emblem Books, the largest such collection in the world. A detailed description of the collection is available. Entries for the whole collection are found in the Library Catalogue. Responsible for the up-keep and development of the collection is the Special Collections Department (library-asc@gla.ac.uk), to whom enquiries about its use should be addressed

This website offers double rekeyed and fully searchable text of a selection of serials collected by seventeenth-century bookseller George Thomason. As is well known, the Thomason collection of newsbooks is a very significant body of texts. 

GALICONES is a scholarly database and digital library formed of prints used to illustrate early modern books which are currently held in the General Library of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). It is part of the project in progress "The Management of Knowledge in Digital Humanities: Iconclass Index and Iconographic Study of a Sample of the Rare Book Collection at the USC", conducted by Carme López Calderón and funded by the Programa de axudas á etapa posdoutoral da Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria).

Furnace and Fugue brings to life in digital form an enigmatic seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens. This intriguing and complex text from 1618 reinterprets Ovid’s legend of Atalanta as an alchemical allegory in a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains text, image, and a musical score for three voices. Re-rendering Maier’s multimedia masterpiece as an enhanced digital publication, Furnace and Fugue allows contemporary readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate Atalanta fugiens in ways that were perhaps imagined when it was composed but were simply impossible to realize in full before now.

Paleography is the history and study of handwriting. Old scripts can be very beautiful, but sometimes difficult to read. This site presents over 100 carefully selected French manuscripts written between 1300 and 1700, with tools for deciphering them and learning about their social, cultural, and institutional settings.

Compositor is a database of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments. Eighteenth-century books were highly decorated and decorative. Their pages were adorned with ornaments that ranged from small floral embellishments to large and intricate head- and tailpieces, depicting all manner of people, places, and things. Compositor includes ornaments cut by hand in blocks of wood or metal, as well as cast ornaments, engravings, and fleurons (ornamental typography).

Printers’ ornaments are of interest to historians from many disciplines, not least for their importance as examples of early graphic design and craft. These miniature works of art can help solve some of the mysteries of the book trade.

In recent years, scholars in many disciplines have recognized that the literally thousands of engravings, wood blocks, and etchings in emblem books constitute an unparalleled source not only for the study of daily life of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries but also for extraordinary insights into what the intellectuals of the times viewed as a necessary adjunct to heraldry, social life, politics, philosophy, and moral behavior. The English emblem books scanned for this project are cultural artifacts frequently used in the analysis of reading practices, printing history, Elizabethan popular culture, the use of allegory, and the relationship of word to image.

Early Modern Manuscripts Online (EMMO) provides transcriptions, metadata and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

This is the website for the Emblem Project Utrecht. It currently includes 27 Dutch love emblem books, religious as well as profane. For all of these we have full transcriptions, page facsimiles and indexes, as well as extented search options. Links to sources and parallels, translations and annotation are being added.

Emblematica Online draws from the most important collections of emblematica worldwide. It is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and its founding partner is the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. Contributing partners include Glasgow University Library and Utrecht University, which contributed both book- and emblem-level data. Additional contributors include the Getty Research Institute Library and Duke University Library, both of which contributed book-level information.

The aim of this project is to provide a comprehensive inventory of applied emblems in Switzerland dating from the time between c. 1600 and 1780. Each location where emblematic decorations survive is identified and described, and its emblems are fully documented and illustrated.

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was one of the most prolific and important authors of drama, fiction, verse, and translations in her period. Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age is making the range and variety of Behn’s works more widely available. The editorial team will produce an eight-volume, original-spelling, carefully annotated edition of Behn’s writings with Cambridge University Press, as well as reader-selected original- and modern-spelling anthologies.

EMLoT, version 1, introduced records pertaining to the eight theatres north of the Thames: the Red Lion (1567), the Theatre (1576), the Curtain (1577), the Fortune (1600), the Red Bull (1604), the Boar's Head (1602), the Phoenix or Cockpit (1616), and Salisbury Court (1629). Version 2 of the database incorporated the theatres south of the Thames in the historic county of Surrey: Newington Butts (1570s), the Rose (1587), the Swan (1595), Globe I and II (1599, 1614), and the Hope (1614), as well as the bearbaiting arena(s) in the same area. EMLoT, version 3, comprehends the theatres located within the bounds of the city of London: St Paul's I and II (1575, 1599), the Bel Savage Inn (1575), the Bell Inn (1576), Blackfriars I and II (1576, 1596), the Bull Inn (1578), the Cross Keys Inn (1578), Whitefriars (1609), Porter's Hall (1613), as well as several other smaller and occasional venues scattered across the city. The records of Blackfriars I and II, the Whitefriars, and Porter's Hall are now available; editorial work on the remaining v.3 theatres is still in progress.

This blog on early modern female book ownership features blog posts on books owned by women between 1500 and 1750. These books are important as they give us information on what books women owned and read, on women’s handwriting and signatures, and on how women presented themselves textually. The blog serves as a record of such books, especially since some of them are sold to private owners and may not be accessible to academics otherwise. The field of book ownership by women and women and book history more generally is a flourishing one, and this website aims to contribute to it in a small way.  

The Early Americas Digital Archive (EADA) is a collection of electronic texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Open to the public for research and teaching purposes, EADA is published and supported by the University of Maryland Libraries’ e-Publishing Initiative, and was originally developed with the support of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Intended as a long-term and inter-disciplinary project committed to exploring the intersections between traditional humanities research and digital technologies, it invites scholars from all disciplines to submit their editions of early American texts for publication on this site. 

Drama Online is an award-winning digital library that has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It combines exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays. 

Taken in the years 1656-1658, the Down Survey of Ireland is the first ever detailed land survey on a national scale anywhere in the world. The survey sought to measure all the land to be forfeited by the Catholic Irish in order to facilitate its redistribution to Merchant Adventurers and English soldiers. Copies of these maps have survived in dozens of libraries and archives throughout Ireland and Britain, as well as in the National Library of France. This Project has brought together for the first time in over 300 years all the surviving maps, digitised them and made them available as a public online resource.

The DocuScope Project began in 1998 at Carnegie Mellon University as an interdisciplinary collaboration between David Kaufer, Professor of English, and Suguru Ishizaki, then a professor in the School of Design, today Professor of English. DocuScope’s natural language processing capability draws on a proprietary dictionary of millions of English phrases collected and classified over 20 years by David. DocuScope consists of an analytic engine, a suite of interactive visualizations, and a dictionary authoring tool.