Research Guides: HIST 358: Libertinage and Liberty (HC): Important source collections available open access on the Web

Important source collections available open access on the Web

Gallica This link opens in a new window
Gallica is a digital library of French and francophone culture maintained by the Bibliothque nationale de France. Contains numerous electronic texts, images, maps, animation, and sound files of French and other publications in history, literature, science, philosophy, law, economics, and political science. Covers the Middle Ages to the present.

Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook
A compilation of primary sources done by Rictor Norton, an independent scholar.
Newgate Calendar
This popular account of crime and criminals was first published in 1760. Some readers gave the books to their children as moral instruction. It covers a much wider geographic area in Great Britain than the Old Bailey records.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
This site includes a searchable database with records from over 100,000 criminal trials in London. The search interface allows you to limit by date, type of crime and punishment, and gender of victim and criminal. Note also the historical background provided.