LIT 310 and LIT 451 - Victorian and British Literature

The Shapiro Library maintains a collection of primary source material specifically designed to support your research for this class.

A good introduction to archives and typical practices for archival access.

From the Society of American Archivists

A database of archival holdings from over 1,000 institutions.

Searchable database of library collections. Includes records for rare materials.

Search for archives, special collections, rare books, or related terms

Searchable database of open access digital repositories

Searches a wide variety of material types drawn from a number of repositories

Worcester Polytechnic Institute project to digitize all of Charles Dickens' novels in their original serial form.

Digital versions of over 70,000 rare maps from the 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.