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Adam Matthew Digital Collections
July 27, 2007
Have you seen any of the Adam Matthew Digital online collections yet? An offshoot of Adam Matthew Publications, their online collections include Empire Online, Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920, Defining Gender, 1450-1910 (the final section of this one is being completed this summer), Medieval Travel Writing (available this fall), and other fascinating collections of “ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature” (from the Defining Gender collection description), as well as maps, paintings, drawings, periodicals, monographs, and a host of other historical, primary source materials. I’ve already worked with Empire Online and Everyday Life and Women in America, c.1800-1920, and found astonishing items in both. I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing some of their upcoming collections, such as the Perdita Manuscripts, a project “based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University… [whose] goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama.
You can get a free four-week trial of most of these right now. Look for my reviews in LJ of several collections over the next few months.
More as it happens,
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on July 27, 2007 | Comments (4)
