Эти оригинальные материалы помогут понять историю эволюции английского языка и литературы периода раннего нового времени. Посмотрите, чтобы исследовать богатство и разнообразие поэзии и прозы, а также множество социальных, культурных и политических направлений, из которых сплетен английский язык. В данном разделе опубликованы сканы средневековых иллюстраций, культовые литературные рукописи, печатные тексты, а также письма, газеты, плакаты и рекламные листовки.
- 1455 - Gutenberg Bible
- 1469 - The Legend of King Arthur by Thomas Malory
- 1473 - First book printed in English
- 1476 - Caxton's Chaucer
- 1477 - Valentine's day love letter
- 1480 - Robert Henryson, The Fabillis of Esope
- 1487 - Heretics burned at the stake
- 1490 - Caxton's 'egges' story
- 1493 - Medieval phrase book
- 1500 - Tower of London
- 1516 - Thomas More's Utopia
- 1518 - Songs written by Henry VIII
- 1518 - Catherine of Aragon's pregnancy
- 1526 - First printed Bible in English
- 1539 - Dissolution of the Monasteries
- 1547 - Edward VI's diary
- 1549 - Book of Common Prayer
- 1553 - Letter from Elizabeth I
- 1563 - John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
- 1567 - The First National Lottery
- 1577 - Elizabeth I's Proclamation Against Excess
- 1580 - Handwritten recipe
- 1580 - Evidence of Royal Scots
- 1582 - Mulcaster's Elementarie
- 1588 - Speech by Elizabeth I - Spanish Armada
- 1590 - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- 1592 - Doctor Faustus by Marlowe
- 1595 - The Widdowes Treasure - Lice and Drunkenness
- 1597 - Shakespeare’s Richard III
- 1601 - Shakespeare, Hamlet
- 1603 - Shakespeare, Othello
- 1605 - Letter about Guy Fawkes
- 1607 - Newsbook
- 1608 - Shakespeare, King Lear
- 1608 - English arrives in North America
- 1609 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
- 1611 - King James Bible
- 1612 - John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- 1613 - Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall
- 1616 - The Globe Theatre
- 1623 - Shakespeare's First Folio
- 1633 - John Donne, Poetry
- 1640 - Ben Jonson, The English Grammar
- 1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton
- 1649 - Confessions of Charles I's executioner
- 1650 - Advert for a quack doctor
- 1650 - Andrew Marvell, 'An Horatian Ode' Written 1650, published 1681
- 1653 - Early A - Z of London
- 1660 - Samuel Pepys' Diary
- 1662 - Theatrical figures
- 1665 - Coffee houses
- 1665 - A cure for the Plague
- 1666 - The London Gazette - Fire of London
- 1667 - John Milton's Paradise Lost
- 1674 - Criminal slang: The Canting Academy
- 1677 - Aphra Behn, The Rover
- 1678 - John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
- 1679 - Habeas Corpus Act
- 1684 - Advert for London Rhinoceros
- 1693 - Account of a shipwreck
- 1700 - Congreve, The Way of the World
- 1700 - John Dryden, Fables
- 1704 - East India Company's porcelain sales catalogue
- 1709 - Queen's Royal Cookery
- 1711 - The Spectator 18th century
- 1712 - Jonathan Swift, A Proposal
- 1715 - Sugar in Britain
- 1719 - Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- 1721 - Bartholomew Fair
- 1724 - Trade and the English language
- 1729 - Swift, A Modest Proposal
- 1730 - East India Company: list of Bengal textiles
- 1731 - English arrives in the West Indies
- 1733 - William Hogarth, The Harlot's Progress
- 1738 - Cities in chaos
- 1738 - Polite conversation
- 1738 - James Miller, Of Politeness, an Epistle
- 1740 - Samuel Richardson, Pamela
- 1742 - Advert for a giant
- 1743 - Muffin seller
- 1747 - The Art of Cookery
- 1749 - Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
- 1755 - Johnson's Dictionary
- 1759 - Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
- 1762 - Lowth’s grammar
- 1764 - Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
- 1773 - Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- 1775 - Captain Cook's journal
- 1775 - Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
- 1780 - Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
- 1780 - Anglo-Indian newspaper
- 1781 - Notices about runaway slaves
- 1784 - First British advert for curry powde
- 1789 - Storming of the Bastille
- 1789 - Olaudah Equiano
- 1790 - William Blake's Notebook
- 1791 - Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
- 1791 - Walker’s correct pronunciation
- 1792 - Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman