Cardiff School of English Communication and Philosophy

Useful Links

Below are various links to key webpages on the Cardiff University site, and on other sites of general interest, history of the book, online public access catalogues, relevant journals, online public-access catalogues and sites that relate to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which currently forms the main (but not only) focus of research activity within the Centre. Suggestions are invited for further websites focusing on bibliography, book history, editing, print culture, material cultures and other appropriate websites.

Cardiff University

• Cardiff Special Collections and Archives (SCOLAR)
• Cardiff University Library Online Catalogue

General Interest

• Literary Resources on the Net (Comprehensive portal to a variety of literary sites)
• The Orlando Project (Women’s literature, 1330–1960)
• Voice of the Shuttle (Portal to other academic websites)

History of the Book

• Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (University of California, Riverside)
• Center for the Book at the Library of Congress
• Centre for Publishing Studies (University of Stirling)
• Edinburgh University Centre for the History of the Book
• HoBo (Originally History of the Book @ Oxford)
• London Rare Books School (Institute of English Studies)
• SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
• University of Virginia Bibliographical Society

OPACs and Reference Tools

• British Library Integrated Catalogue
• Consortium of University Research Libraries Online Public Access Catalogue (COPAC)
• Library of Congress Online Catalogue
• Electronic Text Center (Virginia University’s online archive of texts)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook (18th-century on)
• The Perseus Digital Library (Archive of classical Greek and Latin texts and tools)
• The Reading Experience Database, 1450–1945 (Open University)

Journals

• CTI Centre for Textual Studies (Humanities and C&IT)
• Journal of Illustration Studies
• Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840 (Romantic Studies)
• Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (Romantic Studies)
• Studies in Bibliography (Book History)

18th and 19th Centuries

• BARS: British Association for Romantic Studies
• BAVS: British Association for Victorian Studies
• British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception (Cardiff)
• Centre for 18th-Century Studies at York
• Centre for the Study of Early English Women’s Writing (1600–1830) (Chawton House)
• DMVI: A Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration (Cardiff)
• The English Novel, 1830–1836: A Bibliographic Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (Cardiff)
• The Jane Austen Society
• University of Nebraska Corvey Project (Romantic Studies)
• Romantic Circles (Romantic Studies)
• Sheffield Hallam University: Corvey Project (Romantic Studies)
• Women Writers Project (Brown University)