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Eighteenth Century Collections Online database is pretty good, though your library will need a subscription Dr Katrina Navickas School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Building, room 354, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JY 0131 650 3767 New book: Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/ci=9780199559671 >I have a graduate student working primarily in United States history >who asked me about finding 18th century sermons and other texts. He >researching a project on conceptions of virtue in England during the >1850s and 60s that may be expanded into something more extensive. I > had suggested he look at sermons as a source, and he asked how he might >search for them. Is there something for 18th century Britain >comparable with the Charles Evans Collection of Early American Imprints >or Early English Books Online for the prior century? The Evans >Collection enables researchers to call up lists of sermons as a >category as well as by author or title. Something like that would be >quite useful, so I wonder if anyone's come across it. > >Any separate advice on finding sermons or other 18th century texts also >would be most welcome.
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