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