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Catalogus Epistularum Neerlandicarum (CEN)

History
Literature
Catalogues
Manuscripts / Letters
Online catalogue with approximately 585,000 descriptions of individual letters and parts of correspondence written in the early-modern and modern period (ca. 1500 - present). Contains information about more than 2 million letters. The letters come from the collections of Dutch heritage institutions, including the KB. For researchers.
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Cecil Papers, The (ProQuest)

History
Manuscripts / Letters
Documents from the reign of the English Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and King James I/VI (1566-1625). Contains more than 30,000 documents from and about the major figures of that time. Contains correspondence and reports, for example about the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Includes scans and full text view. Source for historians.
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Corpus Dialectmateriaal Pieter Willems

Linguistics
Manuscripts / Letters
The digitized writings of Leuven professor Pieter Willems about his research into 'Low Franconian' dialects. At the end of the 19th century, he collected data on dialect speakers in Flanders, South-Netherlands and the German Rhineland. For the researcher of language and dialects.
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ePistolarium: Circulation of Knowledge and Learned Practices in the 17th-Century Dutch Republic

History
Manuscripts / Letters
Database of approximately 20,000 (transcribed) letters written by and sent to 17th century scholars from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Search results are also visually displayed in terms of geography, time and correspondent networks. Useful for historians and history enthusiasts.
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KB Manuscripts: documentation

Book & library science
Manuscripts / Letters
Online catalogue of bibliographic descriptions of publications on manuscripts from the Middle Ages to the present day. Contains information about publications only from the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) and the Dutch book museum Museum Meermanno. Overview for book scholars, handwriting experts, historians and literary scholars.
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Queen Victoria’s Journals (ProQuest)

History
Manuscripts / Letters
Digitized collection with the 141 diaries of the British Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 to 1901. About household affairs, family, politics, literature and meetings with eminent figures. With drawings by the Queen herself. Resource for biographers and scholars studying 19th century British society, but also just nice to read.
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Sailing Letters

History
Manuscripts / Letters
Database of thousands of letters and documents that English privateers captured from Dutch ships in the 17th and 18th centuries. Contains a global inventory of more than 700 relevant archive boxes from the British archive in London. Search or filter by keyword, period, place, location, signature, ship name, or person name. Interesting for historians and researchers of Dutch maritime history.
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Struggle for Women’s Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 (ProQuest)

Culture / society
Politics
E-journals / Magazines
Manuscripts / Letters
Newspapers
Database of correspondences and party documents from 3 major American women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters and the Women's Action Alliance. Covers the period between 1880 and 1990. For those looking for information about the American struggle for equal rights for women and men.
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Women's studies manuscript collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights

Culture / society
Manuscripts / Letters
Collection of documents from national, regional and local American women's rights organizations from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes correspondence, diaries, essays and more of the women who played a leading role in women's emancipation, including biographical information. The documents can be downloaded. Source for historians.
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