Online collection of scanned images of rare printed and important manuscript texts on many aspects of gender, sexuality and culture in Great Britain. Types of materials include: ephemeral material such as ballads, cartoons and pamphlets, diaries, advice literature, medical journals, conduct books, and periodicals. "Advice Literature" is meant in its broadest sense, including themes such as household management, education, leisure, shoppping, sexuality, consumption and sport.
Has five main sections, of which the first two are available as of Winter 2005, with the rest to follow:
- Section I: Conduct and Politeness
- Section II: Domesticity and the Family
- Section III: Consumption and Leisure
- Section IV: Education and Sensibility
- Section V: The Body
Other features include essays by modern scholars, biographical sketches, a chronology, etc.