Routledge Historical Resources

Routledge Historical Resources is a growing suite of online products designed to aid students, researchers, and academics with study and teaching across a range of subjects that include History, Economics, Religion, Sociology and Politics.

These resources offer users thousands of chapters of primary and secondary source book content, hundreds of journal articles from a range of Taylor & Francis journals, specially commissioned thematic essays written by experts in the field, and much more.

Routledge Historical Resources was launched in 2016 with the History of Feminism, a resource which offers material to help with the study of first-wave feminism in the long nineteenth-century. In 2017, the History of Economic Thought, was launched followed by Romanticism in 2021 and 19th Century British Society in 2023. In December 2024 we launched 19th Century British Empire.

Key features

1000s of chapters of primary and secondary source collections, some available in electronic format for the first time
Over 100 journal articles from a range of Taylor & Francis journals
Newly commissioned thematic essays by experts in the field
Newly commissioned video essays presented by experts in the field
Subject introductions outlining the key subject categories
An image gallery to aid research and study
Browsing available by Subject, Region, Period and Notable Figures
View texts on site or download the PDF
Intuitive search tools enable users to find exactly the material they need
Detailed metadata at chapter and article level using a carefully
chosen taxonomy of terms

History of Feminism

History of Feminism covers the fascinating subject of feminism over the long nineteenth
century (1776-1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes including Politics and Law, Religion and Belief, Society and Culture, and Movements and Ideologies.

History of Economic Thought

History of Economic Thought covers the fascinating subject of the history of economic thought over the period 1700-1914. It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on key themes.

Romanticism

Covering Romanticism in the period 1780-1830, this resource covers five key structural themes: Critical Concepts, Genre, History and Politics, Culture, Modern Critical Approaches. It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as an image gallery of photographs and illustrations that can be used in teaching and study.

19th Century British Society

19^th Century British Society focuses on British Society from 1789 to 1914. It contains thousands of chapters of primary, and secondary material, searchable by Theme, Region, Period and Notable Figures, making it an invaluable resource for students and researchers.

19th Century British Empire

Covering the subject of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, focuses on the period 1789-1914. A video introduction from Academic Editor Professor John Marriott introduces the subject of 19^th Century British empire and the resource as a whole. The platform offers an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, subject introductions, and an image gallery of photographs and illustrations that can be used in teaching and study.

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