- About.com: 18th century
 - Information and resources about 18th century world history. - C18-L
- International, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of 18th-century studies.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789@
 Eighteenth Century England
- Contains multimedia research projects on various aspects of 18th century cultural history. Created by literature students at the University of Michigan.- Eighteenth Century Studies
- This collection archives works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies.
- Eighteenth-Century Resources
- Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Electronic archive of works of the eighteenth century from the perspectives of literary and cultural studies. Novels, plays, memoirs, treatises and poems of the period.
- Enlightenment, The
- Outline of the development and major ideas of the European Enlightenment.
- Jay Treaty of 1794 (1)
- John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
- The story behind the manufacture of John Harrison's marine timekeepers, which allowed early sailors to establish their longitude. Presented by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
- Mutiny on the Bounty (11)
- Learn about the Mutiny on the Bounty, a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ship in 1789 which has inspired several books, films, and songs. Sites feature historical background, mutiny details, essays, photographs, film interpretations, and museum collections relating to the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty II. Also find sites for the fabled ship and William Bligh, the man who led the mutiny.
- NOVA: Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude
- Companion to the PBS special about the quest for a method of determining a seafaring ship's longitude. Learn why ocean navigation depends on knowing what time it is.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, The
- Contains accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court from 1674 to 1834.
- South Sea Bubble Resources
- Information about the South Sea Bubble, the complex network of intersecting financial, legal, political, and cultural factors that led to the collapse of South Sea Company in 1720 and the financial ruin Britain endured in its wake. From the Kress Collection at Harvard.
- The Jay Treaty of 1794@
- Vision of Human Progress
- Lecture concerning the life and thought of Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet and their relation to the European idea of progress. Part of The History Guide.
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