REED London is a dynamic digital resource that offers new approaches for reading, analyzing, and configuring archival and editorial materials in a virtual research environment.
REED London develops from the Records of Early English Drama (REED), a four-decades long project dedicated to drawing together evidence of music, theatre, and performance in England, Scotland, and Wales from 1100-1642.
Currently, REED London's source material is drawn from three 'legacy' REED print collections: Inns of Court (Alan H. Nelson and John R. Elliott Jr, eds., 2010), Ecclesiastical London (Mary Erler, ed., 2008), and Civic London to 1558 (Anne Lancashire, ed. with David J. Parkinson, asst ed., 2015). It is important to focus first on these collections first, because some are out-of-print or increasingly had to find in institutional libraries. In the future we hope to add born-digital editions and collections.