Time Period - Nineteenth Century

A History of the Canadian Coastguard and Marine Services
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/usque-ad-mare/welcome.htm

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
The Abraham Lincoln papers at the Library of Congress web site provides online access to material held by the manuscripts department of the Library of Congress. |description|

Age of Industry
http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
This site provides an organised and annotated set of links to web sites covering many different aspects of the industrial revolution. |description|

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
The American memory web site aims to provide electronic access to holdings at the Library of Congress which relate to the United States. |description|

An American Time Capsule: Three centuries of Broadside and Other Printed Ephemera
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
The American Time Capsule web site has been developed by the rare books and special collections division of the Library of Congress to provide access to printed ephemera held by the Library of Congress. |description|

Anarchist Archives
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/index.html
Work on the site started in 1995 with the aim of providing an online history of anarchists and anarchist movements, as well as the online provision of the collected works of major anarchists. |description|

Austrian Primary Historical Documents: Eurodocs
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/austria.html

Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project aims to provide access to documents relating to law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government over the World Wide Web. |description|

British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research.|description|

British Library Newspaper Library
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/newspapers.html
The History of the British Library Newspaper Library web site has four main sections. The first section provides a historical overview of the British Library Newspaper Library. |description|

British Library of Political and Economic Science: pamphlet collection
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/pamphlets/
This section of the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES) website provides information and access to the full-text of its pamphlet collection. There are over 90,000 pamphlets in the collection, mainly published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |description|

By Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
By Popular Demand: 'Votes for Women' Suffrage Pictures web site, from the Library of Congress, provides access to thirty-eight pictures relating to the women's suffrage movement in the United States between 1850 and 1920. |description|

Cambridge Victorian Studies Group
http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk/index.html
The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group website provides information about the group's five-year, interdisciplinary research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled "Past versus Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress". The project aims to examine Victorian attitudes to the past. |description|

Canadian Confederation (National Library of Canada)
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/confed/e-1867.htm

Canadian Constitutional Documents: a legal history
http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/index.html
The Canadian constitutional documents web site was created by William Maton in order to provide free access to relevant documents. |description|

Canadian Illustrated News
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/1/index-e.html

CELT - Corpus of Electronic Texts
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
The CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts is an excellent scholarly site, still growing, that contains a vast number of Irish cultural, historical, and literary texts (in Irish, Latin, Hiberno-Norman French, and English). |description|

Centre for Metropolitan History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/cmh/cmh.main.html
The Centre for Metropolitan History (CMH) was established in 1988 and promotes the study and appreciation of London's character and development. |description|

Charles Booth's 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty
http://www.umich.edu/~risotto/home.html
Charles Booth's map of London poverty has been reproduced on this site. |description|

Chronology of Russian History
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono.html
The chronology lists major events of Russian history between 860 and the present. |description|

Churchill Archives Centre
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/home.shtml
The Churchill Archives Centre, based at Churchill College Cambridge, holds 570 collections of documents relating to Churchill. |description|

Concise History of the British Newspaper
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britnews.html

Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/cruikshank/

Danish Data Archive
http://www.dda.dk/

Digital Archive of Architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/

Early Canadiana Online
http://www.canadiana.org/cgi-bin/ECO/mtq

Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman M.D.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/blackwell/index.html

Eurodocs: Irish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ireland.html

Eurodocs: Italian Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/italy.html

Eurodocs: Spanish Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/spain.html

Finland 500 Years on the Map of Europe
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/mapseng.html
This site takes the form of an online exhibition showing the way in which Finland has been represented in maps over the last 500 years. |description|

Five College Archives Digital Access Project
http://clio.fivecolleges.edu/
The Five College Archives Digital Access Project web site provides access to a selection of material held at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. |description|

Friends of Devon's Archives
http://www.foda.org.uk
This is the website of the Friends of Devon's Archives, an organisation which supports the work of the local record offices for that county.|description|

From Slavery to Freedom: the African-American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html
The From slavery to freedom: the African-American pamphlet collection web site, compiled by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress provides access to the full-text of 397 pamphlets published between 1824 and 1909. |description|

Great Britain Historical Database Online
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.asp
The Great Britain historical database online access to a large part of the statisitical information on the Great Britain historical database. |description|

Greenwood's Map of London
http://www.bathspa.ac.uk/greenwood/
This web site provides access to a map of London printed in 1827. The map has been scanned and these Images are available from the site. |description|

History of the Monarchy: Queen Victoria
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/page118.asp
These pages form part of the History of the Monarchy site from the British Monarchy web site. The short biography of Queen Victoria features extracts from her published journal, which are in PDF format. |description|

Historical Chart and Map Collection
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htm
This site, created by the US Office of Coast Survey (OCS) provides access to historic coastal charts and maps dating mainly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. |description|

Historical Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_main.html
Historical maps from the University of Texas provides access to hundreds of historical maps from around the world. |description|

International Institute of Social History: Collections
http://www.iisg.nl/collections/index.html
This site outlines the collections available from the International Institute of Social History (IISH). |description|

Internet Library of Early Journals
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
The Internet library of early journals aims to gives access to a twenty year consecutive run of a selection of 18th and 19th century British journals. |description|

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
This sourcebook covers a wide range of topics from the Reformation up to the present. |description|

Interpreting the Irish Famine, 1846-1850
http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html
The Interpreting the Irish Famine web site provides a brief outline of the Irish Famine and give access to primary source material. |description|

John Snow
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
John Frerichs of the University of California School of epidemiology created this site in order to encourage interest in the life and work of John Snow. |description|

The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England
http://65.107.211.206/history/workers1.html
This site, which is part of the Victorian Web, provides access to primary source material from inquiries into the conditions of industrial workers in the 1830s and 1840s. |description|

The Linen Hall Library
http://www.linenhall.com
The Linen Hall Library was founded in 1788 and is the oldest library in Belfast. The web site provides details of the collections held in the library. |description|

Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
Making of America is a digital library of primary documents relating to American social history. The primary documents are full text books and journal articles from 1800-1925, although the majority of the material is from 1850-1877. |description|

Map Collections: 1500-2002
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Marxist Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/

McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca:80/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html
The Archive for the History of Economic Thought web site from McMaster University provides access to a variety of material relating to economic history. |description|

Modern Records Centre
http://modernrecords.warwick.ac.uk/
The Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick has the aim of collecting and making sources for British political, social and economic history, in particular labour history, industrial relations and industrial politics, available for research. |description|

History of the Monarchy
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page5.asp
This site, which forms part of the British Monarchy web site, provides a brief history of all the monarchs of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom. |description|

Monuments and Dust: the Culture of Victorian Britain
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/mhc/
Monuments and dust: the culture of Victorian London is a joint project between the University of Virginia and University College London. |description|

Mr Charles Booth's Inquiry
http://booth.lse.ac.uk/

Mundus: Gateway to Missionary Collections in the UK
http://www.mundus.ac.uk
The Mundus Gateway provides an online guide to the archival collections in the British Isles that hold material concerning the history of missionaries.|description|

National Archives of Australia
http://www.aa.gov.au/
The National Archives of Australia hold papers of Governors-General, Prime Ministers and Ministers. |description|

National Archives of Canada
http://www.archives.ca/
The web site of the National Archives of Canada holds both general and detailed information on their holdings. |description|

National Archives of Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
The web site of the National Archives of Ireland provides information about their holdings and publications as well as general information for readers. |description|

National Library of Canada: Knowledge within Reach
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/

Netherlands Historical Data Archive
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/dd_nhda/dd_nhda.htm

Out of the Past: 400 years of Lesbian and Gay history in America
http://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/
Out of The Past explores the importance of history in creating identity, and documents the history of gay men and women in the United States over four centuries. |description|

Pathways in American Planning History: a thematic chronology
http://www.planning.org/pathways/index.htm
The chronology provides a comprehensive overview of American planning and the influences on planning. |description|

The Patrin Web Journal: Romani Culture and History
http://www.patrin.com/
Patrin is a web resource which covers aspects of Romani culture and history. A wide variety of material is covered by the site. |description|

The Penny Magazine
http://www.history.rochester.edu/pennymag/
This site, from the History Department at the University of Rochester, has copies of twelve issues of The Penny Magazine, a weekly publication produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. |description|

Photographic Libraries
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/
The Photographic Libraries web site offers links to over 140 image libraries and collections, ranging from agency portfolios to archival resources. |description|

Powys Digital History Project
http://history.powys.org.uk/
The Powys digital history project web site provides access to information about the local history of the region. |description|

Project Wittenberg
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
Project Wittenberg, created under the direction of Bob Smith of Concordia Theological Seminary, provides a gateway to Lutheran texts; texts by Luther, texts about Luther and works of other Lutherans. |description|

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
http://proni.nics.gov.uk/
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) is the official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland. |description|

Quaker Archives Database
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/quaker/quakint1.htm
The Quaker Archives Database from the University of Leeds special collections department has created a name index of many of the older documents in The University Library's Carlton Hill archive. |description|

The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/index.html
This site from the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections at Northwestern University hosts a collection of Images relating to the Siege and Commune of Paris. |description|

Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteeth Centuries
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/slavedata/index.html
The Slave Movement during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries web site provides access to data sets. |description|

Statisitical accounts of Scotland
http://edina.ac.uk/StatAcc/
The Statistical accounts of Scotland web site, hosted by EDINA, is a fully searchable and browsable facsimile of the Old Statistical Account (1791-1799) and the New Statistical Account (1845) which were compiled from information supplied largely by parish church ministers. |description|

Talking History: aural history productions
http://talkinghistory.org/
Talking History based at the University at Albany, State University of New York 'is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history'. |description|

The City as Hero: Victorian London in Life and Literature
http://www.gober.net/victorian/
This site was created by Susan Horton from the English Department of the University of Massachusetts at Boston for a course that she teaches. |description|

The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

The History of Disabilities and Social Problems
http://codi.buffalo.edu/graph_based/.bibliography/woodhill/woodhill.html
The history of disabilities and social problems is a bibliography of printed resources which was originally compiled in 1987-88. |description|

The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/index.html
This site, created by Julia Lee and maintained by Robert Schwartz of Mount Holyoke College, presents a wide variety of information on the railway system of nineteenth century England and Wales. |description|

The John and James Booker Civil War letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/booker/
The John and James Booker Civil War letters web site provides access to digital facsimiles of twenty-two letters that they wrote to their cousin during the American Civil War. |description|

The Napoleon Guide
http://www.napoleonguide.com/

South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons (SARCAJC)
http://www.sarcajc.com/
South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism & Cartoons (SARCAJC) is South Asia's first study centre for research into the history and political importance of cartoons, political satire, advertisements and journalism. |description|

The Victorian Women Writers Project
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html
The Victorian Women Writers project aims to provide access to highly accurate transcriptions of works from British women writers from the nineteenth century. |description|

Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html
The Thomas Jefferson papers at the Library of Congress web site provides online access to material held by the Manuscripts Department at the Library of Congress. |description|

United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The United States historical census data browser contains data from US censuses between 1790 and 1970. |description|

University of Southampton Library: Archive and Manuscript Collections
http://www.archives.lib.soton.ac.uk/

Urban Past: an International Urban History Bibliography
http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/citybib.html
The urban past: an international urban history bibliography was compiled by Gilbert Stelter from the University of Guelph and was originally designed as a resource for students at this institution. |description|

Victoria Research Web
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/
The Victoria Research Web has been designed as a resource for the scholarly study of nineteenth century Britain. |description|

Victorian Census Project
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/humanities_and_soc_sciences/census/vichome.htm
The aim of the Victorian census project, led by David Gatley at Staffordshire University, is to computerise nineteenth century census documents and related material about Great Britain and Ireland. |description|

Victorian Turkish baths
http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/
The history of the Victorian Turkish bath is virtually uncharted, so the website is an attempt to interest historians in an aspect of Victorian life which has been almost totally forgotten. |description|

The Victorian Web
http://www.victorianweb.org/
The Victorian Web provides a comprehensive general overview of nineteenth century British history and literature. |description|

Views of the Irish Famine
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/
This web site provides access to primary source material relating to the Irish Famine. |description|

Virtual Library: History - German History
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1ges/heidelberg/gh/gh.html

Votes for women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/naw/index.html
The Votes for Women web site from the Library of Congress consists of 167 full text items relating to the American women suffrage movement. |description|

William Francis Brand Civil War letters
http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/brand/
The William Francis Brand Civil War Letters web site provides access to digital facsimiles of letters written by Confederate soldier William Francis Brand to his future wife Amanda Catherine Armentrout. |description|

William Morris Gallery
http://www.lbwf.gov.uk/wmg/home.htm
The William Morris Gallery is located in Walthamstow, London, in a former William Morris family home. |description|

The William Morris Society Web Site
http://www.morrissociety.org/
The William Morris society web site provides a range of information on the life and works of William Morris and his associates. |description|

WISE: Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation
http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise/
WISE: Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation is a leading research institute based at the University of Hull. It conducts cross-disciplinary research into the history of slavery, its contemporary forms and efforts to eradicate it.|description|

The Workhouse
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/index.html
This site provides a helpful and interesting introduction to workhouses and poor relief in general. |description|

Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/quaker/
The Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Projects aims to increase access to and awareness of collections of Quaker material relating to Yorkshire. |description|