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Time Period - Twentieth Century


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|


The Ascoli Project
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/jb6/archives/index.html


Austrian Primary Historical Documents: Eurodocs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|


Bletchley Park
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/


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. |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|


British Pathé
http://www.britishpathe.com/index.cfm
The British Pathé offers access to 3,500 hours of news footage spanning almost a century, from 1896 until 1970. |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|


CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/


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|


Castro Speech Database
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html

The Castro speech database contains full text English translations of a selection of speeches, interviews and press conferences by Fidel Castro. |description|


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 Contemporary British History
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/icbh/welcome.html
The Centre for Contemporary British History (CCBH) is a research department of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. |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|


The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricatures
http://library.ukc.ac.uk/cartoons/
The Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature was established in 1973 as a research centre and picture library which is based upon an archive of over 85,000 pieces of cartoon artwork. |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/

The Churchill Archives Centre, based at Churchill College Cambridge, holds 570 collections of documents relating to Churchill. |description|


The Churchill Era: An Educational Resource
http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/churchill_era/
The Churchill Era is an educational web site published by the Churchill Archives Centre, and has been specially designed for teachers and students of A-Level History courses. |description|


Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/


Cold War International History Project
http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) was set up at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. in 1991. |description|


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


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



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


Dr Seuss Went to War
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

The Dr Seuss Went to War web site provides access to political cartoons drawn by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss) for the New York publication PM between 1941 and 1943. |description|


Dutch National Accounts 1800-1913
http://nationalaccounts.niwi.knaw.nl/



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




Electric Scotland
http://www.electricscotland.com/
"Electric Scotland's Scottish History" is a large Web site offering information on early Scottish history, battles, culture, literature, and music. |description|


Eurodocs: Belgium Primary Historical Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/belgium.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|


The GLBT Historical Society
http://www.glbthistory.org/
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Historical Society collects, archives, and exhibits material that deals with the history of homosexuals and other sexual minorities. |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|


Hall-Carpenter Archives
http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/gutoho/hall_carpenter_archives.htm
Founded in 1982, the Hall-Carpenter Archives are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain. |description|


Historical Archives of the European Communites
http://wwwarc.iue.it


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|


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



AHDS History
http://ahds.ac.uk/history/index.htm
AHDS History 'collects, preserves and promotes the use of digital resources, which result from or support historical research, learning and teaching'. |description|


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|



History of European Integration
http://www.eu-history.leidenuniv.nl/
The history of European integration site was developed by R.T. Griffiths from Leiden University History Department. |description|




History of France: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/france.html
The History of France: primary documents site provides links to over sixty documents relating to French history from the ninth century to the present day. |description|



History of Germany: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/germany.html
The History of Germany: primary documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to German history from the ninth century to the present day. |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|



History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk.html
The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. |description|


The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/



Hospital Records Database
http://hospitalrecords.pro.gov.uk/

The Hospital Records Database, from the Wellcome Trust and the Public Record Office, provides information on the existence and location of hospital records in the United Kingdom. |description|



Immigration History Research Center
http://www1.umn.edu/ihrc/index.htm
The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), based at the University of Minnesota, collects and preserves material on American immigration and ethnic history. |description|



International Institute of Social History
http://www.iisg.nl/index.html

The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is involved with the documentation of and research into social history in general and the labour movement in particular. |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 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|


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. |description|


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


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


Mass Observation Archive
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/massobs/homearch.html
The Mass-Observation Archive, a charitable trust, has been housed at the University of Sussex since 1970. |description|


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|


A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
This site, which is one of the Smithsonian’s virtual exhibitions, is concerned with the internment of Japanese Americans in the U.S.A during the Second World War. |description|


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|


NASA Historical Archives
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/history.html


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/


Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/
This is one of the online exhibitions on the web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and it deals with the Nazi campaign of persecution and violence against German homosexuals. |description|


NDAD: UK National Digital Archive of Datasets
http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk/

NDAD provides access to archived digital data from UK government departments and agencies.


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


New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
The New Deal Network (NDN) was lunched in 1996 by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. It is now based at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University. |description|


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
Pathways in American Planning History was originally published in the Journal of Planning and Education Research and has been adapted and updated prior to publication on the web. |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|


Photos of the Great War
http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm
The Photos of the Great War site, which is part of World War I document archive from the University of Kansas, currently provides access to 1844 photographs relating to the First World War. |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|


Popular Document Collection: Bay of Pigs Reports
http://www.foia.ucia.gov/bay_of_pigs.asp
This web site from the electronic document release center of the CIA in the United States provides access to full-text reports on the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. |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|


Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolridge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921-1929
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html

The Prosperity and Thrift web site from the Library of Congress provides access to full-text material that documents the prosperity enjoyed by the United States during the Coolidge years. |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|


Publications of the War
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/pubs/
The Publications of the War web site provides access to digital facsimiles of a selection of publications produced during the First World War. |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|


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|


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|


Stormont Papers: Northern Ireland Parliamentary papers online 1921-1972
http://stormontpapers.ahds.ac.uk/
This site provides free access to an electronic library of full text government reports relating to Northern Ireland during the period from June 7, 1921-March 28, 1972. They include over 92,000 printed pages from 84 volumes of minutes of the Stormont (Northern Ireland devolved parliament). |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|


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|


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://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/rbnawsahtml/

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|


Web Genocide Documentation Centre
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm


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|


World War I Archive
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/index.html
This site has been developed by contributors to the by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). The aim of the site is to assemble primary available on the internet about the First World War in one location. |description|


World War II Poster Collection
http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/cright.html
This site from Northwestern University holds over 300 posters relating to the Second World War dating from 1941-1945. |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|