| 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers |
Onsite only |
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| 19th Century British Library Newspapers |
Onsite only |
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| 19th Century collections online (British Theatre, Music, and Literature) |
Onsite only |
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| Acta Sanctorum |
Offsite |
Access both on and offsite for IHR members. |
| America: History and life |
Onsite only |
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| Archaeological Data Service Library, including British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Archives Portal Europe |
Free |
Access to information on archival material across Europe. |
| Art et Démocratie (1789-1792) |
Free |
Free online resource. |
| Bibliography of British and Irish History (formerly RHS Bibliography) |
Onsite only |
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| Britain and UK Handbooks 1954-2005 |
Free |
Downloadable dataset provided by the National Library of Scotland. |
| British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO) |
Free |
Free online resource |
| British Cartoon Archive |
Free |
Free online resource |
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British History Online (onsite access to full subscription resource and offsite access to staff, students, fellows).
Non-subscription areas direct from British History Online website
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Partial |
partially free online resource and subscription-only content available onsite |
| British Newspapers 1600-1900 |
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| British Periodicals |
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| British Political Speech |
Free |
An online archive of British political speech |
| Casebooks |
Free |
"In the decades around 1600, the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier produced one of the largest surviving sets of medical records in history. The Casebooks Project, a team of scholars at the University of Cambridge, has transformed this paper archive into a digital archive." |
| Cecil Papers |
Offsite |
Access both on and offsite for IHR members. |
| Centre for English Local History Thesis Collection |
Free |
Theses completed by students at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester from 1948 to 2015. Free online resource. |
| Charles Booth's London |
Free |
Free online resource provided by LSE |
| Churchill archive |
Offsite |
Access both on and offsite for IHR members. See further guidance. |
| Civil War Petitions |
Free |
Free searchable website of more than 4000 petitions from maimed soldiers and war widows of the civil wars. |
| Clergy of England database |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Colonial Society of Massachusetts |
Free |
Publications online. Free online resource |
| Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Connected Histories |
Free |
Free online resource for use as a search tool; subscription required for links to external content. |
| Database of Court Officers 1660-1837 |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Dictionary of Welsh Biography |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform |
Free |
Free online resource from University of Curacao. |
| Early English Books online (EEBO) |
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Please note: It is safe to bypass any security warnings that appear |
| Early European Books (EEB) |
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| Eighteenth century collections online (ECCO) |
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Please note: It is safe to bypass any security warnings that appear |
| Electronic Enlightenment |
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| England's Immigrants 1330-1550 |
Free |
Free online resource |
| English Monastic Archives |
Free |
Free online resource |
| English Short Title Catalogue |
Free |
Free online resource |
| European Newsstream |
Onsite only |
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| Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996 |
Onsite only |
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| Founders Online |
Free |
Free online resource. Correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States. |
| FranceArchives |
Free |
Portail National des Archives |
| Global Commodities |
Onsite only |
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| Hansard 1803-2005 |
Free |
Free online resource - prototype |
| Hansard on UK Parliament website |
Free |
Free online resource, Commons 1988- present, Lords 1995-present |
| HeinOnline |
Onsite only |
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| Heritage of the Printed Book (CERL) |
Free |
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| Historical abstracts |
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| Historical Directories |
Free |
Free online resource from University of Leicester's Special Collections Online |
| History of Parliament Online |
Free |
Free online resource |
| House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (now ProQuest UK Parliamentary Papers) |
Onsite only |
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| In Principio - Incipit Index of Latin Texts |
Onsite only |
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| Independent Voices |
Free |
"An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries." |
| Internet Archive Wayback Machine |
Free |
"The Internet Archive.. is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form." |
| International Medieval Bibliography |
Onsite only |
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| JISC Historical Texts |
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| JISC Journal Archives |
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| JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive |
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If you are getting a 'proxy server' error message try alternative access (onsite) via http://www.jstor.org |
| Justis |
Onsite only |
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| Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals |
Onsite only |
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| Legacies of British Slave-ownership |
Free |
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| Legal History: The Year Books |
Free |
Free online resource. An Index and Paraphrase of Printed Year Book Reports, 1268 - 1535 |
| Library of Latin Texts - Series A and B |
Onsite only |
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| A Literary Tour de France |
Free |
Free online resource. Publishing and the Book Trade in France and Francophone Europe, 1769-1789 |
| Logeion |
Free |
Simultaneous lookup of entries in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection.. also Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
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| Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850 |
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| Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England |
Free |
Free online. "Before the outbreak of Civil War in 1642, England developed a large, influential and often radical pamphlet literature. This project aims to survey the vast hidden archive of early Stuart England's manuscript pamphlets." |
| MarineLives |
Free |
Free online. "Collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts from the High Court of Admiralty, 1650-1669 (with some excursions into data from the 1630s and 1640s)" |
| Mass Observation Online |
Onsite only |
Explore original manuscript and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass Observation organisation, as well as printed publications, photographs and interactive features. |
| Monumenta Germaniae Historica |
Free |
Free online resource. Guide to the series also available. |
| National Institute for Newman Studies Digital Collections |
Free |
Over 250,000 images featuring letters, library records, photographs, maps, manuscripts, music scores, and more. |
| Newberry French Revolution Collection Pamphlets |
Free |
Free online via Internet Archive: "Newberry Library's French Revolution Collection consists of more than 30,000 pamphlets and more than 23,000 issues of 180 periodicals published between 1780 and 1810" |
| A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825 |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets |
Onsite only |
via JSTOR |
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online part 3: British Theatre, Music and Literature
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Onsite only |
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| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Onsite only |
When using onsite you can ignore the Sign in box and just begin using the resource. |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
Onsite only |
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| Palmer's full text online |
Onsite only |
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| UK Parliamentary Debates |
Onsite only
Free
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| Parliament rolls of medieval England |
Onsite only |
British History Online |
| Patrologia Latina |
Offsite |
Access both on and offsite for IHR members. |
| Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 |
Free |
Free online resource |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland and Global |
Onsite only |
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| ProQuest UK Newsstand |
Onsite only |
Recent newspapers |
| Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) |
Free |
Free online resource from KCL and University of Cambridge. Prosopographical database of the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century, drawn from chronicles, saints’ Lives, charters, libri vitae, inscriptions, Domesday Book and coins |
| Public petitions to Parliament, 1833-1918 |
Offsite |
Access both on and offsite for IHR members. |
| Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century |
Free |
Free online resource from the University of Glasgow. "Searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped." |
| Scottish Post Office Directories |
Free |
Free online resource from the National Library of Scotland |
| Slave Voyages |
Free |
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| Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007 |
Onsite only |
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| Stormont Papers |
Free |
Free online resource |
| Theatregoing: Eyewitness accounts of going to a show |
Free |
Free online resource |
| The Times |
Onsite only |
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| Trove |
Free |
Free online database from the National Library of Australia. Resources relating to Australia: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more |
| UK Data Service |
Free |
Explore the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources |
| UK Parliamentary Papers |
Onsite only |
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| Victorian Popular Culture |
Onsite only |
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| A Vision of Britain through Time |
Free |
Free online resource from the University of Portsmouth. "brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how the country and its localities have changed". |
| Vogue Archive |
Onsite only |
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| Women Also Know History |
Free |
Free online resource dedicated to promoting the work of women historians. |
| York's Archbishops' Registers Revealed |
Free |
Free access to over 20,000 images of Registers produced by the Archbishops of York, 1225-1650, in addition to a growing searchable index of names, subjects, places and organisations. |
