Open and Free Access Materials for Research

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In response to libraries and archives being closed during the lockdowns in 2020 the IHR launched this page to steer researchers to freely accessible online research resources. We continue to update the page as part of our remit to help researchers nationally and internationally. We're also asking you for additional recommendations to make this resource as useful as possible.

Introduction

In response to libraries and archives being closed in 2020 the IHR launched this page to steer researchers to freely accessible online research resources. Below you will find lists of links to these resources, organised, for example, by publication type, chronology and theme. At the start you will also find helpful advice from the IHR Library team on how to make the most of this resource.

So far over 750 resources have been listed but there will be many others known to you. We’re keen to hear about these and encourage you to get in touch. If you would like to recommend a freely accessible online resource please send your suggestions to [email protected]. Alternatively, you can submit your recommendations via an online suggestions box. We will then review the submissions and add them to the portal

About this Guide

Secondary Works

Catalogues, Bibliographies and Guides

Online Book Collections

Digital Collections

Late Antiquity

Medieval

Early Modern

Modern and Contemporary

Garden History

Local History

LGBTIQ+ History

Medical History

Rural and Agricultural History

Scientific History

African History

Asia, China

Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific

Audio Visual and Oral History, 3D, AR and Internet Archives

Newspapers and Maps

IHR Online Resources	www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/online-resources	Details of free and paywalled resources with access details for SAS students, etc.
Open Access Research Resources for the Humanities	www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/libraries/open-access-research-resources-humanities	The School’s physical libraries may be closed for the time being, like libraries across the world, but we’re still working to help researchers access the materials that they need, whether that’s books, journal articles, databases or online tutorials.
Senate House Library A-Z Databases (NB subscription resources for University of London only)	senatehouselibrary.libguides.com/az.php	Find the best library databases for your research (for SHL card holders)
Institute of Classical Studies Library Open Access Resources	library.ics.sas.ac.uk/open-access-resources	During the COVID-19 pandemic, more publishers and institutions are making research material available online. We've compiled a growing list of resources for you to use at home during self-isolation.
Warburg Institute Library	warburg.libguides.com/library	Details of resources that can be accessed when the library is closed.

Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações	http://bdtd.ibict.br/vufind/	IBICT database for Brazilian theses and dissertations.
CiNii	https://ci.nii.ac.jp/d/?l=ja	Database of Japanese university theses and dissertations. Use the "本文あり / Full-Text Exists" search option to find electronic copies.
Dart - Europe	https://www.dart-europe.org/basic-search.php	The European portal for finding electronic theses and dissertations. DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
Ethos	https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do	Search over 500,000 theses from UK universities, with download option available for many.
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland	https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/theses-1970-2014	A thematic listing of UK theses created by British History Online. Entries are in the process of being linked to their Ethos record where an electronic copy is available.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations	http://www.ndltd.org/	The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide. Our website includes resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the ETD community.
PQDT Open	https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html	With PQDT Open, you can read the full text of open access dissertations and theses from the ProQuest database free of charge.
Shodhganga	https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/	The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.
TesiOnline	https://www.tesionline.it/	Online database of Italian theses and dissertations. To access an electronic copy, where available, you need to create a free account.
Theses Canada	https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/theses-canada.aspx	Theses Canada, launched in 1965 at the request of the deans of Canadian graduate schools, is a collaborative program between Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Canadian universities. It strives acquire and preserve theses and dissertations from participating universities, provide free access to Canadian digital theses and dissertations in the collection and facilitate access to non-digital theses and dissertations in the collection.
Theses.fr	Theses.fr	A service similar to the UK's Ethos service. You can search the database for French completed French doctoral theses and those in preparation and access an online version for those records marked with an "Accéder en ligne" tab.

Clio-online Web-Directory	clio-online.de/webresource	The Clio-online Web-Directory outlines databases and websites for historical research.
IHR Library list of online resources	www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/online-resources	Includes free and subscription resources, with access details
Free online history archives	www.diigo.com/profile/hfloxford	Over 1,000 free online resources listed by the Bodleian History Faculty Library
International Council of Archives 'The Archives are Accessible'	www.ica.org/en/the-archives-and-records-are-accessible	To enable the archives and records community to tell ICA what they are doing and what is accessible, we have developed a digital map where you can share information about an online exhibition, digital catalogue, specific digital collections or a crowd-sourcing project that people can do while they are #StayHome.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine	https://archive.org/web/	A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
Endangered Archives Programme	eap.bl.uk	More than 400 projects in 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.
Open Education Database '250+ Killer Digital Libraries'	oedb.org/ilibrarian/250-plus-killer-digital-libraries-and-archives/	This list contains over 250 libraries and archives that focus mainly on localized, regional, and U.S. history, but it also includes larger collections, eText and eBook repositories, and a short list of directories to help you continue your research efforts.
Hazine: a guide to researching the middle east and beyond	hazine.info/tag/online-archives/	Online Archives, Digitized Collections and Resources for Middle East, North African, and Islamic(ate) Studies
European History Primary Sources	primary-sources.eui.eu	While not claiming to be complete, EHPS contains the major national digital libraries and many smaller series of e-sources and smaller digitization projects in Europe. It thus reflects to a considerable extent the current state of digitization of historical source materials in Europe, as well as those digitized outside Europe pertaining to its history.
Rechtshistorie: A gateway to legal history	www.rechtshistorie.nl/en/digital-collections/digital-archives	An extensive international list of archival resources.
History Online Projects	web.archive.org/web/20170220105618/http://www.history.ac.uk/history-online/projects/list	An archive of the IHR's list of online projects; some links may no longer be current.
Women Also Know History	womenalsoknowhistory.com/	Free online resource dedicated to promoting the work of women historians.

English Monastic Archives	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/research/english-monastic-archives	The database, created by the English Monastic Archives project, is a guide to documents generated by medieval monasteries.
LIBRAL	www.bahs.org.uk/LIBRAL/	Library of rural and agricultural history
Radical Online Collections and Archives (New Historical Express)	hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online-collections-and-archives/	Free to access radical literature from around the world
Medieval Resources for Researchers	ims.leeds.ac.uk/online-resources	Primary and secondary resources covering all aspects of medieval studies to help medievalists connect with each other, develop their research, and find opportunities to present and share their ideas.
Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMSLib)	https://www.memslib.co.uk	MEMSlib is an initiative of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. This student-led project developed out of our shared desire to support academic peers and colleagues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vast Early America (Omohundro Institute)	oieahc.wm.edu/explore/vastearlyamerica-resources/	As we all shift to reliance on online materials learning and teaching - and just for exploring - the vast early American past, the OI thought it would be useful to start a central resource. These started with resources from some of our institutional partners and scholars we have worked with, but will also include organizations and scholars we’re just learning about. Please let us know if we can add yours.
Bibliographical Society of America	bibsocamer.org/news/online-instruction-resources-digital-repositories-for-book-history-teaching-more/	Online Instruction Resources: Digital Repositories for Book History Teaching, Research, & More
@RWLDproject	Google Doc	Transport and mobility history digital sources (crowdsourced)
European Association for Digital Humanities	eadh.org/projects	Links to digital humanities projects and databases
Early Modern France (Dr Sara Barker's blog)	earlymodernfrance.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/online-resources-for-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-french-history-museums-chateaux-and-institutions	Online resources for sixteenth and seventeenth-century French history – museums, châteaux and institutions
@Tom_Hamilton_	Early Modern Sources	Aimed primarily at students
@HistorianRemote	Twitter stream	Exploring online and digital resources for history in Higher Education. Distance learning, remote research and accessibility. Run by @kirsteenmm
Pinakes	https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/	Online catalogue of Greek manuscripts from around the world.
@reinarzhistory	Thread on Medical History	Suggestions and call for contributions of archives and other resources for student projects in the history of medicine.

The National Archives	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/digital-downloads	Digital records available on our website free of charge for as long as our Kew site is closed to visitors. See list of collections available.
Archives Portal Europe	www.archivesportaleurope.net	The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent.
Heritage of the Printed Book Database	https://www.cerl.org/resources/hpb/main	Collection of files of catalogue records from major European and North American research libraries covering items of European printing of the hand-press period.
The English Short Title Catalogue	http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc	The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) lists over 480,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 published mainly in the British Isles and North America from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Geschiedenis	https://www.dbng.nl/	Online bibliography on Dutch history from prehistory to the present day.
Europeana	europeana.eu	Discover inspiring cultural heritage from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Digital Public Library of America	dp.la	Discover 36,918,180 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.
WorldCat	www.worldcat.org	WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.
Library Hub Discover	discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk	Welcome to Library Hub Discover, giving you access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries. Library Hub Discover currently contains 45,647,877 records created from 118,128,539 records contributed by 158 institutions.
Archives Hub	archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk	Use the Archives Hub to find unique sources for your research, both physical and digital. Search across descriptions of archives, held at over 350 institutions across the UK.
The National Archives Discovery	discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk	Access records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 other archives.
Trove (Australia)	trove.nla.gov.au/collection?q=	Search personal and organisational archives, including diaries, manuscripts, letters, business records, photographs, posters, pamphlets, ephemera ...
Aim25	aim25.com	Archives held within the M25 motorway (e.g. London)
Arkhivy Rossii [Портал Архивы России]	www.rusarchives.ru/	This is the portal for all the Russian state archives, both central and regional.

Aberdeen University Library - Open Access Resources	https://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/support/open-access-e-resources-739.php	Resource List
Belgica	https://belgica.kbr.be/belgica/	Digitised material from the Royal Library of Belgium.
British Library Digitised Manuscripts	www.bl.uk/manuscripts/	Use this website to view digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents.
British Library digital collections	www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections/digital-collections	Numerous other digital collections. A large corpus is available via Google Books and the former Microsoft Books Project.
Digital Library of the Caribbean	dloc.com	The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean.
Goethe Universität - Frankfurt (Digitale Sammlungen)	https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/	A large and growing online library of material concentrating on German and Jewish history.
Library of Congress digital collections	www.loc.gov/collections/	A vast range of digitised materials.
National Institute for Newman Studies Digital Collections	https://digitalcollections.newmanstudies.org/	Over 250,000 images featuring letters, library records, photographs, maps, manuscripts, music scores, and more.
Vatican Library digital collections	https://digi.vatlib.it/	DigiVatLib is a digital library service. It provides free access to the Vatican Library’s digitized collections: manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials (special projects).
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB)	www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de	The goal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) is to offer everyone unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.
BNF Gallica	gallica.bnf.fr	Nearly 4 million digitised items from the French national library.
Biblioteca de Catalunya (Memòria digital de Catalunya)	http://mdc1.csuc.cat/	Digitised document collection from the Biblioteca de Catalunya.
National Library of Australia	trove.nla.gov.au	Access to a wide range of collections from across Australia
National Library of New Zealand	paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/	Newspapers, magazines, letters and diaries, and political papers, including Maori materials
National Library of Scotland	https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/browse/access_type/1	List of Open Access Resources.
Qatar Digital Library	www.qdl.qa/en
National Digital Library of India	ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

Aceh Books	https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/collection/acehbooks	This digital collection offers full-text access to more than 1200 publications on Aceh, the province located at the northern end of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The books form part of the collection of the Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden which is kept at the Leiden University Library. The titles date from the 17th till the turn of the 21th century and are in a variety of languages such as Indonesian, Acehnese, English and Dutch. Due to copyright issues titles published after 1900 can only be accessed from desktop computers situated in the University Library.
Avalon Project	https://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp	The Avalon Project is a digital library of documents relating to law, history and diplomacy. The project is part of the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library.
Beinecke Digital Collections	beinecke.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/digital-collections-beinecke-library
Black Central Europe	https://blackcentraleurope.com/	Site created and curated by the Black Central European Studies Network (BCESN) providing access to a number of document and picture collections highlighting the history of the Black diaspora in Central Europe from 1000 to the present day.
British History Online (IHR)	www.british-history.ac.uk	Brings together material for British history from the collections of libraries, archives, museums and academics. These primary and secondary sources, which range from medieval to twentieth century.
Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts	https://laomanuscripts.net/en/index	The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts makes images of over 12,000 texts from throughout Laos easily accessible for study. There is a wide diversity in the manuscript collection, covering a large geographical area and historical timeframe, different literary traditions and schools of scribes, and different languages and scripts. The majority of the texts are from the Lao, Lan Na and Tai Lue traditions, with smaller numbers in Tai Nuea, and Tai Dam, etc.
John Carter Brown Library Digital Collections	jcblibrary.org/collection/digital-images	High resolution images from the Library's archive of early American images, map collection, and political cartoon collection are available through Luna. Scans of over 10,000 full books are available through Internet Archive.
The Morgan Library Digital Facsimiles	www.themorgan.org/digital-facsimiles	Literary and historical highspots, including the complete MSS of Anne Brontë and Newton's pocket notebook
Neliti - Indonesia's Research Repository	https://www.neliti.com/	A free and open access collection of over 300,000 books, datasets and journal articles from Southeast Asia, funded by the National Library of Indonesia.
Cornell University Digital Collections	digital.library.cornell.edu/collections	Contains a wide range of archival sources on various themes, including US history, East Asian studies, slavery, race, art and architecture, travel narratives
Delpher	https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/	Online archive of Dutch and Indonesian newspapers and periodicals.
Manchester Digital Collections	www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk	A new resource for exploring high-quality images of cultural collections and research projects at The University of Manchester, including Peterloo materials. See also https://luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/allCollections.
Newberry Library	www.newberry.org/digital-resources-type	Explore the Newberry through online collections, exhibitions, and publications.
Cambridge Digital Library	cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk	Includes the Newton Papers and Sassoon Journals.
Digital Bodleian Library	digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk	Images of manuscripts, rare books, maps, archives and ephemera from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.
Ghent University Library online collections	https://lib.ugent.be/en/catalog/access:zoomable?sort=old-to-new	Online collection of coins, manuscripts, periodicals, etc. found in the Ghent University Library.
Huntington Digital Library	hdl.huntington.org	Includes the Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
SOAS Digital Collections	digital.soas.ac.uk/asc	The Archives & Special Collections at the SOAS Library specialises in the collection of archives, manuscripts, and rare books relating to Africa, Asia, the Middle East and beyond.
LSE Digital Library	digital.library.lse.ac.uk	Digitised material from the London School of Economics Library collections and also born-digital material that has been collected and preserved in digital formats.
Flickr Commons	www.flickr.com/commons	Photographs from cultural institutions around the world
Harvard Digital Collections	library.harvard.edu/digital-collections	Harvard Digital Collections provides free, public access to over 6 million objects digitized from our collections - from ancient art to modern manuscripts and audio visual materials.
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America	guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=940072&p=6775019	Includes access to a number of portals for digitized collections. These include Susan B. Anthony, Beecher-Stowe Family, Blackwell Family, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Inez Milholland, Alice Paul, and Dorothy West
Wikimedia Commons	commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page	a collection of 60,564,134 freely usable media files
Wellcome Digital Collections	wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/	The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war.
Biodiversity Heritage Library	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/	The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Center for Research Libraries	https://www.crl.edu/electronic-resources/collections	CRL has taken measures to allow greater access to portions of its restricted content to support global research and teaching in view of the current circumstances.
Somni: Coŀlecció digital de fons històric	http://roderic.uv.es/handle/10550/43	Digitised sources from the Biblioteca Universitaria, Valencia.
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana	http://mss.bmlonline.it/	Growing collection of digitised manuscripts from the BML, Florence.

Ancestry.com records held by National Archives and Records Administration (USA)	www.ancestry.com/cs/nara	Email registration required for special free access arranged by NARA and Ancestry.com
ARCHIM (France)	www2.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/accueil.html	Archives nationales digitised materials
St Petersburg Archives	spbarchives.ru	The portal for all the state archives in St Petersburg. Until at least 30 April 2020, it is offering access to digitised content that is usually paywalled, including over quarter of a million images from TSGAKFFD (The Central State Archive of Film, Photographic and Sound Documents)
The National Archives (UK)	https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/digital-downloads/	Temporary access to some digitised materials
SODA (Australia)	soda.naa.gov.au/

Bibliotheca Palatina - Digital	https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/de/bpd/index.html	Bibliotheca Palatina – digital: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Former Crown Jewel of Germany's Libraries.
A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies	https://www.graeco-arabic-studies.org/home.html	The Digital Corpus assembles a wide range of Greek texts and their Arabic counterparts. It also includes a number of Arabic commentaries and important secondary sources. The texts in the corpus can be consulted individually or side by side with their translation.

Roman Inscriptions in Britain	https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/	This website hosts multiple corpora of Roman inscriptions from Britain.
Roman Provincial Coinage Online	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/	Online database of Roman Empire coinage.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index	http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/default.aspx	This online finding-aid covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
MEMSLib Early Medieval Resource Page	https://www.memslib.co.uk/early-medieval-studies	This list contains resources of various types for the study of the history and literature of the early medieval world (c.300 - c.1100).
MEMSLib Late Medieval History Resource Page	https://www.memslib.co.uk/late-medieval-history	Resource list relevant to the study of history in the late medieval world (c. 1100-c.1500)
MEMSLib Manuscript Studies Resource Page	https://www.memslib.co.uk/manuscript-palaeography-codicology	In this resource list you will find suggestions for reading and assistance relating to the wonderful world of handwritten books and documents, both medieval and early modern.

Logeion	https://logeion.uchicago.edu/	Includes The Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
Anglo-Norman Dictionary	http://www.anglo-norman.net/gate/
Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary	http://bosworth.ff.cuni.cz/
Dictionary of Welsh Biography	https://biography.wales/
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	https://www.oxforddnb.com/	May be available through academic or public library subscriptions
Medieval Londoners	https://medievallondoners.ace.fordham.edu/	Created by Fordham University, this website introduces resources available for research about medieval London and its people, focusing not only on documentary and narrative sources in print, but also archaeological, visual, and cartographic sources that illuminate the physical and material world inhabited by medieval Londoners. An important component of the website is the Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), which records the activities of London residents between c. 1100 and 1520, and is searchable by name, gender, citizenship status, location (ward, parish, and street if available), craft, occupation, civic office, and craft office, among other variables.
The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England	http://www.pase.ac.uk/	Structured information relating to all the recorded inhabitants of England from the late sixth to the late eleventh century.. based on a systematic examination of the available written sources for the period.
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550	https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/	A fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England in this period.
History of Parliament	https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org
Victoria County History	https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/county-histories-progress	Full text of many of the volumes available on British History Online.
Archaeological Data Service Library	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library	Includes British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography.

Vatican Library digital collections
FranceArchives: Portail National des Archives
Wellcome Medieval manuscripts
British Cartoon Archive		Artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.
British Museum collection
Gallica		Digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
British Library manuscripts		Can filter by date
Digital Bodleian
Archives Portal Europe
Metropolitan Museum of Art collections
Endangered Archives Programme
Pinakes
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

UK National Historic Environment records	England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Historic England Archive	https://archive.historicengland.org.uk/
Gatehouse: A comprehensive gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales and the Islands.	http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/home.html	A comprehensive gazetteer and bibliography of the medieval castles, fortifications and palaces of England, Wales and the Islands.
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture	http://www.ascorpus.ac.uk/
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources	http://dmnes.org/
English place-names	https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/ins/resources/kepn.aspx
English medieval coins	https://emc.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Portable Antiquities Scheme database	https://finds.org.uk/database

Pipe roll society	http://www.piperollsociety.co.uk/	Publishes editions of the pipe rolls of the Exchequer and related medieval documents.
Haskins Society	https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org	Western Europe and its encounters with the larger medieval world in the early and central middle ages. Website includes documents and other resources.
Canterbury and York Society	https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~cf13/	Publishes editions of English medieval ecclesiastical records.
Henry Bradshaw Society	https://henrybradshawsociety.org/	Promotes the study of medieval and early modern liturgies.
Richard III Society	http://www.richardiii.net/	Promoting research into the life and times of Richard III.
Selden Society	https://www.seldensociety.ac.uk/	English legal history.

Barbaro, Nicolo. The siege of Constantinople in 1453 according to Nicolo Barbaro	https://deremilitari.org/2016/08/the-siege-of-constantinople-in-1453-according-to-nicolo-barbaro/	Selected translations
Berger de Xivrey, Jules. Mémoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de l'empereur Manuel Paléologue (Paris, 1851)	https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100726583	Digital Copy
Byzantine Sources in Translation	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/byzantium/alltexts.asp	Bibliography
Chalkokondyles, Laonikos. Historiae	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_36670_fs001r	Digitised copy of BL Add. Ms. 36670
Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, 91 BCE-1643 CE	http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/romchin1.html	Translated excerpts
Chronicon Paschale (translation)	http://www.attalus.org/translate/paschal.html	Important source for early Byzantine and Jewish history to the early seventh century
Comnena, Anna. The Alexiad	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad.asp	Online Translation
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae (selected volumes)	https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2009/04/16/corpus-scriptorum-historiae-byzantinae/	List of volumes that have been digitised and are now available via Google Books
Council of Chalcedon, 451	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/chalcedon.asp	Translation of the acts, commentaries and selected other sources.
Council of Constantinople, 381: Documents	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/const1.txt	Digital copy of the relevant extracts taken from, Henry R. Percival, ed. The Seven EcumenicalCouncils of the Undivided Church, Vol XIV of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, (reprinted Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Grand Rapids MI: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 1988)
Council of Constantinople, 553	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/const2.asp	Translation of the acts, commentaries and selected other sources.
Council of Constantinople, 680-1	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/const3.asp	Translation of the acts, commentaries and selected other sources.
Council of Ephesus, 431	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/ephesus.asp	Translation of the acts, commentaries and selected other sources.
Council of Nicea, 787	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/nicea2.asp	Translation of the acts, commentaries and selected other sources.
Evagrius Scholasticus. Ecclesiastical History	http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/evagrius_0_intro.htm	English translation first published in 1846
The Fourth Crusade: Collected Sources	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/4cde.asp	Selection of translations
George of Pisidia. Works	https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GTwTAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false	Works of the 7th century poet including accounts of the military campaign against Persia and the Avar attack on Constantinople
Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/sbook1c.asp	A list of extracts curated by the library at Fordham University
Procopius. History of the War, Books I-II	http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16764	English translation first published in 1914 by H. B. Dewing
Procopius. The Secret History	http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12916	English translation hosted on the Project Gutenberg site.
Psellos, Michael. Chronographia	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/psellus-chronographia.asp	Online Translation
Theodore the Syncellus. Homily on the Siege of Constantinople in 626 AD	http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/theodore_syncellus_01_homily.htm	English Translation
Theophanes the Confessor. Chronographia	https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_TnRHAAAAYAAJ/page/n3/mode/2up	Chronicle covering Byzantine history from the late third to the ninth century.
Translated Excerpts from Byzantine History: c. 700-1204	http://www.paulstephenson.info/trans.html	Translations produced by Paul Stephenson and his students.
Zachariah of Mytilene. The Syriac Chronicle	https://archive.org/details/cu31924027994726/page/n5/mode/2up	Source from early Byzantine and Church History.

1641 Irish Depositions	http://www.1641.tcd.ie/index.php	Fully searchable digital edition of the 1641 Depositions at Trinity College Dublin Library.
Anglo-American Legal Tradition	http://aalt.law.uh.edu/	Over 9 million images of manuscripts held at the National Archives UK, spanning 1176 to the end of Queen Victoria's reign; of broader interest than purely legal history
Alice Thornton's Books	https://thornton.kdl.ac.uk	This AHRC-funded research project, in partnership with Durham Cathedral, will create an online digital edition of all four of Alice Thornton’s autobiographical manuscripts. To date our knowledge of Thornton’s life has largely been dependent on a nineteenth-century edition by Charles C. Jackson that selected materials from some of those manuscripts to produce a single, chronological narrative of her life.
Bess of Harwick’s Letters	https://www.bessofhardwick.org/home.jsp	Bess of Harwick’s correspondence from c. 1550-1608.
British History Online	https://www.british-history.ac.uk/	Entire content free to all users to 30 September 2020.
British Printed Images to 1700	https://bpi1700.org.uk/jsp/	This website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available a database of thousands of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain in fully-searchable form.
British Renaissance Plasterwork	http://www.clairegapper.info/	Research resource created and maitained by Dr Claire Gapper on British plasterwork and workers in the 16th and 17th century. Includes a gazetteer of London plasterworkers compiled by Dr Gapper and Dr Edward Town.
Broadside Ballads Online	http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/	Broadside Ballads Online presents a digital collection of English printed ballad-sheets from between the 16th and 20th centuries.
Casebooks Project (Simon Forman and Richard Napier)	https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/	Digitised casebooks of two late Tudor/early Stuart physician-astrologers.
Civil War Petitions	https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/	Database containing petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars.
Clergy of the Church of England database (1540-1835)	https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/	Biographical database of Anglican clergy to the early 19th century.
Connected Histories	www.connectedhistories.org	Connected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates.
Court depositions of South-West England, 1500-1700	http://humanities-research.exeter.ac.uk/womenswork/courtdepositions/#home	A digital edition of 80 fully transcribed depositions relating to 20 cases heard in the church courts and Quarter Sessions between 1556 and 1694 across Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Database of Court Officers 1660-1837	http://courtofficers.ctsdh.luc.edu/	Online computer database providing the career histories of every regularly remunerated officer and servant of the English royal household and, now, satellite courts, from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.
Digital Cavendish	http://digitalcavendish.org/text-archive/	Provides digital editions of the works of Margaret Cavendish.
Early English Books Online: Text Creation Partnership	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/	EEBO-TCP is a partnership with ProQuest and with more than 150 libraries to generate highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts corresponding to books from the Early English Books Online database.
Early Modern Manuscripts Online	https://emmo.folger.edu/	Database provides transcriptions, metadata and images of manuscripts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Early Modern Women Research Network	https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/emwrn/digitalarchive	The digital archive of the EMWRN presents online editions of women’s writing that circulated in a variety of forms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Early Stuart Libels	http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/htdocs/index.html	A web-based edition of early seventeenth-century political poetry. It brings into the public domain over 350 poems, many of which have never before been published.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Text Creation Partnership	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/	ECCO-TCP resulted from a partnership with Gale to produce highly accurate, fully-searchable, SGML/XML-encoded texts from among the 150,000 titles available in Gale’s ECCO database.
English Broadside Ballad Archive	http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/	Making broadside ballads of the seventeenth century fully accessible as texts, art, music, and cultural records.
Founders Online	founders.archives.gov	Searchable transcripts of correspondence and other writings by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison; includes visits to Britain
Georgian Papers Online	https://gpp.rct.uk/	The Georgian Papers Programme will make available online the historic manuscripts, both official and private, relating to the Georgian monarchy held in the Royal Archives and Royal Library, in addition to relevant collections held by King's College London, by the year 2024.
Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw. A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince	https://archive.org/details/narrativeofmostr00gron_1	1790 edition published in Edinburgh (hosted on archive.org)
Hearth Tax Digital	http://gams.uni-graz.at/context:htx	Hearth Tax Digital is a platform for the publication and dissemination of research and analysis on hearth tax records and other associated documents.
Legislation.gov.uk	https://www.legislation.gov.uk/	Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents from 1267 to the present day.
Letters of Elizabeth Montagu, 1730s-1780s	http://bluestocking.ling.helsinki.fi/	The letters can be downloaded as txt and xml files, and they can be browsed and read on this site.
Lewis Walpole	walpole.library.yale.edu/collections/digital-resources/horace-walpole-correspondence	Searchable transcripts of 48 volumes of Horace Walpole's correspondence, plus other items related to the Walpole family.
London Lives 1690-1800: crime, poverty and social policy in the metropolis	https://www.londonlives.org/	A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.
Manuscript Pamphleteering in early Stuart England	https://mpese.ac.uk/	Only provides pdfs and transcriptions from selected manuscripts.
MarineLives	http://www.marinelives.org/wiki/MarineLives	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).
The Newton Project	http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/	The Newton Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing in full an online edition of all of Sir Isaac Newton’s (1642–1727) writings - whether they were printed or not.
Plantations in Ulster, 1600-41: a collection of documents	https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/Plantations_in_Ulster.PDF	A colection of documents edited by R. J. Hunter
Proceedings of the Old Bailey online 1674-1913	https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/	A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Records of London’s Livery Companies online: apprentices and freemen 1400-1900	https://www.londonroll.org/	The aim of ROLLCO is to provide a fully searchable database of Livery Company membership over time.
Records of the Scottish Parliament to 1707	https://www.rps.ac.uk/	A fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.
Runaway Slaves in Britain	https://www.runaways.gla.ac.uk/	The Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain project has created a 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.
Who Were the Nuns?A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800	wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk/search/howto.html	The database contains details of 3900 nuns who entered 23 convents and the Mary Ward Institute during the period 1600 to 1800.
Work diaries of Robert Boyle	http://www.livesandletters.ac.uk/wd/index.html	From this site you can view images and transcripts of the work diaries, search the workdiary texts, and access reference resources on places, people and books.

Chinese Text Project	https://ctext.org/.	An open access collection of pre-modern Chinese texts
Korean History Online	http://www.koreanhistory.or.kr/	Site houses a selection of digitised books and manuscripts.
Ming-Qing Women’s Writings	https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/english/index.php

Adams Family Papers	http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/
Archives of Maryland Online	http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/index.html
Digital Quaker Collection	https://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/
Dutch Caribbean Digital Platform	http://dcdp.uoc.cw/
Early Americas Digital Archive	http://eada.lib.umd.edu/
Early Haitian Print Culture	http://lagazetteroyale.com/#publications	Included La Gazette royale and officials and almanacs
The Plymouth Colony Archive Project	http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/index2.html
Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland probate inventories	http://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory/
Freedom on the Move	https://freedomonthemove.org/	A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
Georgetown Slavery Archive	http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/	A repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery.
Marronnage in Saint-Domingue	http://www.marronnage.info/fr/accueil.php	A site devoted to fugitive slaves in Saint-Domingue (Haiti).
Runaway Slaves in Britain	https://www.runaways.gla.ac.uk/	A searchable database of over 800 newspaper reports.
Slave Societies Digital Archive	https://www.slavesocieties.org/	The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies.
Slave Voyages	https://www.slavevoyages.org/	Comprises of a number of databases concerning the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries.
Thomas Thistlewood Collection	https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Search/Results?lookfor=thomas+thistlewood&type=AllFields&submit=Find	Digitised collection of 61 items from the papers of the 18th century Jamaican slave-holder Thomas Thistlewood, now held in the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Massachusetts Historical Society	http://www.masshist.org/collections/online	Includes Adams Family and Thomas Jefferson MSS.
A New Nation Votes	https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/	Searchable collection of election returns from the earliest years of American democracy.
Founders Online	https://founders.archives.gov/	George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 183,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.
Vast Early America Resources	https://oieahc.wm.edu/explore/vastearlyamerica-resources/
Women Writers Online	https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/	Women Writers Online is a full-text collection of early women’s writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.
Women Writers in Review	https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/review/index.html	Women Writers in Review is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers.
Early Caribbean Digital Archive	https://ecda.northeastern.edu/home/about/decolonizing-the-archive/what-we-are-doing/	The ECDA has two primary related, overarching goals: the first is to uncover and make accessible a literary history of the Caribbean written or related by black, enslaved, Creole, indigenous, and/or colonized people. Although the first step in this process is digitization, the ECDA is more than a digitization or cataloging initiative. Rather, we aim to enable users—both scholars of the Caribbean as well as students—to understand the colonial nature of the archive and to use the digital archive as a site of revision and remix for exploring ways to decolonize the archive.

Bloomsbury Academic	https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord&browse&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess	Search Bloomsbury Academic's open access content.
Brill	https://brill.com/page/discoveroa/discover-brills-open-access-content	Search Brill’s current open access content.
UCL Press	https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/history	Listed is the UCL Press’s current OA history content.
University of London Press: Humanities Digital Library	https://humanities-digital-library.org/index.php/hdl	The Humanities Digital Library is the open access library and catalogue for books published by the University of London Press at the School of Advanced Study.

Art et Démocratie	https://catima.unil.ch/art-democratie/fr	Online collection of writings devoted to the arts of drawing (painting, sculpture and engraving) in the first years of the French Revolution.
Austrian Newspapers Online	http://anno.onb.ac.at/	Online collection stratching back to the seventeenth century.
Bibliothèque Bleue de Troyes	https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/170	Online collection of 252 chapbooks from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Briefwisseling van Willem van Oranje	http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/wvo/	Searchable database of William of Orange’s correspondence with pdf images of the manuscript letters.
Circulation of knowledge and learned practices in the 17th century Dutch Republic	http://ckcc.huygens.knaw.nl/	The CKCC project built a web application called ePistolarium. With this researchers can browse and analyze around 20,000 letters that were written by and sent to 17th century scholars who lived in the Dutch Republic.
Delpher	https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/	Online archive of Dutch and Indonesian newspapers and periodicals from the 17th to the 20th century.
The Electronic Capito Project	https://capito.itergateway.org/	The purpose of the Electronic Capito Project is to provide the text of letters from and to Wolfgang Capito which are either unpublished or have been published before 1850 and are therefore difficult to access.
Esclavos en Aragón (siglos XV a XVII)	https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/33/92/_ebook.pdf	Collection of documents, pages 69-240.
French Revolution Digital Archive	frda.stanford.edu	The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
Hortus Nitidissimis	http://apps.kew.org/hortus/home.do	Online editions of Christoph Trew’s 18th century work on botany.
Letters of Philip II, King of Spain 1592-1597	https://lib.byu.edu/collections/letters-of-philip-ii/	Online collection of letters from the last decade of Philip II’s reign.
A Literary Tour de France	http://www.robertdarnton.org/	Publishing and the Book Trade in France and Francophone Europe, 1769-1789
The Montaigne Project	https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/montaigne/	Digital edition of Montaigne’s Essays.
Montesquieu - De l'esprit des Lois	http://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique186	An English translation by Philip Stewart hosted on the site of the Société Montesquieu.
Montesquieu - Lettres Persanes	http://montesquieu.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?rubrique245	An English translation by Philip Stewart hosted on the site of the Société Montesquieu.
Münchner Digitalisierungs Zentrum: Digitale Bibliothek	https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=sammlungen_kategorien&l=de	Provides access to a wide variety of collections, including incunabula and sources mainly concerned with German and Bavarian history.
Newberry French Revolution Collection Pamphlets		Over 30,000 pamphlets and more than 23,000 issues of 180 periodicals published between 1780 and 1810.
Post-Reformation Digital Library	https://www.prdl.org/	PRDL is a select database of digital books relating to the development of theology and philosophy during the Reformation and Post-Reformation/Early Modern Era.
Rousseau Online	https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/rousseau-online	A full-text, fully-searchable online edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings. Included are all of Rousseau's works as published in the Collection complète des Œuvres de Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Du Peyrou and Moultou in Geneva (1782-1789).
Sfondrati Family Papers	https://lib.byu.edu/collections/sfondrati-family-papers/	Contains legal documents, land records, and family papers related to the Sfondrati and associated families in northern Italy between 1494 to c. 1900.
Tout d’Holbach	https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/tout-d-holbach	An on-going project which aims to bring together fully searchable transcriptions of the vast majority of d’Holbach’s works.
Vilnius University Library Digital Collection	https://kolekcijos.biblioteka.vu.lt/en	Large online collection including material on the history of Poland-Lithuania.

Andros	http://androsdocs.ims.forth.gr/	Database of Ottoman documents (from 1579 to 1821) in the Kaireios Library of the Greek island of Andros. The database offers direct access to facsimiles of the original documents as well as the possibility to search the documents for specific words and phrases.
Database of Ottoman Inscriptions	http://info.ottomaninscriptions.com/	The Database of Ottoman Inscriptions (DOI) is searchable digital database comprising information about, as well as transliterations and pictures of, all the Turkish, Arabic and Persian architectural inscriptions created in the Ottoman lands during Ottoman times.
Digital Persian Archive	http://www.asnad.org/en/	An image database of Persian historical documents from Iran and Central Asia.
Hyde Books Project	http://hydebooks.njit.edu	Judicial Notebooks of John Hyde and Sir Robert Chambers, 1774-1798, are a unique source of primary historical information for the early years of the Supreme Court and life in India.
National Digital Library of India	https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/	To access you will need to create a user account.
Qatar Digital Library	https://www.qdl.qa/en	An extensive archive of digitised books and manuscripts covering the history of the Middle East from the pre-Islamic period to the present.

Early Modern Culture Online	https://boap.uib.no/index.php/emco
Early Modern Digital Review	https://emdr.itercommunity.org/index.php/emdr

Anglo-American Legal Tradition	aalt.law.uh.edu/	over 9 million images of manuscripts held at the National Archives UK, spanning 1176 to the end of Queen Victoria's reign; contains more than purely legal history
Archive-It	https://archive-it.org/	The leading web archiving service for collecting and accessing cultural heritage on the web. Includes a number of collections relevant to contemporary history including the H1N1 Influenza A (Swine Flu) Outbreak, 2012 London Olympics and Hurricane Katrina.
British Pathé	https://www.britishpathe.com/	Large online library of 20th century news reel films.
The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive (CDA)	https://digitalconcord.tamu.edu/content/project-overview
Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication & Mass Education	https://dds.crl.edu/view/about_hunter	Pamphlets, picture books, and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic between 1947 and 1954. This is the “street literature” of the revolution: comic books, leaflets, and other ephemera distributed to the general population of provincial cities and villages.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive Efiles	https://www.cwgc.org/history-and-archives/cwgc-archive/efiles	The CWGC's enquiry files (Efiles) are part of a collection of nearly 3,000 files which have never been made available to the public before. Nearly half have been digitised so far, alongside a previously unreleased collection of more than 16,000 photographs held in negatives in the Commission’s archive.
Digital Transgender Archive	https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/about/policies	The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Dziennik Zwiazkowy	https://dds.crl.edu/view/about_dz	The first ten years (1908–17) of Dziennik Zwiazkowy, founded in Chicago in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance. Representing local, national, and international issues of concern to the Polish community, the paper continues today as the Polish Daily News.
In Her Own Right: Women Asserting Their Civil Rights, 1820-1920	http://inherownright.org/essays/the_complexity_of_activism	Showcases Philadelphia-area collections highlighting women’s struggle leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
FBI Medgar Evers files	https://www.webharvest.gov/peth04/20041015190122/http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/medgarevers.htm	Files held by the FBI on the Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers and his assassination on the 12th June 1963.
Founders and Survivors	www.foundersandsurvivors.org	Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania.
Forward to Freedom	www.aamarchives.org	A history and materials related to the British anti-apartheid movement 1959-1995
Georgian Papers Online	https://gpp.rct.uk/	The Georgian Papers Programme will make available online the historic manuscripts, both official and private, relating to the Georgian monarchy held in the Royal Archives and Royal Library, in addition to relevant collections held by King's College London, by the year 2024.
Imperial War Museum collections	www.iwm.org.uk/collections	Explore around 800,000 items that tell the story of modern war and conflict, collected by the museum since 1917.
Independent Voices	voices.revealdigital.org	An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
IPUMS	https://ipums.org/	IPUMS provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community contexts. Data and services available free of charge.
A Journal of the Plague Year: an archive of Covid 19	covid19.omeka.net	Join us in documenting our uncertain moment. We are acting not just as historians, but as chroniclers, recorders, memoirists, as image collectors. We invite you to share your experience and impressions of how CoVid19 has affected our lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary, including the ways things haven't changed at all.
LSE Economic History Digital Collection	lse-atom.arkivum.net/index.php/economic-history-digitisation-project	Provides access to some recent digitisation of UK statistical publications on an open government license
Marxist Internet Archive	https://www.marxists.org/	Sites includes information on Marxist thinkers, excerpts of their writing and events in the Left during the 19th and 20th century.
The Palestinian Digital Archive	http://palarchive.org/	Illuminates over 200 years of the Palestinian narrative for posterity and those interested in Palestinian history wherever they happen to be with a collection nearing 70,000 endangered objects ranging from photographs and documents to artworks and posters.
Papers Past	https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/	Online collection of New Zealand newspapers.
Livingstone Online: illuminating imperial exploration	https://www.livingstoneonline.org/about-this-site/the-theory-behind-livingstone-online	Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library that allows users to encounter the written, visual, and material legacies of the famous Victorian explorer David Livingstone (1813-73).
The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS)	https://www.crl.edu/midas	MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano), is a crowd-sourced, public access digital archive of historical documents from Mexican intelligence agencies.
Official Gazettes and Civil Society Information	https://www.crl.edu/collections/topics/official-gazettes	A collection of official gazettes and other key historical government documentation from countries where the integrity of the public record is known to be at risk.
Slavery and Manumission Manuscripts of Timbuktu	https://dds.crl.edu/view/about_timbuktu	Arabic nineteenth-century manuscripts relating to slavery and manumission in Timbuktu provide documentation on Africans in slavery in Muslim societies. From the Bibliothèque Commémorative Mama Haidara in Timbuktu, Mali.
Spare Rib Project	www.bl.uk/spare-rib	Explore digitised images from this ground-breaking feminist 20th-century magazine.
Theatregoing: Eyewitness accounts of going to a show	theatregoing.wordpress.com	Documented experiences of theatre visits from the 16th Century to the Modern Day.
Union Makes Us Strong	www.unionhistory.info	Includes the MS of The RaggedTrousered Philanthropists
Queen Victoria's Scrapbook	http://www.queen-victorias-scrapbook.org/
William Godwin's Diary	godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/index2.html	Digital edition of the diary of William Godwin (1756-1836)
University of Southampton Special Collections	https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archives/index.page	Includes Duke of Wellington and Palmerston
Williams, Wendy. Windrush: lessons learned	https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/windrush-lessons-learned-review	Report concerning the UK government's wrongful detention and deportation of British-born subjects and descendents of the Windrush generation.
Wilson Centre Digital Archive	digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org	The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy.
Windrush Stories	https://www.bl.uk/windrush/collection-items	Over 60 digitised items
Women Writers in Review	https://www.wwp.northeastern.edu/review/index.html	Women Writers in Review is a collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early women writers.

Archivo Rojo	http://pares.mecd.es/ArchFotograficoDelegacionPropaganda/buscarManual.do?pagina=1	Extensive archive of photographs from the time of the Spanish Civil War.
Austrian Newspapers Online	http://anno.onb.ac.at/	Online collection stretching back to the seventeenth century.
Belgian War Press	https://warpress.cegesoma.be/	The Belgian War Press introduces you to hundreds of Belgian newspapers that were written, printed and distributed clandestinely during the two World Wars.
Belgica Periodicals	https://www.belgicaperiodicals.be/	Belgica Periodicals give access to 29 titles published from 1813 to the present day.
Belgica Press	https://belgicapress.be/	Online archive of nineteenth and twentieth century Belgian newspapers.
Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Historica	https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/publicaciones/listar_numeros.do	Online Spanish newspaper archive.
Chronicles of Terror: 39-45	https://www.zapisyterroru.pl/dlibra	Chronicles of Terror is one of the largest collections of civilian testimonies from occupied Europe and features hundreds of accounts submitted by Polish citizens, who suffered immense hardship at the hands of the German and Soviet totalitarian regimes during the Second World War.
Crispa	https://crispa.uw.edu.pl/	Large online library of resources on Polish history created by the University of Warsaw Library.
The De Gaulle Archive Online	https://www.bridgemanimages.us/en-US/7817/the-de-gaulle-archive-online	Over 500 photographs and documents from the de Gaulle Archives, ranging from school reports to wartime speeches, maps of the French trenches and family photographs, are now instantly accessible and available for image licensing via the Bridgeman website.
Delpher	https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/	Online archive of Dutch and Indonesian newspapers and periodicals from the 17th to the 20th century.
Deutsches Zeitungsportal	https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/newspaper	Digital library of German newspapers from 1671 to 1950.
DigiBaeck	https://www.lbi.org/collections/digibaeck/	A vast online archive and library providing access to sources on the history and culture of German-speaking Jewish communities from the 16th to the 20th century.
DigiPress	https://digipress-beta.digitale-sammlungen.de//de/fs1/papers-overview/static.html	Historic Bavarian Newspapers from 1807 to 1965 digitised by the Bavarian State Library.
Digitised Latvian Newspapers	http://datatest.lnb.lv/digitala_biblioteka/laikraksti/	Collection of 19th and 20th century Latvian newspapers.
DigiZeitschriften: Open Access content	https://www.digizeitschriften.de/en/openaccess/	Links to the open access content offered by the site.
Europeana 1914-1918	https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/83-1914-1918	The First World War thematic collection gathers the untold stories and official histories of World War I, in a unique blend of cultural heritage collections and personal items contributed by European citizens.
French Revolution Digital Archive	frda.stanford.edu	The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
Gazet van Antwerpen & Gazet van Mechelen	http://archief.gva.be/index.do	Digital Belgian newspaper archive: Gazet van Antwerpen (from the 3rd November 1891), Gazet van Mechelen (1896-1953)
German History in Documents and Images	http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/about.cfm	Online resources offering collections concentrating on the 19th and 20th century.
German Propaganda Archive	https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/	Online collection curated by Prof. Randall Bytwerk of translations of pamphlets and speeches, as well as propaganda posters from Germany from the 1920s to 1989.
Государственная Публичная Историческая Библиотека - электронная библиотека	http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/9347-elektronnaya-biblioteka-gpib	Large online collection of Russian material held in the State Public Historical Library.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Centropa	https://www.centropa.org/search-our-database-jewish-memory	Extensive archive of interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Czech database of documents and victims	https://www.holocaust.cz/en/main-2/	The website contains a database of digitised documents and a database of victims which can be searched by name, birth place or date and address. Information about the history of the Holocaust and the sources of the database are also available online.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Database of Jewish Businesses in Berlin 1933-1945	https://www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb/www/about?language=en_US	On this website you will find an abridged version of the Database of Jewish Businesses in Berlin.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Gathering Voices	http://www.gatheringthevoices.com/testimonies/	Audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with refugees to Scotland who escaped persecution in Nazi controlled Europe.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Holocaust Denial On Trial	https://www.hdot.org/	This website was created by Professor Deborah E. Lipstadt and colleagues and is a joint project of Emory University and Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. Its mission is to ensure perpetual access to the evidence, transcripts, judgment, and appeal documents that made the case in the David Irving v. Penguin Books U.K. and Deborah Lipstadt trial and to refute the misleading claims of Holocaust deniers with historical evidence.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: The Holocaust Encyclopedia	https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/	Online Reference Work edited by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust	https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Jewish-Holocaust-survivors	Collection of interview recordings held in the British Library.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Learning Voices of the Holocaust	http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/holocaust.html	Voices of the Holocaust consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, that describe the hardships of life during Hitler's reign.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Memory of Treblinka	https://pamiectreblinki.pl/en/the-names-of-the-victims/database/?fwp_paged=3	The Memory of Treblinka Foundation uses information from Yad Vashem's databases, the reports collected at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, memoirs and other pre- and post-war sources to collate a "Book of Names" relating to those murdered at Treblinka. Although incomplete the database currently includes over 25,000 names and strives to include other information such as occupation, place of birth and details of family members where possible.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: National Archives Key Documents	https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/holocaust/	Digitised copies of documents found in the National Archives
Holocaust and Antisemitism: The Nuremberg Trials Collection	https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp	Viewable here are transcripts of the published proceedings.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: The Nuremberg Trials Project	https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/	The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: The "SS KL Auschwitz Garrison" Database	https://truthaboutcamps.eu/th/zaloga-ss-kl-auschwitz/16816,Zaloga-SS-KL-Auschwitz.html	This database contains the names and personal details of 8,502 staff members from Auschwitz and is based on data from archives in Poland, Germany, Austria, the US and, to a limited extent, Russia. Personal details includes first name and surname, date and place of birth, nationality, education background, and occupation (when known) and includes both browsing and search functions.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Testifying to the Truth - Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust	https://www.testifyingtothetruth.co.uk/viewer/	Created by researchers at the Wiener Library during the 1950s, and translated thanks to volunteers at the Wiener, this digital archive is now available online.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Oral History Archive.	https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/about/oral-history/	Many of the interviews held in the USHMM are available in transcript or audio and video recording.
Holocaust and Antisemitism: Yad Vashem	https://www.yadvashem.org/	Premier worldwide site for Holocaust research.
International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive	https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/	Growing archive providing access to sources highlighting the UK and the Allies bombing campaigns of continental Europe during the Second World War.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia	https://www.icty.org/	Includes court records.
Making the History of 1989	http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/	A substantial collection of high quality primary sources; a set of multimedia interviews that make visible the processes by which historians transform events and sources into historical narratives.
Pamphlets and Periodicals of the French Revolution of 1848	https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/165	Pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by the Center for Research Libraries.
Протоколи на Политбюро и на ЦК и БКП (1944-1989)	http://politburo.archives.bg/	A selection of documents from the Bulgarian Politburo and the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party held in the Bulgarian State Archives.
Руниверс	https://runivers.ru/lib/index_lib.php	Large online collection of material on Russian history and philosophy.
Spanish Civil War Poster Collection	https://bir.brandeis.edu/handle/10192/25550	Digitised images of 112 posters held in Brandeis University Library.
The Todor Zhivkov Project	https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/81/todor-zhivkov-collection	Contains documents by and about Todor Zhivkov, leader of the the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1954 to 1989.
Travels in Southeastern Europe	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bosnia/	Online library of 19th and 20th century travel accounts in the Balkans.
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Digital Archive	http://www.osaarchivum.org/digital-repository	Large online collection of documents and films about Hungary during the Communist period.
Vilnius University Library Digital Collections	https://kolekcijos.biblioteka.vu.lt/en	Large online library on the history of Poland-Lithuania and Lithuania in the 19th and 20th century.
Войните на България (1878-1945 г.)	http://archives.bg/wars/	Information about the history of warfare in Bulgaria from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Includes collections of documents and images.
Warwick University Digital Collections: 20th century France	https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/search/searchterm/history%20of%20france%2C%201848-1998/field/coursa/mode/exact/conn/and/order/datea/ad/asc/page/1	Collection of 56 digitised documents dating from 1934 to 1968 highlighting the political history of 20th century France.
Warwick University Digital Collections: Trabajadores	https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/digital/scw/	Digital access to over 13,000 pages of archival materials about the history of the Spanish Civil War provided by the University of Warwick Library.
World War II in Archival Documents	https://www.prlib.ru/en/collections/1298142	Collection currently being digitised at the Boris Yeltsin Memorial Library. Phase one of the project includes documents from 1933 to 1939.

Adams Papers Digital Edition	http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/	Provides access to the correspondence of the Adams family, including John and Abigail Adams and John Quincey Adams.
Agents of Social Change: an online exhibition	https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/agents/index.html	Includes digitised texts and photographs
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982	https://archive.org/details/Pacifica_radio_archives_NHPRC1_American	The American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 collection includes 2,024 reel-to-reel tapes and 2,024 WAV files preserved as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives’ 2013-2016 “American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982” (“American Women”) preservation project. The recordings were selected as an “artificial collection” to document the Women’s movement and second-wave feminism as it was broadcast on the Pacifica network.
American Political Prints 1766-1876	https://loc.harpweek.com/default.asp	Large collection of early US political cartoons.
Andrew Jackson Papers	https://www.loc.gov/collections/andrew-jackson-papers/about-this-collection/	Digitised papers held at the Library of Congress
Angela Davis ephemera collection	https://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/digital/search/searchterm/angela%20davis%20ephemera	Collection of 44 items about political activist, academic and author Prof. Angela Davis
Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project	https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/website/	Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s first Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. The Project, co-directed by Professors Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, coordinates research in North America and Asia to create an online digital archive available to all, along with books, digital visualizations, conferences, and public events.
Chronicling America	https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/	Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Civil Rights Digital Library	http://crdl.usg.edu/	Resource portal for items on the US Civil Rights Movement.
Civil Rights Oral History Collection	https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/collection/cvoralhist	This site focuses on Washington state residents with ties to the Civil Rights Movement.
A Conversation with Betty Friedan	https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-3675	Interview held in 2005 at the Library of Congress.
Cornell Hip Hop Collections	https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/hiphop/digital_collections.php	Established in 2007, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection preserves more than 250,000 items across dozens of archives documenting the origins of Hip Hop culture and its spread around the globe.
Digital Public Library of America: Native American collection	https://dp.la/search?subject[]=Native+Americans	Over 500 texts and 10,000 images available.
DocsTeach	https://www.docsteach.org/documents	DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.
Documenting the American South	https://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html	Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Documents Relating to Indian Affairs	https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/History/IndianTreatiesMicro/	The collection currently includes Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Ratified and Unratified Treaties With Various Indian Tribes, 1801-1869 and the Office of Indian Affairs, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The Equal Rights Amendment: digital source set	https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-equal-rights-amendment	Selection of digitised sources hosted by the Digital Public Library of America
FBI W.E.B. Du Bois files	https://vault.fbi.gov/E.%20B.%20%28William%29%20Dubois	Files held by the FBI on W.E.B. du Bois.
FBI Medgar Evers files	https://www.webharvest.gov/peth04/20041015190122/http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/medgarevers.htm	Files held by the FBI on the Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers and his assassination on the 12th June 1963.
Founders Online	https://founders.archives.gov/	Provides access to the published papers of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.
Freedom on the Move	https://freedomonthemove.org/	A database of fugitives from American Slavery.
La Gazette Royale d'Hayti Project	http://lagazetteroyale.com/	Digitised collection including: 19th century Haitian almanacs. Gazette Officielle de l'etat d'Hayti (1807-11) Gazette Royale d'Hayti (1813-20)
Georgetown Slavery Archive	http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/	A repository of materials relating to the Maryland Jesuits, Georgetown University, and slavery.
Ida B. Wells and anti-lynching activism	https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/ida-b-wells-and-anti-lynching-activism#tabs	Small selection of sources and images and links to addtional sources on the life of Ida B. Wells and her anti-lynching campaigns.
In Her Own Right: Women Asserting Their Civil Rights, 1820-1920	http://inherownright.org/essays/the_complexity_of_activism	Showcases Philadelphia-area collections highlighting women’s struggle leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
Independent Voices	voices.revealdigital.org	An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project	https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/search	Search the published volumes of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers for transcribed (sometimes digitisted) copies of his correspondence.
The Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (MIDAS)	https://www.crl.edu/midas	MIDAS, the Mexican Intelligence Digital Archives (los Archivos del Autoritarismo Mexicano), is a crowd-sourced, public access digital archive of historical documents from Mexican intelligence agencies.
National Security Archive - the Virtual Reading Room	https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/virtual-reading-room	Makes available over six thousand documents on US foreign relations.
The Niagara Movement Digital Archive	http://scua.library.umass.edu/digital/niagara.htm	A selection of digitised sources about the Niagara Movements and its influence from 1905 to 1914.
No Safe Space	http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/interv/steinem.html	Transcript of interview with Gloria Steinem.
Presidential Campaign 1972	https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/253396	25 minutes of film clips from the 1972 presidential campaign.
Primary Source Spotlight: Shirley Chisholm	https://primarysourcenexus.org/2017/03/primary-source-spotlight-shirley-chisholm/	Selection of sources by and about U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Public Papers of the Presidents	https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/	Digitised papers from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton held by the University of Michigan.
Riots and Rebellions	https://nlj.gov.jm/riots-and-rebellions/	Online collection created by the National Library of Jamaica bringing together a selection of materials on the Baptist War of 1831-2 and the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865.
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection	https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/mayantislaverycoll/	Includes thousands of digitised anti-slavery and abolitionist sources.
The Sandino Rebellion, Nicaragua 1927-1934	http://www.sandinorebellion.com/	This Website is envisioned as a comprehensive, interpretive, open-access digital archive on the nationalist rebellion against US military intervention in Nicaragua led by Augusto C. Sandino in the 1920s and '30s.
Schlafly, Phyllis. The Phyllis Schlafly Report	https://eagleforum.org/publications/psr.html	Report produced by U.S. conservative Phyllis Schlafly
Slave Societies Digital Archive	https://www.slavesocieties.org/	The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in slave societies.
Toward Racial Equality: Harper's Weekly reports on Black America, 1857-1874	https://blackhistory.harpweek.com/default.htm	Image library of illustrations published in Harper's Weekly on the last years of US slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Treaties Explorer	https://digitreaties.org/	Part of the larger Indigenous Digital Archive, the IDA Treaties Explorer explains that while treaties between Indigenous peoples and the United States affect virtually every area in the USA, there is as yet no official list of all the treaties. The US National Archives holds 374 of the treaties, where they are known as the Ratified Indian Treaties. Here you can view them for the first time with key historic works that provide context to the agreements made and the histories of our shared lands.
Vision Project	https://www.youtube.com/user/visionaryproject/	YouTube channel which hosts recorded interviews with African Americans who shaped the history of the 20th century.
Voices of Democracy: the U.S. Oratory Project	https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/	Site includes transcripts of speeches, texts and lists of further resources.
Women's Libraration Movement Digital Collection	https://repository.duke.edu/dc/wlmpc#subject	This collection housed in Duke University Library contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

Arabic Collections Online	http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/	Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. ACO currently provides digital access to 10,042 volumes across 6,265 subjects drawn from rich Arabic collections of distinguished research libraries.
Gertrude Bell Archive	http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/	Letters, diaries and photographs from the British archaeologist who travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and Iran.
Institute for Palestine Studies - Digital Projects	https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/digital-projects	The Institute for Palestine Studies has assembled a number of databases and collections of documents on the question of Palestine that constitute a rich source of information for researchers and scholars. (Resources in Arabic and English)
Iranian Oral History Project	https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/iranian-oral-history-project?utm_source=library.harvard	The collection consists of the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s. Of these, 118 narratives have been digitized and are available to researchers through this database.
Israel's Foreign Policy - Historical Documents	https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/MFADocuments/Pages/Documents_Foreign_Policy_Israel.aspx	Published by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, these are documents (official statements, press conferences, interview, letters, etc.) relating to Israel's foreign relations from 1947-2004.
The Middle East, 1916-2001 : a documentary record	https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mideast.asp	Government documents, transcripts of speeches by government leaders and UN resolutions. Arranged by year.
The Palestinian Oral History Archive	https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/	The Palestinian Oral History Archive is a project to digitize, index, catalog, preserve, and provide access (through a searchable digital platform) to an archival collection of around 1,000 hours of testimonies with first generation Palestinians and other Palestinian communities in Lebanon.
The Saddam Hussein Sourcebook	https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//special/iraq/index.htm	Brings together five briefing books previously published by the National Security Archive into one searchable file of primary sources. These include "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction," "Eyes on Saddam," "Alleged Iraqi War Criminals in 1992," "Operation Desert Storm," and "Shaking Hands with Saddam: U.S. Policy before the Gulf War."
Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran	http://www.qajarwomen.org/en/index.html	Explore the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private family holdings and participating institutions. Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran provides bilingual access to thousands of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, publications, everyday objects, works of art and audio materials, making it a unique online resource for social and cultural histories of the Qajar world.

Biodiversity Heritage Library	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/	Digitised copies of books, journals and papers from a consortium of natural history libraries. Search by author, title or date of publication.
Catena: digital archive of historic gardens and landscapes	https://catena.bgc.bard.edu/index.htm	The primary mission of Catena, the Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes, is to fill a void in American higher education by assembling a searchable collection of historic and contemporary images that include plans, engravings, paintings, and photographs.
Historic England Archaeological Research Reports	https://historicengland.org.uk/research/research-results/research-reports/	Many archaeological reports available to download here.

Blomfield, Reginald. The formal garden in England	https://archive.org/details/formalgardenine00blomgoog/page/n6/mode/2up
Brown, Capability. Account Book
Evelyn, John. Sylva; or, A discourse of forest-trees and the propagation of timer.	https://archive.org/details/sylvaordiscourse00eveluoft/page/n4/mode/2up
Furber, Robert. A short introduction to gardening.	https://archive.org/details/shortintroductio00furb/page/n8/mode/2up
Hill, Thomas. The gardeners labyrinth	https://archive.org/details/CAT10889940/page/n13/mode/2up
Jekyll, Gertrude. Colour in the flower garden.	http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50764
Marshall, Charles. An introduction to the knowledge and practice of gardening	https://archive.org/details/introductiontokn02mars/page/n6/mode/2up
Meager, Leonard. The English gardener, or, A sure guide to young planters and gardeners	https://archive.org/details/englishgardneror00meag/page/n4/mode/2up
Rea, John. Flora: seu, do florum cultura. Or a complete florilege	https://archive.org/details/b30323009/page/n12/mode/2up
Repton, Humphry. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening

Open and Free Access Materials for Research

Introduction

About this Guide

How to use this guide

Things to think about when using online sources

Further Reading

Other School of Advanced Study and Senate House Library Guides

Secondary Works

Your Own Institution's Library

Books, Journals and Institutional Repositories

Theses Databases and Online Repositories

Catalogues, Bibliographies and Guides

Lists of Online Archives

Thematic Guides

Archive and Library Catalogues and Aggregators

Online Book Collections

Guides and Bibliographies

Digitised Printed Books

Hebraic and Yiddish

Digital Collections

National and Regional Libraries

Research Libraries and Other Organisations

Archives

Late Antiquity

General Resources

Primary Texts

Epigraphy and Numismatics

Medieval

General Resources

Dictionaries, Biographical and Reference Works

Library, Archive and Museum Collections

Documentary Sources

Other Sources

Societies

Resources for Byzantine History

Early Modern

General

Publishers

Britain and Ireland

Rest of Europe

The Middle East, Iran, Central Asia and India

East and South East Asia

Americas and the Atlantic

Journals

Modern and Contemporary

General

National and International Organisations

Britain and Ireland

Europe (excl. Britain and Ireland)

America, North

The Middle East

Garden History

Digital Collections and Archives

Individual Digitised Sources

Online Reference Works

Periods and Styles

Local History

United Kingdom

Individual Counties and Metropolitan Districts (England)

Individual Counties and Metropolitan Districts (Scotland)

Individual Counties and Metropolitan Districts (Wales)

Ireland

United States

LGBTIQ+ History

General

European LGBTIQ+ History

North American LGBTIQ+ History

HIV/AIDS and LGBTIQ+ Communities

Medical History

General

Image Libraries

Disease and Treatment

Medicine and Empire

Individuals (general papers, correspondence, photographs, etc.)

Rural and Agricultural History

Asia

Britain and Ireland

Europe (exl. Britain and Ireland)

North America

Scientific History


Parks and Gardens	https://www.parksandgardens.org/	Extensive database of British and Irish parks and gardens browsable by name, area, period, heritage organisation, etc. Includes former parks and gardens which have now been lost.
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest	https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/registered-parks-and-gardens/	The National Heritage List for England is the only official and up to date database of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England. Search by place, post code or listing number, or use the advanced search for more options.

Medieval Gardens to c. 1400
Albertus Magnus. De Vegetabilibus	http://albertusmagnus.uwaterloo.ca/PDFs/De%20vegetabilibus-Meyer-Jessen.pdf	Pdf of the Latin text.
Capitulare des Villis	http://diglib.hab.de/mss/254-helmst/start.htm?image=000016	This decree issued by Charlemage towards the end of the 8th century describes, in an idealised form, the management of royal estates.
Geoponika	Volume 1. https://archive.org/details/geponikaagricult00cass/page/n6/mode/2up Volume 2. https://archive.org/details/b22041072_0002/page/n4/mode/2up	10th cenury compilation of earlier Byzantine works on agriculture, gardening and botany.
Plan of St. Gall	http://www.stgallplan.org/en/index_plan.html	The Plan of St. Gall is the earliest preserved and most extraordinary visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages. Drawn and annotated on five pieces of parchment sewn together, the St. Gall Plan is 112 cm x 77.5 cm and includes the ground plans of some forty structures as well as gardens, fences, walls, a road, and an orchard.
Strabo, Walafrid. Hortulus	https://www.huntbotanical.org/admin/uploads/hibd-hortulus-facsimile.pdf	Digital edition with facing English translation of Walafrid Strabo's 9th century poem describing his monastic garden at Reichenau.
Gardens from c. 1400-c. 1700
Alberti, Leon Battista. De Re Aedificatoria	https://archive.org/details/leonisbaptisteal00albe/page/n10/mode/1up	Digitised copy published in 1485 of Alberti's treatise on the ideal villa and garden.
Bacon, Francis. On Gardens	https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francis-bacon-on-gardens-1902	1902 edition of Bacon's essay.
Hill, Thomas. The Profitable Art of Gardening	https://archive.org/details/b30326837/mode/2up	1579 edition.
Palladio, Andrea. I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura.	https://archive.org/details/iquattrolibridel01pall/page/n4/mode/2up	Although one of the most influential works on western architecture it also considers garden design.
East Asian Garden History and Design
Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Qing)	https://www.wdl.org/en/item/4447/	The legend of Mount Penglai influenced Chinese garden design from the Qin onwards.
Peng, Y. Zhongguo gudian yuanlin fenxi (1984)	http://www.hifa.edu.cn/CMShyx/201305/201305140310020.pdf	Although a secondary work on classical Chinese design it includes garden plans and illustrations. Digital copy of the 1984 edition.

General Resources
Archaeology Data Service	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
Atlas of Hillforts in Great Britain and Ireland	https://hillforts.arch.ox.ac.uk/	Includes 4,147 sites across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (1,224 in England). For each site details of archaeological investigation, secondary literature (including early editions of the VCH, with correct page references) are provided.
British Association for Local History (BALH) including their journal The Local Historian	https://www.balh.org.uk/ The Local Historian https://www.balh.org.uk/thelocalhistorian	Back issues of their excellent journal, The Local Historian, temporarily available for free online. They also publish a [printed] guide to internet sources for local historians.
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online	https://bifmo.history.ac.uk/	Online resource for British and Irish furniture makers from the beginning of the 16th century to the onset of the Great War.
British History Online	https://www.british-history.ac.uk/	Entire content free to all users to 30 September 2020.
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure	https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/	Population research, techniques and datasets.
Churchwardens' Accounts of England and Wales	https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/myparish/projects/cwa/	A searchable national database of all surviving churchwardens' accounts in England and Wales from the earliest known sets (c.1300) to c.1850.
Commercial Motor Magazine Archive	http://archive.commercialmotor.com/	A useful free resource providing detail of the road transport industry both passenger and freight.
From Great War to Race Riots	https://www.greatwar-to-raceriots.co.uk/	Digital project investigating the race riots of 1919 and the murder of Charles Wootton. Includes a digital archive of selected documents.
GENUKI Reference Library	https://www.genuki.org.uk/	GENUKI provides a virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland.
Grace's Guide	http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page	Grace’s Guide is a free-content not-for-profit project dedicated to publishing the history of industry in the UK and elsewhere. Includes trade journals.
Historical Directories of England and Wales, 1760s-1910s	http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4	Digitised copies of selected directories held by the University of Leicester library.
Industrial Heritage Online (IHO)	http://www.industrialhistoryonline.co.uk/yiho/index.php	The aim of IHO is to provide free web access to information about Industrial Heritage Sites. IHO is a fully searchable database, that has been developed by a group of Industrial History Societies, and which aims to provide an on-line repository for members' knowledge, photographs research notes, audio, and sound recording of industrial sites, artefacts and processes. It is hoped that, in time, this will become a comprehensive record of our shared Industrial Heritage and an invaluable resource to everyone researching the development of Industry.
Integrated Census Microdata	http://icem.data-archive.ac.uk/	This purpose-built system can be used to filter the database of over 180 million census records for censuses between 1851 and 1911 based on 20 key variables, then download the resulting data table of individual census records with 100+ variables per record. Note that the county breakdown is for the ‘census’ county and that some communities may not be in the county expected. Especially useful is the availability of occupation data, a great boon for work on economic and social history.
Legacies of British Slave Ownership	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/	Includes data recording compensation paid to slave owners in Britain.
Library of Rural and Agricultural Literature	https://www.bahs.org.uk/LIBRAL.html	Over 700 items. Password available on application.
Magic Map (DEFRA)	http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx	DEFRA-produced map based on modern OS data with local authority boundaries, aerial photographs, landscape typology and land use. More accurate than Google mapping and can be printed out for use with fieldwork, etc.
Medieval Genealogy	http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/index.html	Does far more than the name suggests, including links to online sources, guides to what they contain and primary documents in translation.
Making Britain: discover how South Asians shaped the nation, 1870-1950	http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain/content/about-database	This online database provides information about South Asians in Britain from 1870 to 1950, the organizations they were involved in, their British connections, and the major events in which they participated. Designed as an interactive tool, it offers engaging and innovative search and browsing options, including a timeline, location maps, and network diagrams modelled on social networking sites which demonstrate South Asians' interactions and relationships in Britain at the time. Some entries have extracts from archival sources with explanation of their content and relevance.
Railway Work, Life and Death project	http://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/	Dataset and analysis of railway worker accidents in Britain and Ireland from the late 1880s to 1939. We’re providing data about who was involved, what they were doing on the railways, what happened to them and why.
Society for all British and Irish Road Enthusiasts (SABRE)	http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/	Changes to roads and classifications of them assembled by SABRE are invaluable: useful Wiki with dates of construction, opening and closure with bypass schemes, junctions and other details.
Trade Directories: Open Bibliography	https://www.zotero.org/groups/2337777/trade_directories	An open bibliography for anyone using trade and local directories in their research or teaching. It is a companion to the Historical Directories of England & Wales collection hosted by University of Leicester Special Collections Online (also included in this guide)
UK Data Service	www.ukdataservice.ac.uk	Explore the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources.
A Vision of Britain through Time	www.visionofbritain.org.uk	Population and other statistic with boundaries of parishes and local government units.
England
Anti-Chinese articles from The Seaman	27th June 1913 https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/5213 1st May 1914 https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/5087 27th May 1914 https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/5199 12th June 1914 https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/id/5093	A series of racist articles directed at Chinese communities and workers published in the newspaper of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union between 1913-1914.
England’s Immigrants	https://www.englandsimmigrants.com/	A fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
Extensive Urban Surveys (EUS)	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/EUS/	The Extensive Urban Surveys (EUS) project is part of a national programme of surveys of the archaeology, topography and historic buildings of England’s historic towns and cities, supported by English Heritage.
Historic England National List	https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/	Interrogate Historic England's database of designation and listing descriptions, along with crowdsourced images.
Know Your Place West	http://www.kypwest.org.uk/	Coverage of the counties of Somerset, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire and Devon (and the unitary authorities in ‘CUBA’ – Counties that Used to Be Avon: North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire) including, for most of the area, georectified Tithe Maps, with overlays of OS and other mapping with information from various local authority and personal local history data interposed.
Moving Here		Moving Here explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, regional and national archives, libraries and museums. (This project is archived but no longer maintained by the National Archives).
Post-Windrush: African Caribbean migration between 1948-1957	https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/racism/windrush/	Give access to six documents found in Warwick University Library.
Scotland
National Library of Scotland Digital Resources	https://www.nls.uk/digital-resources	To access some resources you may need to join the NLS online.
National Library of Scotland Maps	https://maps.nls.uk/	Home of open access historic mapping from the Ordnance Survey and others with lots of interpretative tools.
Scotland's People	https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/	Genealogical databases are free to search. Registration is required and there are fees to downloading digital copies of the documents themselves.
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550-1780	http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/scotland/index.php	Site provides data on Scottish economic history from 1550-1780 organised by crop yields, demographic data, price series, wage series and weather statistics.
Scottish Post Office Directories	https://digital.nls.uk/directories/	Over 700 digitised directories covering most of Scotland and dating from 1773 to 1911 are available here for you to use.
The Scottish Register of Tartans	https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/search	Register contains thousands of tartan designs that are free to access and can be searched by date, name, colours and keywords. Free to search without registering.
The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, 1563-1736	http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/Research/witches/	Database of the 4,000 known to be accused of witchcraft in Scotland. Includes and interactive database and supporting webpages. Provided by the University of Edinburgh.
Women's History Scotland - Resources	http://womenshistoryscotland.org/resources/sources-for-womens-history/	Resource List
Northern Ireland
Stormont Papers		Parliamentary Debates of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament in March 28 1972.
Wales
The Blue Books of 1847	https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/printed-material/the-blue-books-of-1847	Series of reports conducted in the mid-nineteenth century on education in Wales.
Cymru 1914: y Rhyfel byd Cyntaf a'r Profiad Cymreig	https://cymru1914.org/cy/home	This digital archive is the output of a large-scale digitization project. Here you will find a collection of primary sources from Welsh libraries and archives. The project provides a digital collection which reveals the hidden history of the First World War and shows how the history affected life, language and culture in Wales. The project has collected scattered and often inaccessible material in one place to create a unique digital archive of interest to researchers, students and the public in Wales and beyond.
Davies, Walter. Board of Agriculture reports		Three digitised volumes of the agricultural reports produced by Walter Davies in the early nineteenth century.
Dictionary of Welsh Biography	https://biography.wales/	This website contains over five thousand concise biographies of individuals who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely.
GPM Gogledd Cymru=North Wales BMD	http://www.northwalesbmd.org.uk/	Searchable database of births, marriages and deaths from the nineteenth century.
Welsh Almanac Collection	https://www.llgc.org.uk/?id=7379	Gives access to digitial copies of Welsh alamanacs from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
Welsh Journals Online	https://journals.library.wales/	Welsh Journals provides access to journals relating to Wales published between 1735-2007. Titles range from academic and scientific publications to literary and popular magazines.
Welsh Newspapers Online	https://newspapers.library.wales/	Welsh Newspapers Online is a free online resource from the National Library of Wales where you can discover millions of articles from the Library’s rich collection of historical newspapers.
Welsh Tithe Maps	https://places.library.wales/	Search and browse over 300,000 entries and their accompanying apportionment documents using original and present-day maps.

Cheshire
Cheshire Tithe Maps Online	https://maps.cheshireeast.gov.uk/tithemaps/	Overlay of tithe maps (1836-51) with a selection of OS maps and aerial surveys.
Mapping Medieval Chester	http://www.medievalchester.ac.uk/	This project brings together scholars working in the disciplines of literary studies, geography, archaeology and history to explore how material and imagined urban landscapes construct and convey a sense of place-identity. The focus of the project is the city of Chester and the identities that its inhabitants formed between c.1200 and 1500.
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=100	Selected volumes available between 1886 to 2013.
VCH Cheshire. Volume 5 (The City of Chester)	Part 1 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt1 Part 2 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol5/pt2	Part 1. General History and Topography. Part 2. Culture, Buildings, Institutions.
Cornwall
Cornish Archaeology=Hendhyscans Kernow	https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/category/journals/	Publication of the Cornish Archaeology Society. Vols 1-49 (1962-2010) available in pdf format.
Cornwall Online Census Project	http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/genealogy/search.html	Although the project ended in 2008 it has useful information on Cornish Census data from 1841 to 1901.
Cumbria
Cumbria Image Bank	https://cumbriaimagebank.org.uk/index.php	Image library including maps.
Otley, Jonathan. A concise description of the English lakes and adjacent mountains	https://archive.org/details/cu31924067529655/page/n5/mode/2up	4th edition (1830)
Derbyshire
Derbyshire Archaeological Journal	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1000242	Volumes available 1879-2014.
Derbyshire Heritage Mapping Portal	https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record-office/records/historic-maps/historic-maps.aspx	The portal contains selected historical maps of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The maps can be overlaid on a current Ordnance Survey map to see how the area has developed over the past 200 years.
Derbyshire Prisoner Records	https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/record-office/records/prisoner-records/prisoner-records.aspx	A database of Derbyshire prisoners between 1729 and 1913.
Devon
Devon's World War One Roll of Honour Project	http://www.devonhonour.org.uk/	This project provides access to the World War One Roll of Honour held in the Devon Heritage Centre.
Eighteenth Century Devon: People and Communities	http://www.foda.org.uk/main/projects/eighteenthcentury.htm	Project provides access to transcribed copies of the Devon and Exeter Oath Rolls, 1723, the Episcopal Visitation Returns of 1749 and 1779 and Devonshire Freeholders 1711-1799.
Durham (County)
Archaeologia Aeliana	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001112	Volumes available 1822-2014.
Coal Mining Oral History	http://www.durhamintime.org.uk/coal_mining/index.htm	Oral history archive devoted to County Durham's mining history.
Durham Probate Records 1540-1599	http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ark/32150_s1mc87pq251.xml#DPRI-1-1596-t	Wills and inventories held by Durham University Library.
Durham University Gazette	https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/durham-university/dugazettes/	Selected issues from 1953 to 1986.
Durham University Journal	https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/durham-university/dujournal/	Selected issues from 1876 to 1973.
Pictures in Print	http://valentine.dur.ac.uk/pip/index.html	A collaborative project to create a union catalogue, with viewable images, of printed maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860.
Surtees Society: selected volumes	https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Surtees+Society%22&sort=-date&page=2	Selected volumes hosted on the archive.org site.
Essex
Essex Place Names Database	https://www1.essex.ac.uk/history/esah/essexplacenames/index.asp	The Essex Place-names database contains names of fields, roads, inns, houses, farms, manors, places, rivers, streams, woods, etc, and names of owners, tenants, landlords, parties to agreements etc, recorded from historic documents such as Tithe Awards, Rental Agreements, Surveys, Maps, Rolls, Inquisitions, Deeds, Charters.
Gloucestershire (including Bristol)
Historical Association (Bristol Branch) Pamphlets	https://bristolha.wordpress.com/bristol-ha-pamphlets/	The site gives access to digital copies of historical pamphlets of the HA Bristol branch produced between 1960 and 2007.
Hampshire
Hampshire History Resources Guide	https://www.hampshire-history.com/sample-page/resources/	Portal to hundreds of links to local historical societies and resources about the history of Hampshire
Kent
MEMSLib Medieval and Early Modern Canterbury and Kent Resource Page	https://www.memslib.co.uk/medievalcanterburykent	Research portal of resources freely available for the history of Kent and Canterbury from 597 to 1597.
Lancashire (including Greater Manchester and Merseyside)
Bolton Worktown: photography and archives from Mass Observation	https://boltonworktown.co.uk/	Primarily a photo library, with a selection of digitised documents.
Liverpool History Projects	http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/	Hosts a number of databases on Liverpools history.
Peterloo Digital Collection	https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/peterloo/2	Selection of documents digitised by the University of Manchester.
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=100	Selected volumes available between 1886 to 2013.
VCH Lancashire, Volumes 2-8	https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--lancs	Available via British History Online
Leicestershire
Bulletin of the Loughborough Archaeological and Historical Society	https://www.loughboroughpastandpresent.org/archives.htm	1958-1991
Lincolnshire
Yellow Belly Index	https://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/index.php/information/yellow-belly-index-moa?start=30-	This database is an index of Lincolnshire people. Unlike the people in the parish records, census or strays this list contains people who appear in any record related to Lincolnshire.
London
1958 Riots	https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/rem/riots/	This page gives access to a number of digitised documents concerning the Notting Hill Riots of August and September 1958.
Black and Asian People discovered in records held in the Manuscripts Section, Guildhall Library	https://archives.history.ac.uk/guildhallmanuscripts/baentries.htm	List of Black and Asian people found in London parish registers found in Guildhall Library.
Charles Booth's London (LSE)	booth.lse.ac.uk	Charles Booth's London enables you to search the catalogue of over 450 original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903), view 41 digitised notebooks and explore the London poverty maps.
Everyday Muslim: Exploring the diversity of Black British Muslim heritage in London	https://www.everydaymuslim.org/projects/black-british-muslim-heritage-project/	Selected written and oral sources are available through this site.
Grunwick Remembered	https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/archives_online/filmvideo/grunwick	Here you can find a number of recorded interviews about the Grunwick Strike of August 1976, including reflections from the strike leader Jayaben Desai.
Jewish East London	https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/rem/london/	This page give access to a handful of digitised documents highlighting the history of Jewish communities in East London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Layers of London	https://www.layersoflondon.org/	Layered historical mapping and associated collections for all of London’s 36 boroughs (many formerly parts of Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Essex).
Medieval Londoners	https://medievallondoners.ace.fordham.edu/	This website introduces resources available for research about medieval London and its people, focusing not only on documentary and narrative sources in print, but also archaeological, visual, and cartographic sources that illuminate the physical and material world inhabited by medieval Londoners. An important component of the website is the Medieval Londoners Database (MLD), which records the activities of London residents between c. 1100 and 1520, and is searchable by name, gender, citizenship status, location (ward, parish, and street if available), craft, occupation, civic office, and craft office, among other variables.
Norfolk
Norfolk Archaeology	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001327	Journal dates available: 1847-2005
Norfolk Transcription Archive	http://doun.org/transcriptions/index.php	Includes indexed transcriptions of Norfolk Parish Registers, Archdeacon's Transcripts, Census and many other documents.
Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
Archaeologia Aeliana	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=1001112	Volumes available 1822-2014.
Dukefield Documents	http://www.dukesfield.org.uk/research/dukesfield-documents/	Transcriptions of documents show-casing the history of lead smelting in the North-East.
Early deeds relating to Newcastle upon Tyne	https://archive.org/details/earlynewcastledeeds/page/n5/mode/2up	Surtees Society publication, 1924.
Northumberland Communities	https://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Communities.htm	Provides information on 77 of Northumberland's towns, villages and hamlets with a selection of online sources for each.
Speeches delivered by Joseph Cowen, as candidate for Newcastle-upon-Tyne a the General Election, 1885	https://archive.org/details/speechesdelivere00coweuoft/page/n5/mode/2up	Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1885.
Surtees Society: selected volumes		Selected volumes hosted on the archive.org site.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire Past Track	http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/	Database makes available maps, documents and photographs on the history of Staffordshire.
Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology: unpublished reports	https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=10058	1995-2017 available to download.
VCH Staffordshire: selected volumes	https://www.british-history.ac.uk/search/series/vch--staffs	Volumes 3, 5, 7-9, 14 and 17 available via British History Online
Suffolk
Ipswich 1974-1990 Excavation Archive		Interactive map of archaeological excavations in Ipswich between 1974 and 1990 together with downloads of data from the reports they produced.
Ipswich Maritime Trust: Image Archive	https://ipswichmaritimetrust.org.uk/image-archive/	Hosted on Flickr, over 2000 photographs show-casing Ipswich's 19th and 20th century maritime history.
Suffolk Archives: Digital Exhibitions	https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/displays-online/	A number of exhibitions show-casing items found in Suffolk Archives.
Understanding Ipswich: Historical Sources	https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/historical-sources	Site discusses the various types of sources that can be used while researching Ipswich's history.
Yorkshire
Bradfer-Lawrence Collection	http://www.bl.yascollections.org.uk/index.php?id=3832&secid=02	Selections from the collection of the antiquarian Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence.
From Weaver to Web: online visual archive of Calderdale history	https://www.calderdale.gov.uk/wtw/	Image library of 23,000 items documenting Calderdale's history.
Leeds General Cemetery Burial Registers		The Leeds General Cemetery Burial Registers Index is a database of transcriptions of all entries in the burial registers of the Leeds General Cemetery. The registers hold information on each person buried at the cemetery, covering the period 1835-1992. There are 97,112 entries in the index. Digital images of the registers are available to view alongside the transcribed data.
West Yorkshire Tithe Maps	http://wytithemaps.org.uk/	Created by the West Yorkshire Archive Service, this site currently provides free access to tithe maps of the Bradford district.
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (selected volumes)		Volumes available: 1885, 1887-95, 1897-1907, 1909-1918, 1920-22, 1924-43, 1945-46, 1948-53, 1955-56, 1958-59, 1962, 1966-67.

Aberdeenshire
Mounthooly Smallpox Hospital: list of patients 1872-1875	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/smallpox.htm	The register is primarily of interest to those pursuing family history. It provides details of the four hundred inhabitants admitted to the hospital during in the epidemics, including whether or not the patient died. As the register also notes the occupation and place of residence of each patient, it can also be used to trace the progress of the disease through families in the crowded courts of Victorian Aberdeen, the status of those affected and the level of mortality in each outbreak.
Pitsligo School Logbook 1874-1912	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/schoollogbook.htm	The log book provides a detailed account of daily life in a nineteenth-century rural school in north-east Scotland. It gives the names and duties of the headteacher, pupil teachers and monitors, and contains copies of the annual inspection reports from 1875 to 1909.
Angus and Dundee
Smith, James. Memoirs	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/james_smith_diary.htm	A rare journal of a nineteenth century Dundee stonemason
Dumfries and Galloway
Beattie, Thomas. Chronicles of Muckledale : being the memoirs of Thomas Beattie of Muckledale 1736-1827 / edited by Edward J. Cowan	http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.hss.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Cowan-The-Memoirs-of-Thomas-Beattie-op.pdf	Freely available e-book published by the European Ethnological Research Centre.
Cavan, John. A letter from a Kirkcudbright grocer 1814 / edited by Peter Didsbury	http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.hss.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Kirkcudbright-Grocer-Letter-FINAL.pdf	Freely available e-book published by the European Ethnological Research Centre.
The minute book of the Lochmaben Curling Society 1823-1863 / transcribed and edited by Lynne J. M. Longmore.	http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.hss.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Minute-Book-of-Lochmaben-Curling.pdf	Freely available e-book published by the European Ethnological Research Centre.
The pocket-books of a Dumfriesshire drover / edited by Willie Waugh	http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.hss.ed.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/The-Pocket-books-of-a-Dumfriesshire-Drover.pdf	Freely available e-book published by the European Ethnological Research Centre.
Lanarkshire, North
Kilsyth Heritors' Minutes 1813-1844	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/heritors.htm	Transcripts of minute book from Kilsyth parish.
Lanarkshire, South
Cess book for the county of Lanarkshire 1724-1725	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/cess.htm	Digital copy of early 18th century Lanarkshire tax records.
Orkney Islands
Wallace, James. A description of the isles of Orkney (1684)	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/orkney_ms.htm	Digitised manuscript copy of Wallace's work which would be later published in 1693.
Scottish Borders
Lieutenancy book, county of Roxburgh, 1797-1802	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/lieutenancy.htm	This volume from Scottish Borders Archive and Local History Centre, includes a list of men, organised by parish, who were ballotted to serve in the militia between 1797-1802 in Roxburghshire.
Shetland Islands
Mathewson, Thomas. Notes of conversations about the 'Old Rock' c. 1889-1890	https://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/shetland_ms.htm	The notes are about local antiquarian matters. They comprise anecdotes about local people and families, and archaeological matters, mainly about Yell, sometimes with a genealogical tinge. The notebook is an important corpus of inforfmation about local antiquarian matters not otherwise dealt with in documents. There is a strong oral tinge to the collections - something that was becoming popular among antiquarians in Shetland in the late nineteenth century.

Anglesey
Skinner, John. Ten days' tour through the isle of Anglesea, December 1802	https://archive.org/details/tendaystourthrou00skin	Digital copy hosted on archive.org
Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society (selected volumes)	http://www.hanesmon.org.uk/aaswp/?page_id=101	Volumes scanned include those from the years 1913-14 and 1920-1930 including The plea rolls of Anglesey 1509-1516.
Newport
Chartist Trial Documents	http://chartist.cynefin.wales/	This project aims to transcribe more than 3,000 documents that were gathered together shortly after the Chartist uprising that took place in Newport on 3rd and 4th November 1839. Digital images of many of the documents are accesible through this site.

Cork (County)
Workhouse Drawings Collection	http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:260452	Collections of plans mainly of the workhouse built in Mallow, County Cork, held by University College Dublin.
Ulster
County Tyrone Resources	https://cotyroneireland.com/index.html	Website with transcriptions useful to genealogists and historians covering not only County Tyrone but also Antrim, Fermanagh and (London)Derry and Donegal.
Ulster Towns Directory		Database created from the Ulster and Belfast Towns Directory (1910)
Wexford
Wexford County Archive: Digital Projects	http://wexfordcountyarchive.com/our-collections/digital-collections/	List of projects including digitised records, diaries and maps.

Alabama
Birmingham Public Library: Digital Collections	https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/?page=1	Digital library of resources about the history of Birmingham, Alabama.
Georgia
Digital Library of Georgia	https://dlg.usg.edu/	The Digital Library of Georgia is a GALILEO initiative based at the University of Georgia Libraries that collaborates with Georgia's Libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions of education and culture to provide access to key information resources on Georgia history, culture, and life.
Hawaii
Logan, Daniel. A history of the Hawaiian Islands: their resources and people (1907)		Digital Copy from the collections of the Library of Congress.
New Mexico
New Mexico Digital Collections	https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/	New Mexico Digital Collections is the central search portal for digital collections about New Mexico.
Oklahoma
1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission	https://www.tulsa2021.org/	"The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission will leverage the history surrounding the events of nearly 100 years ago by developing programs, projects, events and activities to commemorate and inform. We will remember the victims and survivors, and create an environment conducive to fostering sustainable entrepreneurship and heritage tourism within the Greenwood District specifically, and North Tulsa."
Parrish, Mary E. Jones. Events of the Tulsa disaster		Digital copy.
Tulsa Race Massacre	https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/race-riot	Collection of 326 digitised documents from the Greenwood Massacre of 1921.
Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921		Photographic collection curated by Oklahoma State University Library.
Tulsa Race Riot Documents	https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/documents/	Documents gathered and digitised by the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum.
Tulsa Race Riot: a report by the Oklahoma Commission to study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921	https://www.okhistory.org/research/forms/freport.pdf	Report created in 2001.
Texas
Bexar Archive Online	https://www.cah.utexas.edu/projects/bexar/index.php	The Bexar Archives are the official Spanish documents that preserve the political, military, economic, and social life of the Spanish province of Texas and the Mexican state of Coahulia y Texas. Both in their volume and breadth of subject matter, the Bexar Archives are the single most important source for the history of Hispanic Texas up to 1836.
Texas Slavery Project	http://www.texasslaveryproject.org/	Includes transcriptions of primary sources about slavery in Texas between 1820 and 1850.

Gay Liberation Front Manifesto (rev. ed. 1978)	https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/pwh/glf-london.asp	Transcribed text of the 1978 edition.
Homosexuality in 18th century England: a sourcebook	http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/	Compiled by Rictor Norton
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals (Online Exhibition)	https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/persecution-of-homosexuals/	Online exhibition curated by the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum.
West Yorkshire Queer Stories	https://wyqs.co.uk/	From 2018-2020, West Yorkshire Queer Stories collected more than 200 interviews about LGBTIQ+ life across the region. You can visit the website wyqs.co.uk to listen to these stories, read transcripts and blogs and watch newly commissioned short films.

Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony	https://www.alotarchives.org/	The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony collects and makes available the oral histories of people who presently or at one time identified as same-sex and same-gender attracted women.
Bay Area Reporter	https://archive.org/details/bayareareporter?&sort=-date	Selected issues (1514 items) of the Bay Area Reporter hosted on Archive.org from 1971 to 2005.
Black Light Online	https://blacklightonline.com/index.html	Includes selected articles from the Black Light publication.
FBI Documents 1953-1956: Mattacine Society	https://vault.fbi.gov/mattachine-society
FBI Documents 1971-1976: Gay Activist Alliance	https://vault.fbi.gov/gay-activist-alliance-part-01-of-02
GLBT Historical Society Online Collections	https://www.glbthistory.org/online-collections	Digitised library of sources from the GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco.
Lesbian Herstory Archive Photographic Collection	http://dcmny.org/content/lesbian-herstory-archives	The Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York is home to the largest collections of materials about lesbians in the world. Our photo collection, which we are now starting to digitize, holds tens of thousands of images, and reflects the growth of the Archives since 1974. Many of the 664 items showcased here came to us from women who simply wanted their images saved, their lives remembered. The collection holds snapshots, professional photography, found images and everything in between.
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives: Digitised Collections	http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15799coll4	ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.
Stonewall and its impact of the Gay Liberation Movement	https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/stonewall-and-its-impact-on-the-gay-liberation-movement	Handful of sources (written, visual and audio)
University of Minnesota Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Fluid Oral History Archive	https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/search?facets%5Bcollection_name_s%5D%5B%5D=Transgender+Oral+History+Project