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. |
Open and Free Access Materials for Research

Page contents
- 1 About this Guide
- 2 Secondary Works
- 3 Catalogues, Bibliographies and Guides
- 4 Online Book Collections
- 5 Digital Collections
- 6 Late Antiquity
- 7 Medieval
- 8 Early Modern
- 9 Modern and Contemporary
- 10 Garden History
- 11 Local History
- 12 LGBTIQ+ History
- 13 Medical History
- 14 Rural and Agricultural History
- 15 Scientific History
- 16 African History
- 17 Asia, China
- 18 Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
- 19 Audio Visual and Oral History, 3D, AR and Internet Archives
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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
This webpage contains a selection of curated links to online research resources that can be used for historical research of all kinds. From digitised archives to oral histories, newspapers, maps and printed collections, we hope that there will some material that can help with your work or with supporting your students.
We have organised the material by period. This is always something of an arbitrary exercise, and there will be some duplication. Some key subject or perhaps unexpected formats have also been included, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (why not, for example, visit relevant historical sites around the world via Google Streetview?).
This is of course simply a small selection of the vast amount of material that is out there. You will know more about what is available in your own area of specialism, and Google, DuckDuckGo or Ecosia will uncover more. There are also numerous online guides and bibliographies, both general and specialised, that will give further suggestions, these include Wikipedia's list of digitised newspapers. Your library will also be able to advise on what is available for you behind paywalls.
Some of the material has been selected by IHR librarians and colleagues in the institute, while others have been suggested by others. We are pleased to hear about suggestions, either by emailing [email protected] or through a short online suggestions box. The full spreadsheet of suggestions might also be useful to review and search.
Like all sources, online materials have their own history and pose challenges and questions for historians and other researchers. How were they collected? Why were they selected? Where did they come from? Who pays for it? What's been left out? What are the differences between the physical records and their online representation? What shortcuts sneak into our methods that may undermine the rigour of our overall argument?
Understanding how archives are created and arranged is an essential part of historical research, and there are similar considerations for their online equivalent. How are archival hierarchies, indexes or catalogues created online? Are they automated, do they use international standards, or their own bespoke thesaurus of terms? Technical understanding of scribal methods, forms of writing, and the purpose for which records were created are important things to understand, an awareness of digital technologies, from the limits of scanning technology to OCR and XML, can be useful, too. Many online archives have also been created from microforms, and digital archives, particularly web archives, may have been migrated from one format to another, losing data or functionality along the way.
Archives also have a range of definitions, with archivists conceptualising them as the materials produced by an individual, family or organisation during the course of their life or work, and archives seen in more general terms as collections of old records. Online 'archives' may also be synthetic creations, gathering both primary and secondary materials together in new ways, perhaps with an attention to rediscover hidden voices. Again, historians will be alert to how this shapes our understanding of the past. For this list, we will be as expansive as possible.
Finally, there are matters of scale and quantity. Your materials may be too vast, or too limited; but what are the opportunities opened up by this? Is close reading of one or two documents as useful as reading thousands of items? What are the opportunities opened up by analysing texts or images at scale, perhaps by using the tools of the digital humanities?
Further Reading
Blaney, Jonathan and Judith Seifring, 'A Culture of non-citation: Assessing the digital impact of British History Online and the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership', Digital History Quarterly (2017).
Hauswedell, T., J. Nyhan, and M.H. Beals et al., 'Of Global Reach Yet of Situated Contexts: An examination of the implicit and explicit selection criteria that shape digital archives of historical newspapers', Arch Sci (2020)
MacEachern, Alan and William J. Turkel, 'A Time for Research Distancing', Active History 31 March 2020.
Prescott, Andrew and Lorna Hughes, 'Why Do We Digitize: The case for slow digitization', Archive Journal (2018).
Putnam, Lara, 'The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast' (working paper) published as 'The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast', American Historical Review 121 (2016).
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. |
Secondary Works
You will be familiar with the eBooks and other resources made available by your own institution's library. There will be guides to these on the library website, perhaps along with a special guide prepared for the current situation.
Many eBook and online journal providers are extending the amount of materials available at this time, so if you have not found what you needed in the past, it may be worth checking now. Your librarian many need to arrange a trial or access. Jisc has coordinated a list of suppliers now offering extended access.
Some libraries, such as the Bodleian History Faculty Library, have provided useful guides and lists of tips for locating open access and other online texts, such as making use of the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library.
- Access to Research (Open Access directory in partnership with publishers).
- Dart-Europe theses
- Directory of Open Access Journals.
- JStor and ArtStor. JStor now offers individuals access to read 100 articles every 30 days.
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog Book search interface for more than hundreds of million books and serials in library and book trade catalogs worldwide.
- ProjectMuse is hosting a range of free materials, including UVA and University of Pennsylvania Press books and journals during the crisis.
- Details of university presses providing temporary access to their collections from PublicBooks.org.
- Open Library of the Humanities.
- Rian : Pathways to Irish Research Comprehensive libray of Irish Open Access Irish research publications.
- Unpaywall, OA Button and CORE Discovery plugins offer help in discovering open access versions of articles. See also the British Library guide to open access tools for research.
- Many publishers also provide access to some open access materials, such as Bloomsbury Academic and Cambridge Core
Preprints and other open access collections can be also found in institutional repositories. A list of UK repositories can be found at Sherpa.
Below is listed a number of online databases of PhD theses where in many instances you can also download an electronic copy. It is also worth searching general online electronic libraries such as Jisc Library Hub , Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog and Rian : Pathways to Irish Research as well as library catalogues and databases of individual universities.
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. |
Catalogues, Bibliographies and Guides
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.
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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 |
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. |
Online Book Collections
Bibliographical Society of America have produced an extensive guide to online resources and digital repositories, which should be your first port of call.
- Google Books
- HathiTrust
- Internet Archive (also includes lending in the National Emergency Library, offered 1.4 million titles to help support emergency remote teaching) [n.b., will close 16 June 2020]
- Liberty Fund Library (a collection of 'scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets')
- Project Gutenberg
- Biblioteca Virtual IFC (digitised collection of the publications of the Institución "Fernando el Católico")
- LIBRAL - the Library of Rural and Agricultural Literature
Digital Collections
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/ |
Late Antiquity
Open Access Classics Resources | https://library.ics.sas.ac.uk/open-access-resources | List of open-access resources (either temporarily during the pandemic or permanently) produced by the library of the Institute of Classical Studies. |
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. |
Medieval
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.
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Archaeological Data Service Library | https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library | Includes British and Irish Archaeological Bibliography.
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These are a sample of many collections from around the world.
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 |
These include digital editions of sources and compilations of sources.
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 |
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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. |
Early Modern
Archives Portal Europe | https://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. | |
Directory of Open Access Books | https://www.doabooks.org/ | A discovery service for Open Access books. | |
Directory of Open Access Journals | https://doaj.org/ | DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. | |
Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA's Clark Library | https://calisphere.org/collections/26771/?q=&start=24 | Comprising over 250 early modern printed books bearing handwritten annotations, this collection offers rich evidence for studying the material history of reading. The books collected here range in subject matter (from science and natural history to literature and philosophy), time period (1472–1818), and type of annotation (from scholarly commentary and cross-referencing to printers' notations and polemical criticism). | |
Ethos | https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do | EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. | |
MEMSLib Early Modern History Resource List | https://www.memslib.co.uk/early-modern-history | Resource list relevant to the study of early modern history (c. 1500-c.1800) | |
MEMSLib Manuscript Studies Resource List | 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. | |
Open Access Publishing in European Networks | http://oapen.org/home | The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. | |
SAS Space | https://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/ | SAS-Space is an online library for humanities research outputs, providing a permanent archive for scholars and researchers. | |
Theatregoing: Eyewitness accounts of going to a show | theatregoing.wordpress.com |
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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Early Modern Culture Online | https://boap.uib.no/index.php/emco | |
Early Modern Digital Review | https://emdr.itercommunity.org/index.php/emdr |
Modern and Contemporary
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.
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British Pathé | https://www.britishpathe.com/ | Large online library of 20th century news reel films. |
The 19th-Century Concord Digital Archive (CDA)
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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. |
Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive | https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu/ | This site currently includes over 10 million scanned images of documents from the National Police Historical Archive. This digital archive mirrors and extends the physical archive that remains preserved in Guatemala as an important historical patrimony of the Guatemalan people. | |
Eastview Information Services | dlib.eastview.com/login | free access to Pravda and other Russian and Chinese publications until 31 July 2020 (registration required) | |
European Union: Official Journal of the European Union | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/oj/direct-access.html?locale=en | Digital copies of the Journal starting in 1952 are available here. | |
US Government Printing Office | blogs.bl.uk/americas/2020/04/online-access-to-united-states-government-printing-office-publications.html | Details of how to access US Gov. Printing Office materials via explore.bl.uk. | |
NATO Archives Online | http://archives.nato.int/ | Explore the first 10 years of the Alliance’s history through the Committee documents of the North Atlantic Council and its sub-committees, the Military Committee and its working groups, as well as a complete collection of NATO Publications. | |
CIA Freedom of Information Reading Room | https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home | Do UFOs fascinate you? Are you a history buff who wants to learn more about the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam or the A-12 Oxcart? | |
League of Nations Digital Archive | lontad-project.unog.ch/ | Access to the League of Nations Archives Project (LONTAD) will ensure state-of-the-art free online access and the digital and physical preservation of approximately 15 million pages, or almost three linear kilometres, the entirety of the archives of the League of Nations (1920-1946). | |
Hansard | hansard.parliament.uk/search | Hansard is a “substantially verbatim” report of what is said in Parliament. Members’ words are recorded, and then edited to remove repetitions and obvious mistakes, albeit without taking away from the meaning of what is said. Hansard also reports decisions taken during a sitting and records how Members voted to reach those decisions in Divisions. | |
UK Legislation 1267-2020 |
| Text of British and English parliamentary legislation |
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. |
Baden-Powell Papers | https://lib.byu.edu/collections/lord-baden-powell-papers/ | Collection of Lord Baden-Powell's papers held at Bringham Young University. |
Boehm-Casement Papers | http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:7150 | This collection consists largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the formation of the Irish Brigade in 1915. |
Brexit Talks | https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/brexit-talks-upload-your-video | A collection of videos where a cross-section of people living and working in London reflect on Brexit and its impact on the capital. |
Britain and UK Handbooks, 1954-2005 | data.nls.uk/data/digitised-collections/britain-uk-handbooks/ | Digitised collection held in the National Library of Scotland. |
Britain at Work | www.unionhistory.info/britainatwork/ | Materials related to memories of people at work between 1945-1995. |
British History Online | www.british-history.ac.uk | British History Online is a not-for-profit digital library based at the Institute of Historical Research. It 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, are easily searchable and browsable online. |
British Political Speech | www.britishpoliticalspeech.org | Texts of speeches given by Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders going back to 1895. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Gertrude Bell Archive | http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/ | Digital copies of the diaries, letters and photographs of the archaeologist and explorer Gertrude Bell. |
Grace's Guide | https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page | Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in the UK. |
HistPop: the Online Historical Population Reports Website | http://www3.histpop.org/ | The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937. |
Kevin Barry Papers | http://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:39106 | A collection of material relating to Kevin Barry, who was executed for his part in the killing of three British soldiers in 1920. The collection includes material associated with his days at Belvedere College, his year as a medical student in UCD, and his brief time in custody at Mountjoy Prison before execution. |
Legacies of British Slave Ownership | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/ | Includes data recording compensation paid to slave owners in Britain. |
Legislation.co.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 1916-1923 | http://letters1916.maynoothuniversity.ie/ | Extensive online archive of letters highlighting the history of Ireland from the Easter Rising until the end of the Civil War. |
Lloyd's Register Foundation: Heritage and Education Centre | https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/ | This library provides links to a number of digitised works relevant to martime history and the history of marine engineering. |
Mass Observation Project (MOP) Database 1981+ | database.massobs.org.uk/ | Provides potential users of the MOP archive with information about the biographical/demographic characteristics and writing behaviours of individual Mass Observation Project writers. |
Moving Here | https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.movinghere.org.uk/about/default.htm | 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. |
NHS at 70 | https://www.nhs70.org.uk/ | Since 2017 - supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund – ‘NHS at 70’ has worked across the UK, recording over 1000 interviews from patients, staff, policymakers and the public about experiences of health and the place of the NHS in everyday life and work. In March 2020 we adapted to remote interviews and have recorded over 400 interviews capturing experiences as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded. |
Old Bailey Online | 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. |
Prince Albert Project | https://albert.rct.uk/collections | Online image and archive collections of Prince Albert (1819-1861) |
Queen Victoria's Journals | http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/home.do | Browsable by date or name, a collection of Queen Victoria’s journals digitised as well as a interactive timeline and illustrations from the journals. Images of the journals and typed up copies are available. |
RTÉ Archives: Easter Rising | https://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1993-easter-1916/ | Online exhibition by RTÉ radio and television giving access to interviews of witnesses and participants of the 1916 Easter Rising. |
The Suffrage Interviews | https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collection-highlights/the-suffrage-interviews | This is a collection of oral history interviews about the British first wave feminist movement. The interviews were conducted by the historian Brian Harrison between 1974 and 1981, as part of a project funded by the Social Science Research Council (he later extensively used these interviews in his book 'Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists between the Wars' Oxford University Press 1987). The recordings were deposited with the Women’s Library in 1981 and the collection consists of 205 interviews with 183 individuals. |
UK Web Archive | https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/index | The UK Web Archive (UKWA) collects millions of websites each year, preserving them for future generations. Use this site to discover old or obsolete versions of UK websites, search the text of the websites and browse websites curated on different topics and themes. |
Warwick University Digital Collections: Racism and Xenophobia | https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/tav/search/searchterm/racism%20and%20xenophobia/field/coursa/mode/exact/conn/and/order/datea/ad/asc/page/1 | Collection includes 54 digitised documents from the late nineteenth century to the late 1960s highlighting the history of racism and xenophobia in Britain. |
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. |
Windrush Stories | https://www.bl.uk/windrush/collection-items | Over 60 digitised items. |
The Worker (7th Feb. 1920-25th Jun. 1921) | https://www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk/digital-resource-type/worker | Digitised copies of the publication of the Workers' Committee of Scotland held in the Marx Memorial Library. |
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. |
Garden History
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. |
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. |
Local History
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 | The Local Historian | 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 |
| Population and other statistic with boundaries of parishes and local government units. |
England | ||
Anti-Chinese articles from The Seaman | 27th June 1913 1st May 1914 27th May 1914 12th June 1914 | 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
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| 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.
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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. 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. |
LGBTIQ+ History
Digital Transgender Archive | https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ | 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. |
LGBT Religious Archives Network: Oral Histories | https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/oral-histories | This page provides in-depth interviews with more than 40 early leaders of LGBTQ+ religious movements. |
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 |
ACT UP and the Aids Crisis | https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/act-up-and-the-aids-crisis | Small collection of written and visual sources. |
AIDS Posters: Wellcome Collection | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/aids-posters/ | Over 3000 digitised public health posters relating to AIDS, from 99 countries, are freely available to view and download. |
Oral Histories of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco | https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/subjectarea/sci_tech/aids.html |
Medical History
Library of Congress: Chinese Medical Manuscripts | https://www.loc.gov/collections/chinese-rare-books/?fa=subject:medicine,+chinese | Small collection of twelve medical manuscripts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. |
The Medical Heritage Library | https://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary | The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to over three-hundred thousand quality historical resources in medicine. |
Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920: a digital library | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/index.html | Medicine in the Americas is a digital library project that makes freely available original works demonstrating the evolution of American medicine from colonial frontier outposts of the 17th century to research hospitals of the 20th century. |
NHS at 70 | https://www.nhs70.org.uk/ | Since 2017 - supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund – ‘NHS at 70’ has worked across the UK, recording over 1000 interviews from patients, staff, policymakers and the public about experiences of health and the place of the NHS in everyday life and work. In March 2020 we adapted to remote interviews and have recorded over 400 interviews capturing experiences as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded. |
National Library of Medicine Digital Collections | https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ | Digitized personal papers and organizational records documenting predominantly American medical practitioners, biomedical research and medical institutions. |
National Library of Medicine Oral History Collection | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/oh.html | The Archives and Modern Manuscript Program's (AMMP) Oral History Collections cover a broad range of topics, people and institutions from throughout the medical and health sciences. Chiefly from the 1960s to the present, the collections consist of interviews with physicians, scientists, government administrators, medical librarians, and health-business executives. |
Qatar Digital Library: Medicine | https://www.qdl.qa/en/search/site/?f%5B0%5D=document_source%3Aarchive_source&f%5B1%5D=subject%3AMedicine--Early%20works%20to%201800 | Digital library of 72 manuscripts touching upon various subjects within Islamic medicine. |
Wellcome Library Digital Collections | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/
Arabic Manuscripts | The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war. Published books, pamphlets, archives, posters, photographs, and film and sound recordings are completely free to view. Digitised materials are released under a variety of Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution and Public Domain licenses. |
Yale Medical Library Digital Collections | https://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital | Digitised collections in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. |
Anatomia: anatomical plates 1522-1867 | https://anatomia.library.utoronto.ca/ | This collection is comprised of more than 4,500 full-page plates and other important illustrations of human anatomy from the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. Particularly useful is the “Highlights” section, which provides an introduction to works notable for its scientific or artistic merit. |
Historical Anatomies on the Web | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/browse.html | Historical Anatomies on the Web is a digital project designed to give Internet users access to high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library's collection. The project offers selected images from NLM's atlas collection, not the entire books, with an emphasis on images and not texts. Atlases and images are selected primarily for their historical and artistic significance, with priority placed upon the earliest and/or the best edition of a work in NLM's possession. |
National Library of Medicine Image Collections | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/index.html | Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) in NLM Digital Collections provides online access to images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century. |
Osler Library Prints Collection | http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php | McGill University Library’s collection of 2,500 images provides a look at the history of medicine through the lens of popular imagery. The collection, which includes material from the 17th to the 20th century, is largely comprised of prints of portraits, but also contains photographs, cartoons, drawings, and posters. |
The American Influenza Empidemic of 1918: a digital encyclopedia | https://www.influenzaarchive.org/ | An online reference work which also provides access to 1000s of documents and images detailing the history of the 1918 influenza epidemic in the United States. |
Cholera Online: a Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images | https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cholera/index.html | Online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine with digital text and image library. |
The Discovery and Earlt Development of Insulin | https://insulin.library.utoronto.ca/ | This site documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, at the University of Toronto. It presents over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts. |
International Leprosy Association - History of Leprosy | https://leprosyhistory.org/ | Includes reference tools and interviews with those suffering from and treating Hansen's Disease. |
John Snow Archive and Research Companion | https://johnsnow.matrix.msu.edu/index.php | Presents information on John Snow as well as a number of his works, including his work on cholera and public health. |
Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine | https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/jonas-salk-and-polio-vaccine | Collection of thirteen digitised documents from the Eisenhower Library. |
League of Nations Malaria Documents | https://www.who.int/library/collections/historical/en/index3.html | Presents digitised copies of documents produced by the Malaria Commission between 1924 and 1932. |
Lowson, James A. The epidemic of bubonic plague in 1894: medical report | https://archive.org/details/b24398287 | Published in Hong Kong in 1895 |
Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection (highlights) | http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/yellowfever/collection-highlights/ | The documents in this collection are of special interest from the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection chosen by the project staff. While the sampling cannot begin to cover the broad sweep of history represented in a compilation whose time period spans 1850 to 1966, it is intended to point out the diverse nature of people and ideas represented in this material. |
The Star: radiating the light of truth on Hansen's Disease | https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/lsuhsc-p15140coll52:collection | The STAR, a world renowned international publication educating the public on Hansen's disease, was created in 1941 by patient Stanley Stein at the National Leprosarium (now the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) Center) in Carville, Louisiana. Issues available (1941-2011). |
Wyler, E. J. Four reports on Yellow Fever in Nigeria during 1913 | https://archive.org/details/b21355186/page/n5/mode/2up | Published in Liverpool in 1915. |
Chadwick, Osbert. Mr Chadwick's reports on the sanitary condition of Hong Kong; with appendices and plans | https://archive.org/details/b2136591x | Published in London in 1882 |
Johnstone, Charles. Observations on health and disease, and on the physical economy of human life, in Natal | https://archive.org/details/observationsonhe00john | (Natal, 1860) |
Lowson, James A. The epidemic of bubonic plague in 1894: medical report | https://archive.org/details/b24398287 | Published in Hong Kong in 1895 |
Medical History of British India | https://digital.nls.uk/indiapapers/ | Here you can browse and search over 400 reports which are held at the National Library of Scotland, and which are available for the first time online. These rare documents, from the NLS's India Papers collection, consist of reports related to disease, public health and medical research between around 1850 to 1950. |
Wyler, E. J. Four reports on Yellow Fever in Nigeria during 1913 | https://archive.org/details/b21355186/page/n5/mode/2up | Published in Liverpool in 1915. |
Blackwell, Elizabeth. The Blackwell Family Papers | http://schlesinger.radcliffe.harvard.edu/onlinecollections/blackwell/ | Digital archive held in the Schlesinger Library, Harvard. |
Freud, Sigmund. The Sigmund Freud Papers | https://www.loc.gov/collections/sigmund-freud-papers/about-this-collection/ | The Library of Congress's digital edition comprises the contents of more than two thousand folders. |
Guy de Chauliac. Chirurgia magna | https://digitalcollections.nyam.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A1109#page/1/mode/2up | Digitised manuscript copy of the Chirurgia magna held in New Academy of Medicine library. |
Harvey, William. Digitised works | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/browse/authors/Harvey,%20William,/ | Digitised copies of many of Harvey's works held in the Wellcome Library including multiple editions of De mortu cordis. |
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa. The best accounts of the classes of Physicians | https://dh.brill.com/scholarlyeditions/library/urn:cts:arabicLit:0668IbnAbiUsaibia/ | Scholarly open access edition of the Arabic text with English translation. |
Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) Digitised works | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/browse/authors/Avicenna,/ | Digitised copies of some of Ibn-Sīnā's works held in the Wellcome Library. |
Koch, Robert. Digitised works | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/browse/authors/Koch,%20Robert,/ | Digitised copies of many of Koch's works held in the Wellcome Library. |
Nightingale, Florence. The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project | http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/web/florence-nightingale/home | The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project began in 2014 as a collaborative effort between the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, England, the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, the Royal College of Nursing and the Wellcome Library. (N.B. not all links work, especially those from the Florence Nightingale Museum) |
Osler, William. Online Books Page | http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Osler%2C%20William%2C%20Sir%2C%201849%2D1919 | Page curated for the University of Pennsylvania library with links to many book and articles by William Osler. |
Paracelsus. The Zurich Paracelsus Project | https://www.paracelsus.uzh.ch/index.html | Includes links to the Karl Sudhoff edition of Paracelsus's works. |
Piaget, Jean. Fondation Jean Piaget | http://www.fondationjeanpiaget.ch/fjp/site/en/traduction/accueil/index.php | Research society dedicated to the life and works of psychologist Jean Piaget. Includes texts and images in pdf formet. |
Sabin, Albert B. The Albert B. Sabin Archives | https://drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/664209 | Digitised collection held at the Henry R. Winkler Center, University of Cincinnati. |
Winston, Thomas. The Thomas Winston Papers 1854-1927 | https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.WINSTONT | Thomas Winston was a physician with Illinois troops during the Civil War. These papers relate primarily to Winston's activities as a surgeon during the Civil War. Includes biographical material, case histories, lists of medical supplies, receipts for effects of soldiers, and various documents relating to individual soldiers. Also contains some material relating to real estate after the Civil War. |
Rural and Agricultural History
Digital Archive of Tamil Agrarian History | https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP458 | Digital archive part of the British Library's Endangered Archive Project. |
Indian Famine Commission Report 1880 | Part 1 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p01091701i&view=1up&seq=7 Part 2 - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p01091702g&view=1up&seq=13 | |
Mahalanobis, P. C. The Bengal Famine | http://library.isical.ac.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10263/1983/1/223.pdf | Digital Reprint of a short article published in 1946. |
Planters' Association of Ceylon Publications | https://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/planter-association-publications/ | Provides digital copies of the PAC publications from the 19th to the 20th century. |
BFI Britain on Film: Rural Life | https://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/rural-life | A vast collection of film and TV titles set in the countryside, or dealing with rural life. Many videos available to view for free, searchable here. |
Davies, Walter. Board of Agriculture reports | https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/printed-material/gwallter-mechains-reports-for-the-board-of-agriculture | Three digitised volumes of the agricultural reports produced by Walter Davies in the early nineteenth century. |
The Great Irish Famine Online: Atlas | https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8de2b863f4454cbf93387dacb5cb8412 | An interactive atlas giving detailed information charting changes in the social, economic and political landscape of pre- and post-famine Ireland. |
LIBRAL | http://bahs.org.uk/LIBRAL/index.html | LIBRAL is the library of Rural and Agricultural Literature, a free-of-charge, public, open-access resource provided by the BAHS. |
Museum of English Rural Life: Online Exhibitions | https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/online-exhibitions/ | Browse past displays from the Museum and exhibitions. |
National Library of Scotland: Map Images | https://maps.nls.uk/ | |
Rural History Today | http://bahs.org.uk/RHT.html | Published by the British Agricultural History Society. |
Agro-ecosystems Laboratory | https://www.lha.es/en/PORTADA/ | Project which offer a number of publications and datasets available to download, mainly on Spanish agricultural history. |
The Holodomor Project: atlas | https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=348774c75d8043fc8e68b2682dbcfe25 | The Harvard Holodmor Project is a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based project, which uses latest technological advances to shed a new light on the history of the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33. |
Holodomor Survivor Documentation Project | http://www.holodomorsurvivors.ca/Home.html | This site has collected a number of interviews of survivors of the Holodomor now living in Canada. |
Census of Agriculture Historical Archive | http://agcensus.mannlib.cornell.edu/AgCensus/homepage.do | The site provides digital copies the the census taken between 1840 and 2002. |
Core Historical Literature on Agriculture | https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/chla | Selected agricultural texts depecting rural life and investigating agricultural technology published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text and searchable. |
Farm, Field and Fireside Agricultural Newspaper Collection | https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=p&p=collections&cltn=FFF&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- | Collects historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Searchable and full-text. |
Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records | https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/collection/bb3175569k | Records of the slave-owning family, the Halls, and their plantation in Jamaica. |
The Homestead Act, 1862 | https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=31 | Offers transcripts and pdfs of the original document. |
Organic Roots Collection | https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/organic_roots | Assembles historic full-text agricultural journals published before the wide spread use of synthetic chemicals. Includes information on agricultural technology before 1942 and organic farms. |
Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin migrant workers collection, 1940-1941 | https://www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/ | Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection is an online presentation of selections from a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. |
Scientific History
Biographies of Women Mathematicians | https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm | On this site you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics. |
ECHO | http://echo.gmu.edu/index.php | Online portal that lists 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. |
History of Physics Finding Aid | https://history.aip.org/history/ead/ | Resource directory compiled by the American Institute of Physics. |
Hyle | http://www.hyle.org/service/biblio.htm | Online Bibliography on the history and philosophy of Chemistry. |
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive | https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ | MacTutor is a free online resource containing biographies of nearly 3000 mathematicians and over 2000 pages of essays and supporting materials. |
Race-Sci | http://web.mit.edu/racescience/links/index.html | Directory of resources on the history of race and science. |
Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative | https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ | ISMI provides access to a database of thousands on scientific manuscripts in Arabic, Farsi and Turkish. In the browse and search facilities go to "Scanned Codices" to access the text which have been digitised. |
Qatar Digital Library - Astronomical Works to 1800 |
| 73 astronomical manuscripts and books. |
Science History Institute - Digital Collections | https://digital.sciencehistory.org/ | Over 8000 digitised items available from the archives and library of the Science History Institute, Philadelphia. |
Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online | http://wamcp.bibalex.org/home | Includes items from the 10th to the 20th century about not only medicine and pharmacology but also cosmology, astronomy, mathematics, farming and natural history. |
Aryabhata, Aryabhatiya | https://www.wilbourhall.org/pdfs/aryabhatiyaenglish.pdf | Digitised English translation. |
Bede, De natura rerum (excerpt) | https://www.library.wales/discover/digital-gallery/manuscripts/the-middle-ages/de-natura-rerum#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-543%2C0%2C4477%2C3807 | Digitised copy of NLW Peniarth MS 540B |
Institute of Classical Studies - Open Access Resources | https://library.ics.sas.ac.uk/open-access-resources | Portal of open access resources created and maintained by the library staff of the Hellenic and Roman Library. |
Digital Averroes Research Environment | https://dare.uni-koeln.de/ | DARE makes accessible online digital editions of Averroes’s works, and images of all textual witnesses, including manuscripts, incunabula, and early prints. Averroes’s writings and the scholarly literature are documented in a bibliographical database. |
Bacon, Roger. Philosophical Works and Fragments | http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_7_F_VIII | Digitised edition of BL Royal MS 7 F VIII |
Oresme, Nicole. Tractatus de latitudinibus formarum | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010883454 | Online edition hosted on the Hathi Trust. |
Sacrobosco, Johannes de, Tractatus de Sphaera | http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/pageturn.html?id=MEDREN_9948124823503681&rotation=0¤tpage=1 | Digitised manuscript held in the library of the University of Pennsylvania. |
The Robert Boyle Project | http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/ | Includes information on Robert Boyle and digitised copies of some of the published editions of his manuscripts. |
The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert Translation Project | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/ | This site has been designed to make accessible to teachers, students, and other interested English-language readers translations of articles from the Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert in the 18th century. |
Galileo Texts | https://galileoteca.museogalileo.it/GTConsult/?lang=en | Searchable database of Galileo's texts. |
The Complete Correspondence of Carl Friedrich Gauß | https://gauss.adw-goe.de/ | Online edition of the mathematicians letters. |
Johannes Kepler, Gesammelte Werke | http://kepler.badw.de/kepler-digital.html | Digitised edition of Kepler's works. |
Panopticon Lavoisier | http://moro.imss.fi.it/lavoisier/ | Information on the 18th century chemist and, where digitised, scanned images of mauscripts and works. |
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. |
Royal Society - Philosophical Transactions | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/loi/rstl/group/c1600.d1660.y1665 | Freely accessible digital editions of the Royal Society's journal from 1665-1886 |
W3 Tim Berners-Lee page | https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ | Links to interviews, videos and texts by and about Tim Berners-Lee. |
The Crick and Watson Papers | Francis Crick Papers James Watson Papers | Digitised copies of the papers held at the Wellcome Library. |
Darwin Correspondence Project | https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ | Read and search the full texts of more than 12,000 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 3,000 more. Discover complete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1877. |
Darwin Online | http://darwin-online.org.uk/ | Includes online editions of some of his works as well as biographical information. |
Digital Mathematics Archive | http://sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/ | The Digital Mathematics Archive is a digital collection of mathematical sources, with a primary focus on documents from the late 19th century through today. |
The Einstein Papers Project | https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/ | Provides digitised editions to the published volumes of Einstein's papers. |
The Eugenics Society Archive | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/eugenics-society/ | View items from the Society's archive digitised by the Wellcome Library. |
The Feynman Lectures | https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ | Online edition of Richard Feynman's lectures on physics. |
Rosalind Franklin Papers | https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/rosalind-franklin/ | Includes biographical information and digitised copies of some of Franklin's papers. |
Katherine Johnson interview | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGO3dUew_KI | Interview with Katherine Johnson from February 2017. |
Manhattan Project Resources | https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan_resources | The Manhattan Project: Resources is a joint collaboration between the Department of Energy’s Office of Classification and Office of History and Heritage Resources. This effort is designed to disseminate information and documentation on the Manhattan Project to a broad audience including scholars, students, and the general public. |
NASA Documentary Histories | https://history.nasa.gov/series95.html | Online editions of documents on the NASA Space programmes. |
The Linus Pauling Research Notebooks | http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/rnb/index.html | Digitised copy of Pauling's Notebooks. |
The papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan | https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/ramanujan/ | Digitised manuscripts held at Trinity College Cambridge. |
The Turing Digital Archive | http://www.turingarchive.org/ | This archive contains many of Turing's letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him. It contains images of the original documents that are held in the Turing collection at King's College, Cambridge. |
The Alfred Russell Wallace Page | http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/index1.htm#gsc.tab=0 | Site contains digitised texts of some of Wallace's writings. |
World Wide Web History Project | http://1997.webhistory.org/home.html | The World Wide Web History Project is a collaborative effort to record and publish the history of the World Wide Web and its roots in hypermedia and networking. |
African History
African Online Digital Library | http://www.aodl.org/ | AODL is an open access digital library of African cultural heritage materials created by Michigan State University in collaboration with museums, archives, scholars, and communities around the world. |
British Library Endangered Archives Programme: Africa | https://eap.bl.uk/search/site/africa | The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. |
Digital Namibian Archive | http://dna.nust.na:8080/greenstone3/library | Hosted by Namibia University of Science and Technology, this website serves as a portal to a number of collections on Namibian history, and specifically the Digital Namibian Archive, which contains over 13 thousand primary source documents. |
UNESCO General History of Africa | Vol. 1 - Methodology and African Prehistory Vol. 2 - Ancient Civilizations of Africa Vol. 3 - Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century Vol. 4 - Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century Vol. 5 - Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century Vol. 6 - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s | Open-access editons of the unabridged volumes of this series. |
University of Wisconsin African Studies Collection | https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAfricanStudies | The African Studies Collection brings together primary and secondary resources; research and teaching materials created by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to this field held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. Selected by librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists along a wide range of criteria, this collection includes published materials as well as archival documents. The items were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps, and other resources. |
The Barbary Treaties 1786-1836 | https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/barmenu.asp | A digitised collection of treaties made between the United States and North Africa. |
British Documents on the end of Empire | Central Africa Egypt | www.bdeep.org is the online platform for the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP). |
Emmergency: an exhibition on the Mau Mau conflict and British Colonial rule in 1950s Kenya. | Exhibition curated by the Museum of British Colonialism. It includes testimony from three witnesses of the conflict. Also a number of 3D models from the 'Pipeline' camps have been created in partnership with African Digital Heritage. | |
The Emma B. Andrews Diary Project | http://www.emmabandrews.org/project/ | Digitised collections relevant to late 19th and early 20th century travel writing in Egypt as well as the history of Egyptology of this period. |
Politics and Society in Eastern Africa | https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/studying/docs/eastafrica/ | Gives access to a collection of digitised documents about the 20th century history of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, especially the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s. |
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. |
Sources on German Colonial History Online | https://ilissafrica.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/german-colonial-history-online/ | Frankfurt University Library digitized some of the books and journals originally collected by the German Colonial Society (Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft). The journals Deutsche Kolonialzeitung, Amtlicher Anzeiger für Deutsch-Ostafrika, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Kamerun, Amtsblatt für das Schutzgebiet Togo and several books including even a colonial cook-book are available online. |
African Activist Archive | http://africanactivist.msu.edu/index.php | The African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s |
Forward to Freedom: the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement 1959-1994 | https://www.aamarchives.org/ | A free archive of resources including interviews and digitised text. |
President Nasser online resources | http://www.nasser.org/home/main.aspx?lang=en | Site containing documents and recorded speeches of President Nasser. |
Asia, China
Berlin State Library: Chinese Digital Library | https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/ | Included among the library's digital collections are 1664 items. |
Cambridge University Chinese Collections | http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/chinese/3 | 15 digitised works show-casing the collections housed in Cambridge University Library |
Chinese Land Records, 1584-1978 | https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-eal201101/viewer | Collection of over 200 documents held in Pittsburg University Library. |
Chinese Text Project | https://ctext.org/ | Online library of Chinese texts from the pre-Qin period to the early 20th century. |
Digital East Asian Collection | https://ostasien.digitale-sammlungen.de/ | Digital collection of Chinese, Japanese and Korean materials found in the Bavarian State Library. |
East Asian Library Digital Bookshelf | http://pudl.princeton.edu/collections/eal | Collection of 146 titles mainly in Chinese from Princeton University. |
National Central Library: Digital Images of Rare Books | http://rbook.ncl.edu.tw/NCLSearch/Search/Index/1 | Large online library of Chinese titles administered by the National Central Library, Taiwan. |
Táiwān wénxiàn cóngkān zīliào kù | http://tcss.ith.sinica.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dwebmge&cache=1526059723154# | Online library of texts concentrating mainly on the history and culture of Taiwan. |
Chinese Local Gazatteers | Collection of digitised Chinese gazatteers from the Qing period now housed in the library collections of Harvard University. | |
Endangered Archives Project: China | https://eap.bl.uk/search/site?f%5B0%5D=ss_country%3AChina | Digitised images from 10 digitisation projects. |
International Dunhuang Project | http://idp.bl.uk/idp.a4d | Global collaborative project providing access to a growing library of artefact images, manuscript fragments and photographs. |
Ming Qing Women Writers | http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/english/index.php | Online library of works by women in late Imperial China (1368-1911) |
Sīmǎ Qián. Shiji (extracts) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24226 | Extracts published on the Project Gutenberg site. |
Tōyō Bunko Collection | http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/index.html.en | Part of the Digital Silk Road Project, collection of books, maps and photographs from the Tōyō Bunko library, Japan. |
Chiang Kai-Shek. The collected wartime messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek | https://archive.org/details/collectedwartime000856mbp/page/n5/mode/2up | Volume 1 (1937-1940) only |
China, 1989 | https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/180/china-1989 | This collection features sources on the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 and other developments in China at the end of the Cold War. |
China's Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 | https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/211/china-s-cultural-revolution-1966-1976 | Small collection showing how he Cultural Revolution was perceived by foreign leaders. |
China's Great Leap Forward 1958-1961 | https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/210/china-s-great-leap-forward-1958-1961 | Collection of documents housed in the Wilson Center Digital Archive. |
Chinese Maritime Customs | Over 100 works from the Maritime Customs collection in Harvard Library, dating from late Qing through early twentieth century. Links to fully digitized books in Harvard Library catalog, which can be browsed and downloaded in high quality PDFs by any user. | |
Chinese Marriage Documents | https://digital.library.pitt.edu/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-PPiU-eal201501/viewer | Collection of 25 20th century marriage documents held in Pittsburg University Library. |
Chinese Pamphlets | https://dds.crl.edu/search/collection/1 | Online collection of Chinese educational pamphlets from the civil war and early years of the PRC. |
Conversations with Mao Zedong | https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/172/conversations-with-mao-zedong | This collection brings together conversations held between Mao and foreign leaders from both within and outside of the communist bloc in order to offer insights into Mao's worldview and major developments in China's domestic history and foreign relations. |
Conversations with Zhou Enlai | https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/collection/241/conversations-with-zhou-enlai | This collection features hundreds of conversations that Zhou held with leaders from dozens of countries. |
Historical Photographs of China | https://www.hpcbristol.net/ | Open access archive of 22,000+ photographs of China, c.1850s-1940s, from private and some institutional collections. Digitised by a team at the University of Bristol. |
Late Qing and Republican Era Chinese Newspapers | https://gpa.eastview.com/crl/lqrcn/ | Open access newspaper archive of 69 Chinese newspapers published between 1911 and 1949. |
Li Long Women's Magazine | https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/linglong/collection | Exhibition about Lin Long Women’s Magazine published in Shanghai between 1931 and 1937. Incudes links to digital copies. |
Old Hong Kong Newspapers | https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/old-hk-collection | Online collection of 19th and 20th century Hong Kong newspapers. |
Opium War Collections | https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22China+--+History+Opium+War%2C+1840-1842%22 | Electronic collections of documents found in the Internet Archive and the Hathi Trust site. |
PRC History Group | http://prchistory.org/ | Site run by a global group of academics with research interests in the People’s Republic of China. Includes online copies of The PRC Review. |
Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping | https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/ | Works illustrating Deng Xiaoping's ideological viewpoints. |
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
AIATSIS Digital Collections | https://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collections-online/digitised-collections | Digital collections from the Australian Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. |
Australian Dictionary of Biography | http://adb.anu.edu.au/ | The Australian Dictionary of Biography is Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history. |
Immigration Museum: Online Resources and Tools | https://museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/online-resources-and-tools/ | A selection of projects and items from the Immigration Museum, Melbourne. |
Library of Australiana | http://gutenberg.net.au/pgaus.html | Portal of online texts from the 18th to the first half of the 20th century. |
National Archives of Australia | https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection | An increasing number of items have been made available online. In the search tick the "Digital Only" box to see what is available. |
National Library of Australia | https://www.nla.gov.au/collections# | An increasing number of items in the NLA have been digitised and are available online. |
Trove | https://trove.nla.gov.au/ | A national discovery service run by the National Library of Australia with details of items over 1000s of Australian libraries, archives, galleries and museums. To drill down to see what is available online tick the "Free access" option where applicable. |
University of Sydney Digital Collections | https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/ | Collections of various aspects of Australian history and literature and much more. |
Women Australia | http://womenaustralia.anu.edu.au/ | Online biographical reference work. |
Assisted Immigrants Shipping List | https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/collections-and-research/guides-and-indexes/assisted-immigrants-digital-shipping-lists | Digitised shipping lists to New South Wales from 1828 to 1896. |
Australian Explorers, Discoverers and Pioneers | http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers.html | Portal links to free texts about the exploration and invasion of Australia. |
Bonwick, James. The last of the Tasmanians | https://archive.org/details/lasttasmanianso00bonwgoog | Nineteenth century account of the British genocide of Tasmania's indigenous population. For context and suggestions for further reading see the blog post by Dr. Kristyn Harman. |
Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia 1788-1930 | https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/ | Site devoted to Australian colonial massacres. Includes an interactive map. |
Convict Records of Australia | https://convictrecords.com.au/ | This website allows you to search the British Convict transportation register for convicts transported to Australia between 1787-1867. Information available includes name of convict, known aliases, place convicted, port of departure, date of departure, port of arrival, and the source of the data. |
eGold: Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia | http://www.egold.net.au/ | Online reference work, especially strong Australia's Gold Rush. |
First Fleet Online | http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/ | First Fleet Online consists of information about the convicts who were transported to Australia in 1787. A fleet of ships carrying over 1000 convicts and military under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Australia in January 1788 after a journey of seven months. Few ships had been here before other than the early Dutch, French, and British explorers. First Fleet OnLine is a resource for students and teachers of any age, professional historians, family tree enthusiasts, descendants of the First Fleeters, and amateur researchers, anywhere in the world. |
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archives | https://www.mq.edu.au/macquarie-archive/lema/ | Provides access to growing number of transcriptions and digitised images. |
Particulars respecting gold nuggets found in Victoria | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/249668#page/1/mode/1up | Digitised copy of the register covering the years 1868 to 1972. |
Phillip, Arthur. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay | https://archive.org/details/b28767949/page/n9/mode/2up | Digitised 1790 edition held in the Wellcome Library. |
Ryan, Lyndall. 'List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835' Violence de masse et Résistance - Réseau de recherche (5 Mars, 2008) | https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/list-multiple-killings-aborigines-tasmania-1804-1835.html | Article published online about the British genocide of Tasmania's indigenous population. |
100 Stories Project | https://www.youtube.com/user/Monash100Stories/videos | Hosted on YouTube, Monash University has produced a number of interviews about the experience of Australians during the First World War. |
Anzac Portal | https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/ | Extensive portal sight about the military history of 20th century Australia. |
Australian Federation Full Text Database | http://adc.library.usyd.edu.au/index.jsp?database=ozfed&page=home | Database give access to documents from the 1890s and early 1900s concerning Australia's federation. |
Bringing them Home | https://bth.humanrights.gov.au/ | Site explores the Stolen Generations of indigenous Australians taken from their mothers and fathers and fostered to white familes. Includes testimonies, the text of the report produced by the Australian government in 1997 and an interactive map. |
Federal Government Records: Historic Hansard | http://historichansard.net/ | Records from the Senate and House of Representatives from 1901 to 1980. |
Federal Government Records: Journals of the Senate | Journals available from 1901. | |
The Mabo Decision: Keon-Cohen, B. A. 'The Mabo litigation: a personal and procedural account' Melbourne University Law Review 893 (2000) | http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MelbULawRw/2000/35.html | Account by the junior counsel representing Eddie Mabo against the state of Queensland. |
The Mabo Decision: Mabo vs. Queensland (No. 1) 1988 and (No. 2) 1992 | 1988 http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1988/69.html 1992 http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1992/23.html?stem=0&synonyms=0&query=title(mabo%20%20near%20%20queensland) | Text from the High Court of Australia of the decision. |
The Mabo Decision: The Native Title Act 1993 | http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/cth/consol_act/nta1993147/ | Text from the High Court of Australia. |
Queensland Legislature: Acts Passed | https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/browse/aspassed | Pdf copies of acts passed from 1963. |
The Redfern Park Speech | https://antar.org.au/reports/paul-keatings-redfern-speech | Video of Paul Keating's speech of the 10th December 1992 delivered at Redfern Park. |
Right Wrongs - The 1967 Referendum | https://www.abc.net.au/rightwrongs/ | Online exhibtion on the 1967 referendum which sought to change the way the indigenous peoples of Australia were referred to in the constitution. Includes iinterviews. |
WhitlamDismissal.com | https://whitlamdismissal.com/ | Site exploring the government of Gough Whitlam in the early 1970s. Includes document excerpts and links to related resources. |
The Whitlam Institute | https://www.whitlam.org/collection | The Institute's large collection has been largely digitised. |
AtoJs Online | https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs | Digitised copies of the appendices of the House of Representatives from 1854 to 1950. |
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection | http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/ | The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection comprises significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials held by Victoria University of Wellington Library. This encompasses both digitised heritage material and born-digital resources. |
New Zealand Heritage List : Rārangi Kōrero | https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list | Search the New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero (formerly the Register) for information about New Zealand's significant heritage places, including Ngā Manawhenua o Aotearoa me ōna Kōrero Tūturu/National Historic Landmarks. |
Papers Past | https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ | The Papers Past content is divided into 4 sections — all containing digitised primary source materials. These include: Newspapers, Magazine and Journals, Letters and Diaries, and Parliamentary Papers. |
Te Ao Hou | http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/index.html | Site gives access to this Maori periodical published between 1952 and 1976. |
Te Ara | https://teara.govt.nz/en | Online encyclopedia on all aspects of New Zealand's histories and cultures. |
Transaction and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand | http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/ | Volumes available, 1868-1961. |
Turnbull Archive Photographic Archive | Extensive photographic archive. | |
Women and the Vote | https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage | Online history on the women's sufferage movement in New Zealand. Includes links to digitised sources. |
Arbousset, Thomas. Tahiti et les îles adjacentes (1867)
| https://archive.org/details/tahitietlesilesa00arbo/page/n7/mode/2up | Digital copy of a 19th century travel account. |
Marsden, J. B. Memoirs of the life and labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden...senior chaplain of New South Wales; and of his early connexion with the missions to New Zealand and Tahiti | https://archive.org/details/memoirsoflifelab00mars | Digital copy of 19th century edition. |
National Archives of Fiji Online | http://archivesfiji.org/ | Includes selected digitised items from the NAF. |
South Seas: Voyaging and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Pacific (1760-1800) | http://southseas.nla.gov.au/ | The South Seas Project documents the history of European voyaging and cross-cultural encounters in the Pacific between 1760 and 1800. It features full texts of James Cook's Endeavour Journal, as well as journals kept by Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson. It also features digitised engravings and related images. Hosted by the National Library of Australia. |
Audio Visual and Oral History, 3D, AR and Internet Archives
Many museums and libraries have created 3D scans of their collections. Notable resources include the British Museum on Sketchfab (257 models). Sketchfab's Cultural Heritage and History filter can also surface useful models.
Europeana, which brings together collections in a host of European and international repositories, can also be searched for 3D models.
Google for Education provides a list of over 100 'Augmented Reality' expeditions.
The Internet Archive provides a good place to start for the history of software or the uses of history and heritage in the games industry.
- Internet Archive
- UK Web Archive
- National and other archives constituting the International Internet Preservation Consortium.
- Some international organisations also manage their own institutional web archives, such as UNESCO.
The Programming Historian | programminghistorian.org/ | We publish novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching. |
Digital Archives Austria | https://digital-humanities.at/en/dha/projects | |
Oral History Society advice on remote oral history interviewing | www.ohs.org.uk/advice/covid-19/ | Includes ethical considerations and lists of tools |
British Library Sound Archive | sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history | The oral history collections at the British Library cover a wide range of subject areas. |
Essex Sound and Video Archive | www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk | You can find material by searching for ‘oral history’. To find only material that’s available online, you can refine the search by ‘Audio visual’ material. |
TimePix | www.timepix.uk/PAGES/Photo-map-navigation-pages/n-x5Mxnr/Greater-Manchester-Revision-Point-photographs | This collection of almost 46,000 post-war geo-located street photos of Greater Manchester. Free for non-commercial use. |
Artstor | library.artstor.org | Includes public collections and community collections as well as subscription-only content. |
Newspapers and Maps
Austrian Newspapers Online | http://anno.onb.ac.at/ | Online collection stretching back to the seventeenth century. |
The 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 Press | https://belgicapress.be/ | Online archive of nineteenth and twentieth century Belgian newspapers. |
Chronicling America | 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. |
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. |
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. |
Europeana Newspapers | www.europeana-newspapers.eu | |
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) |
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) |
List of Online Newspaper Archives (Wikipedia) | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_online_newspaper_archives | |
Atlas of Digitised Newspapers and Metadata | www.digitisednewspapers.net | A project exploring the metadata of digitised newspapers |
Online Kranten | https://vlaamse-erfgoedbibliotheken.be/kranten/online | Online portal of sites of digitised European newspaper collections hosted by the Flemish Heritage Library. |
Papers Past | https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ | Online collection of New Zealand newspapers. |
Trove | trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q= | |
National Library of Scotland: Map Images | https://maps.nls.uk/ |
David Rumsey Historic Maps Collection | www.davidrumsey.com/ | |
BL Maps Collections | www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections/digital-collections | See also the Georeferencer project |
British History Online | www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue/maps | |
Library of Congress Maps | www.loc.gov/maps/ | |
National Library of Scotland Maps | maps.nls.uk/ | |
New York Public Library Maps and Atlases | digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/lane/maps-atlases | |
New York Public Library Map Warper | maps.nypl.org/warper/ | The NYPL Map Warper is a tool for digitally aligning ("rectifying") historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps. Visitors can browse already rectified maps |