History: European History

Access to the full text of over 125,000 titles published in English between 1473-1700.

High resolution images reveal the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to 1700. Access to Collections 1-16.

The manuscripts in this site were written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Valuable for research on women and women's writing in Early Modern Britain.
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Full text of over 150,000 titles published in England or in English between 1701-180

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.

Features the newspapers and periodicals, as well as pamphlets and broadsheets, that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, UK.

Consists of newspapers and periodicals published between 1685 - 1835, drawn mainly from major British library collections.

Comprehensive source for discovering nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. Also included is The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals, 1824-1900

19th Century UK Periodicals It provides resource for the study of British life in the 19th century - from art to business, and from children to politics.

Contains colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to the seedy side of 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Search four archives: Asia and the WestBritish Politics and Society , British Theatre, Music, Literature: High And Popular Culture, and the Corvey Collection Of European Literature, 1790-1840 .

Chatham House Online Archive contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)

Offers insight into everyday life in the 1930s and 1940. Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965.
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SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a U.S. led project to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments. The archive covers reports, letters and cables from 1944-45.
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This collection comprises documents from a wide variety of sources, including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, businesses, etc., pertaining to Jewish communities. It includes newspaper clippings, letters, manuscripts, pamphlets, reports and other documents.
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Access to the personal papers of Sir Winston Churchill - key historical documents including private letters, telegrams, speeches, government transcripts.

The archive’s collection consists of over 4,400 testimonies that record the experiences of over 4,000 survivors, witnesses, bystanders and liberators of the Holocaust.

Archives Unbound is an online resource digitises microfilm collections from Primary Source Media, capturing defining moments in history.
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Full text primary sources and images on Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity & the Family, Consumption & Leisure, Education & Sensibility and The Body from 1450 - 1910. Documents are derived from British and European archives.
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Full text primary sources and images on the art, culture, literature, racism, religion and imperialism of empire from 1492 - 2007. The creators have endeavoured to find sources from all continents.
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A collection of primary sources including published and unpublished works, paintings and sketches; architectural drawings, and maps for the study of travel and architecture.
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Papers and reports tabled in British Parliament; vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. These database contains: Bills and Acts 1695-2015; Command Papers 1802-2015; House of Commons Papers 1715-2015; House of Lords Papers 1714-1910; Hansard 1803-2005; Journals 1688-1834; Debates 1774-1805; Histories and Proceedings 1660-1743

Searchable colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) is the national record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century. The Dictionary offers concise, up-to-date biographies written by named, specialist authors. It is overseen by academic editors at Oxford University, UK, and published by Oxford University Press.

Gathers together 16th, 17th and 18th century British State Papers and links these historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable Calendars.