The project endeavours to scan works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language. As well all pre-1701 works in European languages printed elsewhere.. Access to Collections 1-4.
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. For more information on text & data mining
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.
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 .
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. For more information on text & data mining
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.
Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources For more information on text & data mining
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.
Also cross-searchable with other historical databases via Gale Primary Sources For more information on text & data mining
Access to the personal papers of Sir Winston Churchill - key historical documents including private letters, telegrams, speeches, government transcripts.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.
For access to content please go to the main site for Fortunoff Testimony Archive Click on Log In, and then Join Now University email must be used to join. Please check the password help if you have trouble creating a password. Click on the Orange request button to access video content after login and registration.
Primary Sources in Print
These are just some of the published materials available in print on the shelves.
v. 1. The operation of the slave trade in Africa -- v. 2. The Royal African Company -- v. 3. The abolitionist struggle : opponents of the slave trade -- v. 4. The abolitionist struggle : promoters of the slave trade.
v. 1 c.500-1042 -- v. 2 1042-1189 -- v. 3. 1189-1327 -- v. 4. 1327-1485 -- v. 5. 1485-1558 -- v. 6. 1558-1603 -- v. 7. 1603-1660 -- v. 8. 1660-1714 -- v. 9. American colonial documents to 1776 -- v. 10. 1714-1783 -- v. 11. 1783-1832 -- v. 12. pt. 1. 1833-1874 -- v. 12. pt. 2. 1874-1914.
v. 1. Early English demonological works -- v. 2. Early English trial pamphlets -- v. 3. The Matthew Hopkins trials -- v. 4. The Post-Restoration synthesis and its opponents -- v. 5. The Later English trial pamphlets -- v. 6. The Final debate.
Legalizing the Holocaust -- The Crystal Night Pogrom -- Jewish emigration -- Deportation of the Jews -- Medical experiments -- The "final solution" -- Relief and rescue of Jews -- Punishing the perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Fifty-two Soviet posters originally published from 1917 to 1967, most in color; in portfolio. Introductory text and list of titles and artists on inside front cover.
Archives Unbound is an online resource digitises microfilm collections from Primary Source Media, capturing defining moments in history. For more information on text & data mining
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
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.
A collection of manuscript, visual and printed works - letters, diaries, printed guidebooks; published travel writing; paintings and sketches; architectural drawings, and maps for the study of travel and architecture, c1550-1850
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the people who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC onwards. Articles include detailed bibliographies.
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. It has been created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust.
A Federated search engine that brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain (1500-1900). Some resources are free to view, some are not.
This database holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the United Kingdom. Over 9 million records are available for download.
Containing more than 600 primary documents, the site is a collaboration of the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York).
Full text documents from key Marxists/Socialists - Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Malcom X, Toussaint Louverture, with many in English (translated by volunteers).
The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority website provides documentation, photographs, online exhibitions, bibiliographies, chronologies, etc. of the WWII Holocaust.
Index to the collection of over 25,000 nineteenth-century works available on microfiche. The Library has the Women Writers segment in Fisher Audiovisual MIC 820.8 327.
Primary Sources in Microform
These are just some of the rich archival materials reproduced onto microfilm and fiche available in the collection.
Contains the newspapers, journals, pamphlets, leaflets, letters, conference reports, memoranda, annual reports manifestos, transcripts of speeches and broadcasts, special statements and private minute books of 40 political groupsin Britain, committed to socialism and communisim. 42 reels, 334 fiche.
pt. 1. Early women's journals, c1700-1832, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford -- pt. 2. Advice books, manuals, almanacs, and journals, c1625-1837, from the Bodleian Library, Oxford -- pt. 3. The Lady's magazine 1770-1800 -- pt. 4. The Lady's magazine 1801-1832 --pt. 5. Womens' writing and advice, c1450-1720.
