United Kingdom
Databases
- 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThe newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.
- British Library Newspapers (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new windowFacsimiles of full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain.
- Early English Books Online (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowVirtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700, with digital facsimile page images and full text searching.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new windowSignificant English-language and foreign-language titles in the English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. Contains books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides, and is full-text searchable.
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowThis collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Foreign Office Files is having technical difficulties at this time. If you are located on the Boston campus, please try this link for better service.
- Illustrated London News (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new windowA historical archive of one of the modern world's first pictorial weekly newspapers, from 1842-2003. Includes page facsimiles and fully searchable text.
- State Papers Online, Great Britain 1509-1714 (Gale) This link opens in a new windowOriginal historical materials from Tudor and Stuart Britain, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators. Northeastern users have access to Parts I-IV.
- Times of London Digital Archive (Gale Cengage) 1785-2019 This link opens in a new windowAlso known as the London Times. Access not including the Sunday edition from 1785. An invaluable source for primary historical research on Great Britain and its interests.
Websites
- 19th Century BritainA collection of documents relating to Britain from Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebook.
- British Empire HistoryA collection of documents on British imperialism from Fordham University's Internet History Sourcebook.
- British History OnlineSignificant primary source materials from the Anglo-Roman period to the present, including some pre-1992 material from Ireland and documents relating to British colonies.
- Eurodocs (Brigham Young University)Links to primary source documents from European jurisdictions. Most are historical legal codes and official archives.
- London Lives: 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis240,000 manuscripts from 8 archives, fully searchable. Includes background, biographies of individuals, and references for further reading.
- Old Bailey OnlineFully searchable edition of the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 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.
- Uniting the Kingdoms (Great Britain National Archives)This exhibition looks at how the governments and people of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and of England's French territories, interacted in politics, warfare, religion, trade and everyday life, and describes events and forces that influenced ideas of identity, loyalty and nationhood.
Europe
News Online
Be advised these default to the original language.
- Austrian Newspapers Online. Many historical newspapers. Dates vary from 1780 to 1930s
- Compact Memory (1806-1938 Jewish newspapers)
- Denmark Illustreret Tidende (1759-1865)
- International Times (London, 1966-present)
- Le Figaro (1830-1942) From Gallica (National Library of France)
- Le Gazzette Bolognesi (Italy 1674-1796)
- Hamburger Abendblatt (German 1948 - present)
- Hemeroteca Digital (Spain. Many newspapers, covering 1772-1933)
- Historische Kranten. Dutch newspapers from the 1st half of the 20th century.
- Illustrated London News, 1842-2003 Historical archive of the world's first pictorial weekly newspaper. Pages are fully searchable.
- Leeuwarder Courant (Dutch 1752-present)
- Le Temps(1861-1938) From Gallica (National Library of France)
- La Vanguarda (Barcelona, Spain newspaper 1881-present)
- Die Zeit Online (German 1946-present)
Websites
- Anemi: Digital Library of Modern Greek StudiesA catalog and collection of online books about modern Hellenism (University of Crete Library)
- Avalon Project (Yale University)Includes documents in the fields of law, history, politics, and government. Significant coverage of treaties and conventions.
- Deutsche Digitale BibliothekA digital library of German history including images and cultural artifacts.
- Eurodocs (Brigham Young University)Links to primary source documents from European jurisdictions. Most are historical legal codes and official archives.
- EuropeanaA master search of digitized objects from many of Europe's major cultural institutions.
- European History Primary SourcesA search engine to help you find major primary source repositories, mostly national archives and major digital collections.
- French political pampletsA facinating if narrowly specialized collection from Brigham Young, from about 1550-1650.
- French Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF))Key research sources of the French Revolution, 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.
- GallicaStrong on manuscripts, maps and images documenting the history of France, including French colonies.
- Kansalliskirjasto (National Library of Finland)More of an emphasis on images than on text documents like those found in the National Archives
- L'Histoire par l'imageA gorgeous collection of images illustrating the history of France
- The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval StudiesSponsored by Georgetown University, a large collection of primarily European medieval sources. Another example of early attempts to catalog the Web. Browsable both by topic (art, Judaism, philosophy, etc.) and format (images, primary texts, maps).
- Medici Archive ProjectFocus on early modern Florence and the Medici Court. Unlike many online collections, this is designed with digital humanities in mind, providing support for digital scholarship on the early modern period as well as access to documentary sources.
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica Digital (Bavarian State Library)a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500. (Source:wikipedia)
- National Digital Library of PolandThe history of Poland reflected in books, periodicals, maps and atlases, photographs, prints and drawings, manuscripts, postcards. Of special interest are musical scores.
- Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatien (Institute of Netherlands History)In addition to this Dutch history collection, the Institute has scanned numerous primary source works. In Dutch.