History : Europe

Historical Newspapers

Key European newspapers at Northeastern

17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
British Library Newspapers (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window
This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection. Formerly called 19th Century British Newspapers.

Illustrated London News (1842 - 2003)
Historical archive of the world's first pictorial weekly newspaper. Pages are fully searchable.Try using the advanced search and limiting to "editorial and commentary" for opinion pieces.

London Times (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window
178501985 (except Sunday edition)
Get help on this collection and primary source research in Gale (video)

Openly available on the web:

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)

Europe: Large Primary Source Collections

Anemi: Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies
A 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.
Det Digitale Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norwegian National Library)
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
A 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.
European History Primary Sources
A search engine to help you find major primary source repositories, mostly national archives and major digital collections.
Europeana
A master search of digitized objects from many of Europe's major cultural institutions.
French political pamplets
A 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.
Gallica
Strong on manuscripts, maps and images documenting the history of France, including French colonies.
L'Histoire par l'image
A gorgeous collection of images illustrating the history of France
Kansalilsarkisto (National Archives of Finland
Kansalliskirjasto (National Library of Finland)
More of an emphasis on images than on text documents like those found in the National Archives
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Sponsored 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 Project
Focus 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.
Memory of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
In Dutch
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 Poland
The history of Poland reflected in books, periodicals, maps and atlases, photographs, prints and drawings, manuscripts, postcards. Of special interest are musical scores.
National Archives of Spain
Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatien (Institute of Netherlands History)
In addition to this Dutch history collection, the Institute has scanned numerous primary source works. In Dutch.

Early Modern Britain

Early English Books Online (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
Virtually 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.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window
Significant 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.
The works that were filmed for this collection come from a number of major institutions, including the British Library, the Bodleian (Oxford), Cambridge University, Harvard University, Library of Congress, the Huntington Library, University of Manchester and many more.

Eighteenth Century Ireland (Iris an dá chultúr)
Journal of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, regarding all aspects of the Irish experience, at home and abroad. Via JSTOR.
Eurodocs: History of the United Kingdom
Nicely organized collection of primary source official papers and documents of the British government, including individual monarchs.
London Lives: 1690 to 1800: Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis
240,000 manuscripts from 8 archives, fully searchable. Includes background, biographies of individuals, and references for further reading.
Old Bailey Online
Fully 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.
British History Online
Significant primary source materials from the Anglo-Roman period to the present, including some pre-1992 material from Ireland and documents relating to British colonies.