Primary Sources : United Kingdom
Newspapers
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive collection of early English news media comprising newspapers, pamphlets, & books with 1,270 titles.
- The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 This link opens in a new windowOver 7,000,000 articles - Covers the entire newspaper of The Times (London) for the period specified, including articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
- BBC ArchivesIncludes themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs from as far back as the 1930s.
- Illustrated London news historical archive, 1842-2003Provides online access to the entire run of the ILN from its first publication on 14 May 1842 to its last in 2003.
- Irish Newspaper Archives This link opens in a new windowOver 6 million pages from over 500,000 issues of Irish Newspaper publications from 1700s to present.
- Google NewsSearch and explore information from historical archives dating back over 200 years
- Keesings World News Archive This link opens in a new windowMonthly articles, dating back to 1931, summarizing the world's most significant recent political, social and economic events
- Mideastwire.comTranslated briefs - Covers key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora
- British Library Online Newspaper ArchiveBrowseable and searchable online collection of historical British newspapers, scanned in their original format.
Databases of Primary Sources
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collections of the nineteenth century that includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and statistics.
- London low life : street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld This link opens in a new windowContains colour images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London reproduced from original materials.
- Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new windowThis collection includes spiritualism, mesmerism, psychical science and secular magic. They are primarily English texts published from the beginnings of Mesmerism in 1779.
- A Vision of Britain through TimeThis site brings together historical surveys of Britain to create a record of how the country and its localities have changed
- Empire Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies
- Vatican ArchivesDigital Archives from the popes going back to Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).
- Gerritsen Collection, Women’s History Online4,700 publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, tracing the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country’s movement on those of the others.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text - Over 180,000 titles - Consists of books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera - Subject categories include history and geography; fine arts and social sciences; medicine, science, and technology; literature and language; religion and philosophy; law; general reference and women's studies.
- Early Stuart LibelsEarly seventeenth-century political poetry from manuscript sources.
Internet Sources
- European History Primary sourcesProvides an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe
- EuroDocsEuroDocs links connect to Western European (mainly primary) historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
- Internet Modern History SourcebookA collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts from Modern History
- Bentham CollectionManuscripts written and composed by the philosopher and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Victoria County HistoryCollection of county histories, starting in 1899.
- Early Modern Europe: The Witch HuntsDocuments from 1437-1702, covering both European and American witch hunts
- 17th-19th Century British Religious, Political, and Legal Tracts This link opens in a new window
Government Documents
- European Court of Human Rights.This site is intended to provide public access to information about the Court and its activities
- The Proceedings of the Old BaileyDigitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts between 1676 and 1772
- United Kingdon Parliament - Living HeritageThe Living Heritage Collection looks at the relationship between Parliament and Historical topics such as the Slave Trade, Women and the Vote, and Religion and Beliefs
- Parliamentary debates (Hansard) : House of Commons official reportthe Parliamentary debates from the United Kingdom from 1803-2005.
- United Nations Treaty CollectionIncludes all treaties and international agreements entered in by any member of the United Nations
- Official Documents of the United NationsCovers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946.
Internet Resources - British 19th Century
- Charles Booth ArchiveContains the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886 to 1903. Also contains the Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967
- British Convict Transportation, 1787-1867Compiled from the British Home Office (HO) records. Contains details for over 123 000 of the estimated 160 000 convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved IllustrationContains records and images of 868 literary illustrations that were published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details.