Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The bibliography is hosted by the
Institute of Historical Research.
Illustrated collection of over 57,000 authoritative biographies of people who shaped the history of Great Britain, from the 4th century BC to those who have died in the previous few years.
Partially searchable digital images of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as works in English printed elsewhere. Based upon the Pollard and Redgrave Short Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and the Wing Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700).
Traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the 17th century, offering full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.
Digital facsimiles of early modern pamphlets in European collections.
Partially searchable digital images of books, primarily British, printed in the eighteenth century. Based on the Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue.
Citations and abstracts to articles in multiple languages in the humanities and social sciences. Online version of Bulletin Signaletique, published by the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.).
Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science. Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Digital library of works from the 19th and early 20th centuries on British Commonwealth and American law. Includes treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
Digital edition of the Goldsmiths'-Kress collections of books on that document economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Materials include books, pamphlets and ephemera and cover a broad range of topics in political science, history, sociology, and banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
Subject-inclusive, language-inclusive bibliography of 50,000 publications, 48,000 personal names, 4,572 issuing bodies and 756 subjects.
Collection of British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries.
Overview of the political history of the Middle East in the 20th Century, based on primary source documents from the British national archives. Documents the politics, administration, wars and diplomacy of the Palestine Mandate, the Independence of Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Indexing of journals and conference papers published in Spain in a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, social, life, and physical sciences. A subset of the database, ISOC-America Latina, indexes 20 Spanish journals dedicated to Latin American topics.
Includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in diaries and letters.
Provides online access to several collections on the history of the Atlantic world, from British archives.
Digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Searchable full-text and page images of several hundred British periodicals, primarily from the 19th century.
Digital edition of the printed index and calendar of the British State Papers, 1547-1775.
Consists principally of the correspondence of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) and his son, Robert, the 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612). Also included is a digitized version of the Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Salisbury.
Online version of the archive at Churchill College, Cambridge. Comprises nearly 800,000 documents amassed by Winston S. Churchill throughout his life.
Digital collection of British Foreign Office documents from FO371,
the National Archives of the UK. Describes political conditions,
resistance to the German occupation, economic and social conditions and intelligence operations.
Reproduces records relating to Canada, the Caribbean and the US from the British Foreign and Colonial Offices in the UK National Archives.
Wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature.
Digital edition of material from Britain's Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, documenting British foreign policy from the
mid-19th century to the 1970's. Based on the printed editions.
Digital edition of journals and newspapers published between 1685-1815 in England, Scotland, Ireland, Jamaica, and British India.
Cross-searchable digital critical edition of 18th century correspondence.
Search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865.
Imprints before 1800 from Britain and its dependencies.
Digital collection documenting the personal experiences of soldiers and civilians in World War I.
Major source for the study of women's history in the world, especially feminism and the movement for
women's rights. The collection includes the full text of books, pamphlets and periodicals spanning four centuries and 15 languages.
Digital edition of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with searchable full text and subject indexing. The Parliamentary Papers are an essential primary source for 19th- and 20th-century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy. .
Full text searchable digital edition of the Illustrated London News.
Searchable digital edition of the printed Jahresberichte, a bibliography of writings (journal articles and monographs) on German history since 500 C.E.
Digital edition of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian. Includes posters, broadsides, pamphlets and printed advertisements illustrating everyday life in 18th, 19th and early 20th century Britain.
Provides searchable full-text access to UK Statutes back to 1235,
Statutory Instruments back to 1671, Local Acts back to 1797, and a
collection of Private Acts back to 1539. Some material is
provided in PDF format.
Full-text searchable resource, containing color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.
Digital edition of documents from the UK National Archives, covering the years when Macmillan was Prime Minister.
The Mass Observation project recorded the views and experiences of ordinary Britons from 1937 into the early 1960s. The archive is a rich source of information about Britain before, during and after World War II, and about changes in attitudes to many topics in social and economic life.
Contains full runs of 48 newspapers from the British Library. Provides a representative selection of papers from 19th century Britain and includes national & regional newspapers from England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales.
Combines various general, scientific, religious, psychological, and legal indexes covering the nineteenth century.
NSTC is an index of all printed works published in Britain, its colonies and the United States of America, all printed works in English wherever published, and all translations from English.
Digital collection of British magazines published in the 19th century. Series 1 "New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sports" and Series 2 "Empire" are currently available.
Provides indexing, plus some full text, for English-language oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Primarily covers 20th-century America, but there is some content for other times and places.
Provides indexing, plus some full text, for English-language oral histories that are publicly available on the Web and that are held by repositories and archives around the world. Primarily covers 20th-century America, but there is some content for other times and places.
Digital edition of Palmer's index to the Times of London. Also includes full text for 1800 to 1870. For complete full text (1785-1985), see Times (London) Digital Archive.
Indexes books and articles on parliamentary law and practice.
Digital collection of material from the Wiener Library and the UK National Archives on refugees and resettlement of displaced persons in Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
Official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Fully searchable online edition of the periodical Proceedings of the Old Bailey, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Digital edition of newspapers from the Burney Collection at the British Library. Most are London newspapers of the 17th and 18th centuries, but there are also pamphlets and broadsides.
Digital edition of the State Papers Domestic from the UK National Archives. Documents the British government in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Digital edition of material from the Wiener Library collection of eyewitness accounts, photographs, propaganda, and printed material documenting Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to after the war.
Full text searchable digital edition of the London Times.
Contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Coverage includes spiritualism, sensation and magic; circuses, sideshows and freaks; and music halls; theater and popular entertainment.
Digital edition of the papers of the Virginia Company of London (Ferrar Papers), now at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Indexes 43 Victorian periodicals by author, subject, and book review.