British and Irish History

Includes approximately 600 periodical titles documenting British life in the 19th century.

A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 A.D.

A suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew, the official archive of the United Kingdom.

Gateway to a variety of subject specific digital microfilm collections.

Digital archive of records documenting U.S. and British relations with a variety of Asian Nations.

Database that helps students and researchers understand today’s world through primary source documents, archives, film and ephemera.

Online archive of documents related to British history.

Includes facsimile page images and full text for a broad range of British periodicals published between the 17th and the 20th century.

Digital archive that documents the development of urban centers and the restructuring of society during the Industrial Revolution.

Digital archive of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era.

Publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Collection of English language sources detailing China's interaction with the West.

Digitized collection of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at the UK National Archives.

Provides users with access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in slaves and English conflicts with the Spanish and French are all covered in this database.

Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices..

Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.

Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices.

Digital collection of documents issued by the British Foreign and Colonial Office.

Constitutes a distinctive collection of primary sources for examining and exploring the lives of ordinary people and the institutions of a rural community in the East Midlands of medieval England from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century.

Digital facsimiles and searchable full-text, in a variety of languages, of the works of 16th & 17th century Protestant Reformers.

Provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.

Digital facsimiles and searchable full-text, in a variety of languages, of the works of 16th & 17th century Catholic authors.

Contains digital facsimile page images of works printed between 1473 and 1700.

India Office Records from the British Library, 1595-1947.

Collection of 18th century books, pamphlets, broadsides, etc. published in the UK.

Over 60,000 images of original manuscripts related to Empire Studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world.

Database of over one million catalogue entries describing photographs, plans, and drawings of England's buildings and historic sites.

Online collection of over 5,000 historical documents.

Provides CIA translations of newswires and broadcast services from around the world in full-text from 1941-1996.

Full-text primary source database of source material for the study of the First World War.

Brings together documents, videos, advertisements and archival collections on food and society.

Sources from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive.

UK government files on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Documents existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920, including frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia.

Gerritsen curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand, dating from 1543-1945. The broad scope allows scholars to trace the evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.

Collection of digitized manuscript & visual primary source material for the study of global commodities in world history.

Searchable access to over 17 million volumes--including over 8.3 million books, over 1.2 million government documents, and over 450,000 serial publications--with full text access to 9 million+ volumes.

Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.

A collection of text and video on human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Manuscript Collections form the National Library of Scotland documenting the history of India.

Collection of primary sources on the history of tourism from 1850-1980.

Colour images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Historical treatises, codes and cases from Western Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, Cuba, China and India, 1600-1926.

A searchable, full-text database of 22,000 English language legal treatises from the U.S. and U.K.

Contains approximately 1.5 million pages of historical United States legal material including constitutional convention documents, colonial records, city charters, and early state codes and digests.

Describes the courtroom dramas that rocked society in America, the British Empire and the world.

Digital and searchable editions of more than 70,000 titles, published between 1450 and 1945.

Digital archive of Mass Observation, a social research organisation that recorded life in Britain, 1937-1967.

Includes original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers.

From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Documents the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, as well as the British, European and Asian migration with primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by compilations of teaching and research aids.

Digital primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.

Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration.

Online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II.

Digitized interrogation records and cargo inventories from ships seized by British privateers, 1592-1855.

Indexes over 7,000 arts, humanities & social science journals, from their first issues through 2000.