| Trans-Atlantic slave trade |
CD-ROM |
Africa |
Incorporates voyage records of 75 percent of all the slave ships sailing under British, French, Spanish, and Dutch flags between 1662 and 1860. The data details not only basic demographic characteristics of the African slaves mortality, age, sex but also detailed information on crew membership, conditions on slave ships, duration of voyages, the nature of slave resistance, business organisation of slave traders, and the age and physical characteristics of vessels. |
| East India Company (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Asia; UK |
From 16th century origins as a trading venture to the East Indies, through to its rise as the world’s most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amid allegations of greed and corruption – the East India Company was an extraordinary force in global history. From the Company’s charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947, East India Company tells the story of trade with the East; politics; and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting narratives – from records of powerful political figures, through to the lives of native populations and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire. This is simply an essential resource for scholarship of British imperial history; maritime trade; global commerce, and the history of the first great multinational corporation. |
| Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Asia; UK |
This is a resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. |
| Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Asia; UK |
This collection offers an insight into the significant changes that took place in Southeast Asia during 1963-1980, including the creation of Malaysia and the response to this from the wider region. |
| Österreichische historische bibliographie. Ausländische Austriaca 1995-1999, Auswahlbibliographie : Austrian historical bibliography |
Online |
Austria |
The Austrian Historical Bibliography is a literary documentation that is processed at the Institute for History at the University of Klagenfurt. The ÖHB lists the publications of Austrian historical research, as far as they have appeared in Austria.
Beginning with the reporting year 1945, monographs, serial works, articles from journals, commemorative publications, collections of essays, catalogs and conference proceedings as well as diploma and master’s theses, dissertations and post-doctoral theses are bibliographically recorded and indexed by subject. The annual increase is about 5,800 documents. |
| Bibliografie van de Geschiedenis van België |
Online |
Belgium |
The Bibliography of the History of Belgium (BGB) can be consulted digitally in this separate catalog from 2009 onwards.
This research tool offers a wide selection of titles of Belgian and foreign books and articles about the history of Belgium. From 2009 title descriptions are included, with additions for previous years. A number of hierarchically assigned keywords are added to each reference. You can search by author, title and keyword. The catalogue can be consulted freely and free of charge. |
| Colonial Caribbean: CO Files from The National Archives, UK (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Central America |
This extensive digital resource covers three centuries of Caribbean history. Drawn from the vast archives of the British Colonial Office, this is simply an essential resource for all students and researchers of the Caribbean and British colonial rule. This enormous range of unique primary sources covers British governance of 25 islands in the Caribbean from 1624-1872, meeting teaching and research needs across a wide variety of themes, from settlement and colonial rivalries in the region, to the economics of the plantation systems and the impact of slavery, to crime and punishment and the everyday lives of the people that called the islands home. |
| Arcanum |
Online |
Hungary |
Online full text database of Hungarian scientific journals, encyclopedias, newpapers, and monographic series from the 1800s to the present. |
| Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) |
Online |
Croatia; Czechia; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Turkey; Ukraine |
Central and Eastern Europe Online Library is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 2000 humanities and social science journals, 4500 electronic books and re-digitised documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics. |
| Herder Institut - Bibliotheks- und Bibliographieportal |
Online |
Croatia; Czechia; Estonia; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Macedonia; Montenegro; Poland; Romania; Russia; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Ukraine |
Bibliographic references have been systematically indexed since the publication year 1994. Monographs, anthologies and contributions, journal articles, source editions, reference works, bibliographies, reviews and conference reports are recorded. |
| Bibliografie dějin Českých zemí ke stažení |
Online |
Czechia |
Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands (abbr. BDČZ) provides a free public access to the internet database which currently contains more than 500,000 entries of the professional literature since 1990 (selectively since 1945). |
| Archives Portal Europe |
Online |
Europe |
The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. |
| Early European Books |
Online |
Europe |
All works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, fall within the scope of the project. Early European Books offers full-colour, high-resolution (400 ppi) facsimile images scanned directly from the original printed sources. Each item in the collection is captured in its entirety, complete with its binding, edges, endpapers, blank pages, and any loose inserts, providing scholars with a wealth of information about the physical characteristics and provenance histories of the original artefacts.
Access to collections depends on the IP address of the user. The following libraries have negotiated free country-wide access to the materials contributed to EEB by the source library and for the duration of the partnership agreement.
The Royal Danish Library – Kongelige Bibliotek (Copenhagen, Denmark).
The National Central Library of Florence – Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (Florence, Italy)
The National Library of the Netherlands – Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague, The Netherlands)
The Wellcome Library - The Wellcome Library (London, United Kingdom). |
| European Historical Bibliographies |
Online |
Europe |
European Historical Bibliographies is a joint project of subject-specific bibliographies from at present fourteen countries. It shall promote continuous cooperation among the participating institutions and bring together, on a European level, their various national bibliographic resources so that trans-national historical research is facilitated. The common platform is hosted by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften). |
| European population, 1850-1945 |
CD-ROM |
Europe |
The European Population 1850-1945 is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on demographic developments, population and household structures for the countries of Western and Central Europe. All major fields of demographic change are covered: fertility, mortality, marriage, and divorce. Population figures are given for each population census by sex, civil status and age. Major demographic developments within the family are described providing a commentary on the main population structures and trends in Europe since the 19th century. |
| First World War Portal (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Europe |
From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war. Covering an array of international perspectives, the resource showcases intimate personal narratives, wartime propaganda and recruitment material, the truly global reach of the conflict, and the role of women in war through various documentary and visual forms. |
| Grand Tour (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Europe |
Taking the phenomenon of the Grand Tour as a starting point, this resource explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy. This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections. |
| Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) |
Online |
Europe |
Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from about 1475 to 1755. Texts of word-entries whose headword (source) or explanation (target) language is English tell us what speakers of English thought about their tongue in the period are served by the Short-title, Wing, and ESTC catalogues. |
| Making of the modern world |
Online |
Europe |
The Making of the Modern World (MOMW) brings together two collections of primary source material in a single search interface. MOMW Part I draws on the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850, providing digital facsimile images on every page of 62,400 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. MOMW Part II extends the original collection to include works published from 1851 through 1914. Full-text searching and Text-Mining on the more than 11 million pages is now possible within this vast collection of material on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, industrialisation, trade and transport. Bibliographic records for individual titles included in both MOMW Part I and MOMW Part II are included in the EUI Library Catalogue. |
| Medical Services and Warfare (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Europe; USA |
This collection focuses on the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First World War, and the Second World War among other conflicts. The impact on medicine during peacetime is also charted, notably through documents relating to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and post-war rehabilitation. |
| World War Two Studies (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
Europe; USA; Asia |
Important primary sources, offering insight into many aspects of the war, including government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. Sources include the records of British espionage and sabotage organisation The Special Operations Executive; and private papers of American General Robert L Eichelberger from the Pacific war. |
| Bibliographie de l’histoire de France (BHF) |
Online |
France |
The BHF is a bibliographic and historiographical tool for anyone interested in the history of France.
It covers the various fields of historical research with the exception of philosophy, French literature and music, which have their own bibliographies. It is based on the analysis of a large number of French and foreign journals (online or not) and lists articles, monographs, collective works (whose content is systematically detailed), theses as well as websites relating to the history of France from the fifth century to 1995. |
| Dictionnaire biographique du mouvement ouvrier français |
CD-ROM |
France |
Contains more than 900,000 publications and other material like maps and dissertations. |
| Frantext |
Online |
France |
FRANTEXT is a major corpus of French texts spanning the 16th to 20th centuries. The database currently contains the full text of approximately 3500 works, of which 80% are literary texts, the other 20% being mainly scientific texts. |
| Grand atelier historique de la langue française |
CD-ROM |
France |
Includes 14 French dictionaries from the 16th through 19th centuries.
Contents: Dictionnaire de La Curne de sainte Palaye -- Dictionnaire de Jean Nicot (1606) -- Curiosités françaises / Antoine Oudin -- Dictionnaire français contenant les mots et les choses / Pierre Richelet (1680) -- Dictionnaire Universel / Antoine Furetière (1690) -- Dictionaire étymologique [sic] / Gilles Menage (1694) -- Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences / Thomas Corneille (1694) -- Dictionnaire Universel François & latin vulgairement appelé de Trévoux (1743-1752) -- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (1762) -- Dictionnaire philosophique et compléments / Voltaire -- Dictionaire [sic] critique / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire grammatical de la langue française / Abbé J.F. Féraud -- Dictionnaire de la langue française / Émile Littré -- Dictionnaire universel des synonymes / Guizot. |
| Le Monde (1944-2000) |
Online |
France |
Written in the French language and covering leading issues and events, like World War II and the Fifth Republic, to French, European and international politics, society and business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde reveals the day-to-day news coverage valued by researchers.See less |
| Persée. Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales. |
Online |
France |
PERSEE is the website for scientific journals in social and human sciences, established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research. Some individual articles listed on the PERSEE site are not available in full-text due to copyright restrictions. The PERSEE website has as mission the digitisation and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of French periodicals. |
| Digizeitschriften |
Online |
Germany |
DigiZeitschriften is the German online journal archive. It is a service for academicwork that makes well-known German research and science journals available online. The journals come from different subject areas: Egyptology and Coptology, English Studies, Archeology, Libraries, Educational Sciences, Geosciences, German studies, History, Art, Mathematics, Musicology, Natural Sciences, Oriental Studies, Philology, Philosophy, Law, Religion, Romance Studies, Sociology, History of Technology, Economics. |
| Fünfzig Jahre Deutsche Mark: monetäre Statistiken 1948-1997 |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
This CD-ROM (in German) contains approximately 25 000 long time series taken from the German Bank's monetary statistics on trends in the monetary and banking systems, the capital market and external relations from 1948 to 1997. |
| Historische Bibliographie online |
Online |
Germany |
The Historical Bibliography Online (HBO) contains 358,551 bibliographic entries on historical specialist literature that was published between 1990 and 2013: monographs, articles from journals and collective works. It is supplemented by 8,758 entries on historical research work that were unpublished up to 2013. |
| Jahresberichte für deutsche Geschichte |
Online |
Germany |
The academy project "Annual Reports on German History" records and indexes German and foreign-language publications on German history from the Roman-Germanic period to the present. |
| Reklame |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
1,081 posters from the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, most of which were originally collected by Hans Sachs |
| Wer war wer in der DDR? |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
Biographical dictionary of East Germany. |
| Documents on Irish Foreign Policy |
Online |
Ireland |
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) is a public history project for the study of modern Irish history through diplomacy. DIFP aims to make the history of Irish foreign policy accessible to all and promotes public engagement with the history of Ireland’s international relations. DIFP is a partnership project of the Royal Irish Academy, the National Archives, and the Department of Foreign Affairs. |
| Irish History Online |
Online |
Ireland |
Irish History Online is the national bibliography of Irish history. It is part of a European network of national historical bibliographies from fourteen countries. Irish History Online is an authoritative listing (in progress) of what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present. |
| Bibliografia Storica Nazionale |
Online |
Italy |
Bibliografia Storica Nazionale (BSN) is the Italian national historical bibliography published since 1939. |
| Digital library dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato |
Online |
Italy |
Approximately 1,500 inventories of the Italian Central State Archive are available for remote research, browsable and searchable word by word thanks to OCR standards. Thousands of documents, photographs and posters are also available in the interoperable IIIF format. |
| Migration to New Worlds (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; Australia |
Unique primary source diaries, correspondence, photographs, oral histories and journals narrate the vivid realities of ocean travel and life in adopted homelands. Organisational correspondence, government proceedings, shipping company papers and records of advocacy groups provide key context to migrants’ everyday struggles. |
| Gender: Identity and Social Change (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; Europe |
Explore records from men’s and women’s organisations, advice literature and etiquette books to reveal developing gender roles and relations. Gain an insight into changing societal expectations about gender roles through personal diaries and correspondence and explore the life and careers of key figures and pioneers in gender history. |
| Adam Matthew Explorer |
Online |
North America; Europe; Asia |
Adam Matthew (AM Explorer) resources includes collections spanning the social sciences and humanities, developed in collaboration with leading libraries and archives ; guides to discover millions of pages of unique primary source content which empower students and researchers to develop critical thinking ; digital collections that transform teaching and research on important themes such as: Borders and Migrations, Gender and Sexuality, Global History, and War and Conflict. Single point of access through AM Explorer with built-in federated search functionality across all collections. It includes additional features to enhance student engagement such as Handwritten Text Recognition, Data Visualisation, Video and Oral Histories |
| Church Missionary Society Periodicals (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; South America; Asia; Central America; Africa |
The rich and diverse publications of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) shed light on key events since the beginning of the 19th century. With active mission stations in every continent, the published journals, letters and reports represent a truly global perspective on not only evangelism and mission history but conflict, colonialism and globalisation. |
| Age of Exploration (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; South America; Central America; Asia; Africa |
This multi-archive collection focuses on European, maritime exploration from the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, through the age of discovery, the search for the ‘New World’, the establishment of European settlements on every continent, to the eventual discovery of the Northwest and Northeast Passages, and the race for the Poles. |
| Food and Drink in History (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; South America; Central America; Asia; Europe; Africa |
The story of food and drink is a unique lens through which to view social and cultural history. The materials in this collection illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics, power, gender, race, and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues such as agriculture, nutrition, and food production. Explore a wide range of primary source material, including printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films, and illustrated content - revealing the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere. The unique material in this collection has been sourced from across the globe to reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions, creating an unparalleled research resource. |
| Global Commodities (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
North America; South America; Europe; Central America; Asia; Africa |
Explore the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising, paintings, photographs and ephemera |
| Bibliografia Historii Polskiej |
Online |
Poland |
The electronic version of the Bibliography of Polish History, developed in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance, contains the same data as the subsequent yearbooks published by the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. |
| Arquivo.pt |
Online |
Portugal |
Arquivo.pt – the Portuguese web-archive is a research infrastructure that enables search and access to files archived from the web since 1996. Its main objective is the preservation of information published on the Web for research purposes. |
| CIDEHUS Digital |
Online |
Portugal |
CIDEHUS Digital is a data repository. In open access, it offers an increasing volume of materials, encouraging its reuse. It makes the past more accessible through the technologies of the present and contributes to the constant (re)making of science. It comprises databases, collections and reference works, multimedia materials, sources and cartography tools. In this already relevant set, the contents of some of the old volumes of the «Virtual Library of Portuguese Discoveries» stand out, which, with the consent of the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries, are now available under the name of «Ophir Restored». |
| Diccionario bibliographico portuguez |
CD-ROM |
Portugal |
Diccionario bibliographico portuguez contains volumes 1 through 23 (CDROM n.9 available at the Library entrance desk as part of the Ophir: Biblioteca Virtual dos Descobrimentos Portuguese - Virtual Library of the Portuguese Discoveries). |
| Portuguese bibliography 15th century to 1999 |
CD-ROM |
Portugal; Brazil |
General bibliography of works about or published in Portugal and Brazil, in a wide variety of subject areas. The Bibliography covers general reference works, encyclopedias, bibliographies, historical, geographical, and biographical reference works, dissertations, academic monographs, non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, periodicals and newspapers. |
| Svensk historisk bibliografi-digital |
Online |
Sweden |
SHBd (Swedish historical bibliography-digital) is a list of works on Swedish history. Here you will find information about academic papers as well as amateur research, a total of more than 175,000 pieces. In the service you will find, among other things, books, essays, reviews and newspaper articles. |
| Bibliography of Swiss History |
Online |
Switzerland |
The Bibliography of Swiss History (BSH) contains publications from both Switzerland and abroad, including monographs, articles from collections and journals, doctoral, Bachelor and Master theses on all media. |
| Biographie-Portal |
Online |
Switzerland; Germany; Austria |
More than 150,000 scholarly biographies of persons from all social backgrounds and nearly all periods of German, Austrian, and Swiss history may be accessed. Further national and regional biographical works of reference are planned for future inclusion in the portal. A joint index makes available the following works:
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB; abgeschlossen)
Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB)
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950 (ÖBL)
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (HLS),
Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas,
Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon (OeML)
Rheinland-Pfälzische Personendatenbank (RPPD)
Sächsische Biografie (SäBi)
Slovenska biografija (SBI) |
| Archives Hub |
Online |
UK |
The Archives Hub gives you great value as a way to quickly find archives held in the UK. |
| Defining Gender (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material to enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.
Students and scholars are provided the opportunity to research the ideals of social conduct, power distribution within the family, consumption and leisure, education of men and women and gendered perceptions of the body to analyse and challenge the changing views and ideas surrounding traditional gender roles. |
| Early Modern England (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
This collection of primary sources looks at two centuries of everyday, political, religious, working, trading and administrative life in England during this pivotal epoch. Documents cover an array of topics relating to England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a significant focus on the lives of ‘everyday’ people. Volumes of correspondence from more prominent families look at governance, politics, monarchy, relations between landowners and tenants, war, politics and relations with England’s neighbours. The materials offer in-depth case studies of different regions in England from the South East to the Scottish Borders allowing for comparison of experience across the country. |
| Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
Formerly restricted British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. |
| Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
This collection provides significant insight into the events between First World War victory and Second World War defeat, crucial to understanding the political journey of Japan during this period. |
| Literary Print Culture The Stationers’ Company Archive, London (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
The archive of the Stationers’ Company is widely regarded as one of the most important sources for studying the history of the book, publishing and copyright. The Company was instrumental in the development of the printed book in early modern England, exerting enormous power over the publishing industry as it developed. This resource provides essential primary sources for students and scholars of English literature, Renaissance theatre, and print culture from the early modern period to the twentieth century. |
| Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 |
Online |
UK |
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan’s government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees. |
| Mass Observation Online |
Online |
UK |
A pioneering social research organisation, Mass Observation was founded in 1937 by anthropologist Tom Harrisson, film-maker Humphrey Jennings and poet Charles Madge. Their aim was to create an 'anthropology of ourselves', and by recruiting a team of observers and a panel of volunteer writers they studied the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This landmark digital project opens up revolutionary access to the archive. |
| Nineteenth century British pamphlets |
Online |
UK |
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. 19th Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.
The digitisation of more than 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. |
| Nineteenth century short title catalogue I-III |
CD-ROM |
UK |
Provide complete listings of books printed in Britain, the colonies and the U.S.A between 1801 and 1919. It also includes books in English published elsewhere and translations from English. |
| Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. We have now enhanced their ground-breaking work by linking the new detailed catalogue descriptions with complete digital facsimiles of the original manuscripts. The result is a resource which is indispensable for anyone interested in women and women's writing in Early Modern Britain. |
| Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian England (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
This digital resource documents the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century society, tracing developments in welfare reform and the social tensions surrounding poverty. Discover the conditions of workhouses and the administration of the new poor relief system through the official government correspondence of the Poor Law Commission, and explore the demonstrable shift in social conditions and welfare reform through a variety of material. |
| Women in The National Archives |
Online |
UK |
A finding aid for women's studies resources in The National Archives, UK is presented alongside original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. |
| Women's Studies (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK |
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women. |
| Early English books online |
Online |
UK; Ireland |
Collection of online text editions of works originally published between 1473-1700, listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-title catalogue, Wing's Short title catalogue or the Thomason tracts. Titles in the collection cover literature, philosophy, politics, religion, geography, science and all other areas of human endeavour. |
| Oxford dictionary of National Biography |
Online |
UK; Ireland |
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in association with the British Academy is the first point of reference for anyone interested in the lives of the peoples of the British Isles and their connections overseas, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. It is the product of research instituted at the University of Oxford and funded by the British Academy and by Oxford University Press. It is the achievement of 10,000 contributors and advisers staff in Oxford. The Oxford DNB aims to provide full, accurate, concise, and readable articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life. No living person is included: the Dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000. |
| Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK; Middle East |
Providing an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the modern Middle East, this collection contains complete runs of Foreign Office files, providing an expansive view of key events and their global political impact. |
| Eighteenth century collections online |
Online |
UK; USA |
This database aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with other important works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800. 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. Also included are significant collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare. Where they add scholarly value or contain important differences, multiple editions of each individual work are offered. |
| Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK; USA |
Eighteenth Century Journals draws together material from some of the finest archives across the UK and the US, with the aim of representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. It is the first resource of its kind to make available unique and extremely rare eighteenth century periodicals online, each chosen to convey the eclecticism and evolution of the publishing world between 1685 and 1835. |
| Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975 (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
UK; USA |
From the austerity of the 1950s to the excess of the 1970s, discover the period through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. |
| Women writers online |
Online |
UK; USA |
Women Writers Online, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University, contains full-text editions of more than 420 texts texts by English and American women published between 1526 and 1850. It also includes introductory essays written by contemporary scholars about Renaissance women writers, their texts, and related topics. The site provides links to other textual databases, and a collection of syllabi. |
| Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) |
Online |
USA |
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. |
| Historical statistics of the United States |
Online |
USA |
Compendium of approximately 13,000 statistical series on a range of social, behavioural, human and environmental topics from the United States Census Bureau, from 1770 to 2000. |
| Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
USA |
This collection charts the development of one of the world’s largest and most culturally significant industries. The growth of leisure travel has profoundly influenced global society in the past two hundred years and the unique primary sources in this resource allow scholars and students to trace the evolution and impact of this phenomenon. |
| Service Newspapers of World War Two (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
USA; Europe; Asia; Australia; Africa |
Service Newspapers of World War Two contains an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world. Publications are included from many key nations involved in the conflict, such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, and the countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Both Allied and Axis publications are presented, offering a broad view of the war and the experiences of those on its front lines. |
| Empire Online (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
USA; France; Portugal; UK; Germany; Spain; The Netherlands |
With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides varying points-of-view for comparative research. Documents from Africa, India and North America are also featured. Students and researchers of colonial history, society, trade and travel, politics and culture are encouraged to explore a diverse range of topics and subjects from ship’s logs to missionaries in Africa. The vast selection of printed, manuscript and visual primary source documents available within this digital resource are supported with interactive teaching tools to enable the demonstration of the theories, practices and consequences of empire. |
| Virginia Company Archives (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
USA; UK |
This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America |
| Sex & Sexuality (Adam Matthew) |
Online |
USA; UK; Australia |
Sex & Sexuality covers a broad range of topics and is drawn from leading archives around the world. From papers of leading sexologists, to LGBTQI+ personal histories, the collection is an essential resource for the study of human sexuality, its complexities and its history. |