| 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 |
| Arcanum |
Online |
Hungary |
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st |
Online full text database of Hungarian scientific journals, encyclopedias, newpapers, and monographic series from the 1800s to the present. |
| Arquivo.pt |
Online |
Portugal |
20th; 21st |
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. |
| Central and Eastern European Online Library |
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. |
| CIDEHUS Digital |
Online |
Portugal |
15th; 16th; 17th |
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». |
| Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Special Collections Search Hub |
Online |
Europe, North America |
14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, |
Search for keywords in nearly 6 million catalog records and 40,000 finding aids for rare books, manuscripts, images, media and artifacts at member institutions. (Circulating collections are not included.) |
| Digital library dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato |
Online |
Italy |
14th; 15th; 17th; 16th; 18th; 20th; 19th; 21st |
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. |
| Documents on Irish Foreign Policy |
Online |
Ireland |
20th |
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. |
| Early English books online |
Online |
UK; Ireland |
15th; 16th; 17th |
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. |
| Early European Books |
Online |
Europe |
15th; 16th; 17th |
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). |
| Eighteenth century collections online |
Online |
UK; USA |
18th |
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. |
| European population, 1850-1945 |
CD-ROM |
Europe |
19th; 20th |
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. |
| Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) |
Online |
USA |
19th; 20th |
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. |
| Frantext |
Online |
France |
14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st |
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. |
| Fünfzig Jahre Deutsche Mark: monetäre Statistiken 1948-1997 |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
20th |
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 |
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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 |
20th |
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. |
| Making of the modern world |
Online |
Europe |
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
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, industrialization, 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. |
| Le Monde (1944-2000) |
Online |
France |
20th-21st |
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. |
| Nineteenth century British pamphlets |
Online |
UK |
19th |
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. |
| Reklame |
CD-ROM |
Germany |
19th |
1,081 posters from the collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, most of which were originally collected by Hans Sachs |
| Trans-Atlantic slave trade |
CD-ROM |
Africa |
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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 organization of slave traders, and the age and physical characteristics of vessels. |
| Women writers online |
Online |
UK; USA |
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th |
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. |