Selected Digital Primary Sources for History

Provides a gendered perspective on a vast body of original British source material useful for researchers in history, literature, sociology, and education. Includes contextual essays by leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the UK, and USA; the essays introduce the major themes of the project and provide direct links to sources. Sources include: ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books, and conduct and advice literature.

Contains images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as English-language works printed elsewhere, from 1473–1700. Includes over 130,000 titles and more than 17 million scanned pages.

Based on the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC, 1475-1800), this resource contains images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America, as well as English-language works printed elsewhere, from 1701-1800. It contains over 180,000 titles, including books, pamphlets, essays, and broadsides.

Online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas, and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th centuries. Includes 67,875 historical documents by 8,331 historical figures on subjects ranging from religious tolerance to animal rights, vulcanology to classical archeology, and economic modelling to celebrity culture. Features a biographical dictionary to facilitate internal browsing.

Features a wealth of primary source materials for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary sources. Includes 3 modules:
1. Personal Experiences (with letters, photographs, diaries, postcards, sheet music, etc.)
2. Propaganda and Recruitment (with aerial leaflets, atrocity propaganda, international posters, cartoons, etc.)
3. Visual Perspectives and Narratives (with material from the Imperial War Museum, including artwork, museum objects, film clips, etc.)

The single largest source for the study of women's history in the world, containing materials dated from 1543 to 1945, written in 15 languages, and originating from Continental Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. Digitized contents include: books, pamphlets, and periodicals reflecting the evolution of feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights

Provides an extensive collection of manuscripts for the study of medieval travel writing. The core materials are collections of medieval manuscripts in libraries around the world, from the 13th to 16th centuries, as well as maps, images, bibliographies, and chronologies. This resource focuses on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India, and China; many images are in full colour. The original documents are in Latin, German, Spanish, Dutch, and English; includes relevant secondary texts of translations and editions.

Contains thousands of primary sources that relate to the long nineteenth century (approximately 1749-1984) sourced from world-wide collections across the globe, written in multiple languages, with geographic coverage spanning Africa, Continental Europe, East/South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Content types include: monographs (books), manuscripts, newspapers, ephemera, photographs, statistics, and maps.

The Patrologia Latina Database is an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Searching help is available.

An important portal for slavery and abolition studies. Contains documents and collections produced from 1490 to 2007, sourced from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Topics include: the African Coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, abolition, and legislation. Features case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba. Provides links to significant external online sources, approved by leading scholars.

Contains over 1,500 trench journal titles sourced from leading archives around the world, including those of the Imperial War Museums and The British Library, written by service people from every type of unit and every combatant nation. Most are journals from units based on the Western Front in France and Belgium; but there are also magazines from units serving on the Eastern Front in Gallipoli, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Britain, and America.