History 1401E - Modern Europe, 1715 to the Present: Conflict and Transformation

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Selected Digital Primary Sources

Selected Digital Primary Sources
Primary sources are documents or physical objects written or created during the time under study. Such sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.

Types of primary sources include: original documents (e.g. diaries, speeches, manuscripts, letters, memoirs, interviews, news film footage, autobiographies, and official records); creative works (e.g. poetry, drama, novels, music, and art); and relics or artifacts (e.g. pottery, furniture, clothing, and buildings).

Selected Newspaper Primary Sources

All historical newspapers listed below are available online, and include full-text, full-image content of the original newspapers.

United Kingdom

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers

Represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media; includes newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). Charts the development of the concept of "news," "newspapers," and the "free press." Many Burney newspapers are well known; however, many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden.

19th Century British Library Newspapers

Includes full runs of newspapers selected by the British Library to best represent 19th century Britain. Contains national and regional newspapers, newspapers from established country or university towns, newspapers of the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing in the Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

Since 1791, the world's major events have been documented in the pages of the Guardian and the Observer. The newspapers can be searched simultaneously or separately:

The Guardian, 1821 to 2003
The Observer, 1791 to 2003

Times Digital Archive

Offers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 to 1985. It is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication.

Worldwide

Paper of Record

Includes selective historical content dating from 1752 to 2004 for the United Kingdom, the United States, Australlia, the Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Mexico.

Selected Microform Primary Sources

Selected Microform Primary Sources - 2nd edition
The D.B. Weldon Library maintains a large collection of research materials in microform formats (microfilm, microfiche, and microprint).

The Guide provides access to Weldon's microform research sets, which for reasons of format or indexing may be challenging to use. Approximately 175 catalogued research sets and collections are included. As a general rule, individual monographs in microform (i.e. not parts of series) have been excluded from this publication, as have coded government publications research sets and individual newspaper and periodical titles.

The following information is supplied for each entry: title, publisher, call number, holdings, format, description of contents, bibliographical access, and how to locate an item within a research set.

Entries are arranged by Library of Congress call number. The Guide also includes indexes by title and subject.