History: Databases/eResources

Database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Includes selective indexing for journals from 1955 onwards and some full-text coverage of selected journals and books.

Central search for UK public archives and their collections.

Online bibliography of Italian History.

Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire and the Commonwealth. It is the successor to the Royal Historical Society Bibliography. As well as providing details of publications, the BBIH provides links to online catalogues in research libraries in Britain, Ireland and the USA.

Selected primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history.

Digital library created by the Institute of Historical Research bringing together primary and secondary sources for British history from the collections of libraries, archives and museums. Please note that we do not subscribe to this resource. We can only access the freely available content on the website (80% of the content is free).

Digital manuscripts available online from the British Library.

Ordnance Survey, geological and historic map data. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online.

Indexing and some full text of journal articles back to 1955, covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

Online bibliography of German history or work by historians in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Online bibliography of Irish history.

Database of British newsreel and cinemagazine production from 1910 to 1983. It contains over 180,000 records and a large collection of digitised documents.

Provides access to the working documents of the British government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy stretching back to 1695.

Multidisciplinary research platform which enables simultaneous cross-searching of a range of citation indexes and databases.

Extensive collection of York cause papers - records of the individual cases of the church courts held at York.

Bibliography of the European Middle Age (c. 450-1500).

A bibliography of more than a million citations for secondary source material about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700. Also includes access to some full text ejournals and open access ebooks.

L’Année Philologique, published by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, is a specialised bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman civilisations. The online database includes all volumes of the annual index, beginning with Volume I published in 1928.

Online catalogue of 500 scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors.

Encyclopaedia which covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa.

Texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).

Greek and Latin literature through original text and English translation, covering epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, travel, philosophy, oratory and more.

Search entries in a number of dictionaries and reference works from the Perseus Classical collection and other sources, including the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources (DMLBS).

Digital edition of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart.

The works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

Online bibliography for medieval historians.

Early Modern Books covers material from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700 and enables an integrated search across both Early English Books Online and Early European Books.

Search and explore full-text digital versions of eighteenth-century book titles.

British State Papers and government documents (1509-1714), covering domestic and foreign policy during the reigns of the Tudors, Stuarts, Commonwealth and Restoration.

Searchable access to full-text transcriptions and digitised images of over 230 letters written by or to Elizabeth Talbot ('Bess of Hardwick' c.1521/2 or 1527-1608).

Digitised images of journals printed between c.1685 and 1835.

Comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750, based on the authoritative bibliography, 'European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750'.

Free access to original CD-ROM content of Samuel Hartlib's 25,000+ folios of original educational materials.

John Foxe's (1517-1587) The Acts and Monuments of the English Martyrs retells the history of the English Protestant martyrs from the fourteenth century to his own time.

John Stow’s Elizabethan classic, A Survey of London, was first published in 1598. This online edition presents the text, street plans and illustrations of Strype's classic work.

Topically focused digital collections of primary source historical documents.

Access to a vast collection of primary source documents from the India Office Records held by the British Library covering the period from before the Company's charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947.

Archive collection of primary documents on the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Discover primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Sourced from almost one hundred major world libraries.

Fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Archive of digitised materials for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The archive includes a significant amount of digitised material from the National Fairground and Circus Archive.

Discover the events, lives, values, and themes that shaped the British Empire and the nineteenth-century world.

Manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland exploring the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Academic journal articles, books and primary sources.

Access to full-text transcriptions of 4,800 letters by the South African feminist, socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920).

A comprehensive, scholarly synopsis of 15,000 articles relating to science, technology, and medicine which appeared in 16 general periodicals published in Britain between 1800 and 1900.

Keyword index to 19th century English periodicals and newspapers. It covers over 27,000 titles and can also be searched by place of publication, issuing body, and personal names.

Primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender.

Records of major civil rights organisations and the personal papers of leaders and observers of the 20th century Black freedom struggle.

Primary-source collection of around 45,000 fully-searchable materials from the Casa de las Américas in Havana.

British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.

British Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office files covering the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.

Mass Observation was a pioneering social research organisation whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937-1965.

Primary and secondary source material related to Joseph Stalin's personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs. A majority of these documents are scanned page images and corresponding bibliographic records in Russian created by the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI). The archive also contains full transcriptions of all of the volumes in Yale University Press's Annals of Communism (AOC) series.

A unique collection of conclusions and reference materials that detail the role of Cabinet and its history.

Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches, editorial commentary and other materials.

An online archive of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.

Includes the United Nations Treaty Series from 1946, and the texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties not yet published in the UNTS. It also includes the League of Nations Treaty Series, 1920-1944.