Please also see the reading list for Modern Europe: From Enlightenment to the Present
Project Gutenberg: Collection of nearly 30,000 free books
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
Introductory Articles on History Teaching in British Schools
Internet Resources for Researching Modern History (PDF)
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985
Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
19th Century British Library Newspapers
19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003
The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 ('EHA') is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. In 8,000 issues and more than 600,0000 pages, EHA offers full-colour images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Altogether this is a unrivalled multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.
19th Century UK Periodicals
19th Century UK Periodicals is a major multi-part series which covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It is mainly based on the repositories of the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of South Africa, the National Library of Australia, and many others.
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India
British Newspapers 1600-1900
The British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.
EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Archive of Primary Source Materials on Soviety History
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale)
Arts and Humanities Data Service
BBC History
(includes primary and secondary material)
A celebration of Women Writers
British Library Online Gallery
(images and sounds)
Concentration Camps during the South African / Boer War, 1899-1902
Famous Trials
Online Historical Population Reports Website
Index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives
Marxist Internet Archive
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
The Carlyle Letters online
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Historical Directories
Online edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers
Moving Here
200 Years of Migration in England.
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
(A 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).
Historic Nursing Journals
From Partition to Direct Rule: 50 Years of Northern Ireland Parliamentary Debates Online
Trade Union Congress History Online
Victorian Women Writers Project
A Vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001
Includes maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
An archive of World War Two memories
Written by the public, gathered by the BBC.
Modern Germany on the internet
Internet links and resources maintained by Chris Szejnmann.
German History in Documents and Images
(German Historical Institute, Washington)
German History Sources (Weikart)
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