Collections of several types of primary sources curated around a topic or theme.
Search for articles published in popular magazines and journals from different times in history.
Official government publications, including laws, treaties, and records of legislative proceedings.
Great Britain
The full text of letters and diary entries, often from works that have been previously published as books containing collections of letters or diaries. Use the Browse indexes to find works about specific historical or life events.
Digitized photos and art images.
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The Illustration Archive reproduces over a million illustrations from works of literature, philosophy, history and geography that are in the British Library’s collection
“Joconde is the central database, now mostly available online, for objects in the collections of the state museums of France, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture.” Website is in French.
Satirical prints reaching into the first half of the 19th century
Contains almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views of North America. Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan. The richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches.
These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.
Primary sources, secondary sources, and datasets about British history from ancient times to the 20th century. 80% of the content is free; 20% is limited to subscribers only but UNLV does not currently subscribe.
Guide to online collections from national libraries
European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.
The purpose of EHPS is to provide an easily searchable index of scholarly digital repositories that contain primary sources for the history of Europe.
Digital reproduction of 375 volume set reprinting declassified documents about major US foreign policy decisions, 1861-1960
Searchable guide to archives and libraries with links to web sites.
Significant primary materials from all countries and cultures organized by the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.