Interface in English. Content in English or original languages.
Links to European historical documents that have been transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Maintained by Brigham Young University.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
Interface in English. Content in English or other languages.
Digitized collections from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more. Strongest between the 17th and 21st centuries. Content dating back to B.C.E.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Interface in English, Dutch, or French.
Includes manuscripts, contemporary printed books, maps and plans, rare books, coins and medals, music, as well as prints and drawings.
"Gives you access to 104 Belgian newspapers referred to as "major newspapers", most of which appeared daily (1814-1970)."
The Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Ceges-Soma [French-Flemish acronym]), a federal research institution on wars and conflicts of the twentieth century and their impact on Belgium, launched the Belgian War Press website on 14 December 2012.
The Belgian War Press introduces you to hundreds of Belgian newspapers that were written, printed and distributed clandestinely during the two World Wars.
Full text news (1995-2013) compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources translated into English, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Coverage is by region and includes: East Asia, Near East and South Asia, China, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bulletin des Séances/Mededelingen der Zittingen is the quarterly journal of the Academy. It comprises the texts of presentations submitted orally during the meetings. The texts are indexed by keywords and authors in the general alphabetical tables.
Some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
Over 30,000 images of maps, manuscripts, documents, monuments, photographs from the British Library including online exhibitions and virtual books.
Digital Collections associated with Cambridge University.
Digital collections for Oxford University Libraries.
Interface in English. Content in English or original languages.
Links to European historical documents that have been transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Maintained by Brigham Young University.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
Digital facsimiles of over one hundred treasures not previously available in digital form. The RCS collections contain stunning visual records – art-work, photographs, maps and artefacts, as well as illustrated manuscripts and printed sources relating to the Commonwealth and Britain’s former colonial territories. [Cambridge University]
Access to more than 86,000 digital facsimiles of personal narratives, music, photos, books, maps, and more associated with the World Wars.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
LSE has strong connections with figures who played a key part in the establishment of the welfare state, consequently the Library holds many materials that chart the story of social security in the UK. From Charles Booth and the Webbs to, most notably, Beveridge and beyond, the arguments about how to enable the effective distribution of wealth in order to provide support for those in need can be traced and explored via our rich and unique collections.
The Prints and Photographs Division holds one of the largest collections of British political and satirical prints in America. The approximately 9,000 prints (approximately 8,500 distinct images, 950 online) in the collection highlight British political life, society, fashion, manners, and theater. They were published primarily between 1780 and 1830 but include cartoons from the 1600s as well.
History through the eyes of 73 years of the British Cabinet.
Access to UK (1163-present), Irish (1838-present), and EU (1951-present) law as well as Case Law for the UK, Caribbean (region dependent), and European Court of Human Rights (1960-present). Must visit BC Law Library for login.
Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents for almost a century.
Drawing on Records from The National Archives, search 5 million records of criminals who passed through the justice system in England and Wales between 1770 and 1935.
The British Parliamentary Archives provides limited online access to their collections, with emphasis on: Stone's photos (late 18th - early 19th) public acts; protestation returns (1642); Private Acts; "The 'Torn Journal'" (1621); and documentation on the Gunpowder Plot (1605).
Provided by the University of St Andrews, this is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707.
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. Created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), this collection includes digital copies of more than 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities in the UK spanning more than one million pages brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.
Collection of 184 British satirical prints dating from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries from Trinity College's (Hartford, CT) Collections.
This collection includes nearly four hundred 18-19th Century British theater playbills given to Trinity College's Watkinson Library by Nathan H. Allen in 1916. Playbills functioned as advertising posters for theatrical performances at theaters in London and in towns including Bath, Leicester, Liverpool, Richmond, Scarborough, Swansea, and Tewkesbury. Some playbills were printed on both sides and may also have functioned as programs during a performance. The playbills display a wealth of information about upcoming productions, including play and music titles, roles and performers, and related information such as cost of seats and where to purchase tickets. For additional information regarding the collection, contact the staff of Watkinson Library (www.watkinsonlibrary.org)
Charles Booth's London enables you to search the catalogue of over 450 original notebooks from the Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903), view 41 digitised notebooks and explore the London poverty maps.
Call Number: Hathi Trust
Publication Date: 1875
A journal of the reigns of King George IV. and King William IV.
Gathers together some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand, including the 'Volume the First' (and 'The Watsons') at the Bodleian Library.
Queen Victoria's Journals reproduces as high-resolution, colour images every page of the surviving volumes of Queen Victoria's journals, from her first diary entry in 1832 to shortly before her death in 1901, along with separate photographs of the many illustrations and inserts within the pages. Each page has also been transcribed and re-keyed, allowing for journals to be searched.
The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.
Research subject guide curated by Foundation librarians and is a collection of primary source material about Winston Churchill.
Digitized original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill's personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.
The BDOHP interviews former diplomats or other officials who have played a significant role in events bearing on international relations. The tendency towards greater openness in government has strengthened in recent years.
This website will make available some 23,500 items from the Royal Collection, Royal Archives and Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. This wide-ranging material can be explored together online for the first time, illuminating our understanding of Albert’s life and legacy.
The archive contains over 1 million documents in nearly three thousand archive boxes currently occupying around 300 metres of shelving. The papers date from Margaret Thatcher's childhood to the end of her life, and include tens of thousands of photographs, as well as a vast collection of press cuttings, and many audio and video tapes of public and private events. Thatcher never kept a diary, but the archive includes rich details of her role in important domestic and world events.
This collection, covering 1927-2001/2, includes all the handbooks, annual reports and accounts published by the British Broadcasting Corporation during the 20th century.
British Pathe is one of the oldest media companies in the world.Their roots lie in 1890s Paris where their founder, Charles Pathe, pioneered the development of the moving image. They were established in London in 1902, and by 1910 were producing their famous bi-weekly newsreel the Pathe Gazette. After the First World War they started producing various Cinemagazines as well. By 1930 they were producing the Gazette, the Pathetone Weekly, the Pathe Pictorial and Eve's Film Review, covering entertainment, culture and womens' issues.
We host a selection of data sets as well as maps and charts, illustrating religion in present-day Britain and religious change over time.
Explore and download census records, digitised and harmonised from the original enumeration books, detailing characteristics for all individuals resident in Great Britain at each census from 1851 to 1911, developed by the I-CeM project.
Data reaches back across the 20th century.
The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.
Information on different topics with datasets coverage differing by topic. Some sets go back to the 1920s and others begin in the 1990s.
A centre of excellence in acquiring, curating and providing access to the largest collection of social science and population data for over 50 years, the UK Data Archive is based at the University of Essex.
Explore the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources (recent past).
Part of the British Library Newspaper Collection. Full-text, fully searchable digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the UK and around the world.
The Times (London) is the world's oldest continuously published newspaper. Readers — world leaders and the general public — have consistently turned to The Times for its in‐depth news coverage, parliamentary reports and comment, editorial opinion and unique view of history from the major reporters and editors of the period. The Times Digital Archive covers years 1785–2012.
Interface in English or French. Most of the content in French (and many other languages).
The National Library of France website can be easily switched to English. While searching the catalog is only possible in French, the site includes an "ask a librarian" service. The site also links to both French and International Digital Libraries.
Interface in English. Content in English or original languages.
Links to European historical documents that have been transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Maintained by Brigham Young University
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
A collection of more than a thousand digital facsimiles of photographs, maps, posters, and other sources spanning a millennium.
The ARTFL Project provides access to a variety of databases supporting the study of French, Italian and Provenal languages and literatures, including FRANTEXT (more than 3500 texts in French), Tout Voltaire, Rousseau Online, Provenal Poetry, Opera del Vocabolario Italiano, and several historical dictionaries of French.
Contains the works of Arlincourt, Borel, Chateaubriand, Dumas, Feydeau, Hugo, Karr, Lamartine, Maistre, Nerval, Sade, Souza, Stal, and Vigny, as well as many other French authors of the 19th century.
Caribbean Literature brings together 100,000 pages of poetry and fiction by hundreds of authors. All texts are presented in their original languages. Starting with the literature produced in Spanish and French colonies in the 1800s, the collection offers an extensive selection of 19th- and 20th-century works from every Caribbean country. Among the authors featured are Wilson Harris, Kwane Dawes, Lorna Goodison, Cyryl Dabydeen, Earl Lovelace, Samuel Selvon, Derek Walcott, Corly Verlooghen, Diana Lebacs, Hubert Booi, Maryse Cond, Andr Paradis, Phillipe Thoby-Marcelin, Jos Mart, Julian de Casal, Jos de Diego, and Salom Urea de Henrquez. Along with the novels, short stories, and poems of these artists are a number of reference works, including dictionaries of various Creole languages.
Formerly known as BASILE, this database consists of approximately 1,000 French narrative works, including novels, tales and short stories.
Contains the works of philosophers writing in the French language. The texts of Le Corpus are based on editions from the monographic series of the same name published by Librairie Arthme Fayard with the Association pour le Corpus des oeuvres de philosophie en langue franaise under the direction of Michel Serres.
Searchable database containing works by French women authors from the 16th to the 19th century.
The collection of Occidental manuscripts of the time from the 6th to the 20th century includes around 38,000 codices, among them predominantly 17,000 Latin and 13,000 German manuscripts, but also more than 1,000 French ones, 950 Italian ones, 650 Greek ones, 145 Spanish and Portuguese ones and 124 Slavic ones. [Bayerische StaatsBibliothek]
Content and interface in French.
Gallica gives the full text of several important French newspapers including Le Figaro (1826-1942), Le temps (1861-1939), L'humanité (1904-1944) and more.
Newspapers and periodicals published in France during the Revolution of 1848, with coverage to 1852. From the British Library.
The collection of French Political Pamphlets in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University features more than 2,100 pamphlets published between 1547 and 1626.
Interface in English. Content in French.
Pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by the Center for Research Libraries.
On-line materials focused on the French colonial empires from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
An open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. [Northeastern University]
Includes digitized records for multiple series and documents published in and about the French colonies, including:
Budget général de l'Afrique occidentale française (1906-1958)
Le Transafricain. Revue mensuelle. Organe officiel du Comité interdépartemental Algéro-Constantinois du "Transafricain" (1929-1934)
As well as thousands of other documents and images.
French National Library's digitization of the "Colonial Annuals" from Marcel Ruedel published between 1900-1949.
Interface in English; Collections in French and/or English.
Includes court minutes, tribunal records, correspondence, and more. "The original material is located at the Archives Nationales du Bénin [National Archives of Benin], Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin."
Interface in English; Content in French and/or English.
"The aim of this project is to digitise all the court records relating to slavery in the Beninese national archives...resulting in 71,224 images that cover a time span of 1900 - 1960. The collection contains 58 series, within these series, 487 files were digitised."
Searchable bibliography of printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. Covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples.
BC login required.
The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
A selection of documents in English relating to the French Revolution in the 18th century.
Interface in English, content in French.
"The publication dates of the pamphlets range from 1776-1817, although the bulk dates from 1789-1795. The collection consists of some 3000 official reports, speeches, letters, documents, laws, and literary publications, cataloged in three main series as detailed below."
Open Access.
Interface in English. Content in French and English.
Browse and search more than 35,000 pamphlets totaling approximately 850,000 pages from the Newberry's renowned collection of French Revolutionary materials.
Open Access.
More than 1,000 sources (predominately in French) about the July Monarchy through Gallica.
Interface in English. Content in French.
"Jean-Paul Marat’s newspapers are a notable example of French Revolutionary populism. Marat frequently ran into trouble with the authorities in the earlier days of the newspapers’ publication for his criticism of those in power. Printing of the journals was suspended on numerous occasions, often due to the fact that Marat had gone into hiding. He called the newspaper Le publiciste parisien for its first five issues, but changed the name to L’Ami du peuple in the sixth issue. This name remained with the newspaper until Marat was elected to the National Convention. He went on to publish the newspaper under other titles, most notably the Journal de la République française and Le Publiciste de la République française, until his death at the hands of Charlotte Corday on July 13, 1793."
Open Access.
Provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs. [George Mason University]
English translations of different French documents relating to ideas of revolution (including Auguste Blanqui and the Popular Front) from the 1750s to the 1960s.
More than 500 sources (mostly in French) on the French Second Republic through Gallica.
Newspapers and periodicals published in France during the Revolution of 1848, with coverage to 1852. From the British Library.
Interface in English. Content in French.
Pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by the Center for Research Libraries.
Interface in English, content in French.
Collection includes 340 manuscripts such as political cartoons.
There are records for 2178 loose prints in the database. 2117 date from the nineteenth century, 55 from the eighteenth century, and 6 from the twentieth century. 1002 prints are “octavos”, 895 are “quartos”, and 281 are large-format. There are just over 100 Epinal prints and 250 caricatures.
There are 8885 prints in monographs in the database.
"This collection showcases 83 satirical prints, or caricatures, from the Napoleonic Period, all giving political commentary on events of the period. Fifty of the prints were created by French artists, and thirty-three by English artists. Nearly all of the French prints date from the last two years of Napoleon's reign, but the English prints represent a broader time period ranging from 1793 to 1815."
Collection of previously unpublished manuscripts on Napoleon, including contributions from members of Napoleon's family.
Published in 1907.
(1786-1791; French facsimile)
Curated collection.
"Although Cambridge University Library has never set out to assemble a specific, single collection relating to Waterloo, the strength and breadth of our accessioning activity mean that over the course of two hundred years we have amassed a rich and fascinating variety of written records, maps and book arts relating to the battle and the era in which it played so significant a part."
Open Access.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
Digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more!
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Interface in English or German. Content pictorial with descriptions predominately in German.
A continually growing collection of digital facsimiles of images housed in the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek.
Interface in German or English. Content primarily in German.
31,985,768 objects, including 10,069,639 with digitised media, mostly relating to German history.
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.
Collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. From the DC-based German Historical Institute.
Interface and content in German.
Index to German film titles with notes on media form and run time.
Interface in English or German. Content in German.
The mission of the DEFA Foundation is to preserve the films of DEFA, the former East German film studios, and oversee their use for the public good as part of Germany’s national cultural heritage. Interface predominately functions as index.
DigiZeitschriften provides full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals published in Germany or neighboring countries since the late 1700s. The journals are in German, English, or other European languages and date back to their first volumes. Fields most prominently represented are mathematics (one- fourth of all titles), literature, history, the arts, economics, and law. Other fields covered include education, geology, librarianship, music, religion, sciences, and sociology.
This collection of digital facsimiles from the University of Heidelberg include manuscripts, incunables, theological literature, medical and scientific texts, as well as travel literature and historic journals and news papers. Also includes a strong local collection.
As a project partner and principal of Transit Film GmbH the German Federal Archives are responsible for the digitization of about 500 hours of film material, of which 100 hours are in HD, as well as the digitization of the entire index information of these films.
Weekly newspaper. Die Zeit Print Archiv (1946-) offers free full-text, but the archive does not contain everything that is in the print edition.
Provides total of 311.234 issues from 193 historical newspapers from Germany and foreign newspapers in German. Covers 1850 to around 1943. Includes the Zeitungsportal DDR-Presse with later coverage.
The Picture Collection of the German Colonial Society (DKG, 1887-1936) in the University Library for Frankfurt am Main includes more than 50,000 images. Includes thousands of images from eastern and southern African spaces including Namibia and Tanzania.
Includes more than 1,200 titles, mostly in German and French, on German colonization in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Das Bundesarchiv verwahrt eine Vielzahl authentischer Quellen zur deutschen Kolonialzeit (1884-1918), die einen differenzierten Blick auf das damalige Geschehen erlauben. Includes digitized images, posters, postcards, and other documents.
The German Digital Library contains millions of digitized records pertaining to German history. This is a search for an online subset relating to "Africa" ("Afrika" in German).
Includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more from the "long nineteenth century". Includes "Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture," which has German government documents and more.
Items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II. Mostly consisting of letters written or received by prisoners, the collection also includes receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects; paper currency; and realia, including Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear.
The German Federal Archive created a portal to its collection on the First World for the centennial. They digitized more than 700,000 pages from files on the War, which included documents, photographs, and film as well as other materials.
Includes a collection of film from WWI drawn from a variety of archives across Europe.
Small online exhibition with digital facsimiles relating to the role of the Evangelical Church in Germany's involvement in the First World War.
This collection includes over 500 digitized books, reports, images, and other documents relating to Germany during the First and Second World Wars as well as the German secret police (1912-1945).
The First World War Collection set up by the Deutsche Bücherei in 1914 was intended to serve as a witness to events whose historical dimensions were recognised by contemporaries at a very early stage. On the occasion of the anniversary in 2014, this collection has been reopened by the German National Library, and some of it has been digitised.
A list to diverse German national and regional websites dedicated to the history of the First World War.
The reports of the First and Second subcommittees of the Committee appointed by the National constituent assembly to inquire into the responsibility for the war.
The historical publication of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Online from 1865-1940 through the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
The State Archives of Venice provides several excellent digital collections. Interface and documents primarily in Italian. Metadata limited.
A digital library of texts representative of the Italian cultural and literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, promoted by the "Inter-University Centre Library Italian telematics" (CiBit) and managed by its active unit at the University of Rome "La Sapienza ", with the support of the project" Italian Digital Library "(BDI, http://www.iccu.sbn.it/bdi.html) of the Ministry of Heritage and cultural activities.
List of links to primary sources on different topics and periods of Italian history.
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
Istituto Luce-Cinecittà is the public company that operates as the operating arm of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, and one of the main realities of the film industry, with a variety of commitments and activities that translate into the broader mission of support to Italian cinematography and audiovisuals.
Includes dozens of maps of the Italian peninsula and nearby islands over multiple centuries.
Images derived from slides taken of seven scrapbooks compiled by Marinetti between 1905 and 1944.
Books from the 16th-19th centuries documenting religious, civic, and public festivals throughout Italy.
The Garibaldi / Risorgimento digital archive seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process (1807-1882), against the historical backdrop of 19th-century
Interface and content in Russian.
An open access repository for publications in a variety of disciplines in the sciences and humanities.
Interface and content in Russian.
Online literary journals include full-text of current and back issues of many major Russian periodicals such as Novyi mir, Neva, Zvezda, and others.
A list of links to different primary source collections available online. Collections divided by periods, from "Ancient Rus through 1440" to "Russia 1991 to the present."
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
More than 4,000 curated documents, drawn from the LOC and other sources from across Russian history (premodern and modern) including photographs, maps, prints, and books.
Russian and World Literature in Russian language
Interface and content in Russian.
Provides access to a number of contemporary Russian literary journals. Includes links to additional sources.
Declassified documents on the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century
Official historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions, declassified and edited for publication. Latest volumes available directly from the U.S. Department of State.
Russia Programs work to increase understanding and cooperation between Russia and the United States by documenting history of U.S.-Soviet-Russian relations, creating connections between scholars and practitioners and engaging the next generation of students in joint learning and research on the issues of mutual security, nuclear weapons and diplomacy with the emphasis on increasing empathy in U.S.-Russian relations today. Russia programs encompasses three interconnected projects.
Digital archives at the National Library of Spain. Contains manuscripts, maps, photographs, drawings, etc. Includes collections specifically focused on "Hispanoamérica," with more than 4,000 items from 1500 to the present (focused on 1800-2000).
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
Managed by the Library of Galicia, the project aims to digitize the most relevant bibliographic collections for Galicia. Its purpose is to achieve the maximum visibility of the digital resources integrated in it and the interoperability with the main digitization projects existing today (Hispanic and European).
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
More than 2,000 documents produced in Spain from the 15th century to the present, including images and books, manuscripts and mixed material.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Digital archives at the National Library of Spain. Contains manuscripts, maps, photographs, drawings, etc. Includes collections specifically focused on "Hispanoamérica," with more than 4,000 items from 1500 to the present (focused on 1800-2000).
The National Library of Portugal provides an index to its digital facsimiles and collaborates with other institutions to create interactive interfaces (see the World Digital Library, the Iberoamerican Digital Library, etc.). Coverage from the 11th to the 21st centuries. Content mostly in Portuguese.
A portal and database created by Spain's Ministerio de Cultura containing more than twenty million documents and digital images from the principal Spanish archives, including the Archive of the Indies and Archive of the Spanish Civil War.
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier is a bilingual, multi-format English-Spanish digital library site that explores the interactions between Spain and the United States in America from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. A cooperative effort between the National Library of Spain, the Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular of Seville and the Library of Congress, the project is part of the Library of Congress Global Gateway initiative to build digital library partnerships with national libraries around the world.
Cambridge University Library provided some 2,000 sueltos, including nearly 200 poster-sized aleluyas, which typically have 48 illustrations and accompanying text in couplets, and some 2,500 19 and late 18 century sueltos from the British Library.
Recordings of music in different genres, from blues to opera and instrumentals.
The Library of Congress purchased this collection now described as Spanish Legal Documents (15th-19th Centuries) in 1941 and it was microfilmed in 1983 and 1984. They were primarily issued individually in sections, which varied from 1 to 6 folios; the majority of the documents were printed using handset type on handmade paper which is in exceptionally good condition.
Provides access to selected full-text resources.
Select "Literatura", "Catálogo," then "Biblioteca de Autores" (Iberian writers). For Hispanic and Latin American writers select "Biblioteca Americana", select "Biblioteca de Autores".
Lisbon Digital Library with dozens of facsimiles of books and documents.
(Facsimiles) from the 5th to the 16th centuries.
This periodical and newspaper library was created in March 2007 to provide public access to the digital collection of historical Spanish press items housed in the national library, with an initial collection of 143 newspapers and periodicals. The range of titles has been growing, and there are currently 2,371 titles, which is over 67 million pages.
ICON's listing of worldwide newspaper digitization projects is far from comprehensive, but it's a good starting point, particularly for international newspapers.
Press from Galicia. More than 266 newspaper and journal titles. Part of Biblioteca Dixital of the Xunta de Galicia.
The collection includes more than 250 anti-Fascist posters, sent or brought home by American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
This collection contains 1,819 photographs in 51 large-format albums date from about 1880 to 1893. They portray the Ottoman Empire during the reign of one of its last sultans, Abdul-Hamid II and highlight the modernization of numerous aspects of the Ottoman Empire.
This website offers portals into the culture, cuisine and music of Turkey. Each portal offers great images, slideshows and essays.
The State Archives of Venice provides digital facsimiles to over 2,000 handwritten documents related to Turkey. Documents largely in Arabic or Italian. Metadata limited.
The text of multiple treatise, state, and international records related to the Middle East.
A collection of official gazettes and other key historical government documentation from countries where the integrity of the public record is known to be at risk. Collection includes material from Libya, Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Mozambique, Somalia, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Sudan, Southern Rhodesia, Congo, Nigeria, Iran, British Somaliland, and Zimbabwe.
