Repository for over 300,000 digital images in art, architecture, and archeology.
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This databases contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
EEBO contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions.
This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.
Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries. Contents include account books, advice, culinary writing, meditation, travel writing, and verse.
Primary manuscript and rare printed sources documenting cultural contacts, literature of empire, the visible empire and imperial aspects of race, class and religion from 1492-1962.
full texts of more than 7,500 of Charles Darwin’s letters, and find information on 7,500 more. Includes the omplete transcripts of all known letters Darwin wrote and received up to the year 1869. Website also collects photographs of Darwin
"The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. "
the Europeana Foundation aims to be a comprehensive collection of the personal histories of those involved in or affected by the war. It includes approximately 400,000 resources from eight countries and some 660 hours of film from the European Film Gateway 1914 project. Registration allows you to submit a personal history which is vetted by the Foundation.
"Online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries. Users can cross-search and reuse over 18,730,425 digital items and 119,419,609 bibliographic records."
Developed by Paul Hallsall at Fordham, this aim of this resource to provide teachers and students of Medieval history with an online collection of historical documents in translation.
The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history.The indexes to the National Register of Archives contain references to papers of approximately 150,000 corporate bodies, persons and families relating to British history with a further 100,000 connected records.
Includes journals and debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords, national laws, parliament documents from the medieval and Elizabethan eras, and more.
Links to external websites for legislation, debates, working papers, proceedings and journals, and judgements of the British parliament (Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Irish parliamentary documents).
Sponsored by the Univ of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, site had open access to the 18th and 19thc journals: Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Philosophical Trans. of the Royal Society and The Builder
Provides access to the rolls of parliament, which are the official records of the meetings of English parliament from the reign of Edward I (1727-1307) until the reign of Henry VII (1485-1509).
The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707
"Consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. "
"About the collections 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."---http://frda.stanford.edu/
This is a database of online photographs, maps, plans, and narrative textual information about the many cathedrals in France, and some in England, that began to be constructed in the 12th-13th centuries. It information about the structure, floor plans of the cathedral.
ALO is a digital library with more than 15.000 documents from the 11. Century up to the present. Books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses and scientific essays are available in digitized form or as PDF.
CIA. Documents, essays and overviews from the eleven U.S. Government organizations that provide the background and the political ramifications of the Wall's construction.
Three East German Newspapers Neues Deutschland [ND] (23. April 1946 - 3. Oktober 1990) Berliner Zeitung [BZ] (21. Mai 1945 - 31. Dezember 1993) DFG-Logo Neue Zeit [NZ] (22. Juli 1945 - 5. Juli 1994)
Digitized images of "over 400 photographs produced by the Nazi Government's Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda depicting the Third Reich at the height of its power, and attributed to the studio of Heinrich Hoffmann, Adolf Hitler's personal photographer.'
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. The materials are presented in ten sections, which have been compiled by leading scholars.
"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."
Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) handles the digitization and online publication of the cultural heritage preserved by the Bavarian State Library and by other institutions. It provides one of the largest and fastest growing digital collections in Germany, now comprising 957,855 titles available online.
"From the University of Notre Dame's Harley L. McDevitt Inquisition Collection; the collection consists of several hundred items, from printed volumes to unique manuscripts and images, all bearing some relationship to the general theme of "inquisition."
The Rijks Geschiedkundige Publicatiën (RGP) is a series of source editions, the first volume of which was published in 1905. Today, the series comprises 450 volumes that contain documents about the history of the Netherlands. Includes some medieval documents.
Digital Library coordinated by the National Library of the Czech Republic. Create a free account for access to holdings from this Library. Scope of holdings is broader than Czech Republic.
Three East German Newspapers Neues Deutschland [ND] (23. April 1946 - 3. Oktober 1990) Berliner Zeitung [BZ] (21. Mai 1945 - 31. Dezember 1993) DFG-Logo Neue Zeit [NZ] (22. Juli 1945 - 5. Juli 1994)
Sponsored by the Univ of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, site had open access to the 18th and 19thc journals: Annual Register, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Gentleman's Magazine, Notes and Queries, Philosophical Trans. of the Royal Society and The Builder
Originally a foundation begun in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to gather orgal histories of the Holocaust, this archive now housed at USC contains 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages, representing 56 countries; it is the largest archive of its kind in the world. Testimonies are primarily from Jewish survivors, but also contains testimonies from homosexuals, Roma and Sinti survivors, Jehovah Witnesses and more
"The testimonies now available are drawn from a major oral history programme - The Living Memory of the Jewish Community - which between 1987 and 2000 gathered 186 audio life story interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their children. It was initiated by National Life Stories based in the BL's oral history section and funded by a number of organizations including the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the John S Cohen Foundation and the Porjes Charitable Trust."