An online collection of edited correspondence from the early modern period, linking a diverse range of people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. 

A wide range of digitised primary source material, including letters, maps and government papers, covering empires across the globe from the 15th - 21st centuries.

Search across multiple historic archives from Gale, including historic newspaper collections, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO).

Fully digitised archives of 26 LGBT publications, mainly from the UK and USA. Coverage dates from 1954 to 2015 (depending on the specific publication).

A wide range of digitised primary source material, including letters, diaries and oral histories, covering migration from Europe and Asia to the USA, Canada, and Australasia between 1800-1924.

A collection focussing on travel and exploration during the nineteenth century, offering insight into the age of cartography and the rise of leisure travel. Features historical atlases, gazetteers, European and non-European travel narratives, and a variety of maps created during colonial exploration and expansion.

A collection focussing on issues at the intersection of gender and class, from the late eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early twentieth century. It covers trends, topics, and events as they relate to gender, including social reform, high and low culture, transnational networks, immigration, daily life, religion, and more. A wide array of primary source documents from Europe, the United States and other regions are included, such as serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals.

Brings together thousands of digitised resources related to slavery: including books, manuscripts, maps and court records as well as registers and ships' logs. Contextual essays and visual resources are also provided.

This collection contains handbooks, annual reports and accounts published by the BBC between 1927 and 2002. It also includes a review of each year’s public service broadcasting, with detailed schedules, audience research, performance and objective tables, commentaries, and editorials. 

This collection contains minutes of party meetings, Liaison Committee meetings, and Parliamentary Committee (Shadow Cabinet) meetings compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) during the period 1968-1994, covering the party’s history, from the Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governments to years in opposition under Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock, John Smith, and Tony Blair.   

A collection of diaries and letters written by British military personnel who served during the First World War. These diaries reveal what life was like for the average British soldier in the Battle of the Somme and later battles of Ypres.  The collection also contains diaries of British combatants who were captured by the Central Powers, providing detailed insights into the experiences of those who were held as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Germany and beyond. Additionally, there are some diaries from non-combatants, and a complete run of the Westminster Training College Monthly War Bulletin from November 1914 to June 1919.

This collection charts the rise and fall of fascism in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s, with a particular focus on Oswald Mosley’s blackshirt movement. The bulk of the documents are official BUF publications, including Fascist Week¸ The Blackshirt, The East London Pioneer, and Action. In addition, there are hundreds of Government documents relating to Mosley’s internment during the Second World War, including Cabinet Office, Home Office and Prime Ministerial papers.

Documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, this collection includes includes news, journals and reports from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS). 

Contains digital facsimile page images of books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera in every subject published or printed primarily in England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States between 1701 and 1800. 

Contains digital facsimile page images of almost every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1470-1700 - from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.

An online collection of edited correspondence from the early modern period, linking a diverse range of people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. 

This collection contains records compiled by the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) Women's Department during the period 1944-1991. The archive includes minutes, agendas, and promotional materials from various women's campaigns, events, and conferences as well as copies of Link, the party's women's magazine, and Red Rag, a controversial journal published by the party's more militant feminist members.

Part of the Digimap collection, Historic Digimap contains historic Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1843-1996. The collection includes County Series maps, British National Grid maps (1943 to 1996) and Selected Town Plan maps (1848 and 1939). Digimap enables users to search, view and print maps, compare maps from different time periods, and download map data into a geographic information system.

Facsimile images of thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera held in the Bodleian Library, including posters, adverts and broadsides from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Themes include Nineteenth-Century Entertainment, the Book trade, Popular Prints, Crimes, Murders and Executions, and Advertising.

Fully digitised archives of 26 LGBT publications, mainly from the UK and USA. Coverage dates from 1954 to 2015 (depending on the specific publication).

A key resource for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions, and the history of bookbinding. The archive includes a wide range of documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century, such as legal papers, correspondence, ephemera, and audio visual resources.

A major resource for British social history from 1937-1967, it contains material generated by the Mass Observation social research organisation, including day surveys, diaries and subject directives from 1937-1967, a wide range of themed topic collections, together with other material such as images and essays. 

A major resource for British social history from 1981 - 2009, it contains responses to the Mass Observation project's directives (questionnaires) sent out to volunteers who were asked to report on their lives and opinions. Topics covered are wide-ranging and include political and social themes of the period, plus insights into everyday life.

A collection of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the "long" nineteenth century, covering approximately 1749 to 1984. It includes Home Office records and papers of British statesmen as well as working-class autobiographies, ordnance surveys and more. Materials cover topics such as British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure, and many others.

A collection of documentary materials that explore religious and philosophical movements in reaction to dramatic changes in culture and society wrought by the industrial revolution and modernity. Topics covered include positivism and anti-positivism, freethinking, the cooperative movement, alternative Christianities, and the application of the social principles of Christianity to everyday life by a variety of denominations

A collection of authoritative research guides, this database works like an annotated bibliography combined with encyclopaedia, providing direction to available scholarship on Atlantic History from late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. Its principal theme is the movement of peoples, ideas and things in the Atlantic World.

A collection of authoritative research guides, this database works like an annotated bibliography combined with encyclopaedia, providing direction to available scholarship in the field of Latin American Studies.

This collection contains archival material relating to this tumultuous period in European and world history. The documents cover the treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Trianon, Sèvres, Lausanne, and Locarno, as well as the foundation of the League of Nations. Most of the files are drawn from the UK National Archives, while the British Library provided the personal papers of Lord Robert Cecil and Sir Arthur Balfour.

Brings together thousands of digitised resources related to slavery: including books, manuscripts, maps and court records as well as registers and ships' logs. Contextual essays and visual resources are also provided.

Papers of the Secretaries of State from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, cross-referenced with the calendars (catalogues) to aid searching. Covering a wide range of documents, subjects, and importance, they concern internal English/British affairs and administration of the country, and foreign affairs, marriage alliances, treaties and wars.

This completes the State Papers Collection, covering the 18th century from the accession of the Hanoverian monarchs to the British throne in 1714 to the end of the State Papers series in 1782.

Online archive of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons from 1715 to present, and the 19th Century House of Lords. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy.

Search across local and major UK and international newspapers, business and industry trade magazines, business news, company information, press agencies and magazines from 1990s to present day, in various languages. Coverage is text only, and doesn’t include additional content such as images, layout, or adverts.

Search across multiple historic national, regional and local newspaper and periodical archives. The collection includes historical archives from The Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, the Independent, The Daily Mail and The Telegraph as well as British Library Newspapers (1746-1950).

Digitised archive of Irish regional and national newspaper titles from the 17th century to date. 

An archive of historical Irish newspapers covering a broad sweep of nationalist, republican, feminist and socialist publications dating from the 1890s to 1930s. Particularly useful for those researching the revolutionary period and the contested political landscape that emerged in its aftermath.

A guide to what has been published in British and Irish history over the past 125 years. The bibliography contains records of books, edited collections, journal articles and book chapters covering the history of the British Isles, the former empire and Commonwealth, the British world, and Britons' activities on the global stage from 55BC to the present. Links to full text articles are provided where available.

Online collection of primary and secondary content relating to British and Irish history, and histories of empire and the British world. The collection focuses on the period between 1300 and 1800, including sources such as volumes of the Victoria County History and the Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords. (Some material is accessible via a subscription only).

Contains concise, illustrated biographies of people who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Roman period to the 21st century. Each entry is written by a named, specialist author.

The online version of the Oxford English Dictionary; a reference guide to the meaning, history, and usage of words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world.