Primary sources for history

Documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century into the beginning of the 20th century. It offers new ways of understanding the expansion of world trade, the Industrial Revolution and the development of modern capitalism. The collection provides full-text searching of an abundance of rare books and primary source materials, including: Monographs; Serials; Political pamphlets and broadsides; Government publications; Proclamations; a wide range of Ephemera; and more.

Covers a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward - from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

Includes essays on British social history collected between 1937 and 1972 during a project called the Mass Observation. The archives also include photographs, file reports, diaries, day surveys and links to other sites. Access to Mass Observation Online and Mass Observation I module only.

Includes a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources, this resource provides a rich seam of information on personal experiences of war.

Collection of original source material from British and European archives, this database includes documents from history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective.

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences.

This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920.

A massive resource that brings together online nearly a million documents amassed by Winston Churchill through out his lifetime, including hand-written notes and private letters.

London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Presents primary sources from manuscripts, newspapers, periodicals, and more.

A nonprofit digital library of images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.