European Archives and Resources
European History Primary Sources (European University Institute) - searchable database of repositories including online digitized texts AustriaZeitschriften Datenbank - Online database for journals, newspapers, monographic series and other serial publications from all countries, in all languages, in printed, electronic, or digitized form. 3,700 participating libraries Austria and Germany
BelarusBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaEuropean UnionHistorical Archives of the European Union FinlandThe National Archives Service of Finland FranceGallica - the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
GermanyThe Political Archive (Federal Foreign Office) Government Diplomatic Document CollectionDocuments on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1984 NewspapersBadische Neueste Nachrichten (1946-1950 only) Cold War - West GermanDie Zeit (Hamburg) Süddeutsche Zeitung (Karlsruhe, 1946-1950) East GermanyNeues Deutschland, Neue Zeit, and Berliner Zeitung (all Berlin through 1990) Cultural Institutions and ResourcesGerman Propaganda Archive - includes material from both Nazi Germany and East Germany General or SubjectGerman History in Documents and Images (GHDI) Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Offers digital access to books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music, and other sound documents. Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - Online archive of materials related to the German women’s movement including books Zeitschriften Datenbank - Online database for journals, newspapers, monographic series and other serial publications from all countries, in all languages, in printed, electronic, or digitized form. 3,700 participating libraries in Germany and Austria Archiv der sozialen Demokratie, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - Collection of documents related to the history of social democracy in Germany, including photos and other multimedia.
GreeceThe General State Archives of Greece Diplomatic and Historical Archives HungaryThe National Archives of Hungary Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archive IcelandIrelandThe National Archives of Ireland Bureau of Irish Military History - A collection of 1,773 witness statements by men and women involved in the Irish Revolution between 1913 and 1921 UCD Digital Library - digitized sources on the history of Ireland, 19th and 20th centuries Documents on Irish Foreign Policy - 1,900 documents, c. 1921-1960s Passport Archive Guide to Ireland ItalyManus Online - Database of manuscripts held in Italian libraries, includes a large number of digitised manuscripts Vatican Libraries Digital Collections - manuscripts, incunabula, archival materials and inventories as well as graphic materials, coins and medals, printed materials
LatviaThe National Archives of Latvia LiechtensteinLuxembourgArchives nationales de Luxembourg MacedoniaДржавен архив на Република Македонија (Macedonia State Archives) MaltaThe National Archives of Malta NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)NorwayThe National Archives of Norway PolandThe Head Office of the State Archives PortugalArquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo Russia and the Soviet UnionGovernment Diplomatic Document CollectionsState Papers Online (scroll to State Papers Online) - contains several volumes of archival documents relating to the formation and maintenance of diplomatic relations between England (Britain) and Muscovy (Russia) Russian Archives Database - Project led by the University of Kansas in cooperation with Rosarkhiv to facilitate access to Russian archival materials. Database contains digitized copies of archival collection guides from a range of local and state archives. Continually updated with new materials Electronic Resources Library of the Moscow State University - digitized primary sources on Russian history. Navigable in either Russian or English, but all sources are in original languages Russian National Library, Moscow - features several online public access catalogues (much of site in Russian) Archives of the Imperial Public Library - 1795-1916 Russian State Library, Moscow - Includes unique domestic and foreign collections in 367 languages of the world. Holdings exceed 47.4 million items. NewspapersRussian Newspapers - 1703-1917 Department of Printed Music and Sound Recordings Cultural Institutions and ResourcesThe Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore - FEB-web is a project of Gorky Institute of World Literature, it’s a mammoth collection of materials on Russian literature and folklore, including full text versions of the major works of Russian literature, links to numerous literary and cultural guides and manuals, as well as a wealth of bibliographic guides detailing materials available from the most broad (Pushkin) to the most specific (historical works published in 1860) The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Online Collections Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Online Collections Eurodocs - Early 19th-century Russian Readership and Culture; Russian publications provided by the University of Illinois. Divided into: fiction, journalism, memoirs, and travel accounts Images of Moscow, 1850-1870s Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs - From New York Public Library, 1860-1945. Photos and manuscript facsimiles Photos from Tsarist Russia: 1891-1904, Russian interface Russianposter.ru - primary source of posters of Russian cultural, social and political history. Russian/German interface, 1850-2004, images General or SubjectRunivers (Russian interface) - an electronic facsimile library, mostly history and philosophy c. 1867-1917. Late Imperial Russia (1855-1917)Eurodocs - Contains a list of websites with links to sources, mostly in Russian but with some translated into English Primary Sources from the Crimean War - includes diaries and letters from the English side of the War The Russian Revolution and World War I (1905-1917)Documents in History - prominent documents from late imperial and revolutionary Russia Modern History Sourcebook: Russian Revolution Section (Fordham University) - variety of translated sources relating to the Tsarist state and the Russian Revolution of 1917 Alpha History: Russian Revolution Documents - key documents pertaining to the prelude and consequences of the Russian Revolution(s) The Bolsheviks Storm the Winter Palace, 1917 - journalist John Reed’s account Modern History Sourcebook: World War I (Fordham University) - contains a variety of translated sources People’s Archive of the First World War (in Russian) World War I Document Archive - pre-1914 to post-1918; translations and transcriptions Alpha History: Russian Revolution Graphics - a gallery of graphics and cartoons produced both in and outside Russia, c. 1890s-1930 Photos from the Eastern Front, 1914-17 - Include previously unpublished private and military photos from a German officer's collection. The Soviet UnionDocuments of the Soviet Era / (Russian) Federal Archival Agency A list of translated primary source collections in Soviet History (many of which are electronic), collated by Shane O’Rourke The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System online - Based on 705 interviews with emigres from the Soviet Union between 1917 and 1945 about life in the Soviet Union (in English) The Soviet History Archive - Documents on the Revolution, Civil War, Kronstadt Rebellion, Great Terror, and Second World War The Marxist Internet Archive - Includes writings of all the major figures in the history of Russian Marxism (e.g., Plekhanov, Lenin, Martov, and Trotsky) The Stalin Digital Archive - Documents from Stalin’s personal archive. Mostly in Russian, but some translations SloveniaArchives of the Republic of Slovenia SpainPassport Archive Guide to Madrid SwedenThe National Archives (Riksarkivet) SwitzerlandDiplomatic Documents of Switzerland The NetherlandsNational Archives of the Netherlands The Vatican (Holy See)TurkeyUnited KingdomLiddell Hart Centre for Military Archives RHS List of UK and Ireland Archives and Research Libraries Official Government Diplomatic Document CollectionBritish Library: First World War in Europe British Library Digitized Manuscripts British Library Oral History Collection The National Archives - UK National Archives Anglo-American Legal Tradition - includes images of English legal records from National Archives--largely equity courts, but some other records. Largely in Latin HANSARD 1803–2005 - British parliamentary debates Special Branch Files Project - live archive of declassified files focusing on the surveillance of political activists and campaigners in the UK Royal Army Medical Corps papers Clergy of the Church of England Database: CCEd Civil War Petitions - petitions to the English government from veterans and their families during and after the civil wars of the 17th century Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court The Power of Petitioning in Seventeenth-Century England - links to petitions (including at British History online) Corporate RecordsHistory of Advertising Trust - website holds a great selection of print advertisements Commercial Break: British Advertising on Screen (from the BFI) Private Library Archives and CollectionsMargaret Thatcher Foundation Archive (all online) The English Diplomatic Correspondence of Thomas Bodley, 1585-1597 John Thomson photograph collections (and notes), about East Asia Bodleian Library - links to various British oral history resources University CollectionsLSE Digital Library - has digitized much of its collection: very good on Fabian Society, British political history, poverty surveying (esp. Charles Booth), visual culture and politics (campaign posters), and parts of Women’s Library. NewspapersWelsh Newspapers Online - (in English and Welsh), 1804-1919 Cultural Institutions and ResourcesBFI Archive Resources Online - Listing of moving images available freely online Imperial War Museum Collections - Access digitised collections of oral history interviews, photographs, films and objects through the catalogue covering Britain and beyond ArtUK - UK’s public art collection Deliberately Concealed Garments Project - Discover items which have been hidden or buried in buildings Lewis Walpole Library - eighteenth-century prints National Museum Scotland collections National Portrait Gallery collections National Trust Collections - art and objects Victoria and Albert Museum Collections COLLAGE - The London Picture Archive - over 250,000 images of London (up to the present day) British Museum Online collections - an unparalleled collection of objects, including a strong collection of Prints and Drawings from the 17th and 18th centuries, and Satires from the 17th and especially the 18th century British Pathé - Newsreels and video from the Pathé and Reuters collections Public Information Films via the National Archives John Johnson Collection - Collection of Printed Ephemera (lots of advertisements), 18th-20th centuries Records of Early English Drama - transcriptions of references to drama, music, performance - much broader than usual ideas of drama GeneralBritish History Online - primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, mostly 1300-1800 British Library oral history collections Connected Histories - British History Sources, 1500-1900 London Lives 1690 to 1800 - Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis |