Britain 1816-1918

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Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.
(19th century; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).

Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.
(20th century; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).
A part of the University of Missouri Library's Digital Library.
(17th-19th centuries; full-text searchable database of facsimiles)
Includes Ordnance Survey maps, records of higher clergy, and the Survey of London and other sources relating to civic government and urbanisation.
From British History Online
(19th century, transcriptions)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(19th century; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of contemporary documents and lists.
(1546-1817; transcriptions).
Fully searchable transcripts of over 100,000 criminal trials
held in London's central criminal court.
A joint project of the University of Sheffield and the University of Hertfordshire.
(1674-1834, facsimiles & transcriptions with background essays)
Digitized from the collections of the Library of Congress.
"The cartoons highlight aspects of British political life, including tensions with its colonies and other nations, as well as society, fashion, manners, and theater."
(1780-1830; searchable database of facsimiles)
A collection of numerous treaties and documents from the Avalon Project.
(1782-1863; English transcriptions).
Government and company documents regarding English and French interests.
(18th - 19th centuries; searchable facsimiles).
British Parliamentary papers concerned with the Canadian Arctic.
Digitised and organized by the University of Manitoba.
(1818 - 1878; searchable facsimiles).
Provincial historical documents regarding English and French interests.
Digitised by the National Library of Canada.
(19th and 20th centuries; transcriptions).
Constitutional documents, treaties, and other primary sources regarding English and French interests in Canada.
(1760 to the present; transcriptions).
Includes poor laws, various acts and amendments, lists, maps, and more.
(1601-1900; facsimiles and transcriptions)
200,000 pages of census and registration material for the British Isles with a wealth of textual and statistical material.
(1801-1937; searchable data files, essays and analysis)
Letters of Thomas Carlyle and his wife, Jane Welsh Carlyle.
Database assembled by Duke University Press to be browsed or searched.
(1812-1857; database of full-text transcriptions)
Including other commentaries.
(16 August, 1819; English transcriptions).
Regarding the death of Napoleon and the island of St. Helena
(July 30, 1821; English transcription)
Spoken before the House of Commons.
(4 February 1836; English transcription)
19th century English Newspaper online.
(1832-1835; transcriptions)
A part of the Victorian Web.
(1819 - 1872; transcriptions)
An impressive local history collection, comprising church, state, estate and personal records.
(1375 - 1854; transcriptions)
With separate portals to numerous disciplinary approaches.
See especially Victorian texts.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles, timelines and commentaries
Visual details of a Victorian London landmark.
(1851; facsimiles)
Nota bene: For detailed panel shots of the Great Exhibition (the first "World's Fair), go to the Getty Museum's "Devices of Wonder,"
and click on the exhibition scroll (right frame).
Provides illustrations, advertisements, excerpts from contemporary articles and books.
(Transcriptions and facsimiles)
From Documents Illustrating Jacobite History
Digitized by Noel S. McFerran as a part of The Jacobite Heritage.
(1861; transcriptions)
(1862; Selected transcriptions)
by Helen Taylor.
(1867; English transcription)
A searchable journal featured in the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ).
(1843-1863; facsimiles)
A searchable journal featured in the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ).
(1849-1869; facsimiles)
(late 19th - early 20th century; facsimiles on PDF)
Particularly strong for railways.
(late 19th - early 20th century; facsimiles on PDF)
Surveying and documenting life and labour in London.
(1886-1903; transcriptions and facsimiles)
A database being prepared by the National Archives.
(1901; transcribed statistics)
Also provides a search of census data from 1841-1891.
An exhibition combining images and documents with census data.
(1901; facsimiles and transcriptions).
Growing collection of important digitized British newspapers including the Manchester Guardian, Weekly Dispatch, and others.
(1851-1918; browseable and searchable database of facsimiles)
A database and source material website.
Being developed by the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
28 January 1912; transcriptions and facsimiles).
Speech to the House of Commons about banking.
(December 1913; English transcription).
Local and trade directories valuable for local and family history.
Searchable by location, by decade, or by keyword.
(1750 - 1919; facsimiles)
Full text of the Franco-British agreement and declaration, with a link to the Secret Articles signed at the same time.
(8 April, 1904; English version taken from the 1911 Parliamentary Papers)
Ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley
(1898 - 1914; English transcriptions)
(pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
Major Resource!
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Source materials digitised by the British National Archives.
(1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1914-1919; translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1918-1941; translations)
Dealing mostly with the British Royal Navy in twentieth century combat.
(Pax Britannica through 20th century; principally lists, chronologies, images, and descriptions)
Images from British home life during two world wars.
An online poster exhibition from the Hoover Institution.
Click on "Thumbnail Image Index[es]" at bottom of page[s].
(1914-1945; 104 facsimiles)
Britannia Internet Magazine collection of significant charters, histories, chronicles, accounts, laws and summonses.
(English transcriptions)
Over 3500 hours of newsreels (may require special software).
Preview files are free; higher resolution images require payment
(1896-1970; video files)
Subject index and abstracts of British official publications, some available in full-text format.
(1688 to the present; English transcriptions)
Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.
(Medieval to 20th century; facsimiles and photographs)
A documentation project of Powys County, Wales
(Medieval to present; facsimiles, Latin and Welsh transcriptions and English transcriptions and translations)
Huge and exemplary website combining a searchable database of wills and testaments
with full transcripts of the originals and some sample facsimiles.
Includes auxiliary helps such as guides to handwriting and to Scottish occupations.
(1500-1901; facsimiles and transcripts)
Giving a geographic glimpse of London at a time just before exponential growth.
Search by map quadrants, name, or place names (including future railway termini, Thames features, etc.)
A project of Mark Annand, Bath Spa University College
(1827; interactive and zoomable maps).
From Penny Illustrated Paper found on the British Library Website
(7 July 1888;Facsimiles)
A project of the National Library of Scotland
(1560-1928; facsimiles).
A major online Geographic Information System for Great Britain
Combining historical atlases and gazeteers with a database of demographic and socio-economic statistics.
Directed by Humphrey Southall of the University of Portsmouth.
(Facsimiles and transcriptions).

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