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).
- Cabinet Papers in the National Archives
- Searchable and browseable access to Cabinet papers from 1915-1977.
- (1915-1977; facsimiles, commentary, images, maps)
- 120.000 portraits of famous British men and women from the 16th Century to the present day.
- Explore the collection in a variety of ways.
- (16th century - present; image facsimiles)
- Searchable database of principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales.
- (1540-1835)
- 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)
- Digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time.
- Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps.
- (19th - 20th centuries; maps, reports, transcriptions)
- British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View
- (19th Century, map)
- 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)
- Two of the sketchbooks of the artist who accompanied Charles Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle.
- (19th century; image facsimiles and descriptions)
- 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)
- Records of some 10,000 letters, including copies, of James Mcneill Whistler's correspondence between 1855 and 1903.
- Includes all the letters written by Whistler and all the letters written to him; letters mentioning Whistler are also included on a selective basis.
- Find out more about the correspondence or search the online edition.
- (1855-1903; transcriptions and footnotes)
- Bound volume of manuscripts and letters by Oscar Wilde, digitized by the Morgan Library in New York City.
- Browse thumbnails of the manuscripts and letters. For a transcription of the handwritten pages, click "Read this page".
- (19th century; introduction, facsimiles and 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)
- Selection of images reflecting literary and cultural history and the role of women during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (18th - 19th centuries; facsimile images)
- With separate portals to numerous disciplinary approaches.
- See especially Victorian texts.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles, timelines and commentaries
- Transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century.
- (19th century; transcriptions)
- 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 1841-1901.
- 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).
- 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)
- Documenting events from before Sarajevo until after Versailles.
- (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)
- Online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video.
- The archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period.
- Browse the collections or use the advanced search.
- (Facsimiles and descriptions)
- 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).
- Map of London in 1860; the different divisions of the city are color-coded.
- (1860; zoomable map)
- 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).
EuroDocs > History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents > 1816 - 1918
EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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