Britain 1919 to the present

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EuroDocs > History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents > 1919 to the present

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Historical documentation displayed by various themes and date ranges.
(20th century; facsimiles, transcriptions and images).
Searchable and browseable access to Cabinet papers from 1915-1977.
(1915-1977; facsimiles, commentary, images, maps)
(late 19th - early 20th century; facsimiles on PDF
Particularly strong for railways.
(late 19th - early 20th century; facsimiles on PDF)
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)
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)
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)
(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)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1914-1919; translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1918-1941; translations)
(11 December 1936; English transcription)
Original documents from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum.
(1933-1945; facsimiles)
"Documents concerning... the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany
  on September 3, 1939."
(1934-1939; English transcriptions and translations)
"Papers relative to the events and negotiations which preceded the opening of hostilities
  between Germany on the one hand, and Poland, Great Britain and France on the other hand."
Electronic version by permission of the French Government.
(1938-1939; English translations)
Collection of essays, video clips, photo galleries, and original articles from the fall of 1939.
(1939; articles and images)
German and British source materials on the Munich Agreement of 1938.
(March-September 1938; English transcriptions and translations of documents, maps, statistics and commentary)
concluded at Munich between Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy.
(29 September 1938; English translation)
(30 September, 1938; transcription)
(September 1, 1939; transcription)
Documenting the emergence of the Anglo-American alliance, including correspondence between FDR and Churchill
(1939-1945; English facsimiles)
Documenting the uneasy alliances between Britain and USSR during the war.
From the archives of the BBC.
(1939-1945; facsimiles, video and audio files)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
A collection of documents related to WWII.
From the Avalon Project.
Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
(1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
(1938-1945; translations)
Diaries, photos, sound files, statistics and other documentation of the Battle of Britain.
(10 July-31 October 1940)
Complete and comprehensive searchable inventory of the photographs taken during the occupation, liberation and reconstruction of the Lower Normandy region in France. This is the first site in the world to offer free images of the Battle of Normandy in high definition.
(1939-1945; images and descriptions)
Encyclopaedia Britannica's guide to the Normandy invasion of 1944.
(1943-1944; transcriptions, audio, video, images, commentaries)
Documents of the Eisenhower Library (scroll down the page).
(1943-1944; facsimiles & photos)
Photographic collection of documents relating to D-Day.
(1944; images and French-language descriptions)
Daily battle communiques from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Europe (SHAEF).
Searchable database with full-text facsimiles.
(6 June 1944 - 8 May 1945; text-searchable facsimiles)
Documents and commentary on Preparations for War, Evacuation, Bombing of Britain, Empire Home Front,
Everyday Life, Women at War, and Spies.
(1939-1945; facsimiles)
A collection of documents and artifacts regarding British traitors, double agents and Nazi spies of WWII.
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)
Online exploration of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech at Fulton, Missouri
(5 March 1946; audio, images and commentary
(1940-1946; transcriptions)
Official agreement by the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union for the establishment of an International Military Tribunal
for the "punishment and prosecution of the major war criminals of the European axis".
(1946; transcription)
A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
(1945 to the present; transcriptions and translations)
Dealing mostly with the British Royal Navy in twentieth century combat.
(Pax Britannica through 20th century; principally lists, chronologies, images and descriptions)
(2 June 1953; transcription)
"Evil Empire Speech."
(June 8, 1982; English transcription).
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)
Ranging from the Domesday Book of 1086 to King Edward VIII's abdication instrument of 1936.
(Facsimiles, transcriptions, interactive exercises and commentary)
Full text of Public Acts and Local Acts as originally passed by Parliament
(1988-present; English transcriptions).
(1996 - present; English transcriptions).
Includes search capabilities by political party, event, or speaker
"... not an official parliamentary site of the Houses of Parliament" (Current; video).
Large selection of documents from The Stationery Office, Parliament and elsewhere.
(1993 - present; English transcriptions).
Subject index and abstracts of British official publications, some available in full-text format.
(1688 to the present; English transcriptions)
On the Death of Princess Diana and on the Opening of Parliament.
(1997 - present; transcripts)
(1998; transcription)
(1998; transcription)
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)
Official documentation available by sections, parts, provisions, schedules and amendments.
(1998; transcripts)
Including the handy UK At A Glance
(Statistics)
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).
A project of the National Library of Scotland
(1560-1928; facsimiles).


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