Denmark 1814 to the Present

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Flag of Denmark

Digitized 19th- and 20th-century manuscripts from the Danish Royal Library.
(Facsimiles)

A "pictorial atlas" by the Frenchman Paul Gaimard illustrating his journeys to Scandinavia.
(1838-1840; facsimile images)
(Click on "Danmark" and "Færøyene" from the left frame.)

A searchable and growing database of selected parishes made available by the Danish State Archives at Arkivalier online.
(1814-1891; facsimiles -- may require a plug-in)

A series of searchable databases covering:
Census records;
Emigration records;
Immigration records (Danish interface only);
Other databases.
(19th century to the present)

Source documents from the Danish women's movement.
Click on links within the commentary for source documents
(1850-1920; Danish commentary linking to transcriptions)

A beautifully accessible search database for full text of the newspaper Illustreret Tidende.
(1859-1924; searchable facsimile pages)

With quotes from -- and links to -- primary documentation.
(1873-1918; Danish facsimiles and transcriptions)
Laws, letters, memoirs, statistics, and more.
(1873-present; Danish facsimiles and transcriptions)

Released by the Niels Bohr Archive.
The meeting in Copenhagen between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg is considered a defining moment in the development of the atomic bomb.
Link to documents is found at the bottom of the page
(1941-1962; facsimiles, transcriptions and translations)

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)

Virtual exhibit of the Nazi occupation
Presented by the Museum of Danish Resistance.
(1939-1945; facsimiles)

(5 June 1953; Danish transcription)
(5 June 1953 with revisions to 1992; English translation)

Folketinget / Danish Parliament:

(1997-present; Danish transcriptions).

Documents from various ministries of the Danish government.
(Transcriptions and translations)

Danish kings and their history.
Mostly secondary information and commentary, but with a time-table and images that could be valuable.
(1448-1863; Danish-language commentary and images)
A short update of monarchs 1863 to the present is on a separate page.

Electronic resources and the Danish National Digital Library.
Includes e-books, digitized manuscripts, journals, databases, images, etc.
(Facsimiles)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

(1563-1945; Danish facsimile documents, images & transcriptions)

A well-annotated documentation of ships and the men aboard them.
Also available in the Danish original.
(1801-2001; transcriptions, commentary, bibliographies, data lists)

A cooperative Danish-Swedish project covering sources from both sides of the "Sound."
Pictures, postcards, maps, letters, guides to archival sources.
(1200-1913; facsimiles and guides)

From Den Digitale Byport of the Danish Centre for Urban History.
With aspect searches (by chronology, civic function, location, architect, etc.).
(13th-19th centuries; annotated facsimiles of illustrations, photos and architectural plans)

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