Primary Sources/World History: Europe

From Duke University, this digital collection provides access to 750 photographs of every-day life in the Soviet Union (1919-1921 and 1930) from the papers of Robert L. Eichelberger and Frank Whitson Fetter.

The Avalon Project provides access to digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Its coverage spand from 4000bce to the 21st century.

British History Online is a digital library providing access to primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Users can search by keyword, subject, place, person, time period or monarch. This repository was created by Great Britain's History of Parliament Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.

The British Women Romantic Poet's Project is producing an online scholarly archive consisting of E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily published) between 1789 (the onset of the French Revolution) and 1832 (the passage of the Reform Act), a period traditionally known in English literary history as the Romantic period.

This site was designed to enable users to find fully digitized manuscripts currently available on the web. You can browse the Catalogue by the Location of an archive or library, the shelfmark of an item, by the author of a text (where that information is available), or by the language of a text (again, where available).

From the website: Newton wrote and transcribed about a million words on the subject of alchemy. Newton's alchemical manuscripts include a rich and diverse set of document types, including laboratory notebooks, indices of alchemical substances, and Newton's transcriptions from other sources."

From the website: "The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources."

From the Website: "This site contains Darwin's complete publications and many of his handwritten manuscripts. There are over 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images.

This site, a component of Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program, contains more than 500,000 pages of textual materials and 10,000 pages of manuscripts and early printed books from ten contributing Harvard libraries and archives

View over 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents

This site, part of Harvard University Library's Open Collection, features images of more than five hundred broadsides--styled at the time as "Last Dying Speeches" or "Bloody Murders"--that were sold to the audiences that gathered to witness public executions.

Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations. Maintained by Brigham Young University.

From the website: Europeana is the trusted source of cultural heritage brought to you by the Europeana Foundation and a large number of European cultural institutions, projects and partners. Explore millions of items from a range of Europe's leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings.

Gallica - the digital library of the National Library of France provides acess to a variety of digitized materials, including manuscripts and images. The search interface includes an English version.

This site, from Calvin College, is a growing collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses. Search by keyword, or browse by subject heading.

This collection of materials from the British Library includes digitized documents and images related to the birth, reign and death of Britain's Henry VIII.

This collection includes the digitized copies of 20-year runs of a half-dozen 18th and 19 century journals - Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine.

This collection, compiled by Qunnipiac University, includes digitized copies of Workhouse Minutes.

Through the multilingual MICHAEL service you can find and explore digital collections from museums, archives, libraries and other cultural institutions from across Europe.

The United Kingdom's national archives contain selection of primary source materials that span the centuries. From letters relating to Scottish warrior William Wallace to documentation about service awards granted to war heroes.

As part of the Open Collections Program, the Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT.)

This database provides access to a searchable, digitized editions of the proceedings of the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913. Included are almost 200,000 criminal trials heard in London's central criminal court.

From Tufts University, the Perseus Project features digital collections of materials in the humanities. Topics are wide-ranging and include the classics and the English Renaissance. The classics collection contains primary and secondary texts and more.

From the Royal Society: "Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment. And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution – including accounts of monstrous calves, grisly tales of students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to how to cool drinks “without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.”

This repository is centered around 17 incidents in Soviet history - ranging from the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Each event covered features a brief abstract and links to primary sources.

This site, part of Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program, features images of more than 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections. Some items in the collection include: an account of the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV and the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde.

This collection of primary source material relates to the life of British computer scientist Alan Turing

This collection comes from the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections. The Nazi-controlled government in German-occupied France produced the Vica comic during World War II as a propaganda tool against the Allied forces.

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.