History

National gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges. Fully searchable.

Access to 79 primary source collections from a total of 118 on the history of the Atlantic world ranging from colonial, missionary and transatlantic relations to twentieth century political and social development.

Approx. 700 volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets collected by the Reverend Charles Burney. Mostly published in London, but includes English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers and a few from the American colonies, Europe and India.

Digitised and fully searchable records of the British Cabinet from 1915-78.

Contains original scientific manuscripts, including the papers of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, along with the papers of the Board of Longitude from the Foundations of Science Collection and important works from many religious traditions, particularly Judaism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism from the Foundations of Faith Collection.

Hundreds of volumes covering histories of the US and Britain, as well as more general areas covering economics, politics, religion, music, literary studies and language.

Contains material digitally transferred from the BBC NI news archive between 1963-1975. Notable events or broadcasts missing from this period have either not yet been digitised, are absent from the original film collection, or may not have been recorded. To access this resource, select your institution in the "where are you from" box then login. The first time you access it, you will need to create an account by selecting "new user".

Thousands of documents and bibliographic records concerning Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals, the Caribbean and Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.

Communism was one of the defining political and economic ideologies of the 20th century. This series charts its rise and fall through the eyes of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), allowing scholars to study how communist leaders and activists tried to influence, and were in turn influenced by, events and opinion both at home and abroad.

Collections include: Internal politics; campaigns and events; culture and society, crisis Britain and abroad, gender and feminism, Marxist history, trade unions and more.

Brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.

Contains the personal and political papers of J.T. Murphy, which cover a wide range of subjects, from his imprisonment in 1925 and campaign to become a Member of Parliament to his travels in post-revolutionary Russia and disagreements with the CPGB leadership. Documents detailing his wife Molly's time as a nurse on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War are also included. Together, these materials provide an invaluable insight into the internal debates that plagued the British and European left during the 1920s and 1930s

Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Provides access to a diverse array of printed sources from the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Access the digital images of every page of books published during the 18th Century. Provides information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list.

Rare journals printed between c. 1685 and c. 1815, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics include: colonial life; provincial and rural affairs; the French and American revolutions; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

Looks at all aspects of Georgian Britain, from poverty, crime and punishment, to politics and entertainment.

Access to a collection of primary and secondary source material on the history of feminism in the 19th century, from 1776 to 1928.

Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords.

Enables researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through an archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.

Printed ephemera, held at the Bodleian Library, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Contains more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek and English texts, aiming to be a virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin Literature: epic and lyric poetry, history, travel, philosophy and oratory, medical writers and mathematicians, and the Church Fathers who make particular use of pagan culture.

An archive for the study of Social History in the modern era. Access to the new online material, microfilm series, and physical and digital material in the archive itself.

Online resources including 'Observing the 80s' project, Mass Observation Project Database, podcasts and occasional papers

Contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th-century held in UK research libraries.

Covers the events, lives, values and themes that shaped the 19th century world. It's mainly based on the repositories of the British Library and the National Library of Scotland.

Explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. Contains colour digital images of archival material sourced from key libraries and organisations in Britain and America. Includes material from the Mass Observation Archive. Search archive at the Mass Observation online

Access to diaries written by Queen Victoria with coverage from childhood days, through her accession to the throne, marriage to Prince Albert and her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.

Access to State Papers starting with the Tudors in 1509, up to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, finishing in 1714.

Provides accurate and comprehensive information on the current, political, economic and social status of every country in the world.

Digitized, searchable full-text and image resource for studying Nazi Germany and its crimes through testimonies, family narratives and documents of its activities.

The ETU ballot-rigging trial was a case brought to the High Court by prominent union members John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple in 1961. They alleged that members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had engaged in "a conspiracy to defraud" in the most recent elections of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), a relatively successful body that represented electricians, wire fitters, and telephone engineers. The judge ultimately ruled in the plaintiffs' favour.

This collection contains verbatim transcripts of the court case. The transcripts provide a unique insight into the CPGB’s influence in the post-war trade union movement.

The most detailed primary source for twentieth-century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. Covers the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed.

Access to expert articles, posters, newspapers, illustrations and more on the Victorian era.

Now replaced by C19: 19th Century Index