Search across descriptions of archives held at over 390 UK institutions, including universities, museums, galleries, charities, specialist repositories and business archives. New archive descriptions are added every week.
Approx. 700 volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets from the seventeenth and eighteenth century, 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 papers, precedent books, and notebooks, including minutes, memoranda, and conclusions from meetings. Divided into three themes: ‘The United Kingdom and the World,’ ‘The Economy, Business, and Resources,’ and ‘Society and the Welfare State.’
A searchable full-text collection of the Cambridge Histories, first published in 1902. This series contains over 400 volumes detailing US and British history. It also includes volumes focused on other subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.
A database of primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, integrating two archives: ‘Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers’ and ‘The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.’ The collections relate to the British governance of early settlements, encounters with Native Americans, piracy, the slave trade, and conflicts with the Spanish and French.
A collection of John Thomas (J.T.) Murphy and Molly Murphy’s personal and political papers, covering his imprisonment in 1925, his campaign to become a Member of Parliament, and his travels in post-revolutionary Russia. It also includes documents detailing Molly’s time as a suffragette, nursing on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and her time in the Soviet Union. Together, these materials provide insight into the internal debates occupying the British and European left during the 1920s and 1930s.
Contains full-color, high-resolution facsimile images of all works printed in Europe before 1701, regardless of language, as well as some works published further afield. Includes a broad range of print sources dating back to the 15th century.
Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and House of Lords. Includes; 18th to 20th-century parliamentary papers, House of Commons parliamentary papers, House of Lords parliamentary papers, public petitions to parliament, 1833-1918, Hansard 1803-2005.
Online resources including 'Observing the 80s' project, Mass Observation Project Database, podcasts and occasional papers
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