HIST 215 - Modern European History: Home

Background Information

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks

• Oxford Handbooks (History)
• Oxford Reference
• Blackwell Reference
• Oxford Bibliographies

Books

• Library Catalogue

Journal articles

History Periodical Indexes, Bibliographies, Full-text Articles

• Historical Abstracts
• Bibliography of British and Irish History

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Complete
• British Humanities Index
• Humanities Full Text
• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Research Library

Primary sources

Published books

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• HathiTrust Digital Library
• Gallica

Government Documents

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• Documents on British Policy Overseas

Newspapers

• 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
• 19th Century British Newspapers
• British Newspapers, 1600-1950
• Daily Mail Historical Archive
• Gale NewsVault
• The Guardian (1821-) and The Observer
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive
• Picture Post Historical Archive
• Scotsman (1817-)
• Sunday Times Digital Archive (1822-)
• The Times Digital Archive (1785-)
• Gallica

Periodicals

• 19th Century UK Periodicals
• British Periodicals (late 17th-early 20th century)
• The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003
• Eighteenth Century Journals
• The Listener Historical Archive
• Periodicals Index Online
• Gallica

Thematic Primary Source Collections

• Artemis Primary Sources
• The Making of the Modern World
• British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910
• Empire Online
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
• First World War: Personal Experiences
• Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975