Primary Sources
A prime place to look!
General Primary Source Collections
Nineteenth Century Collections Online
(c.1730-1916) Digital collection of primary sources from the long nineteenth century. The content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages. Part of Gale Primary Sources.Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(1701-1800) Digital facsimiles of 185,000 books, pamphlets, almanacs, advertisements, songs, and other materials published in Great Britain and British North America during the eighteenth century.Also available on Gale Primary Sources.Defining Gender, 1450-1910
Provides access to a vast body of original British source material that will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.
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19th Century British Pamphlets
(1545-1900) Over 26,000 pamphlets on a wide variety of political, economic, social, environmental, and technological developments, issues and reforms; these publications played an important role in nineteenth-century public debates. This collection is in JSTOR. Select "Narrow by: Pamphlets" to limit your results to this collection.
Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850
(1450-1914) Digital facsimiles of over 61,000 books and 460 pre-1900 periodicals covering a wide variety of topics related to economics, including agriculture, banking, colonies, finance, politics, mercantilism, slavery, social conditions, trades and manufacturing, and transportation.
Part of Gale Primary Sources.
Women, War & Society, 1914-1918
(1914-1918) Digital facsimiles of over 29,000 primary sources related to women's contributions to WWI and the impact of the war on them. Includes photographs, posters, magazines, correspondence, diaries, pamphlets, cuttings from newspapers, and more. Part of Archives Unbound and Gale Primary Sources.
Additional Sources to Explore
Gale Primary Sources
An integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets. Includes digital facsimiles of books, manuscripts, some newspapers, photographs, and more.Archives Unbound
A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Part of Gale Primary Sources.
Hathi Trust
Digital collection of works held by a number of major research libraries.
Limit your search to "Full view only" to view works that you can view cover-to-cover.European History Primary Sources
Searchable index of scholarly digital repositories containing primary sources related to the history of Europe. This link goes specifically to British repositories.
