Primary Sources

European History Primary Documents

• Readings in European History, Volume 1
  Primary source documents from the breakup of the Roman Empire to the protestant reformation

• Readings in European History, Volume 2
  Primary source documents from the protestant reformation to the First World War

• 15th Century Documents : 1400 - 1499

• 16th Century Documents : 1500 - 1599

• Ancient Documents : 4000bce - 399

• British National Archives

• The Corn Laws by T. R. Malthus

• Economic and Legal Treatises (The Avalon Project)

• EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

• European History Primary Sources 1

• European History Primary Sources 2

• Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

• Medieval Documents : 400 - 1399

• Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941

• The Nuremburg Trials

• Peace Conference at the Hague 1899 :Correspondence, Instructions and Reports

• World War I Document Archive

• World War II : Documents (The Avalon Project)

• Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

• Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

• The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione)

• British History Online

• British Library Digital Collections

• British Museum Digital Collection

• Charles Dickens Letters

• The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

• Early Modern Resources

• Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus)

• Europeana
  Explore 48,838,151 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe.

• Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII: selection of despatches

• Fugger Newsletters

• The Great Diary Project (Bishopsgate Institute, UK)

• The Greville Diary 1817-1860

• Hanover Historical Texts Collection

• Harry Ransom Center (British and American Literary History)

• Horace Walpole Correspondence 1725-1797

• The Memoirs of Kaiser Wilhelm II

• Memoirs of the Russian Court by Anna Vyrubova

• News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe (The Fugger Newsletters)

• The Paston Letters 1422-1509

• Pepys Diary 1660-1669

• Petition of Right

• Russian Revolution

• Thirteen Years at the Russian Court by Pierre Gilliard

• Vasari's Lives of the Artists

• Voices of the Holocaust

• Willy-Nicky Correspondence

• World War I

History Sourcebooks

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.

• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

• Internet Medieval History Sourcebook

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• Reformation Europe

• Absolutism

• Age of Exploration

• Constitutionalism

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Enlightened Despots

• American Independence

• French Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Industrial Revolution II

• Romanticism

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• World War I

• Holocaust

• World War II

• The History Guide
  The History Guide has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college. The purpose of The History Guide is to better prepare yourself for your history classes and to make your time in class more enjoyable and proficient.
  
  The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes. The History Guide contains ninety lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989. In essence, what is presented here is an online textbook in western civilization, with special reference to the western intellectual tradition.
  

• Voices of the Holocaust