European History

Founded in 1982 as a result of a collaboration between the French government and the University of Chicago, the ARTFL Project is a consortium-based service that provides its members with access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.

Full-text historical documents. The Avalon Project is dedicated to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

A small archive of the British view of unspeakable events in the French Revolution.

Early Modern Resources is a research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced research, study and teaching.

The database, created by the English Monastic Archives project, is a guide to documents generated by medieval monasteries.

Links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. In addition, you will find video or sound files, maps, photographs or other imagery, databases, and other documentation.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses.

The library houses about 170,000 works concerning the history of science. The antique book collection, consisting of nearly 5,000 works, is supplemented by several 19th-20th century collections as well as a contemporary collection which has an annual growth of hundreds of new acquisitions.

VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (or theoretical) resources, and defines its audience as people who have something to learn from a higher-education, professional approach to the humanities. (Be aware of dead links)

Cornell University Library’s Witchcraft Collection is part of the Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. It contains more than 3,000 books, manuscripts, and related materials.

The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy.

WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalog of the Web. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

A digital project of the National Library of Portugal. (Portuguese)

Sponsored by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica is a vast and growing collection of digitized resources in French and other Western European languages. It currently offers 70,000 digitized texts. The emphasis of the site is on documents of historical or cultural value. (French)

The European Library is designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, our online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.

The image database Mandragore of the département des Manuscrits of the Bibliothèque nationale de France contains 100,000 records to date. (French)