History

Due to its length, this page is divided into a number of sections:

• BSU Quick links
• General
• Gateways to historical resources
• Bibliographic sources
• Journals
• American history
• British history
• The Enlightenment
• European history
• Irish history
• Local history
• Medieval history
• Roman history
• Scottish history
• Sport in the modern world
• Women's history

BSU Quick links

• Academic Search Premier
• BSU Department of History
• Citing references for History
• ECCO
• EEBO
• Electronic Journals
• Electronic Services
• Historical Abstracts
• Interlibrary loans
• JSTOR
• Library catalogue
• Minerva
• SCONUL Access
• Using the Library
• Webmail

General

• Archaeological Data Service: catalogues, preserves and provides user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research
• Association for History and Computing (U.K. Branch)
• BBC History: includes their History Trails
• BOPCRIS: British official publications collaborative reader information service - covering 1688 to 1995
• British University Film and Video Council: aims to promote the use of film and related media in British higher education and research
• The CHIC project: only available to University staff and students
• The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre: for history, archaeology and art history
• The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library: provides free public access to the Boston Public Library's collection of 200,000 maps and 5,000 atlases of the World, United States, and New England
• Courseware for History Implementation Consortium (CHIC)
• Eighteenth century resources: maintained by the University of Pennsylvania
• Greenwood's Map of London 1827: hosted by Bath Spa University
• Historical Association: encourages the study and teaching of history at all levels
• History of the United Kingdom - primary documents
• History On-Line from the IHR
• History 2000
• IHR-Info: from the Institute of Historical Research
• Medieval and Early Modern Palaeography
• Oxford Digital Library: access to a number of historical resources
• Philological Museum: University of Birmingham
• UK Battlefields Resource Centre: information on battlefields from Maldon in 991 to Sedgemoor in 1685.
• The Victorian Web: from Brown University
• Virtual Manuscript Room
• Web Gallery of Art: Hungarian site providing a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic Renaissance and Baroque periods, 1100-1800.  Images copyright cleared for educational use.

Gateways to historical resources

• Academic Info History Gateway: wide range of historical websites
• American and British History Resources on the Internet: maintained by Rutgers Libraries
• Archival Resources on the Internet
• Archives Hub: information about the archives held in some 145 universities, part of the National Archives Network
• Archives in London and the M25 area
• Bath Chronicle Georgian Newspaper Project: contains information from the Bath Chronicle between 1770 and 1800 on art, fashion, crime, punishment, politics and more
• Best of History Web Sites: access to many evaluated websites
• The Data Archive: largest collection of data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1967, it now houses approximately 7,000 datasets of interest to researchers in many different disciplines
• History Guide: access to wide range of annotated websites, maintained by several German universities
• History Data Service: brings together nearly 500 separate data collections. transcribed, scanned or compiled for original sources
• IBIS Links: a clearinghouse for internet resources in British and Irish Studies sponsored by the Institute for British and Irish Studies at the University of Southern California. Provides links to bibliographies, dictionaries, library catalogues, archival lists, online manuscripts, images and maps.
• Internet History Sourcebooks: collections of historical texts in the public domain
• ORB - the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Public Record Office
• Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
• Text Archive: part of the Internet Archive
• The World Lecture Hall
• The WWW Virtual Library Central Catalogue for History

Bibliographic sources

• Historical Abstracts
• Royal Historical Society Bibliography

Journals

Journals the library has access to are searchable from the journals web page.  Full text journals of interest to History are also available from Academic Search Elite and JSTOR.

• Directory of Open Access Journals: about 350 journals in all subjects in full text
• History Cooperative: access to about 20 journals, conference proceedings and other materials from The American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press
• History in Focus: biannual publication from Institute of Historical Research
• History Journals Guide: directory of some 7,000 journals
• History Journals Index: aims to provide a comprehensive listing of European and U.S. journals. For each link there is a brief description of the focus of the journal.
• The London Journal: gives tables of contents from 1995 and abstracts of articles from 1999. The full text of articles is not included; you will need to apply via interlibrary loans for a copy.
• The Medieval Review
• Reviews in History: e-journal from Institute of Historical Research
• Spectator Project: complete, searchable, facsimile editions of the eighteenth century Spectator and Tatler

American history

• American Historical Association
• American History: Documents and Speeches: historical documents in chronological order from the Voyages to Vinland and Magna Carta to the Presidential Election Victory Speech, 2004
• American Life Histories: manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, in the Library of Congress
• American Memory Project: from the Library of Congress
• American Museum Library, Bath
• Bay of Pigs: from the CIA's electronic reading room
• Bureau of American Ethnology: bulletin series on Native American history, culture and linguistics
• California Gold Rush 1849: part of the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
• The Center for American History: books, periodicals, manuscript and archival collections, sound recordings, oral history transcripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, and artefacts held in different locations in Texas
• The Cold War: documents relating to American foreign policy, maintained by Vincent Ferraro
• Core documents of US Democracy
• Couch Cowboy: showcases classic American westerns
• D-Day: American Experience: from PBS, the American public broadcasting organisation
• Documenting the American South: maintained by the University of North Carolina
• Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: "will include a comprehensive compilation of legislation, regulations and government reports that formed the basis of U.S. immigration policy from 1789 to 1930."
• Finding Congressional Documents From the Past: from LLRX.com which provides free information for tracing internet sources
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
• From Revolution to Reconstruction: outline to American history. Contains links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines.
• Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights: access to publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1957 onwards
• The History Net
• Lincoln/Net: Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project containing mainly material from Lincoln's Illinois years
• Making of America: maintained by the University of Michigan
• The Marshall Plan: documents and photographs from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
• The Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage: explains the causes, courses, and outcomes of the Mexican‑American War
• Mountain Men and the Fur Trade: sources of history of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountain West
• National Museum of the American Indian: "established by an act of Congress in 1989.... the museum (is) dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans"
• National Park Service: information on today's National Parks; also has material on historical buildings or battlefields
• National Security Archive: largest archive of declassified US foreign policy documents
• Native Americans
• Native Americans in the Region of the Blue Ridge: part of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club that is good on the Indian wars of the 18th century
• 1962: the Cuban Missile Crisis: "photographs, maps, diagrams, cartoons and audio files" ... concerning the international crisis of 1962
• The Oregon Trail
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: from the Library of Congress, covers Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from 17th to early 20th century and  looks at first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial and archival documents
• Slave Movement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: online data archive from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Tennessee Tech History Web Site
• US National Archives and Records Administration
• Valley of the Shadow: University of Virginia website concentrating on two opposing communities in the Civil War, including access to relevant documents
• Whitehouse.Tapes: access to materials relating to secret tapes recorded by US Presidents from 1940-1976
• Women Working, 1800-1930: focuses on woman's role in the US economy; includes manuscripts, books and pamphlets as well as photographs.

British history

• Breaking the Seal: BBC and Open University's guide to finding and using historical documents
• British Book Trade Index: index of names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851.  See also Scottish Book Trade Index below.
• British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate: by David Plant
• British Records Association
• Brown University Women Writers Project: early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding
• The Burney Centre at McGill University: the goal of the Centre is to prepare modern, complete and unabridged scholarly editions of the journals and letters of Fanny Burney.
• Centre for Metropolitan History: Institute of Historical Research centre which promotes the study and appreciation of London's character and development
• Charles Booth Online Archive: archive material from the Booth collections of the LSE and the University of London Library. Includes digitised poverty maps 1898-99
• Clergy of the Church of England database: project to list careers of all C of E clergymen between 1540 and 1835.
• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online: Darwin's complete publications and many of his manuscripts, over 50,000 searchable pages and 40,000 images
• Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: crime broadsides from 1707 to 1891 collected by Harvard Law School Library
• Early Pamphlets in Social Policy: 18th, 19th and early 20th century pamphlets  available to print or download free. Topics covered: the poor and origins of the welfare state, health, housing, pensions and unemployment insurance.
• Early Pamphlets in Transport History: covers railways, canals, urban transport, transport workers and policy
• Early Stuart Libels: web-based edition of early seventeenth-century over 350 political poems from manuscript sources
• English Dissenters: during the Civil War and Interregnum
• English Handwriting 1500-1700: assistance for anyone researching manuscript sources
• Imperial War Museum: concise art collection - searchable collection of images
• Medical History of British India: rare papers from the National Library of Scotland's India Papers collections
• Modern Records Centre: housed at the University of Warwick, repository of records of Britain's social, political and economic history
• Museum of London
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey: London 1674 to 1834
• RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History
• Rictor Norton's website on Eighteenth Century homosexuality: contains an excellent range of primary sources as well as articles
• Scottish Book Trade Index: from the National Library of Scotland
• UK Battlefields Resource Centre: information on battlefields from Maldon in 991 to Sedgemoor in 1685.
• Victoria Research Web
• Victorian London
• A Vision of Britain Through Time: historical maps, travel writing, election results to 1997, census reports
• Waddesdon Manor: searchable collection of over 700 items of continental commercial printed ephemera dating from around 1600 to 1800. Click on Collection -> Search the collection.
• The Word on the Street: broadsides at the National Library of Scotland, dating from the 17th to 20th century

The Enlightenment

• The Data Archive: largest collection of accessible computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1967, it now houses approximately seven thousand datasets of interest to researchers from many different disciplines
• Eighteenth-Century Studies: literary and cultural studies
• The Enlightenment: resource list maintained by the Department of History, Hanover College
• Voltaire Foundation: from the University of Oxford

European history

• 1914-1918: "the story of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918"
• Encyclopedie Project: prototype online version of the first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie
• EuroDocs
• Last Expression: art from Auschwitz
• The Marshall Plan: documents and photographs from the Truman Presidential Museum and Library
• A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: with QuickTime images and in depth notes
• Texts and Documents: Europe
• Waddesdon Manor: searchable collection of over 700 items of continental commercial printed ephemera dating from around 1600 to 1800. Click on Collection -> Search the collection.

Irish history

• Act of Union Virtual Library: material contemporary with the 1800 Act of Union
• CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet's information on the 'troubles' in Northern Ireland
• EIRdata: Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco), contains wide-ranging information on Irish writers
• EPPI: enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, 1801-1922
• The Garda Siochana Museum/Archives
• Independent Monitoring Commission: first report
• Irish History on the Web
• Irish History Online: guide to Irish history from earliest times to the present
• Irish Playography: database of new Irish plays produced professionally since 1975
• Irish Resources in the Humanities
• Irish Times
• National Archives of Ireland
• NewsHound: daily newspaper articles published on the Web about Northern Ireland, includes Irish history links
• RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History

Local history

• A2A: Access to Archives: database of local archives in England and Wales
• Archival Resources on the Internet
• ARCHON: UK archival gateway maintained by the Historical Manuscripts Commission
• Bath Past History Pages
• Bath Record Office
• Dorset Archives Service
• English Origins: information for genealogists and family historians
• GENUKI: service for genealogists
• Gloucestershire Record Office
• Great Britain Historical Database: database of British 19th and 20th century statistics, with free access to a significant part of it
• Historical Manuscripts Commission
• Local History Magazine
• Public Record Office
• Somerset Archive and Record Service
• TAXATIO: database containing the valuation of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical assessment of 1291-1292
• Teaching History Online
• UK Data Archive: largest collection of data in the UK
• UKBORDERS: database of both historic and contemporary digitised UK boundary data. The various census and administrative data types can be downloaded in formats compatible with most GIS, e.g. ArcView and MapInfo.
• Victoria County History
• Victorian Census Project: includes free datasets from the 1831 and 1861 censuses
• The Weald: catalogues people, places, maps, drawings, engravings, books, writings and numerous lists and directories that are over 70 years old

Medieval history

• Breaking the Seal: Open University's guide to historical documents, including Domesday
• Catholic Encyclopaedia: part of the New Advent site
• Catholic Encyclopaedia: Demonology: part of the New Advent site
• The End of Europe's Middle Ages: online tutorial for students maintained by the Dept of History, University of Calgary
• Foxe's Book of Martyrs
• Index of Medieval Manuscripts: provides "references to specific medieval manuscripts in a significant corpus of printed texts"
• Medieval English Towns
• The Medieval Review
• ORB - the Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Perseus Digital Library: located at the Department of Classics, Tufts University

Roman history

• De Imperatoribus Romanis: online encyclopedia of Roman emperors from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453)
• Roman Britain: part of the BBC's web site

Scottish history

• Statistical Accounts of Scotland: covering the 1790s and the 1830s; access to around 28,00 digital images of the pages

Sport in the modern world

• Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research: From the University of Leicester

Women's history

• L'Age d'Or: includes re-enactment societies etc. up to the early 18th century, with interesting information on clothing, hair etc.
• Bluestocking Archive: includes electronic texts of 18th Century women writers, including Fanny Burney
• British Women Romantic Poets 1789-1832: collection of texts maintained by the University of California, Davis
• Brown University Women Writers Project: early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding
• The Burney Centre at McGill University: the goal of the Centre is to prepare modern, complete and unabridged scholarly editions of the journals and letters of Fanny Burney.
• Costume History
• A Day in Eighteenth-Century London: from The Female Tatler, no. 9
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present: excellent source of biographical background
• Eighteenth Century Costume Resources Online: includes information on art, architecture, style etc. as well as all sorts of clothing
• Eighteenth Century History: aimed at school students, but still useful
• Eighteenth Century Resources: probably the best clearing house of 18th century resources online
• Emancipation of Women 1750-1920
• Enfranchising Women: the Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe, 1789-1945
• Fanny Burney: includes links to scanned texts
• From History to Her Story: Yorkshire women's lives, 1100 to the present
• Genesis Project: based at The Women's Library in London, the project aims to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles
• History of Sexuality: maintained by Lesley Hall
• Images of England: English Heritage's National Monument record with 15,000 images
• Internet Library of Early Journals: searchable electronic journals, including the Gentleman's Magazine and Annual Register
• Internet Resources: Women in History: maintained by Stanford University, with links to many collections of primary sources by period
• Internet Women's History Sourcebook
• Jane Austen Information Page: includes scanned texts
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• People with a History: lesbian history
• Perdita Project: collaborative project between the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University to make early women's manuscripts available to search
• Regency Fashion Page: clothing of all sorts for this period
• A Regency Repository: fashion, the ton, art, music, the potteries, politics etc.
• The Restoration and the 18th century: includes online texts from Addison etc.
• Suffragettes: women recall their struggle to win the vote - BBC sound archive
• Victorian Women Writers Project
• ViVa: a Bibliography of Women's History: database of articles published on women's history since 1995, maintained by the Institute of Social History
• Voice of the Shuttle: includes biographies of British monarchs, history of the stagecoach in England, the Bubble Project, the British Abolition Movement
• Women in History: maintained by Lesley Hall covering the history of gender, sexuality, medicine and much more
• Women Romantic-Era Writers: maintained by Nottingham University, with links to a large number of 18th Century publications by women
• Women Working, 1800-1930: focuses on woman's role in the US economy and includes manuscripts, books and pamphlets as well as photographs.
• Women's History Links: American, but containing a huge number of links
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Women's History: international collections of documents and sources, in addition to UK section