History: Europe

In our History: United Kingdom database list, you can find a great variety of primary sources including:

• the Bibliography of British and Irish history online provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the Britain from 55BC onwards,
• the Churchill Archive, that contains, for instance, his help for partisans in Yugoslavia during WW2,
• attitudes towards Gothic architecture in The Grand Tour. 

You may also discover collections of important primary source material within databases that may appear unrelated to your research.  For instance, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports contains information on

• the 1968 student demonstrations in France,
• the loss of 4 H-bombs over Spain in 1966,
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn being expelled from the Soviet Union.

Some online resources that are helpful for historical research for the United Kingdom include:

• Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900 
• British History Online primary and secondary sources between 1300 and 1800.
• British Library. Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts Descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.