History: Europe

Archives Direct is a suite of collections sourced from The National Archives, Kew - the UK government's official archive.

From the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War, Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains over 125 000 English titles from the period 1473-1700.

This collections aims to include every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, and other works from the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

Content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives and consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Digital images of primary source documents from the Great War including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and visual sources - and well as primary source materials of propaganda and recruitment.

Mass Observation was a social research organisation from the University of Sussex whose papers provide insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1965.

Ccorrespondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators present a picture of Tudor Britain.

Contains images of original documents relating to gender studies sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including material from the Bodleian Library, Oxford.