Big Digital Collections
- Databases with European Studies Historical DocumentsMany of Carleton's databases have primary source content from and about Europe.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source). - Europeana This link opens in a new window
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A large collections with artworks, artifacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe. Has filters for Open Licenses.
- British History OnlineDigital library containing printed primary sources for the study of medieval and modern history of Great Britain. Good source of images, maps, and local histories.
- EuroDocsPeriod: Pre-Historic to Current
Countries: Europe
Content: Transcriptions, facsimiles and translations
- EEBO: Early English Books Online This link opens in a new window
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A collection of early English books and tracts, 1475 - 1700. - Manchester Medieval Sources Online This link opens in a new window
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A collection of original medieval documents compiled for the teaching and study of history. - Middle English Compendium This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to three of the major Middle English resources used in the field: The Middle English Dictionary, the HyperBibliography, and the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. - Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes historical newspapers, government documents, books, ephemera, history of science and artificial intelligence, and the like.
- Avalon ProjectContains documents relating to law, economics, history, and diplomacy. Collection is browsable by topic and time period and searchable by keyword.
- CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new window
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This collection includes microfilm for foreign newspapers and foreign dissertations. You may borrow microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan.
Newspapers & Magazines
- Times Digital Archive 1785 Onwards This link opens in a new window
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Full-text page images of The Times (London) from 1785 to 2019. Includes articles as well as advertisements, illustrations, and photos. - 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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A full-text archive of newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom, 1604 - 1804. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this is the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library. - Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
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An index of articles in the humanities and social sciences going as far back as 1665. - British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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Search through hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, all available in full text. Also allows searching for cartoons, photographs, illustrations, and other images. Covers 1680 - 1930.
- BNF Newspapers (French)Includes titles such as: Le monde, Le journal, Le matin, and Le Petit journal. Dates generally range from about mid-19th century to early 20th century.
- The Review of reviews (London)Call Number: (online)Publication Date: 1890-1919An aggregated collection of news summaries, geared toward readers living abroad in the British Colonies. Read some of the early articles from Volume 1 to get an idea of what this periodical is about and why it was useful. Covers 1890 - 1919.
Poole's index to periodical literatureCall Number: REF: AI3 .P726Availability and more information from Catalyst...
Indexes periodical literature from 1802-1881. Five supplements bring the coverage up to 1906. Find the articles you need and then use ILL to request those articles.
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A collection including foreign newspapers on microfilm, on paper, and digital. Filmed material may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan. - East View This link opens in a new window
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Search all East View databases for historical newspaper and journal content from: China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and Russia.
UK Government Documents
- Parliamentary Papers This link opens in a new window
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Collection of House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports of Committees and Commissioners, House of Lords, Public Petitions from 18th Century through today. Visit the Collection Guide for more information.
- Hansard: The official report of all parliamentary debatesFind Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.
- Irish University Press series of British parliamentary papers (1969) byCall Number: Carleton Library Oversize Books DA10 .I740 --> DA10 .I7775More information in Catalyst
- Connected HistoriesConnected Histories brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates.
- British History OnlineDigital library containing printed primary sources for the study of medieval and modern history of Great Britain. Good source of images, maps, and local histories.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new window
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A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of the Middle East including Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Persia, Sudan, Suez Canal, Syria, and Turkey. Covers 1812 - 1969. - Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 This link opens in a new window
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A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Africa. Covers 1834 - 1966. - Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new window
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A collection of documents generated by the UK Foreign and Colonial Offices in countries and regions of Latin America. Covers 1833 - 1969.
- South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)Contains historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of India Office publications, books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.
