1947 Partition Archives

A Medical History of British India consists of official publications varying from short reports to multi-volume histories related to disease, public health and medical research between circa 1850 to 1950.

Ad*Access

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Archivos de la represión – Digital Archive, Mexico

The British Cartoon Archive is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

BDEEP is the online platform for the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP). Documents range from colonial dispatches, to different governments’ colonial policy as well as public records from various departments of state in relation to empire.

British Presence in Southern Patagonia & Patagonia Bookshelf, First-hand Accounts + Early Materials

Primary and secondary sources relating to the British presence in Patagonia, including census information, migrant data, church records, personal journals, commercial records and much much more.

City Archives Amsterdam

This digital project is run from Queen’s University, Belfast. The site exhibits items connected to the history of imperialism and resistance in Northeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Items illustrate geopolitical rivalries, imperialism, nationalism, revolution and war.

Cornell's Digital Collections

Launched in December 2015, the Cornell University Library Digital Collections portal aggregates our rich digital collections into a single website, with the goal of enabling easier access and discovery of this content. It was built by staff from our Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services, Information Technology, and Library Technical Services departments, and is powered by Blacklight, Solr, and IIIF.

Entdecken Sie historische Websites, digital publizierte Bücher, Zeitschriften, Hochschulschriften und Normen sowie gedruckte Werke in digitalisierter Form.

Die Plattform für digitalisierte Drucke aus Schweizer Institutionen. Suchen Sie nach Drucken des 15. bis 20. Jahrhunderts. Gegenwärtig sind 133076 Titel verfügbar.

La source centrale de l’Observatoire des élites suisses est la Base de données des élites suisses qui contient plus de 40'000 entrées sur les élites politiques, économiques, administratives et académiques au 20e et début 21e siècle. Neuf dates de référence sont considérées, avec un intervalle d’environ 20 ans : 1890 1910, 1937, 1957, 1980, 2000, 2010, 2015 et 2020.

The Reframing Imperial War project explores the work of Italo-British photographer Felice Beato (1832-1909). This site shares photographic sources from the Victorian era of British imperialism, mostly related to China.

The French Revolution Digital Archive is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.

The East View Global Press Archive® (GPA) is a groundbreaking program to create the most comprehensive collection of digital news sources from around the world.

21 Data repositories on various themes

The archives (and digitised archives) held in custody for the wider community within Historical Papers are extensive and provide a unique documentary record of South African history and society from the 18th to the late 20th century.

At the core of the completed project is this online Encyclopedia of British Slave-ownership containing information about (1) every slave-owner in the British Caribbean, Mauritius or the Cape at the moment of abolition in 1833; (2) all the estates we have identified in the British Caribbean in the period 1763-1833; and (3) all the slave-owners, attorneys, mortgagees and legatees we have identified to date for the estates between 1763 and 1833. Entries for individuals include information about the activities, affiliations and legacies of these men and women, with a particular emphasis on the “absentee” owners based in Britain.

Easy to navigate database of economic data from Latin America since the late nineteenth century to 2010. Available data includes specific commodity prices, education, population, industry specific data, internal and external trade, public finances and financial data – and much more. Statistics related to Latin America as a whole and to individual countries are available.

PARC (Portal for African Research Collections) is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel. For the first time, the collections of the five Basel heritage institutions Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Mission 21, Museum der Kulturen Basel, Swiss TPH and the University of Basel are searchable in a single catalogue. This facilitates access to the collections regardless of location.

Welcome to the Prize Papers Portal, home to a vast collection of documents and artefacts taken from ships captured by British privateers and the Royal Navy between 1652 and 1815 as well as the court papers generated by legal proceedings to determine the legality of the ‘prize’.

The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The new Voyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

The Town Clerk’s Office in South Kingstown, Rhode Island holds records dating back to the late seventeenth century chronicling the social relations and material culture of this early American town. Moreover, they document the existence of enslaved people. Traces of these individuals remain in probate records, where human beings were assigned value and treated as property.

The National Archives (online) has extensive resources and digital materials for the global historian to explore and employ in their research.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has in its custody an archive of the life and time, works and writings of its Founder, the late Mr. Nelson Mandela.

Compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley, the archive is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

Awesome Digital History

Awesome compilation of digital history sources. Like this one, but more extensive!