History of Twentieth-Century Britain & Ireland

British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Parts of the collection are only available to subscribers.

A rich collection of primary sources covering England from ca. 500 to 1914. The subject coverage is broad and each document has an introduction and bibliography. The series ends at 1914.

Rich website linking to primary sources for all periods of European history. Organized first by country, and then loosely chronologically. Includes transcriptions, facsimiles, and, sometimes, translations. Maintained at Brigham Young University.

Search the catalogue of the UK's Archives and/or browse a number of online collections, including military records, Sir Anthony Eden's papers, and records of art looted by the Nazis.

Google has digitized thousands of books and magazines and made them searchable. Use this advanced search interface for precise searching. You may be able to access the full text of books that are out of copyright. If an item is only available in "snippet view" or "limited preview," you may be able to obtain that item from our own collection or via Interlibrary Loan.

Records of Parliamentary proceedings. The interface allows searching by keyword or browsing by date.

A growing digital archive of newsreels created by the British Pathé company from the 1890s through the 1970s. These videos include areas such as historical events and documentaries as well as travelogues and contemporary coverage of culture.

This multifaceted tool places art works from the Metropolitan Museum's collection within geographical and chronological context. It has excellent thematic essays (background information) that cover the historical eras and cultures that produced the works of art (the primary sources), along with maps and key events from each place and time period.

Access to digitized maps from the Library of Congress.

Access to maps from research libraries around the world. You may search a place and a time period to find high-resolution maps.

Search the contents of millions of newspaper pages published in 19th and 20th century Britain. Only indexing is available. Full text articles must either be purchased by the user or requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Poet-soldier Siegfried Sassoon's journals and notebooks include vivid daily accounts of life at the front in World War I. From the Cambridge Digital Library.