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The digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain, from the Middle Ages to c.1900.
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Parliamentary records
- National government records
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Mixed (80% free and 20% subscription)
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The collection provides searchable access to almost 100,000 images, relating to early modern and 19th-century Britain.
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The most comprehensive digital historic British newspaper archive in existence, with 3 million pages of historic newspapers, newsbooks and ephemera from national and regional papers.
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- Newspapers
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Subscription
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Cause papers relating to disputes over matrimony, defamation, tithes, probate, breach of faith by the clergy, and church rights heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York.
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The online archive provides access to guides, digitised images and maps from the Booth archive collections at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of London Library.
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A database containing details of the careers of more than 130,000 clergymen of the Church of England between 1540 and 1835, from over 50 archives in England and Wales.
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Information on more than 123,000 of the 160,000 convicts transported to Australia between 1787 and 1867 included in the Convict Transportation Registers Series (HO 11) held in The National Archives of the UK.
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- National government records
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A resource providing details and high-quality images of several hundred literary illustrations published in or around 1862
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Comprehensive accounts of parliamentary politics in England, then Britain, from the thirteenth century
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The Parliamentary Papers gives access to page images and searchable full text for over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers and supplementary information from 1688 onwards.
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Parliamentary records
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Subscription
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Free to UK HE
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John Foxe's The Acts and Monuments Online contains all four editions of Foxe's martyrology and ecclesiastical history which were published between 1563 and 1583.
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- Books, pamphlets and printed ephemera
- Free
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The collection provides access to more than 67,000 scanned items from the Bodleian Library's holdings documenting various aspects of everyday life in Britain from the 18th to the early 20th century.
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Books, pamphlets and printed ephemera
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Free to UK HE
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This is a full-text electronic version of John Strype's enormous two-volume survey of 1720, complete with its celebrated maps and plates, which depict the prominent buildings, street plans and ward boundaries of the late Stuart capital.
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- Local records
- Books, pamphlets and printed ephemera
- Maps/Images
- Free
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An electronic version of Lane's listing of the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges from 1717 to 1894
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London Lives provides a fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscript pages from eight London archives and 15 datasets, giving access to 3.5 million names.
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The most significant British pamphlets from the 19th-century held in UK research libraries.
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- Books, pamphlets and printed ephemera
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Free to UK HE
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Origins.net offers online access to some of the richest ancestral information available. The collection searchable through Connected Histories focuses on the early modern history of London.
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Local records
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Subscription
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A searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century periodicals
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The Old Bailey Online contains accounts of the trials conducted at London's central criminal court between 1674 and 1913; and also the Ordinary's Accounts - detailed narratives of the lives and deaths of convicts executed at Tyburn, published between 1676 and 1772.
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Local records
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Free
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Newly transcribed manuscripts from the vast collection written and composed by the philosopher and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham.
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The greatest publishing project in English local history.
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Witchcraft narratives from early modern England.
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- Books, pamphlets and printed ephemera
- Free
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