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History: British Empire
Periodicals and Newspapers
- British Periodicals CollectionNearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th century through to the early 21st
- British Library NewspapersMore than 160 newspaper titles reflecting the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Sourced from the British Library.
- Times (London) Digital ArchiveFull-text access to The Times (London) Digital Archive--1785-1985
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineEighteenth century collections online (ECCO) delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain and the Americas during the eighteenth century including books, pamphlets, and broadsides.
- The British Newspaper ArchiveThe British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years.
- Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020The archive contains almost every edition of The Economist published between 1843-2020.
Official Documents
- Hansard PapersHansard is a “substantially verbatim” report of what is said in Parliament.
- British History OnlineDigital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Included are the House of Commons Journal and House of Lords Journal
- legilsation.gov.ukOfficial statutes passed by the legislative bodies of the UK
- Statutes of the RealmStatutes from 1628-1701 (excluding 1629 to 1640 during which time Parliament was not summoned to sit)
Parliamentary Publications guides
- Parliamentary Papers in Google BooksMost Parliamentary Papers are freely available in Google Books
- Guide to British Government PublicationsAvailable in print at 015.41 R691g
- A Bibliography of Parlimentary Debates of Great BritainRequest from library storage annex
- Debates and Proceedings of the British Parliaments: A Guide to Printed Sources..Request from library storage annex
Primary source collections
- View a set of search results for books of primary sources for the British Empire in the library catalogUse Subject contains: sources OR correspondence OR diaries OR personal narratives OR letters OR bibliographies
- Archives of Empire: Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez CanalA rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa.
- Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for AfricaWhile focusing on the expansion of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the intense nineteenth-century contest among European nations over Africa’s land, people, and resources.
- The Victorian Web: British EmpireA scholarly archive of documents and history pertaining to the British Empire
- HathiTrustMassive archive of digitized materials from research libraries. Log-in for more full-text access.
- India Office Records and Papers Research GuideIndia Office records, books, photographs and more, from the British Library
- Great Britain: foreign policy and the span of empire, 1689-1971; a documentary history.Collection of primary source documents. Print book available on request from the OSU library annex.
