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History: British Empire
Periodicals and Newspapers
- British Periodicals CollectionWith the mix of popular titles and over 450 journals, British Periodicals cover the reactions and thoughts on past British conflicts and social topics from the 1700s to today.
- British Library Newspapers Part 1: 1800-1900The British Library Newspapers deliver a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices that reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. These newspapers emerged as a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, providing a unique first-hand experience of history with over 160 newspaper titles and 5.5 million pages spanning from articles to advertisements.
- Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-2014A full-text collection of the daily published The (London) Times from 1785 to 2014.
- Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineA fully text-searchable body of over 220,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides in all subjects, printed between 1701 and 1900.
- Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineThis collection is an extensive digital archive of primary source material from the nineteenth century, including books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, state papers, maps, and other ephemera. It covers the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa.
- 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 ArchivesThe Parliamentary Archives is the official archive of the House of Commons and House of Lords (UK Parliament).
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
- HathiTrustA searchable library with over 17 million books, documents, and serial publications with more than 7 millions full-text works.
- 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.
