Library Subject Guides: History: Web Resources
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General resources
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History Lab (Institute of Historical Research)
A current awareness network for postgraduate students and new researchers in history and related disciplines. Membership is free for postgraduate students -
History Online (Institute of Historical Research)
Includes details of lecturers, digital history projects, new books and journals, and current and past research ( theses ). Users can cross-search or browse all the above categories. -
Historiography of world history
Provides access to a variety of different types of material relating to historiography, mainly concentrating on collecting debates from e-mail lists, but also has press reports, bibliographies and essays written by the creator of the website -
Making sense of oral history
An interactive guide from the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (City University, New York) that explains how to use oral history interviews -
Political discourse: theories of colonialism and postcolonialism
Part of a larger web site dealing with English postcolonial and post-imperial literature. This is a useful reference guide for those studying post colonialism and imperial history. -
Reviews in History (Institute of Historical Research)
Searchable collection of book reviews on recent publications in all fields of history by academics or specialists in the field. Links to book reviews in other digital media. -
World Wide Web Virtual Library (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
Portal to websites, document collections and other information sources on Asia, Africa -
Photorientalist
Showcases 19th and early 20th century photography from across the Middle East and North Africa in a selection of themed "exhibitions" - includes glass lantern slides, stereo-views, postcards and other photographic formats, and the RetroFocus blog on related themes
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History Lab (Institute of Historical Research)
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Media resources
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Centre for South Asian Studies : film collection (University of Cambridge)
Database and archive of mainly amateur films from India in the last decades of British rule (1920s to 1940s), including Partition and its aftermath. The films can be viewed online -
Centre for South Asian Studies: audio collection (University of Cambridge)
Searchable database of digital audio recordings of interviews to complement the film collection. The interviews are in mainly in English, with some recordings in Hindi, Urdu etc. -
Colonial film: moving images of the British Empire
Database and archive of some 6,000 films illustrating life in Britain’s colonies, dating from the 1890s to the later years of the 20th century. Over 150 films are available to view online.
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Centre for South Asian Studies : film collection (University of Cambridge)
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Open-access publications / digitised texts
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AWOL (Ancient World Online)
Directory to open-access historical texts on the Ancient World: includes late antiquity, Byzantium, early Church history, Syriac and Coptic studies, history of medicine. -
E-Corpus
Collection of digitized documents and rare books from a French archival consortium. Browse the collection for French interests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Includes “Virtual library on ancient and modern Egypt” -
Internet History Sourcebooks (Fordham University, New York)
Directory to open-access historical texts on a range of subjects and regions: including African, East Asian, Indian, Jewish, Islamic, Lesbian / Gay, History of Science and Women’s History. -
Medical history of British India (National Library of Scotland, India Papers collection)
44 digitised documents looking at public health measures, the effects of epidemic / endemic disease and efforts at disease prevention in India between 1868 and 1920. -
SOAS Research Online
Open access e-print repository of academic publications (articles, book chapters, theses etc.) by SOAS staff and students. Content dates mainly from the 1990s, though the earliest items are from 1959. -
World War I Centenary Archive
A selection of 100 core British government documents charting the progress of the First World War in Europe and beyond. Includes material on the war in the Near East / Mesopotamia and the Gallipoli Campaign, relations with the Ottoman Empire and the role of imperial troops in the conflict.
Documents can be freely downloaded as PDFs
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AWOL (Ancient World Online)
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Organizations
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British Museum
Showcases the world’s cultural and artistic heritage from pre-history to artefacts of the 21st century. View detailed bibliographic records and photographs of thousands of items from the collection. -
International Association for Media and History
Set up by broadcasters, filmmakers, archivists and scholars to encourage scholarly research into the relationship between history and all forms of the media -
Royal Historical Society (London)
The RHS was founded in 1868. The website gives access to their reports and bibliographies and information on publications and grants -
Wellcome Library
The collection comprises books, archives, manuscripts and photographs documenting the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day -
Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Founded in 1933, the Library holds extensive archives on the Holocaust and Nazi era including press-cuttings, photographs and eye-witness testimonies. It also collects on anti-Semitism and on other genocides such those in Rwanda and Armenia -
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Museum’s website looks at the Holocaust in all its ramifications. Of interest to researchers into genocide studies, Jewish history, social history and 20th century European history. -
Victoria and Albert Museum
Art and design museum with strong collections on the artwork of South Asia, Japan and the Islamic Middle East and their historical and cultural context.
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British Museum
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Theses
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DART-Europe
Portal to over 300,000 open-access theses from over 430 universities in 24 European countries -
Digital Islam Theses
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JISC-funded project giving access to over 900 UK PhD theses on Islamic studies via ETHOS. Search for "JISC Digital Islam" to browse the collection. Registration with ETHOS is required (free) -
History Online : Theses
Part of the Institute of Historical Research’s History Online. Browse or search the database for details of U.K. PhD and Research Masters theses completed since 1970, and for research in progress. -
SOAS Research Online: Theses
Selection of SOAS PhD theses (mostly from 2011 onward). Very recent theses may not be available electronically -
Theses Canada
Portal to free full-text access to Canadian theses completed between 1998 and 2002. In English and French.
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DART-Europe