Western Civilization

A gateway to thousands of the UK’s richest archives.

Documents range from 4000 BCE to the 21st century.

This British Library timeline allows you to explore chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses of everyday life, remnants of political events, and the writings of some of our best known historical and literary figures.

Brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources.

Learn about the 1994 discovery of Paleolithic cave paintings in France; take a virtual tour and view photographs of the paintings.

Millions of pages of historical newspapers scanned and made available online for the first time ever. Search articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant.

More than 600 primary documents via a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (CUNY), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities

A substantial collection of high quality primary sources & a set of multimedia interviews that make visible the processes by which historians transform events and sources into historical narratives.

This website has links to other primary source websites. It ranges from AMDOCS, EuroDocs, Medical Front WWI, Medieval Tournai, World War I Document Archive plus others.

Bringing the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly and user-friendly project for the widest possible range of readers and researchers.

Home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and to over 570 collections of personal papers and archives documenting the history of the Churchill era and after.

From Brigham Young University these links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated.

Basic information on how the EU works, the latest EU news and events, and links to EU information on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.

The Mediterranean has a living memory of peoples and cultures. It is this centuries-old heritage which Med-Mem is aiming to extend today, through the richly expressive means of the audiovisual media.

Gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

Enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.

30,000 items from the British Library's Collection.

The sources at this page represent a unique opportunity to view Tudor England through the eyes of its inhabitants. They are arranged in chronological order.

A collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust; part of Yale University's Department of Manuscripts and Archives.

The German Propaganda Archive includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th century by giving them access to the primary materials.

Reveals for the first time the original record of a remarkable and traumatic period in the life of David Livingstone, the celebrated British abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa.

This website is by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust.

At no time in history were JTA correspondents more needed than during the 12 long years of the Hitler regime. The JTA reported on the persecution and then the annihilation of Europe’s Jews, often providing the first, and sometimes the only, reports on the unfolding Holocaust.

This website allows you to search a wide body of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London, and to map the results on to a fully GIS compliant version of John Rocque's 1746 map.

A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.

A cooperative, open-access repository containing digitized collections related to Catalonia and its heritage. The DMC includes digital copies of photographs, drawings, maps, posters, pamphlets, incunabula and many other items.

The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the 12 trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

An archival laboratory located at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Its main focus is post-World War II Central and Eastern European history.

The UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history.

A visionof Britain between 1801 and 2001. Includes maps, statitical trends and historical descriptions.

An online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.

This site includes documents by year, diaries, personal reminiscences, conventions and treaties, photographs, etc. International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.

Presents the unique Aerofilms collection of aerial photographs from 1919-1953.

Brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain with a single federated search that allows sophisticated searching of names, places and dates, as well as the ability to save, connect and share resources within a personal workspace.

34 of the most significant manuscripts from the collections of Carolingian Emperors, the Aragonese kings of Naples and French King Charles V and his family are on display in our virtual exhibition.

Unrestricted access to Germany’s cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany.

Rich cultural archives of photographs, videos, and other documents representing a global selection of historic topics.

A wide range of collections that cover many subjects; this also includes 18 online exhibitions that provide a comprehensive look into American & World History.

These video interviews detail the reconstruction of significant social events which led to and influenced the development of the basic World War II German rocket program.