Research Guides: HSTY 3340, HIST 5389: British Empire: Primary Sources: 19th-Century

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Kristina Claunch

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Nineteenth Century: Primary Sources

The Prime Ministers' Papers, 1801-1902
Call Number: CD1064.B7, 4th floor
Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902)
Call Number: DA530.T4 1966, 4th floor
Women in Public: Documents of the Victorian Women's Movement, 1850-1900
Call Number: HQ1593.W572, 4th floor
The Chamberlain Litany: Letters Within a Governing Family from Empire to Appeasement
Call Number: DA565 .C43 M37 2010, 4th floor
The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, Secretary to the Admiralty, 1809 to 1830
Call Number: DA536.C94A4 1884 vol. 1-3, 4th floor
The Croker Papers, 1808-1857 (selected)
Call Number: DA536.C94A4 1967, 4th floor
The Gladstone Diaries (1825-1868) [Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone]
Call Number: DA563.A34 vol. 1-6, 4th floor
The Clarendon Papers, 1867-1870
Call Number: Microfilm: DA565.C75 C55, 1st floor
The Observer of the Nineteenth Century, 1791-1901
Call Number: DA530 .O2, 4th floor
The English Reform Tradition, 1790-1910
Call Number: DA530.J32, 4th floor

Library Databases of Primary Sources

The Times Digital Archive, 1785 to 2014
Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
British Periodicals I & II
JSTOR
JSTOR 19th Century British Pamphlets
Nineteenth (19th) Century Collections Online
Monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other documents in both Western and non-Western languages. Primary collection themes are:
- Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
- British Politics and Society
- British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
- European Literature 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection

Primary Source Collections on the Web

British History Online
Contains core primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, 11th - 19th centuries. (Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust)
Connected Histories
Brings together a range of digital resources related to early modern and nineteenth century Britain, 1500-1900.
EuroDocs: Primary Sources in U.K. History, 1816-1918
Explore England's Past (Institute of Historical Research)
Thematically organized photographs, paintings, drawings, maps, text, transcribed documents and audio files documenting the history of various counties in England. (Note: Also contains secondary-source text/descriptions.) (Victoria County History, English Heritage, Institute of Historical Research, et. al.)
Georgian Papers Online: Documents from the Reigns of King George III to King William IV
(Royal Collection Trust, UK)
HistPop: Online Historical Population Reports
Complete population reports for Britain and Ireland, 1801-1937 (200,000 pages of census & registration, plus National Archives documents, critical essays, transcriptions of legislation, etc.). Textual and statistical material covers economy, birth, death, marriage, and medicine in 19th and 20th centuries. (Univ. of Essex)
Nineteenth Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
Free, online edition of six 19th-century periodicals and newspapers.
Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674-1913
"A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court." (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
A Vision of Britain through Time
A collection of statistics, historical maps, census reports, and historical travel writing from Britain, 1801-2001. (Univ. of Portsmouth)

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