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British and Irish Studies 

Last update: Nov 19th, 2009 URL: http://guides.library.duke.edu/british  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Online (Duke users only)

  •  Primary Sources Database List
    Complete list of online primary sources (Duke users only.)
  • The Times Digital Archive
    Search The Times (London) from 1785-1985 in full-text; provides facsimile reproductions of full pages or specific articles.  HINT: search in full-text rather than keyword to get the best retrieval.
  • Guardian and The Observer
    The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003) provide online access to facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about the most significant and fascinating political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment
  • Annual Register
    The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758.
  • British History Online
    digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
  • Colonial State Papers  
     provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries..
  •  Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    Describes English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801, including books, lists, advertisements, rules, songs, election propaganda, and other ephemeral items. Contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473 to 1800. 
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  • Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 are included.
  • British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
    Contains approximately 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries written from the 1500s to 1900s, plus several thousand pages of previously unpublished materials.
  • Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1275-1504
    Provides fulltext access to the Rolls of Parliament (Rotuli Parliamentorum), with full translations
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
    Full text of the Sessional Papers from 1801 to the present.
  • Periodicals Index Online
    Indexes periodicals from their first issues to 1995.   Now contains hundreds of full-text periodicals.
  • Eighteenth Century Journals II
    Journals from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals
  • Empire Online
    Full-text database containing primary source documents about the British Empire.
  • 19th Century British Pamphlets
    Collection of over 20,000 digitised significant British pamphlets created by Research Libraries UK. Provides primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain.
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire
    Complete runs of 91 periodicals. Sourced from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Australia, the collection contains periodicals from Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zealand and South Africa.
  • India, Raj and Empire
    provides documents from the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland pertaining to the History of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India
 

Finding Primary Sources in the Catalog

Parish registers: Look in online catalog under:
REGISTERS OF BIRTHS, ETC. -- COUNTY, ENGLAND

Local record society publications: in catalog under:
COUNTY NAME, ENGLAND--HISTORY (e.g., Essex, England--History)

Primary sources:
Use SOURCES as sub-heading, eg:
Great Britain -- History – Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Sources
Diaries:
Use DIARIES as a sub-heading or keyword (or see Matthews, British Diaries, in Reference)

Other useful keywords:  Papers, correspondence, biography, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps,
 
 

Reprints in the Library

Record Society Publications: See online catalog
Indexed in RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History

English Historical Documents.
  Perkins/Bostock Library | Stacks  | DA26 .E555 1953 

Calendars of State Papers Domestic and Foreign: Check the online catalog also full text at British History Online.

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print
  JZ632.B747  (see online catalog for details.)

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Documents on British foreign policy, 1919-1939. London, H.M. Stationery Off., 1946-1985
 
DA566.7 .A18 1946

Documents on British policy overseas DA588 .D63 1984

 
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