History: Europe

Selected resources by country and era.

Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research.

Your single access point to films, images and texts from selected collections of 40 film archives across Europe.

The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.

Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of new features and today offers access to several million documents.

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 twentieth century by giving them access to the primary material.

Rijk Museum of the Netherlands has posted high quality photos of hundreds of thousands of objects in their collections.

The British Library’s collection includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound.

CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, brings the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture for the use and benefit of everyone worldwide. It has a searchable online textbase consisting of over 19 million words, in 1638 contemporary and historical documents from many areas, including literature, medicine, and the other arts.

Discover almost a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.

The Digital Repository of Ireland is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. You can browse and search across multiple collections from some of the finest Irish institutions.

Search the National Library of Ireland’s collections of journals, magazines, and government publications, manuscripts catalogued since 1990, prints and drawings, ephemera, and 34,000 digitized glass plate images. Be sure to click “Show digitized items only” to limit your results to online materials.