Source books

Source books typically contain collections of facsimiles or transcriptions of original documents on specific topics. You can often find relevant source books by searching the Library catalogue by keyword. Use keywords such as England history source* or England politics source*. Change country name as appropriate.

Sources in General

Online Medieval Sources Bibliography
A bibliography of printed editions of medieval source materials. Some of the publications are available online.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
Digitised versions of primary sources for European history, from antiquity to the modern era.

Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900
A federated search engine for a range of online sources for British history. Among the collections included are a number of subscription databases, and the UQ Library subscribes to some of these.

Documents on British Policy Overseas: Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (online)

An increasing amount of archival material is becoming available online. The UQ Library has purchased some important digital archival collections from Adam Matthew Publications.

British Politics and Society
This is an online archive of source material, mostly from the 19th century.

Newspapers

The Times (London)
Available online from 1785 onwards.

The Guardian (Manchester, later London)
Available online from 1821 onwards.

Gale News Vault
A database of British newspapers from the 17th century onwards.

To find digitised historical newspapers from other countries, check the ICON website.

From the 1990s onward, newspapers from many countries are available on the Factiva database.

Translated newspaper articles and radio broadcasts from the period 1941 to 1996 are included in the Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reports.

Government Publications

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (United Kingdom) (online)
From 1688 onwards. Includes the papers presented to the UK parliament (including the Command Papers), and also the parliamentary debates (Hansard).

Books

Early English Books Online
Digitised versions of books published in English from 1473 to 1700.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Digitised versions of books published in English from 1701 to 1800.

Making of the Modern World
Digitised versions of books reflecting the economic development of Europe and the world from 1450 to 1914.

Magazines

Eighteenth Century Journals (online)

Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (online)

British Periodicals (online)