Summary of bookmarked websites for Historians (mid-April update)

Here is latest summary of recently bookmarked websites. There is something for everyone: federated searches across early modern & modern British sources, a Spanish digital library, Irish sources online, German historical newspapers, etc. See our Delicious pages for a total 499 bookmarked websites. Look out for our 500th addition soon!

Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900

Connected Histories 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.
Note: you can only access subscribed content if the institution you are affiliated with has a subscription. Oxford readers should check OxLIP+. Check also Connected Histories blog post.

Colecciones de la Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (Biblioteca Nacional de España)

The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BDH), the Spanish Digital Library, is an online resource of the National Library of Spain. The BDH currently offers online access to books, manuscripts, drawings, prints, brochures, posters, photographs, maps and atlases, as well as journals and newspapers, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

The BDH can be searched by title, author, material, collection and description through the search page. A full text search is available too.

Monasterium.Net

The archives of central Europe document the political, economic, and cultural development of the region from back to the Middle Ages. Monasterium.net collects many of these historical documents as digital copies for free access. In the virtual archive, you can access a content of more than 200,000 primary sources from more than 50 European archives.

digiPress (Digitalisierte Zeitungen Bayerns)

A portal giving access to digitised Bavarian newspapers, incl. Sudetendeutsche Zeitung, Neue Fränkische Zeitung, Münchener Stadtanzeiger, and others. Coverage is still sparse but will be improved over time.

Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration (DIPPAM)

DIPPAM is an online virtual archive of documents and sources relating to the history of Ireland and its migration experience from the 18C to late 20C. Includes Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland, Irish Emigration Database and Voices of Migration and return:

EPPI is a database of 15,000 official publications relating to all aspects of Irish affairs during the period of the Union, including bills, reports, commisions of inquiry, and the published census reports. It is a rich source for the social history of Ireland, as well as for statistics relating to population, emigration and other subjects.

The IED is a virtual library of 33K+ emigration-related primary sources, principally letters to and from emigrants. It covers a wide time period, but with a concentration on the period between c.1780 and c.1920.

VMR comprises over 90 life-narrative interviews conducted with returned and non-returned migrants from Ulster.

DHO: Discovery [of Irish digital collections]

DHO:Discovery is a gateway to Irish digital collections and resources, information and knowledge. Discovery supports the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional sharing of knowledge throughout the HSIS (Humanities Serving Irish Society) consortium and digital research collections of Irish interest. Covers all periods.

 

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