History: Britain and Ireland

Includes some memoirs and manuscripts. Coverage extends to many regions outside Britain and Ireland.

Documents and printed publications from 1492-1969 relating to Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia.

Letters from 18th century writers, thinkers, scientists and politicians and their families, friends, bankers, booksellers, patrons and publishers.

Documents and photographs from the Imperial War Museum's Women's Work Collection.

Primary sources for British social history, 1937-1972, from the Mass-Observation Archive documenting public opinion, living conditions, and the events of daily life.

Books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London.

Printed ephemera from everyday life in Britain in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries selected from the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library.

Primary source material on popular entertainment in late 18th and 19th century Britain and America.

Primary sources on popular culture, student protest, and civil rights in Britain and North America from 1950-1975.

Each issue of the British Daily Mail from its inception in 1896 to the end of 2004.

Facsimile version of The Economist.

Facsimile of an iconic illustrated newspaper.

The British Listener from its inception in 1929 to the last issue, published in January 1991.

The Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957.

The British Sunday Times from the first issue to the end of 2006.

British newspapers published between 1732 and 1950.

Rare journals printed between 1685-1835, illuminating all aspects of 18th century social, political and literary life.

Periodicals published between 1800 and 1900 in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa.

British parliamentary papers 1660-2015.

British government documents from 1509-1782.

Primary source documents from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on British diplomacy during the 20th century.

Scholarly edition and translation of the rolls of parliament, the official records of the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I to Henry VII (1272-1504).

History of the British Isles, the Empire and Commonwealth.