LibGuides: Primary Sources: World History

World History

Documents of the United Nations
Includes the UN Charter, International Declaration of Human Rights, etc
First World War
Documents and Recordings. Multimedia history of WWI.
Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons.
World History Sources - Africa
Includes the G. I. Jones, Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
George Mason University
This site consists of approximately 350 photographs of artwork from the Igbo-speaking regions of southeastern Nigeria.
World War I document archive
Document collection from Brigham Young University.
World War II Resources
From ibiblio.org, a collaboration of the School of Information and Library Science and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

European History

Charles Booth Online Archive
Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903)

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The Charles Booth Online Archive is a searchable resource giving access to archive material from the Booth collections of the Archives Division of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE Archives) and the Senate House Library.The Booth collection at LSE Archives contains the original records from Booth's survey into life and labour in London, dating from 1886 to 1903. The archives of the Senate House Library contain Booth family papers from 1799 to 1967.
The Cold War International History Project
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world
The Diary of Henry Machyn - Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550-1563)
Elizabethan Costume
Includes description and recipe for dyes used in the 16th century
EuroDocs - Primary Documents
Includes Bosnia, Norway, Croatia, etc
History of Germany - Primary Documents
German documents from Antiquity to the present
History of the United Kingdom - Primary Documents
British documents from Antiquity to the present
Legislation.gov.uk
Legislation of the United Kingdom, 1267-present
London Lives 1690 to 1800 - Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the metropolis
London Life in the Eighteenth Century. What was it like to live in the world's first million person city? Crime, poverty, and illness; apprenticeship, work, politics and money; how people voted, lived and died; all this and more can be found in these documents.
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
These two short chronicles, from British Library MSS Harley 540 and 530, cover between them the reigns of Henry VIII (part), Edward VI, Mary and the early part of that of Elizabeth I.
The Workhouse - www.workhouses.org.uk
The Workhouse often evokes the grim Victorian world of Oliver Twist, but its story is a fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture. This site, www.workhouses.org.uk, is dedicated to the workhouse — its buildings, inmates, staff and administrators, even its poets...
The World of Mary, Queen of Scots
Includes her letters and portraits