HIST 3480 - Melton

Run by Brigham Young University's Harold B. Lee Library and includes links to primary documents from European history.

Hosted by Fordham, this website links and hosts primary sources for Modern world history. Specific, helpful categories include Romanticism, Liberalism, Nationalism, the Industrial Revolution, 1848, 19C France, 19C Britain, 19C Italy, and 19C Germany.

"Primary and secondary texts (including scholarly book reviews) in British Victorian economics, literature, philosophy, political and social history, science, technology, and visual arts (painting, architecture, sculpture, book design and illustration, photography, decorative arts, including ceramics, furniture, jewelry, metalwork, stained glass, and textiles, costume and various movements, such as Art Nouveau, Japonisme, and Arts and Crafts)."

You can access full text versions of the Punch satirical magazine, featuring political cartoons, through this web list. (1841-1925)

In French. Scans of the French satirical magazine. (1832-1902)

Offers scans of a wide variety of o public domain books in a wide variety of languages. Some example include: 19th century cookbooks, behavior manuals, history textbooks. Can be searched by format and year.

The Wellcome Museum's collection "contains an array of topics relating to health and the human experience in many forms, from recently published books to historical manuscripts and objects." Can be search by 'Available Online' and by year, once you have a topic.

Digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries. There's the Hansard text itself by volume, Lords sittings, Commons sittings and Westminster Hall sittings as well as Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports and Grand Committee reports. This site also includes extracted lists of People who are recorded as having spoken, Constituencies, Offices, Acts, Bills and Divisions.

Scans and translations of articles from Neue Rheinische Zeitung (New Rhenish Newspaper: Organ of Democracy) by Marx and Engels. Great primary sources for the 1848 revolutions.

Explore the British Library's digital collection of maps, images, digitized manuscripts, texts, etc.

Guides linking to their digitized collections of resources.

This link takes you to a subset of the Met's online collection featuring only 19th Century European art. You can also browse by a specific country or material.

The British Museum's online collections contain many non-textual, primary sources.

The online collection for the Louvre, with a search focused on 1800-1900. You can restrict this search by country or material.

IMSLP hosts an enormous number of out of copyright music scores. This link takes you to Romantic Era composers. Some composers to keep in mind: Bellini, Rossini, Chopin, Berlioz, Puccini, Wagner.