"An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000...

Comprehensive collection of statistics on the United Kingdom's economy, industry, society and demography...

British Documents on Foreign Affairs is a large bound volume series in the stacks -- please click "More" for details...

A comprehensive encyclopedia showing the history of Britain through the eyes of people from all levels of society...

A "digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period...

The Manuscripts Catalogue offers access to the holdings of the British Library Department of Manuscripts from 1753 to the present...

Digital news archive from the British Pathe Film Archive...

Contains more than 3600 entries "touching all aspects of British history: political, economic, social, military, people, events, and institutions...

This reference guide includes entries from British history from 55 BC to the present day, which cover the areas of politics, economics, society, the military, people, events, and institutions...

Contains more than 14,000 entries which give "the meaning and origin of place names in the British Isles, tracing their development from earliest times to the present day...

Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains full-text page images of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement...

A counterpart to EEBO: Early English Books Online, this partnership enables searchable versions of the books stored in page-image (non-searchable) form in Early English Books Online...

Searchable full text of the digital images of about 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800, comprising "in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas...

Links to valuable sites on 18th-century history with an emphasis on Great Britain...

Database of some 60,000 images of original manuscript and printed documents along with scholarly interpretive essays on empires (with emphasis on the British empire)...

Collections of Cabinet Office papers, files, proceedings, minutes, etc, from the British Public Record Office -- please consult list below for details...

Collections of Colonial Office papers, files, proceedings, minutes, etc, from the British Public Record Office -- please consult list below for details...

This series, in 138 volumes, includes the text of treaties, diplomatic correspondence, foreign constitutions and laws pertaining mainly to international relations but with some information on British internal affairs, such as budget...

Great Britain...

Collections of Foreign Office Papers, general political correspondence from the British Public Record Office -- please consult list below for details...

This set contains summaries and extracts of British manuscripts housed in private collections of over 200 corporate bodies such as cathedrals, parishes, and counties...

Verbatim report of debates in the British House of Commons from 1909 to the present...

Verbatim text of debates held in the British House of Commons during the years 1667 through 1694...

The Journal of the British House of Commons is the official permanent record of proceedings, not to be confused with the Hansard which is a verbatim report...

The British Sessional Papers are considered one of the richest and most important collection of printed government records...

Lists and indexes to collections of the Public Record Office and other public archives in Great Britain...

Full text access to some of the essential reference works in History, published by the Oxford University Press...

Offers entries on monarchs from all of the British Isles up to the present, and stretches back even to legendary periods...

Searchable full-text of documents from the highest level of the British government during the administration of Harold Macmillan, from 1957-1963...

"Explores the subject from its beginnings in Roman times to the present day...