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Discovery holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download. Also includes research guides organized by topic.
AIM25 is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over one hundred higher education institutions, learned societies, cultural organisations and livery companies within the greater London area.
A digital archive made possible by the British Library; includes major (and minor) newspapers published in the UK since 1800. The project is ongoing and growing.
Enables you to search the collections of over 200 British institutions including universities and museums.
v. 1. Legal records, etc.
v. 2. State papers and departmental records.
v. 3. Documents transferred 1960-1966.
A useful introduction to the arrangement and contents of the current National Archives.
A very detailed description of the types of records produced.
The collections have been drawn from the private papers of politicians from all three major political parties, as well as from public servants (mainly diplomats), print and broadcast journalists, and others active in public life. In scale the collections range in size from over 2000 boxes to a single diary.
The Parliamentary Archives has custody of nearly 200 collections of private papers of politicians, pressure groups and Parliamentary officials, including some Speakers. All of these collections are catalogued on the online catalogue Portcullis, and also noted on the National Register of Archives, a searchable database of locations for private papers in archives and record offices across Britain.
Emphasizes members of the House of Commons and House of Lords, but includes papers (if located) of other political figures.
This guide will tell you how to find records of the Prime Minister's Office between 1916 and the early 1980s. The guide will also tell you where to look for private papers of British prime ministers going back to the 18th century.
This is a guide to records of the Cabinet held at The National Archives. It provides details of the changing ways in which the affairs and decisions of Cabinet have been recorded since 1915, and what you need to know to find these records either online or at The National Archives' site in Kew. If you are interested in why and how major decisions of the British Government have been made since the First World War, then this guide will prove useful.
A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 is the revised and expanded edition of a volume published by The Royal Historical Society in 1974. Up-to-date information on the papers of 323 ministers from the first edition is provided and its scope increased to include all Cabinet ministers until the resignation of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister in 1964. This Guide is a major research tool and a source of information on the personal papers of British Cabinet ministers.
This major reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. The book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politicians, writers, campaigners, diplomats and generals which cover the key aspects of British history since of the end of the Second World War.
v. 1. A guide to the archives of selected organisations and societies.
v. 2. A guide to the private papers of selected public servants.
v. 3. A guide to the private papers of members of Parliament: A-K.
v. 4. A guide to the private papers of members of Parliament: L-Z.
v. 5. A guide to the private papers of selected writers, intellectuals, and publicists.
An alphabetical list with links to all archives relating to business and economics in the UK.
The British Library's Economics collection is extensive and has particular strengths in English-language material about the economic conditions and history of particular countries; comparative studies; economic theory and research methods; and official publications and statistics. Most printed material is kept offsite and has to be ordered in advance of your visit; or ordered via our a Document Supply Service; but a selection of around 200 economics books and reports published in the last three years, and key economics journals published in the last 12 months, are available on the shelves in the London Social Sciences Reading Room.
Provides details of repositories and institutions that hold major collections relating to maritime history.
This site provides information about all the historic British and Irish banks that became part of RBS, including an overview of records relating to them. You can either search the site or browse our list alphabetically or geographically.
Most of the companies were registered in the 1870’s and 1880’s.
The object of this volume is to provide scholars undertaking research in the history of British economic thought with a systematic listing of the available sources of manuscript material. It is the first work of its kind, and is based on extensive search inquiry into the scattered public and private sources of personal papers and correspondence of British economists. Over one hundred and fifty listings are printed here. They include numerous lesser figures as well as the most distinguished contributors to the varied literature of economics in the period since 1700. The Guide should, therefore, be of interest not only to specialist historians of economics but also to those concerned with the wider role of economic ideas in political debate and the formation of public opinion.
Includes over 500 archive collections relating to modern British political, economic and social history and the history of the social sciences, dating mainly from the late 19th century onwards.
Free online archive of documents charting the development of Britain's railways.
IWM’s collections cover all aspects of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict involving Britain, the Commonwealth and other former empire countries. Created to record the toil and sacrifice of every individual affected by war, the collections include a wide range of material, from film and oral history to works of art, large objects, and personal letters and diaries.
This guide details the vast amount of material relating to the Second World War held in the Public Record Office, the Foreign Office and the armed services. It explains the wartime function of each department, as well as listing the minister responsible and the senior civil servants.
The official UK government records of the First World War, including a vast collection of letters, diaries, maps and photographs.
An essential guide for those interested in British and international military history. Takes the reader through the many collections from the English Civil War to World War II and beyond.
Lists the private papers of more than 800 churchmen and women.
Includes a lengthy directory of religious archives in the UK.
Includes the results from an extensive survey conducted by the National Archives across the UK in 2010.
This page lists UK Government archives relating to Faith and Religion, including information and policies on faith in public institutions and society.
*CLOSED until late 2015. With over 500,000 items, these collections include archives and original works that have shaped our understanding of the world, from Newton to Babbage to Einstein.
Includes papers and collections stretching from the Renaissance to the present. Also includes the archives of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and the Marconi archives.
Founded in the 1660s, the Royal Society remains one of the most important scientific bodies in the world. Their archives are vast!
Lists the private papers of 635 scientists, engineers, and technologists.
This reference book gives an overview of the broad political and administrative context within which economic planning evolved between 1943 and 1951 under the Labour Government. The records of the Cabinet and Cabinet committees are included and the Prime Minister's papers for the departments most closely associated with economic planning. The book has been arranged to help the reader to follow through a particular planning decision or to locate related material among the vast range of government records, and to this end a comprehensive index has been compiled.
Records of interest to social scientists, 1919 to 1939: employment and unemployment. by Great Britain. Public Record Office.
Publication Date: London, H.M.S.O., 1978.
Publication Date: London, HMSO, 1992.
Since Great Britain was involved, directly or indirectly, with most of the world at one time or another, many British sources are useful for histories of other countries, and this is a list of some of the sources available in Great Britain. It does not include the many sources related to the United States; there are so many of these guides, they deserve their own listing.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historical Collection is housed at King’s College, London, and consists of the collections of the Foreign and Commonwealth Library. It includes published and unpublished material relating to foreign countries from the 1600’s.
Private papers of British Colonial governors 1782-1900. by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
Lists the surviving papers of colonial governors and other senior Colonial Office officials.
The records of the Colonial and Dominions Offices. by Pugh, R. B.
Publication Date: London, H. M. S.O., 1964.
A detailed description of the arrangement of the records from 1660 to the early 20th century. Includes a list by country of the types of records available.
A guide to manuscripts and documents in the British Isles relating to Africa. by Matthews, Noel.
Publication Date: London, Oxford University Press, 1971.
Lists official and unofficial papers covering Africa south of the Sahara.
Materials for West African history in the archives of the United Kingdom. by Matthews, Noel.
Publication Date: London, Athlone Press, 1973.
Publication Date: London, Hans Zell Publishers, 1991.
Britain and Palestine, 1914-1948: archival sources for the history of the British Mandate. by Jones, A. Philip.
Publication Date: Oxford, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1979.
Publication Date: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1977.
The India Office Records document the activities of the English East India Company and the British administration in India, and this guide offers an unusual historical perspective on environmental science in the British Empire. The result of a three-year research project, Science and the Changing Environment in India, 1780–1920 makes a wealth of material from the records newly accessible—explaining their organization, providing the environmental and archival document contexts, and outlining the history of British scientific involvement in India during this rich and tumultuous period of cultural collision.
Publication Date: London, Oxford university press, 1926.
The Indian 'Mutiny' 1857-58 : a guide to source material in the India Office Library and Records by Seton, Rosemary E.
Publication Date: London, Oxford University Press [for] the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1973.
Many databases accessible to you at Columbia may provide access to varying quantities of materials held in British Archives. The databases singled out below are listed because they provide truly substantial levels of access.
Colonial America will be released in five modules, organized thematically. We currently have access to: Modules 1 and 2. New modules are scheduled for publication annually through 2019, at which point Colonial America will be complete. The complete database will consist of all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London, plus all extracted documents associated with them.
Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonial State Papers integrates two important research tools as one service: Collection CO 1 from The National Archives (full name: Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers); and Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739. All of the documents from CO 1 have been reproduced as full-colour, high quality images. Users can limit their searches to records that include scanned documents or can search all documents recorded in the Calendar.
Over 9 million records listed within the Discovery catalog are available for download. To identify and access these, begin by selecting "Available to download" option below the search box.

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