Find primary sources online and learn how to research history digitally.
Finding aids for textual and multimedia primary sources with a focus on the western hemisphere and the 19th and 20th centuries. Courses and learning tools to explore history digitally.
Collaborative research project exploring African ethnonyms, identity, and migration patterns in trans-Atlantic slavery.
National Library of South Africa's digital collections, including historical newspapers and special collections materials.
Portal for African Research Collections: PARC is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel.
A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.
The Asia Directories and Chronicles is a reference work for foreign traders in the Asian region, published annually by the Hong Kong Daily Press, annually between 1863 and 1941.
Discovery platform for South Asian historical and cultural materials held worldwide, with mixed hosting plus outward links.
Open-access collection of South Asian newspapers covering major regional and global events across multiple countries and languages.
Open-access collection of Southeast Asian newspapers documenting colonialism, decolonization, and early statehood across the region in multiple languages.
Austrian Newspapers online.
Online collection of the Salzburg Festival Archives.
Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.
Digitized collections from GLAM institutions across Austria.
The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history.
It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images.
European archives search engine.
European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.
A curated directory of online primary sources for European history, organized by country and period, with many items hosted by reputable institutions and using Dublin Core metadata.
Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.
Catalogue of more than 15'000 manuscripts (12th–20th century) in Icelandic, Old Norse, Danish and Latin (plus a few other languages) with more than 4'000 manuscripts digitally available.
Digitized maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic region (1545–1949).
Icelandic musical heritage collection (including recordings and sheet music), legends and fairytales.
Interactive historical maps.
Deeds from all over Europe.
A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.
Research platform for Finnish and Estonian runosong oral folk poetry with cross-lingual comparison and geographic analysis.
Digitized newspapers and magazines from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.
Digital library of the National Library of France.
INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.
German archives search engine.
Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.
South German Museum for History of Digital Development.
Over 12 million objects.
Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.
Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.
An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.
Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.
A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services.
Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg.
Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.
Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim.
Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German.
Collection of archival material and digitized journals in the field of history of education.
Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings).
SPIEGEL archive since 1947.
Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.
Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.
Historical German newspapers.
Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library.
Database with sources relating to VOC (Dutch East India Company) and WIC (Dutch West India Company).
Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.
Preserving information from early personal computer magazines.
Compiles individual biographies of enslaved and connected persons from the global slave trade using linked open data.
Forex rate history since 1953.
Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world.
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).
Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub.
Inventory of murals from all around the world, from the 19th century until today. Contains more than 13’000 records, with a focus on the 1920s to 1950s.
Maps, starting in the 17th century.
Search engine for libraries around the globe.
A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.
Central platform providing access to a wide range of research databases and content types including news, dissertations, ebooks, video, and journals.
Open access academic literature.
Interactive databases documenting the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trade, compiling records of over 47,000 voyages.
Image collection of photographs, prints, and drawings focusing on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, depicting life roughly 1850-1950.
Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions.
Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.
Collection of content and services that permit world historians to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.
Archive of radio and television broadcasting journals, industry-specific guides and professional directories.
Maps, manuscripts and sounds.
Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland.
Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.
A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.
London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.
Curated portal containing primary source documents, maps, and visual sources detailing the history of science and medicine in Latin America.
Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.
Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.
Browse and compare Dutch topographic maps (1815 until today).
U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.
America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963.
Archive of various magazines on gaming.
Historical maps collection.
Centralized database containing petitions, runaway slave advertisements, and county legislative records across the American South.
Discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world.
Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics.
A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items.
Reconstructs social networks of twentieth-century jazz communities using oral history transcripts and linked open data.
The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States.
Online collection of scanned maps.
An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.
WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.
Australia's national digital portal consolidating digitized historical press, manuscripts, and archive collections.
Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.
Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.
Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Archival search engine for Switzerland.
Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963).
Includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.
Bernese culture and history on the Internet.
Access to Switzerland's diplomatic records and foreign policy documentation.
Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland.
Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.
Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.
Swiss newspapers.
Swiss journals.
The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.
Encyclopedia on Swiss history.
Historical statistics of Switzerland online.
Historical newspaper collections of the Swiss National Library, the National Library of Luxembourg, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, the Valais State Archives and the Swiss Economic Archives.
Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.
A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.
Search engine for maps.
Database on built heritage in Switzerland and Liechtenstein based on and including the digitised book series of the same name.
Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.
Journey through time via maps of Switzerland.
Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.
Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798).
This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the Basel region.
The Foundation for Art, Culture, and History (SKKG) provides online access to its collection of approximately 100,000 objects, ranging from artworks to historical artifacts spanning from the Stone Age to the present.
A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.
Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives.
Swiss Natural History Collections portal providing open access to specimen data from natural history collections preserved in Switzerland.
The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years.
Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.
An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.
A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.
A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
A guide to understanding and critically evaluating AI tools and methods in historical research, covering practical applications, ethical considerations, and methodological approaches.
Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.
Zotero group with literature on digital source criticism and the handling of digitized historical sources.
Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.
Teaching and collaborative resources for digital history (University of Erfurt).
Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.
Zotero group with literature on historical network research and social network analysis in historical studies.
Toolkit designed to support students in their historical studies and research.
This guide, created in the fall semester of 2022, accompanies the introductory courses in history at the University of Basel and is intended to provide a first insight into the field of digital history.
A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities.
Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.
The Jupyter Book (in German language) is aimed at historians who are looking for a first application-oriented and interactive introduction to the Python programming language.
A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities.
Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.
Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.
An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.
A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.
Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.
A list of tools for research.
Tools and resources for scientific writing beyond LaTeX, including Markdown, reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.
Digital History Directory.