Newspapers and pamphlets mostly published in London; some from provincial England, Ireland, Europe, American colonies, and India included.

Scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes.

Sources for the history of the British Isles from the 11th to the 19th centuries. Includes histories of the countries of England, letters, diaries.

Local and regional newspapers published in the 18th to the mid-20th century.

Full text access to periodicals from the 1860s to the 1930s covering history, philosophy, science, and the arts.

Documents gathered by William and Robert Cecil, who occupied some of the highest offices of state covering the period 1520-1612.

Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.

Images of original manuscripts and printed material from 1492. Includes thematic essays covering such topics as cultural contacts, trade, religion, race and colonialism.

Over 5,500 indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.

Page images of over 100,000 early English court cases that laid the foundation for the laws of nations under the British Empire and elsewhere.

The entire run of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper reproduced in full colour.

Weekly publication established by the BBC discussing radio, television and musical programmes.

Particularly focused on plebeian Londoners. Manuscripts and printed pages from eight London archives and fifteen datasets.

Digital images of legal treaties on US and British law published between 1800 and 1926.

Material from the Mass Observation Archive providing insights into the cultural and social history of Britain from 1937 to 1967.

State papers, chronicles, accounts, and correspondence from the archives of Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe.

Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles. Also biographical and bibliographical resources and contextual essays.

Post-war British and American popular culture. Includes manuscript sources, visual ,material, and video clips. Covers topics such as student activism and civil rights.

Original manuscripts, rare printed material, and contextual essays on trans-Atlantic slavery, slave resistance and revolts, slave testimony, abolitionism, etc.

Papers of the Secretaries of State; correspondence, reports from civil servants and administrators. Reveals information on social, religious, political, and economic affairs. Includes the Calendars which summarise the documents.

Digital edition of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985.

Bills, House Papers, Command papers and Select Committee Records covering 1688-2010. Full text and subject indexing.

Popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe from the late 18th century until the 1930s. Biographies, reports, posters, photographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, and memorabilia.

Records of the Virginia Company of London and Ferrar papers. Covers trade between Britain and America, and religious and social history of early modern England.

Finding Aid to Women's Studies resources in the National Archives (Kew) c 1559-1995. Includes original documents on the suffrage question in Britain and the Empire 1903-1962.