Find Primary Sources Online

A digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, with a primary focus on the period between 1300 and 1800.

Printed version of state documents covering the reigns of four early modern British monarchs.

Searchable database of digitized broadsides from 1707 to 1891. These were printed sheets sold to the public at a penny apiece, relating news of crime and punishment.

From the 9th-century to the present.

An open-access database that allows the searching of 3.35 million names found in archival manuscripts.

Digitized documents on British life and governance.

An online record of executions carried out at Newgate Prison during the 18th and 19th centuries, with an account of the related crimes.

Trials, verdicts, and punishments from London's most famous court. Search keyword "bread" and specify a data span (January 1816-December 1817, for instance).

Digitized 17th century English broadside ballads with transcriptions and metadata.