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Jul 15, 2021 103 tweets 61 min read Read on X
Thanks to everyone for sharing your favourite open access digital archives. I thought I'd begin to collate your responses here in a thread to make it easier to (re)share. I'll have to do several threads cos you've all suggested so much! So stay tuned for more! #twitterstorians
For anyone interested in French criminal justice history you obviously cannot go past the amazing free archival resource of @Criminocorpus.
The archive of the Dutch East India Company, digitised by the Indonesian National Archive (@ArsipNasionalRI
) in collaboration with the Corts Foundation in the Netherlands sejarah-nusantara.anri.go.id/archive/ Thanks @infiniteteeth
Check out the (mainly French) list of freely available online materials here docs.google.com/document/d/1tq… Thanks @parolesdhist
Lots of digitised material available through Tasmanian Archives – Names Index is an easy entry point libraries.tas.gov.au/how-to/Pages/N… Thanks @baibi
The @AmHistReview
publishes lists of digital primary resources academic.oup.com/ahr/search-res… Thanks @hn_malcolm
welshlegalhistory.org: archival sources in "research Resources" section, including my searchable database of Carmarthenshire Felons 1844-71. National Library of Wales has database of materials from Great Sessions Records crimeandpunishment.library.wales/index_s.htm and more! Thanks @WelshRaffles
UCL's Bentham Papers collection ucl.ac.uk/library/digita… Thanks @TimCauser
The @MediciArchivePr
is digitizing, transcribing in part, and otherwise making accessible and searchable the archive of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany. Thanks @renhistorian
Trinity College Dublin library's digital collections: digitalcollections.tcd.ie.
1641 depositions (witness testimonies of the rebellion): 1641.tcd.ie
Beyond 2022 (reconstructing lost PRO archives): beyond2022.ie Thanks @david_briscoe
also UCC's incredible CELT site, Ireland's original digital humanities project: celt.ucc.ie
Also Caen's digital collection of the writings of the Abbé Saint-Pierre is great: unicaen.fr/puc/sources/ca… Thanks again @david_briscoe
North American Slave Narratives docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ Thanks @kfullagar
Getty Open Content Program has lots of high-quality visual materials including paintings, photographs, engravings etc. getty.edu/about/whatwedo… Thanks @JarrodHore
Accessible Archives accessible-archives.com Thanks @sarahmpicks
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
ina.fr Thanks @CESCritEuro
Great War Primary Document Archive, gwpda.org Thanks @MartyOlliff
Endangered Archives Programme Thanks @PhilipGAbraham
National Security Archive nsarchive.gwu.edu also Garant has a great cache of Russian legal documents including Presidental decrees and the Constitutions constitution.garant.ru/history/active/ Thanks @jeff_hawn
for German language history: anno.onb.ac.at (Austrian newspapers online) might be the best newspaper database anywhere) ; literature.at (same, but periodicals etc). Thanks @BenM_Anderson
The @UniWestArc
China Visual Arts Project has 800+ Chinese propaganda posters dating from 1940-1990, all digitalised and accessible to all in English and Chinese here: westminster-atom.arkivum.net/index.php/cpc Thanks @CCCblogUoW
Useful booklet developed by @dri_ireland
which indicates some of the digital resources available in the Digital Repository of Ireland, its member institutions and other online databases. Thanks @thekickart
The Jagellonian Digital Library has some manuscript material (as well as newspapers and other matter): jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra and University of Southampton has digitised some of its collections: southampton.ac.uk/archives/virtu… Thanks @ArchivalDaze
The UN Digital Library has a huge number of digitized sources that cover the work of the UN. digitallibrary.un.org/?ln=en Thanks @nickjohnferns
Australian Commonwealth Government records. naa.gov.au Thanks @KCMartinStone
sudanarchive.net has wonderful treasures of primary on Sudan, South Sudan and east Africa. Thanks @YSholeye
The British North America Legislative Database (and also Atlanticdigitalscholarship.ca has a bunch of others listed under the ‘resource’ tab). Thanks @richrray
A history of science archive: digitization of psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung's library on alchemy e-rara.ch/alch/nav/class… Thanks @julianorobertrj
Chinese Text Project is a great archive of pre-modern Chinese sources. Thanks @GoMoggle
The Online Archive of California is a great way of finding archival materials (lots digitized) from throughout California oac.cdlib.org. Thanks @the_other_kim
Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence Russian Federation - Pamyat Naroda - Memory of the People - Online resource of 6 million records from the USSR during the Second World War pamyat-naroda.ru. Thanks @HGWDavie
The Irish Schools Folklore Collection written by children in the 1930s. Thanks @cgsloan
@EUI_History put together a collection of websites that have primary sources for European history primary-sources.eui.eu. Thanks @benni_tweets
Wellcome Archive for medical history: wellcomecollection.org/works
The Old Bailey online for crime history in UK:
oldbaileyonline.org
Victorian social history:
victorianlondon.org
Thanks @AmyMilneSmith
The austrian national library has digitized all the austrian newspapers from 1568 till 1950
anno.onb.ac.at. Thanks @DBasaldella
@tempopedia_org lists a few under tempopedia.org/category:colle…, especially aggregators like omnia.ie, mexicana.cultura.gob.mx, onlineprimarysources.cercec.fr and global.museum-digital.org. Their aim is to turn create a crowdsourced database or wiki.
History of Sarawak
The Brooke Trust Digital Archive brooketrust.org/digital-archiv…
Sarawak Gazette under the Sarawak State Library pustaka-sarawak.com/gazette/home.p… Thanks @killthebinary2
The @RoyalHistSoc teaching portal has several thematic links for free online resources and databases blog.royalhistsoc.org/teaching-porta… Thanks @EilishGregory
@ausdataarchive has a wide range of open access data relevant to historians. This includes the Prosecution Project + some data from @SOCEY2 repository. Also lots of data accessible by signing up and giving your credentials. Not fully open but easily obtained. Thanks @SOCEY2
Constantly expanding service of the Polish archival authority with a detailed directory & myriads of scans documenting all aspects of Eastern European history: szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl. Thanks @Tomasz_Hen
Audiovisual archive of the International Committee of the Red Cross. There is a lot of material, especially for those interested in internment history. avarchives.icrc.org. Thanks @amassarius
Trove (Australia): trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/?q=
Online Finding Aid (Arkib Malaysia): ofa.arkib.gov.my/portal/index.p…
Monash Collections Online (Sin Po and Star Weekly): repository.monash.edu/items/browse?t… Thanks @tacbarker
BilingualViewer.com has family history and novels in multiple languages. Thanks @BilingualViewer
Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire colonialfilm.org.uk. Thanks @tacbarker
South Seas Project has full journals of pacific exploration online and searchable.webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/2011020507…. Thanks @kfullagar
Digitised documents from the national swiss archives related to swiss foreign policy and international relations: dodis.ch. Thanks @G_Beausire
"The" VOC Archive, which in this case is the archive of the lord seventeen of the Dutch East India Company. Openly published by @NLNatArchief Thanks @odydc
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee archives are nearly all digitally accessible arolsen-archives.org. Thanks @dwillardkyle
Almost any official US Army document related to the US 1st Infantry Division has been digitized here: firstdivisionmuseum.nmtvault.com. Thanks @TheSmileyGI
For NZ:
Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Auckland Uni Lib digital: library.auckland.ac.nz/about-us/colle…
NZ Electronic Text Centre: nzetc.victoria.ac.nz
NZ Legal Info Institute: nzlii.org
Digital NZ aggregates many sites: digitalnz.org.
Thanks @DrDreHistorian
Historic Tasmanian deeds (needs free login) + grant maps: thelist.tas.gov.au/app/content/ho…
Maps, especially atlases (incl text pages): davidrumsey.com
Ordnance Survey + other UK maps (not all for download): maps.nls.uk
Thanks @imo_weg
For information about the Chuvash people, the Electronic Library of the Chuvash Republic Электронная библиотека Чувашской республики. Thanks @NarKomNats96
The International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals! iapsop.com Thanks @histlbsci
See also @DESelv's thread on archives of the Warsaw Pact countries, much, but not all, in Russian.
Thanks @MaxineDavid
Economic historians, see the European State Finance Database at esfdb.org. Thanks @NickPeyton93
digitized material (in Portuguese) from the ANTT, AHU, and Biblioteca Nacional. For Brazil, Projeto Regate has the AHUs Brazilian holdings and assorted codices. resgate.bn.br/DocReader/DocM…
Thanks @EMSoldiers1641
Malaysia Design Archive (MDA/@designarkib
) an online searchable database on the history of graphic design in Malaysia from 20th c. - present. For more about MDA, see malaysiadesignarchive.org.
Thanks @fionaleeMY
Sayaka Chatani's translations of Japanese Empire sources: japaneseempire.info Thanks @ilgordon
@McGill_ROAAr operates a digitization on demand service (free + open to all) & all the archival material gets made available via the catalogue: archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca
Thanks @ElisLeeIng
The Portal to Texas History: texashistory.unt.edu Thanks @bestoneTX
For those looking into US history, general archives/libraries with digital collections
loc.gov -Library of Congress
archives.gov - US National Archives
founders.archives.gov - large database of the papers of the major US founders
Thanks @HamUncovered
A great list of open access online resources for Australian history compiled by @perkinsy is available here: stumblingpast.com/stumbling-thro…
German Reichstag protocols 1867-1942 reichstagsprotokolle.de/rtbiiiauf.html; German art pubs/material culture arthistoricum.net/themen/bildque…; German Digital Library deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/#Auschwitz; German Judaica + colonial pubs sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/nav/index/t…; intl advertising iaddb.org Thanks @ykomska
German films/newsreels filmothek.bundesarchiv.de; guide to digitized Brazilian sources w/periodicals (see also part 2) networks.h-net.org/node/23910/blo…; circus history circusmuseum.nl/collection2/#1…; US Ringling collection ringling.org/collections Thanks again @ykomska
And someone who got here before me: @pashulman compiled a large, annotated document detailing digitized archival collections. docs.google.com/document/d/1oJ… Thanks @pashulman!
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library! usgrantlbrary.org Plus all of the digital collections at Mississippi State including the Citizens Council digital recordings library.msstate.edu/digitalcollect… Thanks @SemmesRyan
Russian State Archive for Ancient Documents has several premodern Russian documents rgada.info/kueh/index.php…. Thanks @balalaichnitsa
The Kunstkamera has photos of much of its ethnographic collection up collection.kunstkamera.ru/en Thanks again @balalaichnitsa
Australasian law database (incl. historic cases) austlii.edu.au/databases.html
Digital Panopticon - convicts convict in London, transported to Aus - digitalpanopticon.org
Australian Joint Copying project - UK Colonial Office files. Thanks @KatyARoscoe
Latrobe repository - free to access - incl records on Aus (HRA!) and on India arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/m…
Lots of Australian states have Hansard archives of 19C parliament/legislative council debates: parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assemb… parliament.wa.gov.au/WebCMS/webcms.…
Thanks again @KatyARoscoe
And NSW parliamentary Hansard parliament.nsw.gov.au/hansard/Pages/…
Thanks again (again!) @KatyARoscoe
Free newspaper archive - newspapers.library.wales @NLWales
- reprints some major new-stories from Times etc. (paywalled) and ofc local news Thanks @KatyARoscoe and @DrCharlwood
Go to sudanarchive.net dig deep and you’ll find wonderful treasures of primary on Sudan, South Sudan and east Africa. Thanks @YSholeye
Archive material from the records of The Boys' Brigade : thebbmuseum.org Thanks @ChrisSpackman
For Burma (Myanmar): burmalibrary.org
Thanks @AdrianVickers5
For radical online collections, check out this list of over 200 collections from around the world hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online…
Thanks @evanishistory
NZ Hansard is freely available parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-…
Thanks @DrDreHistorian
For anyone interested in popular culture in Britain from the 16th century on, the English Broadside Ballad Archive ebba.english.ucsb.edu & Bodleian Ballads Online project ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk have digitised about 40K ballads between them! @EBBA_Ballads
Thanks @UnaMcIlvenna
ISCI archives in Amsterdam iisg.amsterdam/en/collections…
Thanks @GavinEdwards11
The Open Society archive also has a huge quantity of digitized material that is freely available. It's a great resource for anyone teaching/studying about the Cold War and Eastern Europe. Thanks @RebeccaPScales
Archives NZ has a fair bit digitised (inc. railway pics and maps!)

(Advanced search: series 6390 for ~6,000 rail pics!)
archway.archives.govt.nz

Thanks @DrDreHistorian
Casa Comum makes available historical documentation mainly related to the Portuguese resistance against the dictatorship and anticolonial liberation struggles in the Portuguese-speaking world: casacomum.org/cc/arquivos
Thanks @margoncalv
For anticolonial liberation struggles in Portuguese Africa, see:

ICS Arquivo de História Social - Secção Movimentos Nacionalistas Africanos: ahsocial.ics.ulisboa.pt/atom/movimento…

Associação Tchiweka de Documentação (mostly Angola): tchiweka.org
Thanks again @margoncalv
ART RELATED:
Ricard Demarco Digital Archive (demarco-archive.ac.uk)
Kaldor Public Art Projects Digital Archive (archive.kaldorartprojects.org.au)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art (aaa.si.edu/search/collect…) < especially the Oral Histories
Thanks @mfizell
Yale Digital Collections (collections.library.yale.edu/catalog) < includes scans of Marinetti's Libroni
Swiss Newspapers digitised by Swiss National Library (e-newspaperarchives.ch)
British Newspaper Archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk)
Thanks @mfizell
And keep an eye on the online League of Nations archives lontad-project.unog.ch currently in development thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2021/7…
Thanks @VukusicIva
Of course @GallicaBnF should be in this list.
Also it seems @RDukeRareBooks might be working on digitizing some of the Florida State U archives.
Thanks @KatieMooreABD
The Prize Papers* Portal (open access), digital images (and metadata) of the records of the High Court of Admiralty HCA 30,32,45 @UkNatArchives: prizepapers.de, @Prize_Papers
* docs seized by British navy and privateers from enemy ships 1652–1815
Thanks @LHaasis
VRE @DutchPrizePaper: https//prizepapers.huygens.knaw.nl
Thanks again @LHaasis
For Canadian research of all kinds, see canadiana.ca
See also Peel’s Prairie Provinces
peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html
And Glenbow at UCalgary.
digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-manageme…
Thanks @kesiatk
Nationaal Archief has a huge amount of digitized materials on its website nationaalarchief.nl/en/research/se…
Thanks @szommerg
Topotheques (which started in Austria) are freely available online digital archives mainly of photographs linked to maps. Here are ones for Scotland's Kinloch Castle and Isle of Rum kinlochcastle-isleofrum.topotheque.net
Thanks @kinlochcath and @HistoryMhairi
NLI Irish Catholic parish registers registers.nli.ie; 1641 depositions 1641.tcd.ie.

Thanks @tait_clodagh
Scottish cultural heritage tobarandualchais.co.uk; other scots resources digital.nls.uk/gallery/

Thanks again @tait_clodagh
Irish script on screen isos.dias.ie/english/index.

Thanks again (again) @tait_clodagh
For early Australian anthropology and Aboriginal cultural heritage, see howittandfison.org and spencerandgillen.net

Thanks @JasonMGib
And for anyone (like myself) working on French colonial history, the Archives nationales d'outre-mer have quite a lot of materials digitised here …om.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/ir?classificat…
@ANOM_officiel
Digitised collection of Ireland's Military Archives (records of the Irish Defence Forces, Department of Defence and Army Pensions Board archives) @dfarchives militaryarchives.ie/en/home/
Thanks @MaryMcAuliffe4
Dictionary of Irish Biography - open access repository of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture @DIB_RIA
dib.ie

Thanks @thewildgees
National Library of Ireland @NLIreland has digitised many of their records and made them available open access
Thanks again @thewildgees
For anyone researching Irish history Discovereverafter.com has lots of burial records for south Dublin, incl original burial register images. All free, but registration required for images (just email + password). Also lists anyone else in the same grave.
Thanks @HereToHashtag
More suggestions are still coming in on open access digital archives:
@Digitalna_Ist has compiled a list of more than 250 online sources from all over the world and reviewed them in Serbian (Croatian) here: digitalnaistorija.net

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