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This page is no longer being updated. Please see the primary source sections of the European History subject guide for an updated list of links.

European History

| General European Sites | World War I |
|France | Germany | Italy | Netherlands | Nordic countries | Spain & Portugal | Switzerland & Austria |

See Ancient History, Medieval History, History of Science, British & Irish History, and World War II for other related sites.

General European Sites

• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe
  Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of historical documents. Maintained by Richard Hacken at the Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Documents range from medieval to contemporary.
• European Navigator
  A collection of more than 5,000 documents including photographs, treaties, newspaper articles, interviews and maps documenting the history and institutions of post-war Europe.
• Europeana
  Database of more than 2 million digitized images, texts, videos and sounds from European museums and other cultural and historical institutions.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
  Collection of primary sources, often in English translation, of historic documents from the early modern period to the present for both Europe and the Americas. Also see his Medieval Sourcebook.
• League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents Collection of 260 League of Nations documents from the collections of Northwestern University. Also see Indiana University's League of Nations photo collection.
• Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe
  Collection of political maps of Europe covering the period to 1700. Also see Historic Cities.
• WWW-VL EUI European History Project
  The European University Institute's coordinates this World Wide Web Virtual Library collection of links dealing with European history. Also see Eighteenth-Century Resources on the Net and c18.

World War I

• The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
  Site provides detailed information on aircraft with brief biographies of pilots as well as links to other WWI sites.
• The Canadian Letters & Images Project
  An online archive of letters and images of the Canadian war experience with emphasis on World War I and II. Also see Soldiers of the First World War and Courage Remembered: The World Wars Through Canadian Eyes.
• First World War - Official Photographs
  Official British war photographs of the Western Front from the collections of the National Library of Scotland.
• First World War.com
  "This website strives to provide a general overview of the First World War." It is an impressive collection of World War I documents, posters, images, biographies, music clips, literature and essays. Also see World War I - Trenches on the Web and Schoolnet's First World War Encyclopedia.
• Imperial War Museum: Posters of Conflict
  Thousands of posters from World War I and II.
• Stars & Stripes
  Complete run of the WWI edition of the Stars & Stripes from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.
• Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
  Collection of Wilfred Owen correspondence, manuscripts and poetry. Also includes substantial primary source material (images, audio, film, and text) dealing with World War I.
• World War I Document Archive
  Collection of documents including treaties, personal narratives and correspondence created by the World War I Military History List and based at Brigham Young University.
• World War I History Commission Questionnaires
  "A fully-searchable index to questionnaires completed by World War I veterans or their surviving relatives providing personal information and details of each individual's war experience. Questionnaire images are available online." Index to American soldiers maintained by The Library of Virginia.

Regional Sites

• ARTFL Project
  Cooperative project (University of Chicago and l'Institute Nationale de la Langue Francaise) contains a database of French literature from the twelfth century to the twentieth century. Includes Diderot's Encyclopedie, various Bibles, and collection of pamphlets and periodicals of the 1848 revolution. Also see Michigan's project to translate Diderot's encyclopedia. Portions of ARTFL are UW Only.
• Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  The National Library of France, includes exhibits of illuminated manuscripts and entry to the catalog. Includes a number of online exhibits such as The Age of King Charles V and Le livre de chasse de Gaston Phebus.
• CESAR: calendrier electronique des spectacles sous l'ancien regime et sous la revolution
  "Here you will find details of the plays, people and performance spaces that graced the French theatre during the 17th and 18th centuries, from the dawn of the age of public playhouses to the French Revolution."
• Creating French Culture
  Treasures from the Bibliotheque nationale de France exhibit at the Library of Congress covering the 8th century to the present.
• French Revolutionary Pamphlets
  More than 170 digitized pamphlets from the collection of the University of Alabama.
• French Studies Web
  The French Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in French Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Historical Maps of Paris
  Collection of 100 maps from the 18th and 19th centuries maintained by art history professor, Barry Berdoll at Columbia University.
• Gallica
  The Bibliotheque Nationale de France's stunning digital library of texts and images. The collection can be searched and also browsed in a number of ways (chronologically, by theme).
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
  Collection of more than 600 digitized documents, maps and images dealing with the Revolution.
• Le Ministere de la Culture
  Home page of the French Ministry of Culture includes links to several online exhibits.
• Napoleonica: Napoleonic Primary Sources
  Currently the collection includes 3660 printed working documents of the Counseil d’État, 1800-1814; 150 letters from Napoleon I to Bigot de Préameneu, 1800-1815 and 255 drawings from the collection Houdetot 1797-1835. Also see the Napoleonic War Series, Napoleonic Satires, McGill University Napoleon Collection and Napoleonic Period Collection.
• Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
  Digital collection of images and texts from Brown University Library.
• Siege and Commune of Paris
  A collection of over 1200 photographs and images recorded during the Siege and Commune of Paris from the collection of Northwestern University Library.

Germany

• 1848 Flugschriften im Netz
  "Collection of pamphlets, posters, etc. from the Revolution of 1848 in Germany, with additional biographical and general information."
• Compact Memory
  Digitized versions of German language Jewish periodicals such as Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, 1837-1922 and Die Welt, 1897-1914.
• A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
  "The history of the Berlin Wall, from its creation to its destruction: An exhibition comprising around a hundred photographs" created by Cyril Buffet. In English, German and French.
• Deutsches Historisches Museum Image Archive
  Searchable database of photographs from the German Historical Museum in Berlin. See also their object database of posters and other material.
• German History in Documents and Images
  Still to be completed collection of documents, some material in sections 3,4,9 and 10.
• German Propaganda Archive
  "Collection of English translations of propaganda material from Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic" created by Professor Randall Bytwerk of Calvin College.
• German Studies Web
  The German Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in German Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Also see Virtual Library Zeitgeschichte.
• Germany Under Reconstruction
  Publications from the US occupying forces describing the condition of postwar Germany and efforts introduce American style democracy to the country.
• Inventory of Primary Web Resources in the Distributed Digital Research Library Germany
  Links to 20 digital projects such as Selected Exile Publications 1933-1945, German Book Illustration of the 15th Century, and Stenographical Reports of the German Reichstag (1867-1895) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
• Monumenta Germaniae Historica digital
  Project to digitize the corpus of medieval texts.
• The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936
  One of the many online exhibit produced by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, primarily images with brief narratives.
• Neue Deutsche Biographie
  German biographical dictionary. Also see the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
• Transnational Poster Art: Former East Germany and Latin America 1970-1989 Stanford University exhibit of posters from the GDR and Latin America.

Italy

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
  Jacob Burckhardt's well-known essay originally translated in 1878, part of the Electric Renaissance course offered by Boise State University.
• Digital Dante
  "The ILTweb Digital Dante Project is a long-term effort of the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University to prototype and develop an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource combining traditional elements of scholarly research with new communication and presentation possibilities enabled by networked digital technology." Also see Renaissance Dante in Print .
• Italian Life Under Fascism
  "A virtual exhibition exploring the nature of Italian fascism in the early twentieth century. Digital reproductions of original documents provide insight into "the character and range of Fascist propaganda and the special cult of the Duce that it fostered.""
• Italian Studies Web
  The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Also see the Best of the Italian History Index.
• Medici Archive Project
  Project to catalog more than 2 million documents from the Medici archive. Selected documents are transcribed.
• Online Catasto of 1427
  Searchable database of tax data for the city of Florence in 1427-1429. Also see the Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532.

Netherlands

• De correspondentie van Willem van Oranje
  The correspondence of William of Orange (1533-1584) includes over 12,000 letters, commission and orders (primarily in Dutch and French).
• dbnl: Digitale bibliotheek voor der Nederlandse lettteren
  "This Dutch-language site, sponsored by the Nederlandse Taalunie and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, offers literary texts (and some literary history) from the Dutch Middle Ages to the present."
• Dutch Studies Web
  The Dutch Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Dutch Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Het Parool Archive 1940-1945
  Digitized version of an underground newpaper during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
• Historical Sample of the Netherlands
  "The HSN is a well-structured database consisting of a representative sample of persons born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1922 (n=75.000). A rich variety of data concerning their life-careers has been gathered and is available to the scientific community."
• Historicsche Kranten in Beeld
  Page images of three Dutch newspapers from 1909-1945: Het Vaderland, Het Centrum and Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek
  The National Library of the Netherlands has digitized holdings such as medieval illuminated manuscripts.
• Memory of the Netherlands
  "Memory of the Netherlands is an extensive digital collection of illustrations, photographs, texts, film and audio fragments, all of Dutch making."
• Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie
  Website of the Netherlands Institute of War Documentation includes digitized photographs and posters.
• Tulip Book
  The Tulip book of P. Cos published in 1637 with illustrations of tulips and prices. A project of Wageningen Agricultural University Library.

Nordic Countries

• Danish Emigration Archives
  The Archives includes a searchable database of emigration lists compiled by the Copenhagen Police from 1969 to 1940.
• The Danish History
  Translation of the 11 volumes of the Danish historian Saxo originally written in the 13th century. Part of the Online Medieval and Classical Library.
• Digitalarkivet
  Database of census, church records and emigrant lists provided by the National Archive of Norway.
• The Documentation Project
  Nationwide digitization project with projects dealing with archaeology, lexicography, history, folklore and numismatics. Material in Norwegian with some explanatory information in English.
• Muisti Database
  Searchable database of digitized material from the collections of Finnish libraries, archives and museums.
• Saganet: Icelandic Medieval Literature
  Partnership between Cornell and the National and University Library of Iceland to digitize more than 400,000 pages of Icelandic sagas.
• Scandinavian Studies Web
  The Scandinavian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Scandinavian Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Spain & Portugal

• AARHMS Archive
  Collection of translated medieval documents including Aragonese and Catalan charters maintained by the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain.
• Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
  Home page of the archives based at Brandeis University, includes exhibits, links, finding aids and a discussion group. Also see The Visual Front, a exhibit of Spanish Civil War posters from the University of California at San Diego.
• The Columbus Letter
  Digital version of the 1494 Basel edition of Columbus's letter announcing the success of his voyage to the "islands of the India sea." Maintained by the University of Southern Maine.
• Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre
  The Centre provides a collection of translated primary documents dealing with contemporary (1910 to the present) Portuguese history and politics.
• Iberian Studies Web
  The Iberian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Maintained by the Western European Specialists Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
• Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592-1597
  Important collection of more than 150 letters and other documents primarily between Philip II and Diego de Orellana de Chaves, Royal Governor of the northern coast. This site was created and is maintained by the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University.
• Spain, United States, & the American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
  "The site features maps, rare books, manuscripts, prints and photographs, and motion pictures from the Library of Congress. These selected items relate to Spanish influence and interaction with other cultures existing in the geographic areas of North America, the Caribbean, and present-day Mexico between 1492-1898."
• They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by Spanish Children during the Spanish Civil War
  "“They Still Draw Pictures” includes a digital reproduction of the book with the same title, together with more than 600 images of all of the children’s drawings held in the Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego." Also see Columbia University's Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War.
• Virtual Library of Historical Press
  Digitized issues of mroe than 150 Spanish periodicals dating from 1777 to through the 20th century.

Switzerland & Austria

• AEIOU - The Austrian Cultural Information System
  The site created by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture "presents a detailed overview of Austria in the form of texts, pictures, sounds and video. An online version of the Osterreich Lexikon provides the major text.
• Austrian Newspapers Online Digitized Austrian newspapers covering the 19th century to the first third of the 20th.
  
• Primary Sources of 20th Century Austrian History
  "138 digitalized documents concerning major topics of Austrian contemporary history."
• Swiss Diplomatic Documents
  "The Swiss Diplomatic Documents (SDD) is a collection of documents on Swiss foreign policy" covering from 1848 to 1961. Approximately 1000 documents have been digitized.

Painting: Detail from Pieter Brugel the Elder's The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559.