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Additional British Isles Quick Links

British Library Newspapers

19th Century British newspapers. 48 newspapers selected by the British Library

The Times (London)

Digital archives of The Times newspaper in London, 1785-1985.

Geneanet

Genealogy website in Continental Europe with 3 billion indexed individuals, 600,000 family trees, a powerful search engine and blog.

Historical Abstracts

Abstracts of World History, excluding U.S. and Canada

JSTOR

Scholarly Journals back to the 1800s

Original Sources

Thousands of primary source documents in history, literature, science, law, politics, religion, and more. A compilation of historical sources: original documents, eyewitness accounts and historical accounts..

Oxford English Dictionary

Check the usage, etymology and definition of words