Europe - History - Modern - Subject and Research Guides at Macquarie University

A selection of European sources at MQ Library

Cambridge Histories Online
Provides access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource. Volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas.
Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000
Oxford scholarship online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a cross searchable database which provides access to scholarly books published by Oxford University Press, mainly in the humanities and social sciences. Macquarie University staff and students currently have full text access to some of the titles in the Classical studies, History, Law, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Political science subject modules. Book and chapter abstracts for all titles in all subject modules are free for all users.

Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World
Call Number: Print copy DA357.W34/1999

Bibliography of British and Irish history
This collection provides bibliographic information on historical writing from 55BC to the present day.
British and Irish women's letters and diaries
Date range: 16th Century to 20th Century
Geographical focus: Britain
Over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters by approximately 500 women.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO
This database provides full-text access to digital versions of Eighteenth Century texts.
Empire Online
This fulltext database offers approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The five sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online NCCO
This database focuses on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. Sourced from over a hundred libraries the collection includes a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps and statistics.
London low life : street culture, social reform and the Victorian underworld
Date range: 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries
Geographical focus: London
Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials. Ephemera and other literature relating to entertainment and pleasure in London, including women, gender and prostitution.
Victorian Popular Culture
This database focuses on popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Includes items such as pamphlets, books, posters, playbills and photos.

French Revolution Digital Archive
Date range: 18th-19th Centuries
Geographical focus:France
A digital version of the Archives parlementaires, a 19th century collection of primary sources on the revolution, as well as around 14,000 images. Texts are French language.
Napoleonica.org
Date range: 19th Century
Geographical focus: France
French language. Archives and other documents relating to Napoleon and the two Empires.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History by Helmut Walser Smith (Editor)
Call Number: eBook and print
Publication Date: 2011
I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer; Martin Chalmers (Translator, Preface by)
Call Number: PC2064.K5 A313 1999
ISBN: 9780679456964
Publication Date: 1998-11-03
The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn; Robert Gellately (Editor)
Call Number: KZ1176 .G65 2004
ISBN: 037541469X
Publication Date: 2004
Interviews of prominent Nazi figures conducted by a psychologist during the Nuremberg trial.
A History of Modern Germany 1800-2000 by Martin Kitchen
Call Number: eBook and print
Publication Date: 2006

EURA : a Reference Corporation world area studies database
This collection provides intensive area coverage for Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and lesser coverage to Western Europe. The database provides unusual historical depth for Soviet and WWII history, including diplomatic/historical documentation such as diplomatic papers and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in full text.
Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema
This journal focuses on pre-revolutionary Soviet and post- Soviet film, its aesthetic development, and its position between ideology and industry.
Russian History
This journal seeks to publish original articles on the history of Russia from different perspectives: intellectual, economic and military history, domestic, social and class relations, relations with non-Russian peoples, nutrition and health.

Open sources

Avalon Project
This collection provides access to documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
British History Online
Date range: 11th to 19th Centuries
Geographical focus: Britain
Includes primary and secondary sources relating to British History, including maps, state papers, English Heritage's survey of London, letters and diaries. Run by the Institute of Historical Research.
EuroDocs
This website provides links to European primary historical documents that are transcribed or translated. In addition there is access to; video, sound, maps and photographs.
British Newspaper Archives
Date range: 18th Century to 20th Centuries
Geographical range: Britain
Digitised versions of historical newspapers from throughout Britain. This site requires a paid subscription to access articles.
Hansard
Date range: 1803-2005
Geographical focus: Britain
"This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament."