British political history, 1688-1886 (Paper 5)

 Part I, Paper 5

• Newspapers and periodicals online (see also the University Library's newspaper page):
• British Periodicals*: digital archive of hundreds of periodicals from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
• Eighteenth Century Journals*: digital archive of newspapers and periodicals published c.1685-1815
• Gale Primary Sources*: digital archive of 3 million pages of British newspapers (national and regional), newsbooks and ephemera
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive*: full digital archive of the Illustrated London News, comprising over 260,000 pages
• The Times Digital Archive*: full digital archive of The Times
• The Economist Historical Archive*: full digital archive of The Economist
• 19th Century British Pamphlets Online: links to some of the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries, some of which have been digitised.
• Bibliography of British and Irish History*: bibliography of books, articles in books and articles in journals dealing with the British Isles, and with the British Empire and Commonwealth; contains over 500,000 records, and provides links to online texts where available
• British History Online*: digital library containing printed primary and secondary sources for British history, divided into subjects: administrative and legal history; ecclesiastical and religious history; economic history; intellectual, scientific and cultural history; local history; parliamentary history; urban and metropolitan history
• Cambridge Histories Online*: full texts of the Cambridge Histories series (includes The Cambridge history of political thought and The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain)
• Connected Histories: digital resources for early modern and 19th century British history.  Facilitates complex searching by names, places, and dates.
• Discovery*: online access to the National Archives' collection of digitised public records
• Early Modern Resources: gateway for free-to-access electronic resources relating to the early modern period (c.1500-1800)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online*: digital archive of over 180,000 titles (33 million pages), including books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides, published during the 18th century
• English Short Title Catalogue*: catalogue of over 460,000 items published between 1473 and 1800 (chiefly in English)
• Hansard 1803-2005: records of parliamentary sessions for 1803-2005
• Nineteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue: catalogue of over 1.2 million items published in the English-speaking world from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War
• Official Publications LibGuide: A guide to the official publications collections held within the Cambridge University Libraries.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*: biographies of over 57,000 individuals
• The Serving Soldier: online access to unique original documents and photographs held by the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College London
• U.K. Parliamentary Papers*: digital library of House of Commons sessional papers from 1715, with supplementary material back to 1688
• A Vision of Britain Through Time: website bringing together historical surveys of Britain, 1801-2001; includes maps, election reports, statistical trends and travel writing
• Who's Who/Who Was Who*: biographical dictionary, published annually since 1849

(Resources marked * denote those subscribed to by the University Library; should any of the links not work, go to the eresources@cambridge page and try accessing the resources from there.)