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How awesome! You can use Adobe Shockwave (it's free) to view these medieval and early modern texts from the British Library. Makes you wonder if one day we'll be able to see this stuff in 3D while sitting at home.

Digital versions of significant manuscripts in the collection of the British Library. Includes Austen Juvenilia, Mercator's first Atlas of Mercator, the Luttrell Psalter, Blackwell's Herbal, Leonardo's sketch book, Vesalius' anatomy, the original Alice, Blake's notebook, the Lisbon Hebrew Bible, Baybar's Qur'an, and Mozart's musical diary. See "Terms of Use" for permissions. Requires Adobe Shockwave; alternative versions with static images also available.

This is a representative selection of images from some of the most sumptuous manuscripts displayed in the Cambridge Illuminations exhibition

Quite a few beautiful images from medieval manuscripts. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

A no-doubt perfectly impartial, disinterested version of Israel's ancient, medieval and modern history. 'The Iranian Threat' gets its own link...

Images and translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The scrolls and scroll fragments recovered in the Qumran environs represent a voluminous body of Jewish documents, a veritable "library", dating from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Unquestionably, the "library," which is the greatest manuscript find of the twentieth century, demonstrates the rich literary activity of Second Temple Period Jewry and sheds insight into centuries pivotal to both Judaism and Christianity.

Not sure how much you can access here. It at least has some manuscripts that you can access images of; looks like the rest of it might be in the process of being digitised.

Set of collections of digital resources mainly focussing on medieval English history.

"The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London." How nice of them.

The Royal Historical Society bibliography is an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day. The Bibliography is hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, which is part of the University of London.

How good are the History Sourcebooks? Mr Paul Halsall, you are a legend. Here is another fine offering.

Collections of French language resources and French sources.

The Post-Reformation Digital Library is a collection of resources put together by a group of researchers and relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation/early modern era (ca. 16th-18th c.), hosted by the Hekman Library in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.

Most of it seems to be in Latin. Probably should have realised that before I starting adding it as a bookmark. Oh well. Too late now.

Not quite sure why the "California Institute for Ancient Studies' has German on the homepage. Not great quality but if it's Bronze Age I usually bookmark it regardless - there's not much on that era.