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This site forms part of the larger EuroDocs site, created by Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University. The History of the United Kingdom: Primary Documents site provides links to over one hundred documents relating to the history of the United Kingdom from the eighth century to the present day. The documents have been chosen on the grounds that they relate to key historical events. The documents linked to on the site include, for example, Ruthwell Cross runic inscriptions, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, The Statutes of William the Conqueror, the Magna Carta, The Elizabethan Homilies 1623, Proclamation of Rebellion 1775 and documents from WWI and WWII. The documents are available as transcriptions or facsimiles of the originals.

Primary sources for history research, sorted by time periods

"Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away -- or back." (2010)

The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent's Templeman Library. It has a library, archive, and exhibition gallery, and is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for more than 150,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

Yale Law School online database of primary sources, sorted by century

huge collection of artworks

has lots of art works as primary sources

archives back to 1851