HIST 374: History of England: Web Resources

Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England attributed to Henry of Bratton, c. 1210-1268

BHO was founded by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust in 2003. Our collection currently contains over 1,270 volumes and is always growing. To 30 September 2020 we're making all transcribed BHO content freely available for individual users. This adds 200 volumes of primary materials. As a result, BHO's full complement of 1280 volumes is now available for research.

The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses.

The House of Commons Journal is the corrected archive edition of 'Votes and Proceedings', the formal record of House of Commons business for a given day. The volumes of the series published on British History Online cover the period 1547-1699 and 1830.

Primary source databases and web archives.

Online exhibits of the National Archives.

Take a chronological journey through the key periods in England's past. Explore thousands of years of history and discover how the changes that the country has seen can be traced through English Heritage's sites. Learn how the daily lives of ordinary people have altered over the centuries, and how seismic shifts in power and religion permanently shaped the nation.

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here.

York's Archbishops Registers Revealed provides free access to over 20,000 images of Registers produced by the Archbishops of York, 1225-1650, in addition to a growing searchable index of names, subjects, places and organisations.