British Isles

country

#	name	city	country	description	region	period
1	Access to Archives		United Kingdom	A database of archive record holdings	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
2	Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library	New Haven	United States	The Beinecke, Yale University's rare book and manuscript library, holds excellent collections of early modern and modern European manuscripts.	General Europe, British Isles, France, Italy	modern, early modern, medieval
3	Beowulf manuscript				British Isles, Scandinavia	medieval
4	Bodleian Library, Oxford University	Oxford	United Kingdom	The Bodleian Library at Oxford University. A major research library with a world-class collection of manuscripts.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
5	British Library	London	United Kingdom	The British Library, one of the world's leading research libraries	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
6	British Library, Manuscripts Division catalog	London	United Kingdom	The Manuscripts Division catalog for the British Library. Manuscripts include virtually all areas of research.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
7	Cambridge University Library	Cambridge	United Kingdom	Cambridge University's library system	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
8	Centre for Kentish Studies	Maidstone	United Kingdom	The Centre for Kentish Studies. Manuscripts from local and personal collections relevant to the history of the county of Kent in southeastern England.	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
9	Digital Scriptorium			An online collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts drawn from over forty major American collections. As of September 2012, contains catalog records and high-quality photographs for over 5,000 manuscripts and 24,000 images.	General Europe, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	early modern, medieval
10	Eurodocs			A large collection of primary sources, transcribed and translated.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
11	Europe 1450-1650			a syllabus covering Europe from 1450-1650	General Europe, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	early modern, medieval
12	European Library	The Hague	Netherlands	The European Library is a consortium of the national libraries of Europe with an excellent collection of electronic catalogs and links to digital collections.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
13	European Social and Political Thought from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment			a syllabus for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students on the history of European social and political thought	General Europe, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	early modern, medieval
14	Europeana			A site run by the Royal Library of the Netherlands, with EU Commission funds, with links to 4.6 million digitized items from national libraries and museums throughout Europe.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
15	Folger Shakespeare Library	Washington, DC	United States	The Folger Shakespeare Library has strong collections in the Renaissance, and especially in early modern Britain.	General Europe, British Isles, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	modern, early modern, medieval
16	Guide to the Study of Early Modern History			An extensive guide to the secondary literature about early modern Europe, written by Constantin Fasolt (Chicago). Some discussion of primary sources included.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	early modern
17	Hill Museum & Manuscript Library	Collegeville, Minnesota	United States	The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library is home to "the world's largest collection of images of manuscripts from Europe, Ethiopia, the Middle East, and India." Images are variously available on microfilm and in digital form. HMML is also home to a number of medieval manuscripts from Europe and beyond.	General Europe, British Isles, Central Europe, Italy, Southeastern Europe	early modern, medieval, ancient
18	Historical Research in Europe			An extensive collection of archive websites, searchable by country and keyword	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
19	History of Early Modern European Legal and Political Thought			a graduate syllabus covering the history of early modern European legal and political thought	General Europe, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	early modern, medieval
20	History of European Civilization			an undergraduate syllabus covering the history of Europe from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, with some reference to ancient Greece and Rome	General Europe, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	early modern, medieval, ancient
21	Huntington Library	San Marino	United States	The Huntington Library contains excellent collections of European manuscripts, with particular emphasis on the British Isles, the Renaissance, and France.	General Europe, British Isles, France, Italy	modern, early modern, medieval
22	Internet Medieval Sourcebook			An impressive collection of primary sources covering all aspects of the medieval world. Focus is on Europe, with considerable coverage of Byzantium and Islam. One of the standard online sources for reliable primary material.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	medieval
23	Jersey Library		United Kingdom	The library of the Isle of Jersey	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
24	Lewis Walpole Library		United States	Collection of papers of Lewis Walpole, with excellent sources on 18th-century British history	British Isles	early modern
25	Manx National Library		United Kingdom	The National Library of the Isle of Man	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
26	National Archives of Ireland		United Kingdom	The National Archives of Ireland	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
27	National Archives of Scotland	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	The National Archives of Scotland	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
28	National Archives of the United Kingdom	Kew	United Kingdom	The National Archives of the United Kingdom. Excellent collection of manuscripts relevant to European History, with generous hours and copying privileges.	General Europe, British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
29	National Library of Ireland		Ireland	The National Library of Ireland	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
30	National Library of Scotland	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	National Library of Scotland	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
31	National Library of Wales		United Kingdom	National Library of Wales	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
32	Online Gallery, British Library			Contains images of a variety of historically and culturally significant documents.	General Europe, British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
33	ORB: The Encyclopedia			An edited collection of essays about the early, high, and late medieval period. Some primary sources also included.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy	medieval
34	Oxford University Library	Oxford	United Kingdom	Oxford University's library system	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient, prehistorical
35	The Electronic Grosseteste			Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253) was an English theologian, philosopher, and bishop. "The Electronic Grosseteste is a freely accessible, web-based project that supports advanced research in the life and works of Robert Grosseteste specifically, and in medieval studies generally." The site contains electronic versions of Grosseteste's writings and a bibliography of works about him.	General Europe, British Isles	medieval
36	The National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France)	Paris	France	The National Library of France (commonly known as the Bibliothèque nationale) owns a wide variety of manuscripts and documents covering virtually all regions of Europe.	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	modern, early modern, medieval, ancient
37	Trinity College Library, Dublin	Dublin	Ireland	Trinity College Library, University of Dublin	British Isles	modern, early modern, medieval
38	What Every Medievalist Should Know			A collection of bibliographies listing standard works for over forty topics or themes that are important to the study of medieval Europe. The topics run the gamut from archaeology, Byzantine literature, and codicology to rhetoric, saints, and time and the calendar. Intended as a reference "to get you started, and to allow you to work up in a new field."	General Europe, Baltic States, Benelux, British Isles, Central Europe, France, Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Russia & Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Southeastern Europe	medieval