ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid includes over 7 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more. With over 1,400 archival institutions represented, ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
Gale Primary Sources – Archives Unbound
Since its inception in 2009, the Archives Unbound program has published more than 500 collections. The roots of the program are in microfilm, and offers targeted collections of interest to scholars engaged in scholarly research.
Cambridge Digital Library
The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.
Endangered Archives Programme
The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Thanks to generous funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, we have provided grants to more than 400 projects in 90 countries worldwide, in over 100 languages and scripts.
Below the Surface: Results of a Whatsapp Survey of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Lebanon
Ulrich, L. (2019). Below the surface: results of a Whatsapp survey of Syrian refugees and host communities in Lebanon. UNDP. https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/67579
Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World
The rich collections of manuscripts bear witness to the linguistic, religious and cultural diversity of what commonly features as the Islamic world. The combined holdings of the contributing Libraries of the UK are of considerable intellectual and cultural significance.
Qatar Digital Library
The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and much more, complete with contextualised explanatory notes and links, in both English and Arabic.
British Pathé
British Pathé is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world and is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1978, the collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture.
NewspaperArchive
NewspaperArchive.com is the first commercial newspaper archive online. The archives contain more than 15,675+ different titles from every US state and twenty-eight other countries around the world. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword, date, place, and title making it easy for you to quickly see if we have the article you’re seeking.
The West African Arabic Manuscript Database – University of California Berkeley
WAAMD is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently has been used to compile a union catalogue of other West African collections, including manuscript libraries in West Africa, Europe and the United States.