Internet Links and Collections

General Web Sites for Information

• Early Modern Europe Collection of Links from WWW-VL history http://www.fruehe-neuzeit.net/

Web Sites with Primary Sources

How to Do Primary Reseach: Various Guides

• Historical Research in Europe: A Guide http://webcat.library.wisc.edu:3200/HistResEur/
• Archives and Local History King Ref DA 1. E45 1974
• Record Sources for Local History King Ref DA 1.R544 1987
  These two volumes suggest how to navigate through British local archives and the types of records generated by local governments, communities and individuals. Some references to actual sources and locations.

Bibliographies

• Bibliography of British History: Tudor Period King Ref DA 315.B534 1959 [Miami does not own the 1978 ed. yet]
• Bibliography of British History: Stuart Period 1603-1714 King Ref DA 375 .D25 1970
• Bibliography of British History: The 18th Century 1714-1789 King Ref DA 498 .P375 1977
• Bibliography of English History To 1485 King Ref DA 130.B555 1975
• Bibliography of Imperial and Commonweslth History Since 1600 King Ref DA 16 .B53 2002
  Many of the secondary sources in these bibiographies are dated. However, they do provide extensive bibliographies of primary source materials that have been printed in collections as well as locations of manuscript collections. You would find references to libraries, printed catalogs, Historical Manuscript Commission pubications.
• American Historical Association's Guide To Historical Literature King Ref D20. G854 1995
  See the chapter on Modern Europe, General as well as chapters on individual countries and empires. Most chapters will have a section on reference works which will contain some references to archives.
  

Directories of Libaries and Archives

Directories provide address of archives and sometimes descriptions of their collections. In the case of the web links, an email link, as well as a web site link. The web sites may also have finding aids or guides to some of the more popular collections in the Archive.

• Unesco Archives Portal http://portal.unesco.org/
• Repositories of Primary Sources http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
• European Archival Network http://www.european-archival.net/
• British Archives King Ref CD 1040.F67 2002
• Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries King Ref Z883 .A1 D574 1992
• Research Libraries and Collections in the United Kingdom : A Selective Inventory and Guide King Ref Z 791 .A! R6 1978
• Bibliotheques et Archives King Ref Z797 .A1 C47 1980
• Oxford Libraries King Ref Z 791 .O98 M67 1980
• World Guide to Special Libraries King Ref Z 675 .A2 W67
• World Guide to Libraries King Ref Z 721 .I63
• World of Learning King Ref AS 2 .W6
• ASLIB Directory of Inoformation Sources in the United Kingdom King Ref Z791 .A1 A82 1998

References to Known Collections

Indexes
These indexes provide subject access to collections over a wide area. You would be able to look up a topic,obstetrics or women scientiests for instance or the name of an individual or orgnaization and find a collection and locate the archive or library in which it is located.

• Directory of Literary and Historical Collections in the United Kingdom King Ref Z791 .A1 A822 1993
• Subject Collections in European Libraries King Ref Z 789 .L4 1978
• Directory of Special Collections in Western Europe King Ref Z 789 .D56 1993 folio
• National Union Catalog of Manuscripts King Ref Z6620 .U5 N3
• Census of Medieval and Reanissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada King Ref Z 6620 .U5 R5
• Subject Collections King Ref Z 731 .A78 1993

Catalogs to Libraries
These catalogs provide an index to a specific archive or library's collection. In your research you would have to have knowledge that a particular library or archive is appropriate for you to search in that collection.

• Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Beinecke Library Yale) King Ref Z 881 .N57 B43 1984
• European Americana (John Carter Brown Library) King Ref Z 1203 .E87
• Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Houghton Library, Harvard University King Ref Z6621 .H5913 1986
• Guide to Modern Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library King Ref Z6621 .P945 1989
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Books in the Library of Congress King Ref Z 6621 .U58 M64 1988
• Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documents of the Holy See King Ref CD 1586 1998
• Index of Manuscripts in the British Library King Ref Z 921 .B82 A32x
• New York Public Library Dictionary Catalog of the Manuscript Division. King Ref Z 6621 .N5518
• Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library King Ref Z 6621 .F625x

Biographical Resources
Biographic Dictionaries often contain a reference to the location of the individual papers and early, seminal biographies.

• Dictionary of National Biography King Ref DA 28 .D4

Guides to Print and Micro Collections

• Texts and Calenders King Ref DA 30.M85 1958x
• Texts and Calenders II King Ref DA 30.M852 1983x
• Early English Books

Chronlogies and Lists of Facts
As background sources, its often useful to be able to place dates of events and ideas together.

• Chronology of World History: Vol II 1492-1775, The Expanding World. King Ref D 11.M39 1999 Vol 2
• English Historical Facts 1485 -1603 King Ref DA 315 .P68 1977b
• English Historical Facts 1603-1688 King Ref DA 375 .C7 1980