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Portal for African Research Collections: PARC is the new meta-catalogue for the Africana collections at the research location Basel

A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa

The Asia Directories and Chronicles is a reference work for foreign traders in the Asian region, published annually by the Hong Kong Daily Press, annually between 1863 and 1941

Austrian Newspapers online

Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung

The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history

It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images

European archives search engine

European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges

Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources

Interactive historical maps

Deeds from all over Europe

A library of over 60,000 free eBooks

Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe

Digital library of the National Library of France

INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives

German archives search engine

Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc

South German Museum for History of Digital Development

Over 12 million objects

Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950

Collections of the Munich Digitization Center

An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany

Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research

A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services

Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg

Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era

Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim

Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German

Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings)

SPIEGEL archive since 1947

Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature

Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more

Historical German newspapers

Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library

Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines

Preserving information from early personal computer magazines

Forex rate history since 1953

Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Digital collection of manuscripts from around the world

Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide

Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists)

Find archived web pages in Internet Archive, Archive-It, British Library, archive.today, and GitHub

Maps, starting in the 17th century

Search engine for libraries around the globe

A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians

Open access academic literature

Archives and records from the United Nations regarding Secretaries-Generals, departments and missions

Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time

Collection of content and services that permit world historians to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales

Maps, manuscripts and sounds

Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland

Data collections from the National Library of Scotland

A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales

London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913

Dutch newspapers, books and magazines

Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands

U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955

America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963

Archive of various magazines on gaming

Historical maps collection

Discovery tool, or union catalog, for public domain and openly licensed content held by the United States' archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions

Wide range of trans-related digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world

Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics

A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and making accessible millions of digitized items

The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States

Online collection of scanned maps

An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression

WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress

Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives

Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics

Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Archival search engine for Switzerland

Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963)

COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968

Bernese culture and history on the Internet

Diplomatic documents of Switzerland

Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland

Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection

Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives

Swiss newspapers

Swiss journals

The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries

The platform manages authority files on Swiss history

Encyclopedia on Swiss history

Historical statistics of Switzerland online

Historical newspaper collections of the Swiss National Library, the National Library of Luxembourg, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Le Temps, the Valais State Archives and the Swiss Economic Archives

Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts

A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland

Search engine for maps

Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève

Journey through time via maps of Switzerland

Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions

Retrodigitalisierte und digitale Editionseinheiten der Schweizerischen Rechtsquellen. Ediert wird rechtshistorisches Quellenmaterial vom Mittelalter bis in die Frühe Neuzeit (1798)

This collection comprises over 500 business archives from the period 1750 to the present day, with a focus on the Basel region

A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland

Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives

The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years

Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts

An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive

A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences

A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History

Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work

Open HGIS Lessons and Resources

Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History

History Toolkit for Students

This guide, created in the fall semester of 2022, accompanies the introductory courses in history at the University of Basel and is intended to provide a first insight into the field of digital history

A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities

Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills

The Jupyter Book (in German language) is aimed at historians who are looking for a first application-oriented and interactive introduction to the Python programming language

A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities

Novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching

Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities

News about and innovations from digital history

Computer History

An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore

Data Visualization

A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software

Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities

Research Tools

A list of tools for research

Scientific Writing

Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks

Digital History Directory