History: Websites

On 3 September 1939 Britain went to war with Hitler’s Germany. In the fight against fascism, broadcasting played a starring role: as informant, morale-booster, propaganda weapon.Eighty years on, we’re opening-up the archives to shed new light on how the BBC shaped the experience of war – and how war transformed the BBC in return.

This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.

An archive of WW2 memories - written by the public, gathered by the BBC

The British Cartoon Archive is dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last two hundred years. The BCA holds the artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.

Digital archive of significant sources for the history of Britain and Ireland, mainly focusing on the time between 1300 and 1800

Online videos, articles, material from the British Library

Census data from 1971-2001

Browse House of Commons debates from November 1988 to March 2016 on statements, petitions, oral and written questions and answers.

Explore the official, verbatim report of what was said in both houses of Parliament between 1803-2004 through various search functions and interactive visualisations.

This site contains all of the biographical, constituency and introductory survey articles published in The History of Parliament series.

•Offer a wide range of services both onsite and remotely which promote and facilitate excellence in historical research, teaching and scholarship in the UK, by means of its library, seminars, conferences, fellowships, training, consultancy, Continuing Professional Development and publications (both electronic and in printed form).

The History and Archives pages give you online access to the history and experiences of those who were involved with, or impacted by, Bomber Command during the Second World War via photographs, documents and personal stories.

A fully searchable edition of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and fifteen datasets, giving access to 3.35 million names.

A special supplement from the Observer on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two.

A fabulous new digital resource from Esri Story Map containing content from 11 archives including the UK National Archives, Manchester University and the Working Class movement Library. It comprises contextual information, events timelines, details of victims and the significance. It includes images of prints, maps and useful infographics which would interest students.

This online database shares eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust, many of which have never been available to the public online before and have been translated, by a team of the Library’s volunteers, into English for the first time.