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Mar 14, 2025

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• handrit.is - Catalogue of more than 15'000 manuscripts (12th–20th century) in Icelandic, Old Norse, Danish and Latin (plus a few other languages) with more than 4'000 manuscripts digitally available.

• islandskort.is - Digitized maps of Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic region (1545–1949).

• ÍSMÚS - Icelandic musical heritage collection (including recordings and sheet music), legends and fairytales.

• tímarit.is - Digitized newspapers and magazines from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• SKKG Digital Collection - The Foundation for Art, Culture, and History (SKKG) provides online access to its collection of approximately 100,000 objects, ranging from artworks to historical artifacts spanning from the Stone Age to the present.

Mar 14, 2024

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Sources Online - A platform for digital scholarly text editions, integrating TEI Publisher and IIIF in Switzerland.

Jan 24, 2024

Archives and primary sources / Africa

• West African Arabic Manuscript Database - A comprehensive collection of manuscripts that provides insight into the Islamic scholarly tradition in West Africa.

Learning / Switzerland

• Introduction to Python for Humanists - A textbook offering a comprehensive introduction to Python programming, tailored for researchers and students in the humanities.

Dec 26, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Africa

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

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Jun 21, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• historicum.net - A specialized information service for historians that offers access to research tools and services.

May 31, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• transcriptiones - Create, share and access transcriptions of historical manuscripts.

Learning / Switzerland

• Introduction to Digital History - 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.

Apr 26, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Asia

• FOCAL - 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.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Fxtop - Forex rate history since 1953.

Archives and primary sources / North America

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

Learning / Switzerland

• Crafting Digital History - A Workbook for Methods and Readings in Digital History.

Jan 31, 2023

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Got Papers? - Resources on the history of games, cracking, and the demoscene.

Sep 26, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Archives and primary sources / Netherlands

• Nationaal Archief - Rich collection of the National Archives of the Netherlands.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• National Archives - The official archives regarding veteran records, founding documents and presidential libraries of the United States.

Sep 25, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Great Britain

• British Library - Maps, manuscripts and sounds.

• National Records of Scotland - Repository for the public and legal records of Scotland.

• The National Archives - A non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.

Learning / Switzerland

• Python für Historiker:innen - 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.

Jul 18, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Computerarchiv Muenchen - South German Museum for History of Digital Development.

Jun 26, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Deutsches Zeitungsportal - Discover historical newspapers from 1671 to 1950.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• Digital Humanities - Tools, resources, and services supporting the Digital Humanities.

Apr 28, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Public Books Database - Open access academic literature.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Digital Public Library of America - 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.

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• DigiBern - Bernese culture and history on the Internet.

Learning / Switzerland

• History Toolkit - History Toolkit for Students.

Mar 30, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

• OpenHistoricalMap - A time travel map created by a community of mappers and historians.

• World Historical Gazeteer - 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.

Mar 02, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Global

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

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• chgov - Minutes of the Federal Council (1848-1963).

Jan 31, 2022

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique - European History through renewed historiographic objects and major contemporary challenges.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Classic Computer Magazine Archive - Preserving information from early personal computer magazines.

• OpenCat - Search engine for libraries around the globe.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Computer Gaming World Museum - Archive of various magazines on gaming.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Année Politique Suisse - Sources and database for swiss socio-political topics.

Dec 22, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• MARCHIVUM - Collection of Mannheim newspapers and historical printed matter on the history of Mannheim.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

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

Learning / Switzerland

• Geospatial Historian - Open HGIS Lessons and Resources.

Dec 02, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog - Book search engine for finding hundreds of millions of media in catalogs worldwide.

Aug 28, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• histHub - The platform manages authority files on Swiss history.

May 06, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Austria

• Digitarium - Digital edition of the historical Wiener Zeitung.

• Österreichische Mediathek - The Austrian archive for sound recordings and videos from cultural and contemporary history.

• Wien Geschichte Wiki - It is based on the Historical Dictionary Vienna by Felix Czeike, currently there are 50,156 contributions and 12,510 images.

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Visual Archive Southeastern Europe - Historical and contemporary visual materials from Southeastern Europe.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• swisscollections - Meta search engine for historical and modern collections in Swiss libraries and archives.

Apr 13, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• LexM - Encyclopedia of musicians persecuted during the Nazi era.

Mar 31, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Archivportal - German archives search engine.

• Bavarikon - Collection of Bavarian maps, places, newspapers etc.

• Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek - Over 12 million objects.

• Digitale Sammlungen - Collections of the Munich Digitization Center.

• leo bw - Platform of the State Archives of Baden-Württemberg.

• SLUB Dresden - Over 1.8 million graphic media (photographs, maps, drawings).

• UB Heidelberg - Manuscripts, documents, maps and literature.

• ZLB - Collections of the Berlin Central and State Library.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• Tempopedia - Digital History Directory.

Feb 03, 2021

Archives and primary sources / Austria

• ANNO - Austrian Newspapers online.

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Mapire - Interactive historical maps.

• Monasterium - Deeds from all over Europe.

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Uni Frankfurt - Rare prints, manuscripts, bequests and more.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Chronicling America - America's historic newspapers from 1777-1963.

• David Rumsey Map Collection - Historical maps collection.

• Eugenics Archive - Scholars, survivors, students, and community partners in challenging eugenics.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• arCHeco - Index of economic collections in archives of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

• Kartenportal - Search engine for maps.

Jan 06, 2021

Archives and primary sources / France

• Institut national de l'audiovisuel - INA is a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Bitsavers.org - Computer code, reference manuals, and magazines.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• World Digital Library - WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

Nov 20, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks.

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv - An interactive portal on the history of women's movements in Germany.

• Docupedia - Terms, methods, and debates in contemporary history research.

Archives and primary sources / Global

• Internet Archive - Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

• Marxist Internet Archive - Everything you ever wanted to know about Marx (and other important socialists).

• WayBackMachine - Explore more than 486 billion web pages saved over time.

Archives and primary sources / Great Britain

• NLS - Data collections from the National Library of Scotland.

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey - London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913.

Archives and primary sources / Netherlands

• Delpher - Dutch newspapers, books and magazines.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Online collection of scanned maps.

• Women Working 1800-1930 - An exploration of women's impact on the economic life of the United States between 1800 and the Great Depression.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Archives Online - Archival search engine for Switzerland.

• e-newspaperarchives.ch - Swiss newspapers.

• E-Periodica - Swiss journals.

• e-rara - The platform for digitised rare books from Swiss libraries.

• Historical Encyclopedia of Switzerland - Encyclopedia on Swiss history.

• impresso - 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.

• infoclio.ch Edition projects - A database containing current historical edition projects in Switzerland.

• Le Temps - Archive of Gazette de Lausanne et du Journal de Genève.

• map.geo.admin.ch - Journey through time via maps of Switzerland.

• MEMOBASE - Provides access to audiovisual documents from Swiss memory institutions.

Learning / Switzerland

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

• We think History - News about and innovations from digital history.

More Awesome / Switzerland

• Computer History (⭐2.8k) - An Awesome List of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore.

• Data Visualization (⭐3.9k) - A curated list of awesome open-source data visualizations frameworks, libraries and software.

• Research Tools (⭐2.3k) - A list of tools for research.

• Scientific Writing (⭐788) - Scientific writing can extend beyond LaTeX, made possible by formats, such as Markdown (and its many flavours), reStructuredText and Jupyter notebooks.

Nov 16, 2020

Learning / Switzerland

• Local Linkages - Professional development curriculum to introduce to historical research methods and digital history skills.

Aug 03, 2020

Learning / Switzerland

• The CTP Book - A book for teaching Computational Thinking and Programming skills to people with a background in the Humanities.

Jun 01, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Amtsdruckschriften - Federal Gazette, Administrative Case Law of the Federal Authorities and more documents from the Swiss Federal Archives.

Apr 29, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Spiegel Online - SPIEGEL archive since 1947.

• Zefys - Historical German newspapers.

Archives and primary sources / North America

• Ad*Access - 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.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• COSMOV - COSMOV includes a digital edition of the events of the Zurich summer of 1968.

• e-codices - Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland.

• e-manuscripta - Manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives.

• timeSTAT Cubes - The Federal Council reports to parliament on income and expenditure for the past years.

Learning / Switzerland

• HIST 7370 - Online course for Methods and Readings in Digital History.

• UCI Digital History - Overview on the field of Digital History and Digital Humanities.

Mar 29, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• e-gs - Online web portal of the ETH Zurich Graphics Collection.

Jan 28, 2020

Archives and primary sources / Germany

• Projekt Gutenberg - Contains 10'000 works by over 2'000 authors in German.

Dec 21, 2019

Archives and primary sources / Global

• OldMapsOnline - Maps, starting in the 17th century.

Oct 30, 2019

Archives and primary sources / Europe

• Archives Portal Europe - European archives search engine.

• Europeana - Search engine for European textual and non-textual archival sources.

Archives and primary sources / France

• Gallica - Digital library of the National Library of France.

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Industriekultur - Swiss national inventory of industry artifacts.

Learning / Switzerland

• Digital History Guide - Introduction to the web for historians, who wish to produce online historical work.

Oct 29, 2019

Archives and primary sources / Switzerland

• Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland - Diplomatic documents of Switzerland.

• HSSO - Historical statistics of Switzerland online.

Learning / Switzerland

• AdFontes - An Introduction to Working with Sources in the Archive.

• Clio Guide - A handbook on digital resources for the historical sciences.