European History

Belgium and the Netherlands in Primary Sources

Guide to researching early modern and modern European History at Boston College.

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JSTOR Images

A database of more than 1.3 million digital images. It covers many time periods and cultures and represent architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, etc. Users are required to create a personal account to access this database off campus.

EuroDocs
Interface in English. Content in English or original languages.
Links to European historical documents that have been transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. Maintained by Brigham Young University.
Open Access.
Europeana
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Open Access.

HathiTrust
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text. Boston College's status as a partner makes it possible for members of the Boston College community to download any of the out-of-copyright items as PDFs.

International Institute of Social History: Digital Collections
More than 1.5 million documents from across Europe and farther, including diverse publications, visual materials, serials, posters, photographs, drawings, ephemera, postcards, some audio and visual recordings, a few comics and games as well.
Open Access.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Interface in English. Content in English or other languages.
Digitized collections from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more. Strongest between the 17th and 21st centuries. Content dating back to B.C.E.
Open Access.

World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.

Belgica (La Bibliothèque royale de Belgique)
Interface in English, Dutch, or French.
Includes manuscripts, contemporary printed books, maps and plans, rare books, coins and medals, music, as well as prints and drawings.
Open Access

BelgicaPress
"Gives you access to 104 Belgian newspapers referred to as "major newspapers", most of which appeared daily (1814-1970)."
Belgian war newspapers
The Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Ceges-Soma [French-Flemish acronym]), a federal research institution on wars and conflicts of the twentieth century and their impact on Belgium, launched the Belgian War Press website on 14 December 2012.
The Belgian War Press introduces you to hundreds of Belgian newspapers that were written, printed and distributed clandestinely during the two World Wars.

Nexis Uni
Thousands of U.S. and international news sources; legal materials: case law, statutes and law reviews; and company/business information.
Primarily 1990-present
World News Connection
Full text news (1995-2013) compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources translated into English, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. Coverage is by region and includes: East Asia, Near East and South Asia, China, East Europe, West Europe, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Académie royale des sciences d'outre-mer
The Bulletin des Séances/Mededelingen der Zittingen is the quarterly journal of the Academy. It comprises the texts of presentations submitted orally during the meetings. The texts are indexed by keywords and authors in the general alphabetical tables.