INTRODUCTION
Oxford's collections for historians are vast and expansive, covering both excellent archival and special collections, visual sources and critical monographs for most countries in the world.
To help you make the most of those collections use the guides as listed below. There are guides to history resources by COUNTRY, PERIOD, TOPIC, ARCHIVES and DATABASES.
Guides to relevant libraries
Guides to ARCHIVES
Special collections in the Bodleian Libraries comprise manuscripts, rare books, printed ephemera, maps, music and digitised collections in twelve different libraries across Oxford. Listed below are selected LibGuides to these collections.
Guides by COUNTRY
- Great Britain and IrelandSee also Guides by PERIOD (below).
- Western EuropeSee also Guides by PERIOD (below).
- Russia, Central and East Europe
- United States
- African Studies
- Commonwealth countries
- Middle East
- China
- Japan
- Korea
- South Asia
- Latin America
Guides by PERIOD
- Ancient history
- Medieval history (British & W European) c 500-1500an old fashioned PDF guide
- Early modern history (British & W European) c 1500-1800
- Modern history (British & W European) c1800-1989an old fashioned PDF guide
Guides by TOPIC
- Art History
- History of Science and Medicine - overview
- Legal history: common law tradition
- Official Paperse.g. Parliamentary Papers, League of Nations, United Nations, European Documentation Centre
- Criminal and judicial statistics from 1800 to the present day
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