History Research Guide: Find Websites

Historical video archive.

Highlights some of the unique materials of the National Library of Scotland's collections. Topics include: WWII propaganda, early books printed in Scotland. Most entries include links to additional resources.

Unique, scholarly, resource from Columbia University aims to treat all aspects of Iranian history and culture.

Official UK government records of the First World War, including a vast collection of letters, diaries, maps and photographs.

A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Great place to find primary sources.

Digital archive dedicated to researching and understanding the history and impact of eugenics in Western Canada

British Movietone is arguably the world's greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.

Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky, via this channel.

British Movietone also offers a weekly series called 'The Archivist Presents' where a treasure from the archive is shared by our archivist Jenny and ‘Movietone Moments’, a weekly selection of topical stories providing context to events in the news and marking

Original First World War documents.

This database from the Library and Archives Canada has digitized First World War personnel records.

Historica Canada's downloadable guide.