Primary Sources for the British Isles

As a spin-off from my previous post regarding my Ancestry DNA results from the British Isles, I decided to search for some databases with primary sources for British history. Starting with Google, I entered “Primary Sources for the British Isles” into the search bar. Several of the search results included library guides from various Universities. One website that stood out during my initial search was British History Online. The website description states that it is, “a digital library of key printed primary and secondary sources for the history of Britain and Ireland.” The site allows researchers to search using keywords and titles. There are also quick links on the home page to other areas of the site. The links include the following:  Maps, Full Catalog, Guides and Calendars, Secondary Texts, Primary Sources, and Data-sets.
British History Online-Home Page: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Due to my focus on primary source documents, I selected the link to primary sources to view the digital collection.
The online catalog of primary sources lists the title and number of volumes for each source. I quickly learnd that some of the primary 
sources have the label “premium content” which requires researchers to subscribe to British History Online for access. After my unsuccessful attempt to view the
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, I selected The Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to view.
Fortunately, this source is included as free content on the website and includes the original publication date by the Irish University Press in 1682, along with typed
transcriptions of the original documents.
Link to The Journals of All the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth:
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/jrnl-parliament-eliz1


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