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| Centre for English local History Thesis Collection |
The University of Leicester Library has recently extended some of our digital collections, that might be of interest to historians:
Primary sources on travel writing of the "Grand
Tour" of Europe between 1550 and 1850
An ancient history database: texts of ancient Greek
historians including Brill’s New Jacoby and Die Fragmente der Griechischen
Historiker or Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrHist) Parts I-V
A law database: full-text historic UK and Irish legislation
from 1235, and links to full-text case law from other legal providers
State Calendars and Papers from both the Tudor (1509-1603)
and Stuart (1603-1714) periods
Online archive of key colonial newspaper from 1838 to 2007
The Library and the Centre for Local History have also teamed up to create a new resource:
Makes available the theses completed by students at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. The collection comprises 104 theses, 103 of them PhDs, and 1 MPhil. The full text is available to read and download in the majority of cases. The coverage begins in 1948 and ends in 2015.