Historic Scotland - the official website. American Historical Association. Historical Manuscripts Commission. Historical Manuscripts Commission - Organisations and Projects - Making History. HMC Reading Room ©TNA The Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC, formally known as The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts) was established in 1869, with a remit to survey and publish original records of 'Institutions and Private Families'.
It thus performed a similar function with regard to private archives as the Public Record Office (PRO) did for official papers. Its publications of surveys and calendars were the major raw material for historians until the opening up of local depositories between the 1950s and 1970s, and the HMC also oversaw the maintenance of the National Register of Archives (NRA) from the latter's establishment in 1945. The HMC and the PRO merged to form The National Archives (TNA) in 2003. Click here to read full article. Calendars of State Papers and Close Rolls. Ohiohistory.org. Overview - Historical Newspapers Online - Guides at Penn Libraries. Cambridge Historical Society - Preserving the history and heritage of Cambridge Massachusetts. Early English Books Online - EEBO.
Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature. Royal Historical Society (RHS) The Royal Historical Society (and its predecessor body, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published editions of sources on British History.
It is a very good collection of editions of sources and important unpublished texts for historians, with expert commentary, and many of the early volumes remain in regular use. The publication is on-going (two volumes per annum), and the volumes are currently published by Cambridge University Press. The series now comprises over 325 volumes. Availability of electronic text Over 325 volumes of the back list of Camden Society publications are now available on-line through Cambridge Journals Online, providing an extraordinarily rich conspectus of source material for British history as well as window on the development of historical scholarship in the English speaking world.
JSTOR. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Historical Society, Oxford, England.