Microform sources for History
This is a list of some microforms in the Library which are of potential use to historians. It excludes certain classes. First, all microforms connected with women's history (see Primary Sources for Women's History in the University Library); second, all the publications of historical record societies such as the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society; and third, all microforms of other books and theses.
Some of the material is on microcard, some on microfiche, and some on microfilm, as shown below. Please use the Library Catalogue to find out the location of this material. Hard copy can be made from microfiche and microfilm materials, but not from microcard, by using the Library's reader-printers.
In addition to the microform sources available here, there are major collections that are available in other libraries or via Inter-Library Loan, and some lists of these are included on the back page of this guide.
| Abolition and emancipation. Part 1: sources from the Huntington Library. (Contains papers of Thomas Clarkson, William Lloyd Garrison, Zachary Macaulay, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Wilberforce.) | Microfilm |
| Ancient correspondence. 1175-1538. PRO Class SC 1. Brighton: Harvester Microform, [1985]. | Microfilm |
| Annual register: or, A view of the history, politics and literature of the year 1829 (-1862). (The years 1758-1830, 1863-1893, 1896-1897, etc. are available in hard copy.) | Microfilm |
| Athenian Gazette or, Casuistical Mercury: resolving all the most nice and curious questions proposed by the ingenious. Vols. 1-XX. 1690-1697. | Microfilm |
| Association of All Classes of All Nations. Proceedings of the 3rd (-4th) Congress of the Association of all Classes of All Nations and the first (-second) Congress of the National Community Friendly Society. Birmingham, 1838 (-1939). | Microfilm |
| Bradlaugh, Charles. The Bradlaugh papers. Wakefield: EP Microform, 1975. | Microfilm |
| Britain and Europe since 1945. Brighton: Harvester P., 1973-1980. | Microfiche |
| British Library. Calendars of charters and rolls in the manuscript collections of the British Library. | Microfilm |
| British Museum. English cartoons and satirical prints, 1320-1832, in the British Museum. | Microfilm |
| Byland Abbey. [Transcripts and extracts of a general cartulary.] Bodleian Library, MS. Dodsworth, 63, ff. 9-78. | Microfilm |
| Clarke, Sir William. Sir William Clarke manuscripts, 1640-1664. Hassocks: Harvester P., 1977. | Microfilm |
| Cobbett, William. Cobbett's parliamentary history of England, 1066-1803. | Microcard |
| A collection for improvement of husbandry and trade. Vols. I-X. 1692-1697. Reading: Primary Source Media, [n.d.] | Microfilm |
| Communist International: organ of the Executive Committee of the Communist International. | Microfilm |
| The eighteenth century: a microfilm collection based on the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Woodbridge: Research Publications, 1982-. Note that many of the records in this collection are available as full text online in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). See MetaLib [please link] for access. | Microfilm |
| The French Revolution research collection. editors: Jean-Paul Bertaud, Georges Miraval, David Geggus, editor-in-chief Colin Lucas. (Sections only). | Microfiche |
| Holyoake, George. Holyoake papers. (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| Holyoake, George. Selected pamphlets, 1841-1904. (In the series Religion, radicalism and freethought in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.) (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| Home Office. Civil disturbance, Chartism and riots in nineteenth-century England: Disturbance Papers selected from HO 45. | Microfilm |
| House of Commons. British sessional papers, 1731-1965. | Microcard |
| House of Commons. Parliamentary debates, 1803-1918. | Microcard |
| House of Lords. Parliamentary debates, 1909-1918. | Microcard |
| Keene, Derek J. and Harding, Vanessa. Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire. | Microfiche |
| Labour Party, National Executive Committee. National Executive Committee minutes, 1900-1955. Hassocks: Harvester P., 1974. | Microfiche |
| Lascelles and Maxwell Letter Books, 1739-1769. Wakefield: Microform Academic Press. | Microfilm |
| Left in Britain. Hassocks: Harvester P., 1974. Contains, among other things, the Socialist standard, 1904-1972. | Microfilm |
| The Lisle letters. Public Record Office, SP 3/1-18. | Microfilm |
| London. Court of Hustings. Husting rolls of deeds and wills, 1252-1485. | Microfilm |
| London directories from the Guildhall Library, 1677-1855. Reading, Primary Source Media, [n.d.]. (Housed in King's Manor Library.) | Microfilm |
| London Medical Journal, 1781-1784. Gale Group. | Microfilm |
| London Trades Council. Minutes and papers, 1860-1953. London: World Microfilms, 1971. | Microfilm |
| Macfarlane, Alan. Records of an English village: Earls Colne, 1400-1750. | Microfiche |
| Meaux Abbey. Chartulary of the abbey of Melsa, or Meaux, in the County of York. British Library, MS. Lansdowne 424. | Microfilm |
| Meaux Abbey. Cronica monasterii de Melsa, 1150-1400. British Library, MS. Egerton 1141. | Microfilm |
| Morice, Humphry. The Humphrey [sic] Morice papers from the Bank of England, London. | Microfilm |
| National Community Friendly Society. Minute books of the Owenite societies, 1838-1845. Hassocks: Harvester P., 1976. (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| The New England farmer. Vols. 1-24. | Microfiche |
| Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser. (Contd. as Northern Star and National Trades Journal). 1838-1852. | Microfilm |
| Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount . [The Russell papers: correspondence with Lord John Russell, 1862-1864.] P.R.O. 30/22, 30/23: 1-210. | Microfilm |
| Place, Francis. The Francis Place papers from the British Library. | Microfilm |
| Privy Council. Acts, colonial series, 1613-1783. | Microfiche |
| Privy Council. Privy Council registers, 1631-1637. | Microcard |
| Radical politics and the working man in England, series two: The Francis Place Collection in the Department of Printed Books in the British Library, 1770-1853. | Microfilm |
| Registrar General's statistical review of England and Wales for the year 1921 (-1965). | Microfilm |
| Religion, radicalism and freethought in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Collection of periodicals, 1834-1916. (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| Religion, radicalism and freethought in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The records of the Leicester Secular Society, 1842-1943. (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| Religion, radicalism and freethought in Victorian Britain. Manchester Domestic Missionary Society reports, 1833-1908. (On permanent loan from Dr. E. Royle.) | Microfilm |
| Report on the census of production, 1907-1967. | Microfilm |
| Rowbotham, William. Rowbotham diaries, 1787-1830. Manchester: Manchester Cultural Services, 1986. | Microfilm |
| Sex and sexuality, 1640-1940: literary, medical and sociological perspectives. Part 1. (Marlborough: Adam Matthew Publications, 1998). | Microfilm |
| State Papers, Domestic, 1547-1660 | Microfilm |
| Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom. Vols. 1-83, 1840-1938. | Microfilm |
| The Tanner manuscripts: church, state and politics in England 1550-1700. Parts 1-4. From the Bodleian Library, Oxford. (Brighton: Harvester Press Microform Publications, 1977). | Microfilm |
| Thorne, Parish. Parish of Thorne minute book, 1816-1894. | Microfilm |
| The Times. 1785-1991. | Microfilm |
| Trades Union Congress, Parliamentary Committee. Minutes, 1888-1922. London, Micrographic Exports. | Microfilm |
| Trades Union Congress, Parliamentary Committee. Reports, 1910-1918. London, Micrographic Exports. | Microfilm |
| Treasury. Treasury minute books, 1719-1722 and 1725-1728. | Microcard |
| York Courant. 1728-1805. | Microfilm |
There are lists of microforms of interest to historians; those available here are noted below.
Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York. Historical records available on microform in York. York, 1994.
British Library. Microform collections: government publications and the social sciences; comp. by Dorothy Walker. London, 1992.
British Library. Microform research collections at the British Library. London, 1989.
Munro, D.J. Microforms for historians: a finding-list of research collections in London libraries; 2nd ed. London, 1994.
This finding-list includes the microform holdings of the British Library Document Supply Centre, items from where can be obtained via the Inter-Library Loan system. A maximum of ten reels of microfilm or one hundred microfiches may be borrowed against one Inter-Library Loan request form; the maximum loan period is fifteen weeks.
