Curated datasets

The datasets here represent over a million of the best, directly accessible objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Data Updated: 6 November 2023
John Thomas Photographic Collection
Collections Academic Research Wales Landscapes Local-history Social-history
This digital collection offers a selection of over four hundred photographs from the John Thomas collection taken from the 1860s onwards.
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Early Dutch Books Online
Collections Academic Research Rare-books Theology Linguistics
Early Dutch Books Online provides full-text access to over two million pages of 10,000 books about the Dutch language from the period 1781-1800.
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Alba amicorum from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Collections Academic Research Social-history
What makes this collection so special is the age of the books (from the 16th and 17th century), their beautiful construction and excellent condition
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Medieval illuminated manuscripts
Collections Academic Research Religious-literature Theology Illuminations
This is the richest collection of illuminated manuscripts in the Netherlands.
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Newspapers and magazines from the First World War period - National Library of Serbia
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Greece Serbia montenegro
This collection has been digitised within the context of the Europeana Newspapers project. It includes titles of newspapers and magazines in the Serbian language during World War One.
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Digital Periodicals Library
Collections Academic Research Journals Periodicals Magazines
The Hemeroteca Digital offers online access to more than a hundred historical Spanish newspapers kept in the Library.
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First World War Collection of National Library of Serbia
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Serbia Postcards Propaganda
The NLS as a partner of the "Europeana Collections 1914-1918" project has launched its digital library Veliki rat (Great War) with different valuable collections from the WW1 period (posters, images, miscellaneous), reflecting the particular position of the Kingdom of Serbia during the War.
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Digital Collection of 78 rpm Gramophone National Library of Serbia
Collections Academic Research Music Speech Sound-effects gramophone
The National Library of Serbia preserves precious sound treasure on 78 rpm gramophone records in its Special Collections. There are around 1600 records, and more than half (around 900) has been digitised in the last 7 years. The oldest ones date from the beginning of the past century (1901-1902), and the earliest ones are from sixth decade of the 20th Century.
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Hungarian Electronic Library
Collections Academic Research Economics Humanities Science social-sciences arts
The Hungarian Electronic Library is a collection of about 5500 digitised works relating to Hungary or the Central European region, in the fields of culture, education and academic research, specifically on natural sciences and mathematics; engineering, economics, technology; social sciences; literature, culture, humanities and arts; manuals, reference works and special documents.
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Photographs and memorabilia WWI National Library of Serbia
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Monuments Social-history
This collection includes photographs of various memorabilia from the period of the war, objects made in trenches or advertisement ideas during the war.
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