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
Letters by Italian personalities during World War I
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Italy Propaganda Social-history
The National Library of Italy (Rome) makes available online 8 valuable manuscripts written by important Italian personalities, such as Gabriele d'annunzio and Giuseppe Prezzolini, relating to the First World War.
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Italian First World War Music
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war songbooks
This digital collection of songbooks and sheet music written and spread during the tragic World War One period is kept at the National Library of Italy (Rome).
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Italian First World War chronicles and memorials
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Italy memorials
A collection of digital items of popular journalistic books, war chronicles and memorials for those who fell from the WW1 period; administered by the National Library of Italy (Rome).
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Italian newspapers from the First World War period
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Journals Magazines
Italian newspapers and satirical journals from the First World War period.
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National Library of Ireland historic photographs
Collections Academic Research Ireland
This collection of 34,000 historic Irish photographs, digitised from the National Library's collection of glass plate negatives, illustrates Irish life and society between 1860 and 1954.
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Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
Collections Academic Research France Periodicals
Gallica is the digital library, digital encylopedia, of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
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First World War Collection of various items of National Library of France
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Journals Illustrations Cartography Propaganda Trench-journals yearbooks
The National Library of France, as a partner of "Europeana Collections 1914-1918" has provided the its own WW1 collection. It comprises different items: books, magazines, trench newspapers, maps, photographs, posters, pamphlets, books for children, etc, freely available online.
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Danish collection of digitized pamphlets’s contribution to the project Europeana Collections 1914-1918
Collections Academic Research 1914-1918 First-world-war Social-history
Danish collection of digitized pamphlets’s contribution to the project Europeana Collections 1914-1918.
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Aerial photos Denmark
Collections Academic Research Landscapes aerial-photographs negatives
Aerial photographs from the Royal Library of Denmark. In oblique and vertical format, from many different collections depending on the origin, the areas photographed are Denmark and the Faroe Islands.
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The David Simonsen manuscripts collection (12th-19th c.)
Collections Academic Research Judaism Social-history
The David Simonsen manuscripts collection (12th-19th century). The digitised items (aprox. 193) range from the only Genizah fragment in Danish collections - a Judeo-Arabic letter, tentatively dated to the 12th century - to modern copies of manuscripts in other libraries.
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