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Specialized Archives, Libraries or Collections
- 1989-1990 Wende-Zeiten Bilder, Töne, Kommentare aus dem DDR-Fernsehen Images, sound and commentary documenting the Fall of the Wall and the other events of 1989-1990 from the GDR television archives in the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv Babelsberg.
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at Brandeis University. General information, Spanish Civil War links.
- Afrika Studiecentrum (Leiden) African Studies Centre - Centre d'Etudes Africaines: research institution and documentation centre for African studies in the Netherlands. Online catalogue and many other resources including working papers, 'Web Dossiers' containing topical information on Africa, 'African Studies Abstracts Online', and bibliographies.
- Alexander Baykov Library The Baykov Library is part of the European Resource Centre, at the University of Birmingham. It was originally established in 1963 as part of the newly created Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Holdings total aprox. 90,000 volumes and 500 Soviet Era Posters
- Alfred Klahr Gesellschaft (Vienna). Keeper of the records of the Kommunistische Partei Österreichs. General information.
- All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing, and Costume Digitized millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books (1907 – 1940’s) from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and design and construction of hats, clothing and costumes. At the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group.
- American Radicalism Collection at Michigan State University Libraries. Including scanned texts of the Black Panthers, the Industrial Workers of the World, on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, the Rosenberg case etc.
- Ammattiyhdistysarkisto (Helsinki). The Finnish Trade Union Archives. Detailed overview of the collections.
- AMSAB Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Ghent). The most important repository for the socialist movement in Flanders.
- Arbeiderbevegelsens Arkiv i Telemark General information.
- Arbeiderbevegelsens Arkiv og Bibliotek (Oslo). The most important labour history collection in Norway. Collections information.
- Arbeiterfotografie Digitized German labour photo's from 1925 to around 1935, with some additions from after the War until around 1980; from the Deutsche Fotothek (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden)
- Arbeiterkammer Wien - Bibliothek at the Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte (Vienna). Holdings information, online catalogue for parts of the collection.
- Arbejdermuseet & Arbejderbevægelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv (Copenhagen). The major Danish labour archive, with socialist and communist party records. General information.
- Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek (Stockholm). The most important labour history repository in Sweden. Information on the collections and the journal Arbetarhistoria.
- Arbetslivsbiblioteket (Solna). The Library of the National Institute for Working Life. General information, online catalogue.
- Archeia Synchronis Koinonikis Istorias (Athens). General information in Greek about this major labour history institution in Greece, collections information, tables of contents of Archeiotaxio, its periodical publication.
- ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia An overview of archives in Moscow and St Petersburg; maintained by the International Institute of Social History.
- Archif Wleidyddol Gymreig (Welsh Political Archive) at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. General information
- Archiv APO und soziale Bewegungen at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Collects material on the German extra-parlementarian movements since 1945. General information.
- Archiv der Arbeiterjugendbewegung (Oer-Erkenschwick). Overview of the collections.
- Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung (Witzenhausen) Archival institution for the collection and safeguarding of German youth movements documents from around 1890 to the present. Publisher of the Jahrbuch des Archivs der deutschen Jugendbewegung.
- Archiv der Münchner Arbeiterbewegung The Archive of the Munich Labour Movement collects all documents from the labour movement, new social movements, industrial culture and the lives of the working people of Munich. General information about the Archive's collections and activities.
- Archiv der sozialen Bewegungen in Bremen Overview of the collections.
- Archiv für Agrargeschichte AfA Archives of Rural History. Swiss organization for the safeguarding of documents relating to the history of rural society and the agricultural sector in the 19th and 20th centuries. AfA locate and catalogue but do not store the documents but instead deposit them in existing repositories. The website has information in German, French and English about their method of working and gives access to a database containing information about archived collections.
- Archiv für alternatives Schrifttum in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Duisburg). Catalogue of its serials and pamphlet holdings, with a regional focus, mainly from the 1960s on.
- Archiv für soziale Bewegungen in Baden Documents on post-WW II social movements in the Upper-Rhine area. General information, overview of the collections.
- Archive der Schweizer Arbeiterbewegung A new web portal to facilitate access to the archives of the Swiss labour movement. Documents from trade unions, political parties, women's and youth movements, associations and societies. A collaboration of the Association pour l'Etude de l'Histoire du mouvement ouvrier AEHMO, the College du Travail and the Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv.
- Archives d'Histoire contemporaine at the Centre d'histoire de l'Europe du vingtième siècle, École des Sciences politiques (Paris). Overview of the collections, the papers of Léon Blum among them.
- Archives of Irish America The Archives of Irish America is a repository of primary research materials related to the Irish migration to the USA at New York University. Collection information, images and transcriptions of selected primary documents, excerpts from the Ireland House Oral History Collection and other exhibits.
- Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh. General information on the Archives of Industrial Society and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America Archives and Labor Collections.
- Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico (Rome). Some 150,000 photographs and thousands of films, videos etc. General information, online guide and catalogue.
- Archivio del lavoro L’Archivio storico - Biblioteca della Camera del Lavoro di Milano (Sesto San Giovanni, Milano)
- Archivio Famiglia Berneri-Aurelio Chessa Centro di documentazione sul movimento anarchico (Reggio Emilia). General information about the archives, online library catalogue.
- Archivio per la storia del movimento sociale cattolico in Italia - Sezione di Brescia General information.
- Archivio Storico Del Movimento Operaio Brasiliano ASMOB At São Paolo State University. Brief notes on its holdings (communist and other).
- Archivio Storico della Nuova Sinistra "Marco Pezzi" The Historical Archive of the New Left "Marco Pezzi", established in 1989 in Bologna, Italy, has a collection of newspapers, leaflets, posters, documents, photo's, and video's produced by Italian movements of the extreme left. Detailed collections information.
- Archivio-Biblioteca Enrico Travaglini per gli studi sociali e il libero pensiero (Fano). This library specializes in anarchism and anticlericalism. The website gives access to digitized documents related to the libertarian educator Francisco Ferrer and contains a section about the history of social and political movements in the Pesaro province.
- Archivo Central Andrés Bello at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago). General information on the collections, Pablo Neruda's papers among them.
- Archivo Historia del Movimiento Obrero Argentino (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires). Information about the origins of the Archivo Historia del Movimiento Obrero which is located at the Fundación Simón Rodríguez, the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Stanford.
- Archiwum Partii Politycznych at the Instytut Studiów Politycznych of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw).
- Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth AEL at Campinas State University. Online catalog.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Archives and Library Services Brief information on its radio, television and document archives.
- Australian Labour Party Records at the National Archives of Australia. Finding aid.
- Australian Trade Union Archives Australian Trade Union Archives [ATUA] is an online gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, designed to link together historical detail, archival resources, published material and current information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies. Published by the University of Melbourne.
- Beaglehole Room General information about the trade union records in the J. C. Beaglehole Room, the official repository within the Library of all archives and manuscript material at the library of the Victoria University of Wellington.
- Ben-Gurion Archives at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. General information.
- Bergbau-Archiv Bochum Under Wirtschaftsarchive: Overview of its holdings, links to other mining history sites.
- Beyond Steel: An Archive of Lehigh Valley Industry and Culture Digitized letters, books, photographs, maps, essays, and oral histories from the Lehigh University Digital Library, PA.
- Biblioteca Alfredo Oriani (Ravenna). Overview of its collections of pro- and anti-fascist literature, local communist and trade-union records.
- Biblioteca de Crítica y Alternativas Radicales Overview of the collections.
- Biblioteca de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). The most important social science library in Argentina. Information on the collections, including several business archives.
- Biblioteca Franco Serantini (Pisa). Overview of its (mainly anarchist) collections and publications.
- Biblioteca Popular José Ingenieros (Buenos Aires). General information on this anarchist library.
- Biblioteca Pública Arús (Barcelona). A century-old library with ca 65,000 vols on Spanish anarchism, freemasonry etc. Overview of the collection.
- Biblioteca Social Reconstruir (Mexico). Overview of its publications, links.
- Biblioteca Umberto Balestrazzi (Parma). The former local library of the Communist Party. General information.
- Biblioteka Sejmova (Warsaw). See: Czytelnia Zbiorów Historii Spo³ecznej (ZHS): Brief description of the library holdings of the former Central Archives of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (until recently the Archives of the Polish Left), now in the library of the Polish Parliament.
- Bibliothek der Freien: Anarchistische Bücherei im Haus der Demokratie Berlin An anarchist library containing more than 1,500 monographs from the collection of the Berliner Gesellschaft zum Studium sozialer Fragen. General information, an overview of the collections, a list of periodical titles, and LidiaP (Liste digitalisierter anarchistischer Periodika) free download of more than 300 libertarian periodicals in 19 languages covering 134 years.
- Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte - Dokumentationsstelle für unkonventionelle Literatur at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (Stuttgart). Overview of the collections.
- Bibliothek zur Geschichte der DDR at the Haus der Geschichte (Bonn). General information.
- Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (Nanterre). The largest collection on labour history in France. Online catalog.
- Bibliothèque marxiste de Paris Important communist archival holdings (pre-1945). Collections information.
- Bishopsgate Institute and Library The library and archives of this educational foundation that opened in 1894, offers free public access to its historical collections about London and the early labour, free thought and co-operative movements.
- Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections Labor Bibliography Archives and manuscripts descriptions.
- British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Lots of political cartoons, mainly from the British press. Collections information.
- Center for Agricultural History at Iowa State University. Information on the journal Agricultural History, links.
- Center for Historical Social Science Literature A rare book library at Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). Information on its collections, among them the library of Carl Menger.
- Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Kentucky. General information.
- Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Hawaii. Newsletter and the Research Library on labour law and labour history (general information).
- Center for Migration Studies (New York). Overview of its research projects, online catalog of its documentation centre, related links.
- Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Detailed collections information.
- Centre Ascaso-Durruti (Montpellier). Home to the papers and library of Abel Paz (Diego Camacho), chiefly on the Spanish Revolution. Library catalog (over 2 Mb).
- Centre d'Animation et de Recherche en Histoire ouvrière et populaire CARHOP Archives and documentation centre on the Christian labour movement. General information.
- Centre d'Estudis Històrics Internacionals (Barcelona). Brief overview of the considerable collections on the Second Republic, Civil War, and Franco period; catalogue through the University of Barcelona.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation d'Information et d'Action sociales (Paris). General information about the Centre's activities, its collections and publications.
- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux CERMTRI (Paris). General information.
- Centre d'Histoire du Travail (Nantes). Archival centre and library for French labour history, founded by the trade unions CGT, CGT-FO, and CFDT.
- Centre de documentació antiautoritari i llibertari Cedall An organization for 20th century libertarian history. Information about the Centre and its activities, E-books, online interviews and articles on the labour movement in Badalona (1915-). The library collection is housed in the Biblioteca de Can Casacuberta, Badalona.
- Centre de recherche d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle CHS (ex- Centre de recherche d'histoire des mouvements sociaux et du syndicalisme).
- Centre des Archives Communistes en Belgique CArCoB General information, collection information, online catalogue.
- Centre des Archives du Monde du Travail (Roubaix). A subsidiary of the French National Archives, collecting social and economic history sources from its region.
- Centre for Industrial Relations at the University of Toronto. Home to the Jean and Dorothy Newman Industrial Relations Library. General information.
- Centre historique minier de Lewarde Overview of the archival collection.
- Centre international de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme (Lausanne). General holdings information, lists of books, pamphlets, music, films and periodicals in the Centre's collections.
- Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme CIRA (Annexe de Marseille) Founded in Marseille in 1965, this repositoy of anarchist materials originally was a branch of the CIRA in Lausanne.
- Centro de Documentação do Movimento operário Mário Pedrosa CEMAP At São Paolo State University. Overview of its holdings, mainly on Trotskyist movements and clandestine groups of the sixties and seventies.
- Centro de Documentación de la Emigración Española CDEE: Spanish emigration research centre. General information, extensive collection information, all in Spanish; from the website of the Fundación 1o de Mayo.
- Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano CEFPSVLT (México). General information.
- Centro de Investigación y Estudios Republicanos CIERE Centre for Spanish Republican Studies (Madrid); publishes the Cuadernos Republicanos; general information, access to its online catalogue.
- Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de los Movimientos Armados (Mexico). General information.
- Centro di documentazione Mauro Rostagno at the Museo storico in Trento. Overview of the collections, mostly related to local labour history.
- Centro di documentazione Valerio Verbano (Rome). Catalogue of its holdings of contemporary social movements.
- Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica (Salamanca). Republican and other (notably masonic) records seized by the victors during and after the Spanish Civil War.
- Centro ligure di storia sociale (Genoa). Information on the Centre's collections, activities and publications.
- Centro Sergio Buarque de Holanda (CSBH) Established by Fundação Perseu Abramo this is research centre and repository of the Partido dos Trabalhadores; publisher of the review Perseu: história, memória e política.
- Centro studi Feliciano Rossitto (Ragusa). Overview of its collections, mainly on the socio-political history of Sicily.
- Centro Studi Libertari / Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli (Milan). General collections information, Italian bibliography on anarchism, information bulletin (toc).
- Centro studi libertari Luigi Fabbri (Jesi, Ancona). General information.
- Centro studi Piero Gobetti (Turin). On the anti-fascist, labour and students movements. General information.
- Centro studi storia del lavoro (Imola). General information.
- Centrum Arbeidsverhoudingen (The Hague). On labour relations in the public sector. Online catalogue, relevant links.
- Circolo Carlo Vanza (Minusio). Detailed listing of its (mainly anarchist) holdings.
- Collection Social Documentation Index to a large collection of materials from mainly but not exclusively Dutch underground, youth and student movements, squatters, and new age movements at the International Institute of Social History. Information in Dutch.
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University of Fort Hare Library Overview of the collections of the African National Congress ANC, the collected records of the Pan Africanist Congess of Azania, AZAPO and the Black Consciousness Movement finding aids and more.
- Commonweal Collection at the University of Bradford Library. An independent specialist library concerned with issues relating to non-violent social change. It contains over 11,000 books and pamphlets, 250 current journals and a variety of videos and educational materials on peace and disarmament, environmentalism etc. It also contains archival material from the peace and other movements.
- Comune di Rimini - Biblioteca Gambalunga Holds the Lettimi-Francolini papers containing socialist and anarchist documents.
- Consorzio biblioteche e archivi istituti culturali di Roma BAICR consisting of the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, the Istituto Luigi Sturzo, the Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso-Issoco, and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, the latter two being particularly strong in labour history. General information.
- Contested Terrain: Aboriginal Land Petitions in New Brunswick, 1786-1878 A digital collection of 90 petitions relating to land grants in colonial New Brunswick. In addition to the digitized petitions the website also features learning activities for teachers and students, contextual materials, a gallery of contemporary images, and a comprehensive bibliography; from the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
- Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations A rich site offering the Martin P. Catherwood Library (200,000 vols) and the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive
- Dalhousie University Libraries - Special Collections Listings of its archives which include the Nova Scotia Labour Archives.
- Deutsches Freimaurer Museum The library of the German Masonic Museum in Bayreuth is considered to be the largest special collection in German speaking countries with approximately 16,000 volumes. General information, online catalogue.
- Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (Frankfurt am Main and Babelsberg). Overview of the collections.
- Dewey Library : Management and Social Sciences. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (Vienna). Collections information.
- Dokumentationszentrum für europäische Gewerkschaftspublikationen at the University of Bremen. General information, access to the Presse-Spiegel aus der europäischen Gewerkschaftspresse.
- Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland DOMiD Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (Cologne) is a merger of the associations Migration Museum e.V. and DOMiT e.V. The collection consists of books, grey literature, newspapers, magazines, documents, photos, film, audio recording, leaflets, posters and objects.
- Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI. The Catholic Worker was founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical journalist who had converted to Catholicism, and Peter Maurin (1877-1949), an itinerant French worker/scholar. The collection includes the personal papers of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and others involved in the movement; records of past and present Catholic Worker communities; photographs; audio and video tapes of interviews, talks, television programs, and peace demonstrations; and a wide variety of publications.
- Dundee University Archives - Indian Textile Industry Source List Detailed index.
- F.A.L. - Fundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (Madrid). Anarchist collections, but the page contains mainly information on its publications.
- Fabian Society Online Archive Around 580 pamphlets published between 1884 and 1997, and some of the earliest Fabian Society minute books are available on the site of the London School of Economics and Political Science LSE.
- Fédération Internationale des Archives du Film (FIAF) Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. Today, more than 120 archives in over 65 countries collect, restore, and exhibit films and cinema documentation spanning the entire history of film.
- Filmarchives online Filmarchives online provides access to moving image collections of five European film archives. Partner archives and institutions of filmarchives online include the Deutsche Filminstitut, the British Film Institute (BFI), the Cineteca di Bologna, the DEFA-Foundation and Národní Filmový Archiv Prague (NFA). Currently, more than 4.000 film works are searchable in four different languages.
- Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff (Milan). General information.
- Fondazione Antonio Gramsci (Rome). Records and publications of the Italian Communist Party and many leading members. Detailed holdings information.
- Fondazione Biblioteca Archivio Luigi Micheletti (Brescia). General information.
- Fondazione culturale Vera Nocentini. Biblioteca e archivio storico-sindacale (Turin). General information, history, overview of the collections.
- Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati (Florence). The most important repository of Italian socialist records. Overview of the collections.
- Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Milan). Extensive Italian and international labour holdings. Overview of the collections. Parts of the library catalogue can be consulted through Italy's Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale, or its Polo regionale Lombardo
- Fondazione Giuseppe Emanuele e Vera Modigliani (Rome, Turin). Institution and library for the history of socialism and the Italian labour movement. Information about its activities and its library from the Associazione delle Istituzioni Culturali Italiane website.
- Fondazione Gramsci Torino (Turin). Records of mainly regional communist and related organizations. General holdings information.
- Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso - ISSOCO (Rome). Italian and international library and archives for the history of social movements. Extensive collections information.
- Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (Turin). General information on its social-economic history collections.
- Fondazione Pellegrini-Canevascini (Bellinzona). Swiss archival and documentation centre holding the papers of Guglielmo Canevascini and Piero Pellegrini, trade union archives (Camera del Lavoro, VPOD, Flmo, SEI) and socialist party archives (PST, PSA, PSU).
- Forschungszentrum für historische Minderheiten (Vienna). Information about the Centre and its archival and library collections.
- Free Speech Movement Archives (Berkeley, CA). Documents, images, links.
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (Bonn) of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Historical research, rich library and manuscript collections. Online catalogue (Web), guide to the archives, exhibitions etc.
- Friends of the Victor Serge Library website General information.
- Fritz Hüser Institut für deutsche und ausländische Arbeiterliteratur (Dortmund). This institute is entirely devoted to working-class culture and literature. Information about the collections.
- Fryer Library at the University of Queensland. Regional labour collections.
- Fundação Mário Soares (Lisbon). General information about the archives and library; online catalogue.
- Fundació Rafael Campalans: Arxiu Històric (Barcelona). The collections in the Historical Archive of the Fundació Rafael Campalans documents the political history of Catalonia
- Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM) Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party.
- Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero Historical institute, library and archives of the Unión General de Trabajadores. Information about the collections, online information bulletin ('Ámbitos').
- Fundación Pablo Iglesias (Madrid). The archive of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español. General information.
- Fundación Primera de Mayo (Madrid). Research and documentation centre created by the Comisiones Obreras. General information.
- George Meany Memorial Archives (Silver Spring, MD). Papers of Meany and other union leaders. Guide to the collections, information on Labor's Heritage.
- Gosudarstvennaia Istoricheskaia Publichnaia Biblioteka (Moscow). Collections information of the Public Historical State Library, one of the major resources in Russian and Soviet history. Cyrillic font.
- Gosudarstvennaia Obshchestvenno-Politicheskaia Biblioteka (Moscow). General information on the Socio-Political State Library, formerly part of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism and one of the finest libraries in labour history anywhere.
- Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources at the National Library of Canada.
- Guide to Holdings - Manuscript Collections - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham Go to Business records: Records of Nottinghamshire businesses and employees' organisations.
- Guides to Russian Archives M.J. Berry and M.J. Ilic, Using the Russian Archives: an Informal Practical guide for Beginners Based on Users' Experience. British Academic Committee for Collaboration With Russian Archives, in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Part 1. Moscow Archives (PDF).
- Guildhall Library (London). Overview of its sources for social and economic history.
- Hackney Archives Department (London). An overview of the collections, which include sources for social and labour history (local societies and clubs, trade unions), online catalogue.
- Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE). One of the largest repositories of business records in the US. Online catalog (Web). Information on the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society.
- Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung Overview of its research projects and collections, in particular on "Protest, Widerstand und Utopie in der BRD".
- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington at Seattle. Sponsor of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/
- Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets The House for the History of the Ruhr is home to the Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (SBR) and the Institut für soziale Bewegungen (ISB). The Haus der Geschichte holds the stock of the Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets and the Archiv für soziale Bewegungen.
- Holt Labor Library (San Francisco, CA). General information.
- Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. One of the largest collections of labour records anywhere. Guide to the collections.
- Hudson's Bay Company Archives at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba. Holdings information.
- Hull University Archives The labour history collections include materials related to Chartism, Christian Socialism, and many Trades Unions records. Online catalogue.
- Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
- ICS - Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa Information about the Institute; online library catalogue; an overview of the collections in the Arquivo de História Social; access to several research databases.
- ID-Archiv im IISG at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. A documentation centre on the German-language alternative press. Collections information, searchable database, links.
- Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Holdings information.
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 A web-based collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. It includes images from Harvard's Social Museum, which was established by F.G. Peabody to illustrate "problems of the social order" related to the rapid influx of immigrants.
- Institut CGT d'Histoire sociale (Montreuil). Overview of the records of the Confédération générale du Travail and related organizations.
- Institut Emile Vandervelde - Bibliothèque et Archives (Brussels). Holdings include the records of the Parti socialiste belge. General information from the Parti Socialite website.
- Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Los Angeles. General information.
- Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California at Berkeley. Information on research, working papers, abstracts of its journal, Industrial Relations, information on the library
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. General information.
- Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Institute of Migration Institute of Migration aims to promote and carry out migration and ethnic research and to encourage the compilation, storage and documentation of material relating to international and internal migration in Finland.
- Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Online library catalogue, information in Japanese and English.
- Institutions of the Labour Movement Heritage in Finland at the University of Tampere. Links to information on all Finnish labour history collections.
- Institutul Român de Istorie Recentã The Romanian Institute for Recent History (IRIR). Information in English on its library, archives and activities.
- International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam). One of the largest research and documentary institutions in labour history anywhere. Collections information, extensive links. Online catalog, including archival and audiovisual holdings; separate guide to the archives and collections.
- International Labour Organization Library and Information Services Catalogue, ILO databases, research guides.
- Irish Labour History Society Museum, Archives: general information.
- Istituto di Storia Contemporanea "Pier Amato Perretta" (Como). Information about this library and archival institution specialized in the history of early associations, the cooperative movement of Como and Lombardy.
- Istituto di Studi sul Capitalismo (Genoa). Information on the activities of the Institute, access to bibliographic databases.
- Istituto Gramsci (Ferrara) Local Communist Party records. Brief general information.
- Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna (Bologna). General collections information.
- Istituto Gramsci siciliano (Palermo). Collections information.
- Istituto Gramsci toscano (Florence). Regional and local records of the Italian Communist Party and some private papers. Publications, overview of the library.
- Istituto Luzzatti (Rome). Cooperative studies. Brief overview of the collections.
- Istituto nazionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione in Italia Insmli (Milan). Overview of the collections, online catalogue of part of them.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea della Marca trevigiana (Treviso). General information, overview of the collections.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea della provincia di Asti (Asti). General information, links to other institutions.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea in provincia di Alessandria (Alessandria). General information, online catalogue.
- Istituto per la storia della resistenza e della società contemporanea nelle province di Biella e Vercelli (Borgosesia). Overview of the collections.
- Kansan Arkisto (Helsinki). The People's Archives. Overview of the collections, including the records of the Finnish Communist Party.
- Karl Marx Haus (Trier), of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Home to the Karl Marx Studienzentrum and its library.
- Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
- Katholiek Documentatie Centrum at the University of Nijmegen. Its holdings include Roman Catholic trade unions' and women's organizations' records. For a list go to: Stands- en vakorganisaties.
- Katholiek Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum (Leuven). List of its archival holdings including many Roman Catholic labour records. Online library catalogs and databases.
- Killam Library at Dalhousie University. Business and labour archives from Atlantic Canada. General holdings information.
- Kreisky Archive (Vienna). Collections information.
- Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Extensive collection information, a guide to the collection, online virtual exhibitions and more.
- Labor & Industrial Relations Library At Michigan State University. Areas of strength in the LIR Reference Collection include labor and employment law, and grievance arbitration.
- Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. Labour records from the Bay Area. List of holdings.
- Labor Archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Extensive guide to the holdings.
- Labor History Resources At the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York. See also the Business and Industry subject guide.
- Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
- Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. General information.
- Labor-Related Films in the Library of Congress Collection
- Labour Council of New South Wales Labor Council Information Centre Online Library Catalog.
- Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) The Labour History Archive and Study Centre (LHASC) is the main specialist repository for research into the political wing of the labour movement. It holds archives of working class organisations from the Chartists to New Labour, including the Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
- Labour History Index This IALHI project is the first pilot version of a web-based search platform to search archival finding aids, lists of collections, guides to library holdings, databases on special subjects, web pages, and other collection information from ten European labour history institutions. It is a IALHI project.
- Labourline Labourline is the on-line catalogue of the ETUI-REHS Documentation Centre. The ETUI-REHS - European Trade Union Institute for Research, Education and Health and Safety - is a specialised institute of the ETUC.
- Leeds University Library - Guide to Collections The Special Collections include the Leeds Russian Archive and the Quaker Archives Database.
- Library and Museum of Freemasonry The repository for the archives of the United Grand Lodge of England and the Supreme Grand Chapter of England, their predecessor bodies, buildings and sites associated with Freemasonry, charitable bodies associated with Freemasonry, some individual Freemasons and some lodge and chapter records.
- Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science Over 1m vols, 28,000 journals. Online catalog (Web). Guides to the manuscript and pamphlet collections.
- Liens utiles dans le domaine du cinéma et de l'archivage = Nützliche Links im Bereich Kino und Archivierung Links to film archives and museums, an international list from the Cinemathèque suisse (Swiss Film Archives).
- Littauer Library at Harvard University. Information about the Slichter Industrial Relations Collection.
- Machon Lavon (Tel Aviv). Labour movement records. General information. Hebrew script.
- Macmillan Brown Library Detailed overview of the trade union collections at the Macmillan Brown Library, the University of Canterbury's research collection of New Zealand and Pacific Islands materials.
- Making of America at the University of Michigan. Digital library of primary sources in American social history: thousands of books and journal articles from the Antebellum period through Reconstruction.
- Maritime History Archive at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Documents "relating to the history of sea-based activities in the North Atlantic region". Extensive holdings information, online catalogue.
- Marx Memorial Library (London). The Specialist Collections include materials on the Spanish Civil War, the US labour movement, the Bernal peace collection, early radical and chartist materials, the Daily Worker/Morning Star and the Unemployed Workers' Movement. Online catalogue, a selection of book reviews first published in the Marx Memorial Bulletin.
- Max Stein Collection on German socialism, in the Bibliothek der Freien Universität (Berlin). Overview.
- Melbourne University Archives Holdings include archives of trade unions and professional associations, community, political and other organisations. Finding aids, online catalogue.
- Memorial - Moscow Documentary and research centre on human rights in past and present. Cyrillic font.
- Memorial - Ryazan' Regional department of the Memorial society.
- Memoriav Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Switzerland. General information in French, German, Italian and English, a directory of relevant institutions, bibliography, newsletter, and access to Memobase, which contains data of 150,000 photos, films, video and sound recordings.
- Modern Records Centre at the Library of the University of Warwick in Coventry. Records of the Trades Union Congress, the British Confederation of Industry and other union and company archives. Summary guide to the holdings.
- Moskovskaia Nezavisimaia Obshchestvennaia Biblioteka MNOB Overview of its collections, particularly rich in current serials.
- Museum der Dinge Werkbundarchiv (Berlin). Records of the Deutscher Werkbund founded in 1907.
- Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Reading. Information on its collections, which include artefacts, books, archives, photographs, film and sound recordings, and are all related to the history of food, farming and country life. The Museum is also responsible for the The Rural History Database, an online bibliography of British rural history.
- National Co-operative Archive The former Co-operative Union Archive, which has now been merged with another Archive. At the Co-operative College in Manchester, UK.
- Newberry Library (Chicago, IL). An independent research library, with some business archives. General holdings information.
- Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library (Oakland, CA). General information.
- Noel Butlin Archives Centre at Australian National University. The NBAC holds archives of industrial organisations, businesses, professional associations, industry bodies and the labour movement. List of the holdings.
- Occasio: Digital Social History Archive at the International Institute of Social History is a collection of Internet documents concerning social, political and environmental issues, for the greater part available online.
- Office universitaire de recherche socialiste L'OURS Information about this research centre, library and archives, activities and publications; extensive information about its collections which include the archives of the Parti socialiste SFIO (1944-1969).
- Open Society Archives at the Central European University in Budapest. Home to the collections of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, among others. The holdings include materials relating to Romania.
- Osteuropa-Institut (Regensburg). The Institute for Eastern European Studies is focused on Eastern Europe and non-European states of the former Soviet Union. Its library is one of Europe's most comprehensive research libraries on Eastern European history, economy, politics, and society.
- Otis Historical Archives at the National Museum of Health and Medecine. General information.
- Ozarks Labor Union Archives at Southwest Missouri State University. Extensive listing of the collections.
- Parti communiste français - Archives Post-1945 records. Address, opening hours.
- Pennsylvania State Libraries : Special Collections Library : Historical Collections & Labor Archives Major labour and business archives. Overview of the collections, more details on the United Steelworkers of America Archive and Oral History Collection.
- Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America PIASA Archives and Library holdings include materials from the Polish labour movement. Online inventory, links to Polish collections elsewhere.
- Political Archives: Commonwealth and Latin American Archives Project This website is the product of a project sponsored jointly by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London) and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (London) aiming to improve access to and use of their extensive collections of political ephemera. It offers collection information, an online catalogue, and a selection of digitized posters and pamphlets.
- Princeton University Industrial Relations Library General information, collection information, a guide to research, recent acquisitions information, links to industrial relations web sites, Social Science Reference Center.
- Records for the Study of Labor and Business History in the National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region The National Archives-Pacific Region is a major source for research in labor and business history. It maintains historical records of Federal agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada (except Clark County), American Samoa, and the Pacific Trust Territories.
- Red de Archivos Historicos de Comisiones Obreras Collections information, membership directory, lists of publications, links.
- Reference Center for Marxist Studies (New York City). The Reference Center maintains a library of books, pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts and documents, as well as graphic materials and other media related to the history of the Communist Party, socialism, Marxist theory, the working class, African Americans, national liberation struggles and other people's movements in the 20th Century. General information, newsletter.
- Research Guide to Soviet History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. General bibliography prepared by Donald J. Raleigh, and based on materials at the Davis Library.
- Réseau ANACT (Lyon). Agence nationale pour l'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail. Documentation centre.
- Robert S. Kenny Collection at the University of Toronto Library. A diverse collection covering many aspects of radicalism in Canada. The primary focus of the collection is Communism in Canada during the period 1919 to the mid-seventies.
- Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii (RGASPI) The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History is the main depository for documentation relating to the history of socialism, the records of the CPSU and its predecessors, mainly before 1953, as well as the records of the Komsomol. RTsKhIDNI was established in October 1991 on the basis of the former the Central Party Archive—TsPA IML, under the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.
- Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations General information, overview of the library collection.
- Rutgers University Libraries: Libraries: Special Collections and University Archives: Manuscripts Finding aids to the records of Consumers' Research Inc and the Modern School Collection, among others.
- Saint Peter's College Archives (Jersey City, NJ). Overview of its collections, strong on the Roman Catholic labour movement.
- Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (Zurich). The largest labour history collection in Switzerland. Extensive holdings information. Online catalogs.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- Social Security Online: History This site contains one of the largest and most extensive collections of history-related materials in the federal government. Both the institutional history of the Social Security Administration and the history of the Social Security program itself are presented.(Baltimore, MD).
- Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. Extensive holdings information.
- Sophia Smith Collection - Labor in the US at Smith College (Northampton, MA). Overview of related archival holdings.
- South African History Archive (SAHA) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Information on its political, trade-union and anti-apartheid holdings.
- South Wales Coalfield Collection At the University of Wales Swansea Library; holdings information.
- South Wales Miners' Library at University College Swansea. General information.
- Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research (Los Angeles). Collections information.
- Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University. General information about the collections, finding aids, guides, detailed information on several special collections and projects, including The Voices of Labor Oral History Project, an enterprise to record the personal experiences of men and women who participated in the labor movement.
- Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection In the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library. A description of the materials collected by Herbert R. Southworth, now at the University of California at San Diego, USA. Access to finding aids, an online exhibition of Spanish Civil War posters, 'The Visual Front'
- Souvarine, La - Bibliothèque d'Histoire sociale des Hauts-de-Seine (Nanterre). Institute for the history of communism, socialism,
anarchism, and syndicalisme named after its founder, Boris Souvarine (1896-1985). Information on its library collections; online catalogue. The Souvarine publishes Les Cahiers d'Histoire sociale.
- Spanish Civil War Posters The collection of Spanish Civil War posters in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division consists of approximately 120 posters created between 1936 and 1939.
- Special collections in the University of Huddersfield Archives The G. H. Wood collection: manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals. The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women's history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
- Stauffer Library - Queen's University Library (Kingston, Canada) The humanities and social sciences library at Queen's University includes most of the May Ball Library collection on industrial relations.
- Stiftung Studienbibliothek zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Zurich). Overview of the collections.
- Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur A German foundation dealing with the history of the SED. Information about its activities, publications, archive and library. Its Newsletter can be downloaded from the website.
- Stowarzyszenie Archiwum Solidarnosci The Society of Solidarity Archives holds documents related to the independent social movements in Poland. Detailed collection information, a list of publications.
- Syracuse University Library - Television History Archive Detailed overview of the collections.
- TAM-Arkiv (Stockholm). Records of employee unions. Detailed overview of the holdings.
- Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. Extensive collections information, specialized guides and finding aids. Catalog entries for the majority of the holdings are retrievable via Bobcat, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library's on-line catalog
- Telecommunications History Group THG maintains and operates one of the nation's largest privately held telecommunications archives and operates two small museums. The website has information on the collections, which include photographs, and scrapbooks and memoirs compiled by telephone company employees and their families.
- Thomas J. Dodd Research Center - Archives and Special Collections at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Important labour and business archives. List of the collections, with more detailed information on some.
- Thüringer Archiv für Zeitgeschichte
„Matthias Domaschk” (Jena) An archival institution founded in 1991 for documents from the opposition in the former GDR: private papers, photos, audio-visual materials, and a library.
- TUC Library Collections at the London Metropolitan University
- Työväen Arkisto (Helsinki). The Finnish Labour Archives. Collections information.
- Työväenliikkeen Kirjasto (Helsinki). The Library of the Labour Movement. Collections information, online catalogs, links to other Finnish labour history institutions websites.
- UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Information on archives and resources.
- University of British Columbia Manuscript Collections Information on the labour and business records, especially in fishing, foresting and mining.
- University of Liverpool Library: Special Collections and Archives These include the Sports Archives, Social Work Archives, the papers of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier, the Gypsy Lore Society Archive, the Scott Macfie Gypsy Collection, the Rathbone family papers, the Josephine Butler papers, and the David Owen Archive.
- University of Newcastle Archives and Special Collections - Labour History Overview of the holdings.
- University of Saskatchewan University Library Special Collections: Major Collections See also the Special Resources section for Aboriginal studies, Herstory and Doukhobors, a small sect of Russian pacifist dissenters, in Canada.
- University of Sussex Special Collections Indexes to the collections, among them the records of the Common Wealth party and the New Statesman, and related personal papers.
- University of Wollongong - Archives and Manuscripts Collections Overview of the substantial labour and business history holdings.
- Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (Vienna). Keeper of the records of the Sozialistische Partei Österreichs. General information in German and English about the archival, library, and museum collections. Rarities in the VGA Archives include the correspondence between Victor Adler and Friedrich Engels, between Friedrich Adler and Albert Einstein, as well as letters left by Emma Adler.
- Victor Serge Library Moscow's library of alternative socialist and radical thought.
- Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics such as women's history, ethnic studies and labour history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
- Walter P. Reuther Library at Wayne State University. Includes the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs holding the records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Industrial Workers of the World, among many others. List of the collections, links to US industrial relations libraries and labour archives.
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the labour history and immigrant collections.
- Wir waren so frei This site contains films and photos taken in 1989 and 1990, during the time of the Fall of the Wall and the reunification. All of the material is from private collections. It is a cooperative project by the Deutsche Kinemathek and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
- Wirtz Labor Library at the Department of Labor (Washington, DC). Overview of the collections, bibliographies, online catalog.
- Wisconsin Historical Society Archives Important business and labour collections, among them the records of McCormick-International Harvester, and the American Federation of Labor and other unions. Online catalog and finding aids.
- Women, Enterprise and Society A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Working Class Movement Library (Salford). Overview of the collections (50,000 books, pamphlets etc), online catalog (Web).
- World Bank & IMF Libraries - External Web Site The joint library network of the IMF and the World Bank.
- Wright State University Libraries - Special Collections and Archives (Dayton, OH). Strong in aviation history. Listing of its local and regional labour history holdings
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (New York). Holdings include the records of the Bund. Collections information.
- Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Ohio). List of finding aids and online catalog.
National Repositories and Guides
- ArchiEspa at the Carlos III University (Madrid). Directory of Spanish archives.
- Archive in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Andreas Hanacek (Wangen im Allgäu). Links to German archives.
- Archives nationales de France On the server of the Ministry of Culture.
- Archives of Australia Gateway A collaboration between the National Archives of Australia, the State and Territory archives, and a number of other Australian archive organisations
- Archivi italiani in rete Links to Italian archives.
- Arkhivy Rossii Website of the Federal Archival Agency of Russia (Rosarkhiv)
- Australian Libraries Gateway.
- Biblioteca Nacional The National Library of Spain.
- Bibliotheken, Bücher und Berichte at the University of Hanover. Links to German libraries.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France The French national library. Its Gallica project offers a large collection of digitized publications on topics like industrial and world fairs, Saint-Simonism, syndicalism, anarchism, among many others.
- British Library
- Bundesarchiv The German national archives.
- Bundesarchiv The Stiftung Archiv der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der DDR is in Berlin.
- Canadian Library Gateway
- CCA Directory of Archival Repositories at the Canadian Council of Archives.
- Deutsche Bibliothek The German national library.
- Directory of Archives in Australia at the University of Melbourne.
- Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada at Hunter Information Management Services Inc. February 1999 edition prepared by Amy Fischer and Liz Holum Johnson for the Business Archives Section of the Society of American Archivists.
- Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries at the National Library of Canada.
- European Library The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals, both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
- Guide to 19th Century Pamphlets (1801-1914) in 49 collections housed in the CURL libraries.
- Istituti di storia della Resistenza e dell'età contemporanea in Italia Links from the Istituto regionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione nelle Marche, Ancona.
- Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane National central library catalog.
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek The national library of the Netherlands.
- Labor Archives Directory This directory includes repositories with partial holdings relating to labor and workers, as well as repositories whose whole holdings pertain to labor. The site covers the United States and Canada. Prepared by the Labor Archives Roundtable, Society of American Archivists.
- Libraries Australia Libraries Australia is a modern Internet-based service for Australian libraries and their users. It provides access to the national database of material held in Australian libraries, known as the Australian National Bibliographic Database. You can search for any item and locate which library in Australia holds it. Gateways to other major library databases are also provided.
- Library and Archives Canada
- Library of Congress
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru - The National Library of Wales General information, online resources.
- Nationaal Archief The national archives of the Netherlands. The collection includes records of the central government, the province of Zuid-Holland and the former County of Holland. These consist of manuscripts, books, photographs, maps and drawings. Highlights of the collection include: the Counts of Holland; the Dutch East India Company; the Upper and Lower Houses of parliament; ministerial records.
- National Archives Maintains ARCHON, a directory of British archival repositories, and the National Register of Archives
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Archives of Japan
- National Library of Scotland Scotland's largest library and a UK library of deposit.
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections at the Library of Congress.
- Northwest Digital Archives An online searchable database of guides to primary sources at 13 research institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The database now contains more than 2,200 guides on numerous topics in Northwest History, including: business, industry and labor, city and town life, ethnic groups, home and family, native Americans, pioneers, sexuality and more.
- Public Record Office The national archive of England, Wales and the United Kingdom.
- Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
- Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts a guide to collections of personal papers and non-governmental organisational records held by Australian libraries and archives.
- Repertorium der handschriftlichen Nachlässe in den Bibliotheken und Archiven der Schweiz at the Swiss National Library. Directory of personal papers.
- Rossiiskaia Natsional'naia Biblioteka (St Petersburg). The Russian National Library, formerly named after Saltykov-Shchedrin. Cyrillic font.
- Scottish Textile Heritage Online "This groundbreaking pilot project aims to provide a one-stop shop for anyone wanting information about the richness and diversity of Scottish Textile heritage collections. Users will be able to browse through a database of some 4,000 descriptions of archive and museum collections and objects with supporting images."
- SVAR-Svensk arkivinformation Swedish archives information from the National Archives: information about original records in public archives; subscriptions for access to databases with scanned images and indexes; records on microfiche for sale
- The National Archives: The Catalogue: Research Guides: Sources for Labour History Domestic Records Information 125. These notes briefly describe the unpublished sources noted in the National Register of Archives (NRA), the principal relevant repositories with strong collections relating to the history of the labour movement, other useful links and works of reference.
Lists of Archives and Libraries
- Africa Research Central A gateway to archives, libraries, and museums in Africa, Europe and North America with important collections of African primary sources.
- Akademisches Portal Österreich: Bibliotheken
- Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México (ADABI) Website of an organization to support archival institutions and libraries. Project information, bibliography, directories of - mainly Mexican and Latin American - repositories and libraries.
- Archiefnet (Archivenet): a portal site for websites of archival services all over the world maintained by the Historical Centre Overijssel.
- Archiefwijzer : archieven in Vlaanderen
- ArchiMac: Turkish Archives Site Website by Bekir Kemal Ataman providing information on the Archives and Records Management profession, links to and information about various archival organizations in Turkey, including information for Genealogical Researchers (in Turkish), the first archives journal in Turkey, and the Journal of Archival Studies.
- Archival Internet Resources Archival meta index, or index of archival indexes, at the University of Tulane.
- Archives Made Easy An online guide to archives around the world. From the London School of Economics's Department of International History.
- Association of Masonic Museums, Libraries and Archives AMMLA General information, listings of museums, libraries and archives, interactive information service.
- Australian Society of Archivists Home Page Membership information, and a directory of archives in Australia.
- Centri documentazione e archivi storici A directory of CGIL (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro) repositories and documentation centres; from the CGIL Toscana website
- Centro de Información Documental de Archivos Information from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
- CODHOS Collectif des centres de documentation en histoire ouvrière et sociale Association of labour history institutions in France. The website provides detailed information on the collections, addresses, opening hours etc. of the member institutions.
- Conservation OnLine at Stanford University.
- DANGO Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations This project aims to gather as much information as possible on the availability of records relating to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active in the UK since 1945. The project's outcome will be a fully functional online database (currently already available for research, although as a trial and incomplete version). DANGO is based at the University of Birmingham.
- Forskningsarkivet: Sök arkivinformation: Länkar till arkiv Link collection from the University of Umeå
- Gabriel The British Library gateway to the national libraries in Europe.
- HBZ Werkzeugkasten International lists of online directories, libraries, bookshops, antiquarian bookshops, auctioneers, bibliographies, discographies, article databases, and many other reference tools for librarians, at the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum, Nordrhein-Westfalen (HBZ) in Cologne.
- IndCat Online Union Catalogue of Indian Unversities is unified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records.
- International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Directory, newsletter, list of publications.
- International Council on Archives Directory, list of publications.
- International Federation of Film Archives Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of film archives. General information, news, an international directory of film archives.
- International Federation of Library Associations Directory, publications.
- International Federation of Television Archives Directory, newsletter.
- LibDex - Worldwide index of library catalogues, web sites and Friends of Libraries pages maintained by Peter Scott. Thousands of libraries with Web access. An extensive international collection.
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web Links to online exhibitions prepared by library and archival institutions around the world. This list is maintained at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- Libweb at the University of California at Berkeley. An extensive international collection.
- Map Libraries on the World Wide Web A list from the John R. Borchert Map Library, University of Minnesota.
- Repositories of Primary Sources A listing of over 5500 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources, maintained at the University of Idaho. The best place to start looking for archives on the Web worldwide.
- Social Science Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations. Directory, bibliography.
- Sources for Labour History A Research Guide from the National Archives. See also the Ministry of Labour Records Research Guide.
- Sources for Women's and Gender History in IALHI-Member Institutions Links to guides and other descriptions of source materials related to women's and gender history in archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement.
- Státne archívy v SR Archives in Slovakia. From the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic–Archives and Records Management Department.
- Työväen perinnelaitokset Suomessa Institutions of Labour Heritage in Finland: links to labour and labour history organizations in Finland.
- UNESCO Archives Portal Links to archives and archival resources for archivists and archives users.
- UNESCO Library Portal Links to libraries and libraries resources for librarians and library users.
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