Bibliography of English-Language Primary Sources for 19th Century International History The following bibliography is a list of possible sources you can use to find published historical documents on your research paper. The list is not exhaustive and there are other possible sources available for the topics you may work on beyond those listed below. This bibliography has a major focus on British policy in this period because sources for that subject in English are most widely available. Those sources indicated by an asterisk (*) are likely available freely on the web at a site like https://archive.org/. Archival Sources National Archives of the United Kingdom, Kew Gardens, London. Free Online Archival Records: Digital Microfilm. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yourresearch/research-guides/free-online-records-digital-microfilm/ (accessed 27 May 2017). This webpage includes archival records in pdf format for a variety of topics in modern British history. The personal papers of various individuals active in the British foreign office (FO 800) are available here and of great interest to international historians. These include, among other records, the personal papers of George Canning, Lord Lansdowne, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Arthur Nicolson, Sir Eyre Crowe, the Earl of Balfour, Ramsay MacDonald, Austen Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, and Anthony Eden. Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes, Berlin. Die Julikrise 1914. http://www.archiv.diplo.de/Vertretung/archiv/de/03a-Digitalisate/03a-1-julikrise1914/3a-1-0julikrise-1914.html (accessed 27 May 1914). This webpage includes photographic replications in pdf format of all of the German diplomatic documents collected and published under the editorial direction of Karl Kautsky immediately after World War I. They are arranged by number in the Kautsky edition, and a handful of them are in English. Published Document Collections Böhme, Helmut, ed. The Foundation of the German Empire: Select Documents. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. This is a volume of key German documents translated into English covering the subject of German unification. Bourne, Kenneth, and D. C. Watt, eds. British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print. Part I, From the MidNineteenth Century to the First World War. 15 Vols. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1986. These volumes compile important documents printed for circulation in Parliament as the confidential print. The series is surprisingly exhaustive. 3 Dugdale, E. T. S., ed. German Diplomatic Documents, 1871-1914. 4 Volumes. New York: Harper, 1928-1931. * This is an abridged and translated version of the forty-volume collection of German diplomatic documents published in German as Die grosse Politik der europäischen Kabinette, 1871-1914. The original edition was the work of three editors— Johannes Lepsius, Albrecht Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Friedrich Thimme—and covered the period between 1871 and 1914, excluding the July Crisis. Gavin, R. J., and J. A. Betley, eds. The Scramble for Africa: Documents on the Berlin West African Conference and Related Subjects, 1884/1885. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan University Press, 1973. A work focused entirely on presenting sources dealing with the Berlin Conference and the initial moves in European imperialism in Africa. Geiss, Imanuel, ed. July 1914: The Outbreak of the First World War: Selected Documents. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1967. This collection covers the policies of all the European powers in the summer of 1914 during the last diplomatic crisis before World War I. Gooch, G. P., and Harold W. V. Temperley, eds. British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914. 11 Vols. London: H.M.S.O., 1926-1938. * This collection covers British foreign policy between roughly 1900 and 1914 in eleven volumes. Hamerow, Theodore, ed. The Age of Bismarck: Documents and Interpretations. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1973. This work brings together primary-source documents translated into English dealing with the subject of German history in the age of Otto von Bismarck, from the early 1860s up to 1890. Hansard Parliamentary Debates, 1st-6th ser. (1803-2006). http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/index.html (accessed 27 May 2017). This website makes available—for all intents and purposes, comprehensively— transcripts for the sittings of the British House of Commons from the early 19th century up to the contemporary period. Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter, eds. Archives of Empire. 2 Vols. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. This work collects together key official and non-official primary sources documenting the history of British imperialism in the 19th century. The first volume focuses on the Middle East and India, while the second examines the Scramble for Africa. Mombauer, Annika, ed. The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. 4 A newer collection of diplomatic documents from all the capitals in Europe selected by a specialist on the outbreak of World War I and translated into English. Although the majority of these documents focus on 1914, there is a significant number at the beginning that date back about a half a decade prior to the crisis that portrays the immediate context of the July Crisis. Pribram, Alfred Francis, ed. The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary 1879-1914. 2 Vols. Translated by Denys P. Myers and J.G. D’Arcy Paul. New York: H. Fertig, 1967. * This work brings together, in English, all the important treaties relating to the creation and development of Bismarck’s alliance system from 1879 up to 1914. Although nominally focused on Austria-Hungary, it includes documents representing most of the major powers in the late 19th century. Rich, Norman, and M. H. Fisher, eds. The Holstein Papers. 4 Vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955. The personal letters and diaries of a diplomat who served in Germany from Bismarck’s time until the First Moroccan Crisis. His papers are especially important for understanding German foreign policy in the period after 1890. Temperley, Harold, and Lillian M. Penson, eds. Foundations of British Foreign Policy: From Pitt (1792) to Salisbury (1902). London: Frank Cass & Co., 1966. * This volume makes available key British foreign policy documents for the broader scope of the 19th century, from the Napoleonic period to the age of Lord Salisbury. Memoirs, Published Diaries, and Contemporary Writings Asquith, H. H. Memories and Reflections 1852-1927. 2 Vols. London: Cassell and Company, 1928. Bernstorff, Johann von. Memoirs of Count Bernstorff. Translated by Eric Sutton. New York: Random House, 1936. Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von. Reflections on the World War. Translated by George Young. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1920. Bismarck, Otto von. Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman. 2 Vols. Edited by Horst Kohl. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. * ———. The Kaiser vs. Bismarck: Suppressed Letters by the Kaiser and New Chapters from the Autobiography of the Iron Chancellor. Translated by Bernard Miall. New York: AMS Press, 1971. Bülow, Bernhard von. Memoirs of Prince Von Bülow. 4 Vols. Translated by F. A. Voigt and George Dunlap. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1931. * Churchill, Winston. The World Crisis 1911-1918. 2 Vols. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. 5 Grey, Edward. Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916. 2 Vols. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925. * Hardinge, Charles. Old Diplomacy: The Reminiscences of Lord Hardinge of Penshurst. London: John Murray, 1947. Lenin, V. I. The Collected Works of V. I. Lenin. 45 vols. New York: International Publishers, 1960-1970. * Lichnowsky, Karl Max von. My Mission to London 1912-1914. Translator unlisted. New York: G.H. Doran Company, [1916]. * Lloyd George, David. The War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. 2 Vols. London: Ivor, Nicholson, and Watson, 1933; reprint, London: Odhams Press, 1938. Röhl, John C.G., ed. 1914: Delusion or Design? The Testimony of Two German Diplomats. Translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973. Spring-Rice, Cecil. The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice. 2 Vols. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. * Tirpitz, Alfred von. My Memoirs. 2 Vols. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1919. * Victoria, Queen of Great Britain. The Letters of Queen Victoria: A Selection from Her Majesty’s Correspondence and Journal between the Years 1837 and 1901. 1st-3rd ser. 9 vols. Edited by Arthur C. Benson and George E. Buckle. New York: Longmans, Green, 1907-1932. * Newspapers and Contemporary Periodicals Nineteenth Century British Newspapers Database, British Library. Gale. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/newspdigproj/database/ (accessed 28 May 2017). This database is available in any major research library (to include Emory and the University of Georgia). It makes available many important political newspapers in London in the late nineteenth century, including the Daily News, the Morning Post, the Pall Mall Gazette, the Standard, and the Star, as well as the most important regional papers outside London. Proquest Historical Newspapers: the Guardian and the Observer, 1791-2003. Proquest. http://search.proquest.com/hnpguardianobserver/ (accessed 28 May 2017). This database makes the archived editions of the Manchester Guardian and the Observer available going back to the late eighteenth century. GGC subscribes to this database. The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2011. Gale. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-digitalarchive (accessed 28 May 2017). 6 This database has digitized every edition of The Times from the late eighteenth century to contemporary times. As this paper was the most important and wellinformed political organ nationally, it is a wonderful source of information for diplomatic and international history. It is available in any major research library (including Emory and the University of Georgia). UK Press Online. Digitorial, Ltd. http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk.libproxy.ggc.edu/ukpressonline/open/index.jsp (accessed 28 May 2017). This database makes many popular British papers available for the twentieth century, including the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express, as well as other interesting titles like those representing the British Fascists in the 1930s. GGC subscribes to this database.
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