EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History


EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History is a digital history portal that offers links to online facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of European primary historical sources. The sponsoring organization is the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, where it was begun in 1995 by Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer.

Countries documented

The main page of EuroDocs points to 46 separate web indexes for countries and city-states of Europe,
as well as to sites for and for .
Countries include:
  • England: See
  • Scotland: See

Examples of primary sources

Most of the links are to external sources, but within the scope and linkage of EuroDocs are a number of digital treasures connected to the sponsoring institution, BYU.
Jesse Hurlbut of the French and Italian Department has assembled, an online image collection of medieval manuscripts.
The page for Spain features facsimiles and transcriptions of previously unpublished, late fifteenth-century held in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library.
In cooperation with, an international research center housed in Turin, Italy, and initially as part of a sister-city relationship between the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic venues, digitization of is ongoing – from Henry Adams to Washington Irving, from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Mark Twain.
Monaco's history – from a barren rock fortress protecting the marine interests of the Holy Roman Empire to a principality sheltering high rollers and billionaires – is being with BYU efforts in league with European archives.
A number of EuroDocs pages point to the, a high-traffic attraction on the BYU Library server, among whose sources are found hundreds of transcribed . The library was also fortunate to get ownership of complete copies of the original, a collection of dispatches documenting the Allied advance across Europe after D-Day in 1944, so that these typescripts and their searchable transcriptions could become a part of the HBLL's digital collections.

EuroDocs wiki features

The site has full search facilities through its MediaWiki interface.
Since the site is in a wiki structure historians, archivists, and other interested collaborators are welcome, by writing to the wikimaster, to add links to primary documents online or to transcribe and add important documents available to them.