Following a request from a student in HCA I’m pleased to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part II: State Papers Foreign: Low Countries and Germany from Gale Cengage.This contains the papers written or received by the secretaries of state in the course of British diplomacy in the Low Countries and Germany through the 18th century.

You can access this resource at State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782. Access is available on-campus. Off-campus access is only available if using the VPN.

Trial access ends 6th October 2017.

[The databases full title is a bit of a mouthful so from now on I will just call it Part II: State Papers Foreign.]

Containing over 1000 volumes of manuscript documents Part II: State Papers Foreign presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I to George III (until 1782 when the State Papers series ends). Taking us world beyond Britain, documenting the relationships of the Hanoverian reign with Flanders, Holland and Germany, with particular focus on European powers such as the Holy Roman Empire and the various German States and Towns.

Part II: State Papers Foreign includes detailed correspondence from the British Diplomatic Representatives, reports from British agents, communications from ambassadors and advisers, letters to and from the British monarchs and the Holy Roman Emperors, representatives of the States General, compensation claims, petitions and royal warrants and covers such events as the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years War.

You can access this resource at State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782. Access is available on-campus. Off-campus access is only available if using the VPN.
Access available until 6th October 2017.
Feedback welcome.

Access is only available to current students and staff at University of Edinburgh.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology