Languages and Cultures: Websites

Official records (full text) of meetings and debates from session 8 (1977) up to the current date

Official website of the Spanish Department of Education and Culture. The "Education" section could be useful for students spending a year abroad in Spain. The "Culture" section provides access to digital libraries including the Spanish Film Institute (Filmoteca Española).

A useful resource for students spending a year abroad in Spain, with information on education, cost of living and much more.

The official royal institution responsible for overseeing the Spanish language; includes free monolingual dictionaries.

An excellent collection of links to various resources in German literature, including bibliographies, book reviews, electronic journals, information on individual authors and online texts.

List of links to online newspapers and magazines, both regional and national.

A digital library of texts representative of the Italian cultural and literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Including digital texts, digitised incunabula and the 'Scrittori d'Italia' series.

A project by Columbia University. Online editions of Dante's works, with digitised images of early printed editions as well as scholarly commentary and context.

The datasets in this collection are from The Italian Academies 1525-1700 project to catalogue books deposited at the British Library and published by Italian Academies in the cities of Bologna, Naples, Padua, Siena, Venice, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and cities of southern Italy.

The Italian Women Writers project (IWW) preserves and provides access to an extensive corpus of literature written by Italian women authors. It brings together information on and texts by both famous and less well-known Italian women writers from the late 12th century to writers born in 1945. The range of texts includes: autobiographies; children's literature; diaries; histories and chronicles; interviews; letters; novels; poems; reviews; and travel literature.

The largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world.

A collection of digitised periodicals and photographs from the Ibero-American Institute in Germany.

The most popular daily newspaper in Spain.

A project developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison devoted to electronic versions of Latin American and Iberian works in the humanities.

A searchable repository of different websites providing free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. Websites included provide a variety of resources; audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more.

The Italian Cinema Database contains the synopses of all the feature films and documentaries produced and distributed in Italy since 1930.

An online gateway providing access to digital resources on all aspects of Italian culture and literature, which is sponsored by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali.

A contextualised resource of Spanish-language plays for English-speaking researchers and theatre professionals.

Website of the national library of Germany, based in Frankfurt-am-Main, Leipzig and Berlin – has an online catalogue and descriptions of special collections.

Site of an association of Austrian academic libraries - has links to the Austrian National Library, Vienna University Library, and lists of academic libraries in local areas in Austria. It also provides union catalogues of books and periodicals.

Includes many links to libraries, bibliographies and book trade and related Web pages

Provides a unified search to library co-operatives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, national libraries and union catalogues worldwide. You can limit the search to a particular country or region.

Provides information about Italian libraries and links to their catalogues. The site also maintains a directory of periodicals held in Italian libraries.

The National Library Service is a network of Italian libraries providing access to catalogues of various state, university, public, private and other libraries.

Search across the catalogues of numerous university and research libraries in Spain

An internationally recognised centre for advanced study, with research ranging well beyond German history and including American history as well as comparative transnational history. Free online access to many of its publications.

A daily English-language discussion forum focused on scholarly topics in German history and aimed at professional historians of Germany around the world.

The Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is the central non-university institution for the study and documentation of current usage and recent history of the German language. The IDS is financed jointly by the Federal Government and the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Contains a selection of scholarly websites covering all aspects of German Studies, courtesy of the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick. Browsing, using the 'Subject pages', is a good starting point.

Site for female Germanists in Great Britain and Ireland, supporting them in all aspects of their professional life.

Aims to bring together scholars and organisations with interest in Italy from the 18th century to date, from whatever discipline. The Association publishes journal "Modern Italy

The British-Italian Society has worked to promote knowledge and understanding in the UK of Italian culture, and organises events in central London.

H-Italy is an online resource focusing on scholarly topics in Italian history and culture. The website is concerned with the period ranging from the Middle Ages to the present and it is aimed at scholars and graduate students in Italian studies.

"The official Italian government agency for the promotion of cultural exchanges between Great Britain and Italy". Organises language courses and various cultural events.

A UK academic society, which produces a yearly journal. The website includes news and information items as well as links to various resources.

A foundation dedicated to promote understanding and engagement between Britain and the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world.

A website created and maintained by the Cervantes Institute to promote the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures.

An international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History.

Discussion forum for scholars and academics with an interest in Spanish history and culture.

Organisation which promotes Spanish language and culture.

A comprehensive gateway to online information relating to Latin America; managed by the University of Texas at Austin.

German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.

The Berlin State Library provides full-text access to a number of historic German newspaper archives. Of particular note is the on-going DDR-Presse project.

The database includes material printed between 1501 and 1600 in Italy, in any language, and abroad in the Italian language

A database containing catalogue descriptions and digital images of manuscripts, private papers and archives held by Italian public, private and ecclesiastical libraries.

Useful list of digitised collections of historical and archival materials, curated by the US-based Society for Italian Historical Studies.

A searchable repository of different websites providing free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies. Websites included provide a variety of resources; audiovisual materials, books, data, ephemera, government documents, oral histories, periodicals, reference works, visual materials, web archives and more.

This site provides links to open access digitized collections of primary sources that relate to Latin America and the Caribbean. The materials listed are freely available to the public, and range from collections of Mexican incunabula (1559-1600), to Latin American posters.

Links to various official Spanish archives, including digitised collections.