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South African produced index including journals, books, and documents covering Africa and African studies. Content includes the Index to South African Periodicals, IBISCUS, Africa Institute Database, African Journal Online, Media Africa, and NAMLIT, from the National Library of Namibia.
Military documents, letters, court records, and more from the 17th -20th centuries pertaining to African Americans.
Pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports, and in-depth oral histories covering the experiences of African Americans. Focuses on themes of racism, discrimination and integration, and African American culture and identity primarily in the communities of Atlanta, Chicago, Brooklyn New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina from 1863-1986.
Archival materials spanning five centuries of European maritime exploration, c. 1420-1920. These include audio and visual material; manuscripts and early printed materials; maps and visual content; and correspondence, journals and personal accounts. Themes covered include expedition planning, financing & sponsorship; ships & provisions; new territories; life at sea; indigenous peoples; navigation, scientific observations and instruments; and more.
Search across publisher Adam Matthew’s primary-source collections of digitized archival content from archives around the world on numerous subjects, including but not limited to literature, history, social issues, cultural studies, global trade, news, and more.
Official diplomatic correspondence between American and British officials, from 1775-1815, published as a 9 volume set.
Oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records telling the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the second World War. Content is digitized from the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.
For access to Series 2-5, select title above, go to Choose Databases link, change selected series, and choose OK.
Archival collection from the American Antiquarian Society of magazines and journals in five series: Series I: 1691 -1820; Series II: 1821-1837; Series III: 1838-1852; Series IV: 1852-1865; Series V: 1866 through 1877.
Full-text of 1,000 film scripts, allowing an exploration of 100,000 scenes of American culture though the decades, in major works by selected directors and studios.
Correspondence, diaries, government documents, books, pamphlets, broadsides, photographs, artwork, and maps, digitized from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York. Consists of two modules: Module I, Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 and Module 2, Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945.
Archival commercial and governmental newsreels, documentaries covering American history. Includes footage from United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel.
Broadsides, correspondence, diaries, drawings and illustrations, ephemera, financial records, maps, periodicals, photographs, and rare books documenting the westward expansion of the United States from 1718-1968.Covers papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters; accounts of the Gold Rush; growth of railway and road networks; agricultural transformation of the West; Native American history and culture; and more.
Resources for genealogical and historical research, including records from the United States Census; military records; land, vital and church records; photos; passenger lists and more.
British Government documents about South Africa during the Apartheid regime spanning the period 1948-1980. Resources include documents, dispatches, reports, telegrams and handwritten embassy notes both from South Africa and from Britain, the United States and other powers. These provide first-hand analyses of South Africa's relationship with the international community, struggles with internal resistance, civil unrest and anti-apartheid organizations and the implementation of policies to forcibly remove black Africans into Bantustans.

Archival documents relating to the historical, political, social, legal, and health aspects of sex, sexuality, and gender. Contains newsletters, papers, government documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, and more. Includes modules on LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (parts 1-2); Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century; International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture; Community and Identity in North America.

 

Archives and publications of the Chinese central government, from the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Archives and publications of the Communist Party of China including information from official organizations, i.e., the People's Daily Press, the Party Literature Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, the National People's Congress, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Art, architecture, and archaeology images including images from the Smithsonian, the MoMA collection for architecture and design and the Schlesinger photograph collection on the history of women in America.

Wire copy, intra- and inter-bureau correspondence, photos, video footage, and personal papers from reporters and photographers affiliated with the Associated Press. Libraries access includes module U.S. Cities Bureaus Collection, 1931-2004

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Works of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with notes on the text, based on Bertolt Brecht: Ausgewaehlte Werke in sechs Baenden: Jubilaeumsausgabe zum 100. Geburtstag
Primary and secondary non-fiction writings, speeches, interviews, trials and other materials by black Americans.
Primary source British colonial government materials related to 13 colonies across Africa from 1821-1953. Part of the British Online Archives.
Primary source materials including British colonial government reports of the colonial departments of Kenya when it was an East African Colony until Independence, 1907-1964. Part of the British Online Archives.
Documents of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and industry pamphlets on the rise of mass media and the impact of broadcasting innovations such as television, advertising and consumer culture. Documents include information on regulation, censorship, and communication ethics.

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ACCESS NOTE: The British Library is continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack. The outage is still affecting their website, online systems and services. This is a temporary website, with limited content, which outlines the services that are currently available.

A searchable database of some of the western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library. The Library holds one of the richest collections of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the world, and aims to provide access to images and information about its manuscripts to students, scholars, and the general public. The Catalogue includes descriptions and images of western manuscripts with pictorial and decorative embellishments, from fully painted miniatures to decorated initials.

Alternate Name(s):Foreign Office Files for Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan

British Foreign Office files relating to Persia (Iran), Central Asia, Russia, and Afghanistan between 1834 and 1922. Sources include government documents, dispatches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and personal accounts between the British government and various governmental representatives including foreign ministers, diplomats, Shahs of Persia, Emirs of Afghanistan, military officials, and national governments.

Chapter, pop-up, and picture books, pamphlets, sketches, toys, games, paper dolls, and sheet music documenting the history and literature of childhood from the 1820s to the 1920s. Content focuses on America as well as international publications, and is digitized from collections of the American Antiquarian Society and the Winterthur Museum and Library
Primary source materials for the study of trade and cultural exchange between North America and China, as well as East Asia and the Pacific, from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Documents include accounts, business records, correspondence, ephemera, journals, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, illustrations, photographs, and printed books.
Books, photographs, historical surveys, encyclopedia and periodical articles, and statistical works documenting the culture, population, and geography of China from 1750-1929. Content is digitized from the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at Cornell University Library.
Correspondence, illustrations, maps, official papers, periodicals, personal accounts and manuscripts, photographs, and printed books documenting China’s interaction with the West spanning from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Documents relate to the 1792-1794 Macartney Embassy, the Opium Wars, the opening of Hong Kong, missions in China, the Boxer War, the 1911 revolution, the Communist Revolution led by Mao, and the Great Leap Forward.
Periodicals from the Church Missionary Society, South American Missionary Society, and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, published 1804-2009. Documents relate to missiology and world Christianity as well as material on broader themes in global history, education, healthcare and medicine. Includes modules 1 and 2.
Primary source documents covering the Civil War, including the years leading up to the war and the fall of the Confederacy, from the collections of the New York Historical Society.
Collection of formerly classified government documents related to U.S. intelligence and the Soviet Union from the end of World War II through 1991.
Correspondence between the British Government and the American colonies, covering the period of 1606 to 1822. Includes charters, correspondence, diaries, business and financial documents, legal documents, legislation, newspapers, speeches, treaties, and warrants, digitized from CO 5 series from The National Archives, United Kingdom. Documents relate to English settlement, colonial legislation, warfare, taxation, trade and protectionism, religion, piracy and privateering, surveying and exploration, and war. Includes modules 1-5.
Documents of the Colonial Office of the British Government specific to the governance of islands in the English-speaking Caribbean from 1624-1872. Includes census data, correspondence, legislative acts, medical and military reports, and maps. Documents relate to trade, law, piracy, plantation governance, agriculture, enslavement and emancipation, crime, and estate ownership. Includes modules 1, 2, 3.
Documents of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office and Foreign Office of the British Government specific to Africa from 1834 to 1966. Includes correspondence, dispatches, reports, and treaties. Documents relate to coastal trading in the early 19th century, the Conference of Berlin in 1884, the abuses of the Congo Free State, tropical diseases, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa, and the colonial moves toward independence.
Documents of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office and Foreign Office of the British Government specific to Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean from 1833-1969. Includes correspondence, dispatches reports, and treaties. Documents relate to slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the building of the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil.
Documents of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office and Foreign Office of the British Government specific to the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, and Sudan from 1839-1969. Includes correspondence, dispatches reports, and treaties. Documents relate to the Egyptian reforms under Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 1830s, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis and post-Suez western foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Documents of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office, and Foreign Office of the British Government specific to the United States, Canada, the English-speaking Caribbean, and Central and South America, from 1824-1961. Includes correspondence, dispatches, reports, and treaties. Documents relate to slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism, and the nuclear bomb.
Alternate Name(s):GS Critical Collective
Archival collection of writing about Indian art from 1900 to present. Includes images and articles about art history, cinema, lens based practices, and photography directory.

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Documents, ephemera, political campaign material, press releases, conference documents, reports, letters, and speech transcripts from 1945 and to present focused on political systems and processes of national political developments that followed decolonization.
Primary source material from multiple museum and library collections relevant to the study of traditional gender roles, education, ideals of conduct, education, exercise, distribution of power within the family, and consumption and leisure. Primary sources include correspondence, diaries, ephemera, government documents, manuscripts, periodicals, printed books along with secondary material such as biographical information, chronologies, and topical essays.

ACCESS NOTE: The British Library is continuing to experience a major technology outage as a result of a cyber-attack. The outage is still affecting their website, online systems and services. This is a temporary website, with limited content, which outlines the services that are currently available.

Images of manuscripts from a number of British Library collections, related to history, music, science and more (full list: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/About.aspx).

Primary sources related to disability studies, including videos, memoirs, brochures, and more.
National, regional, and local newspapers published around the 1920s in the United States, documenting the voices of multiple organizations that either opposed or supported white supremacy and nationalism.

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Alternate Name(s):America's Historical Imprints
Books, pamphlets, and broadsides from 1639-1800, based on the American Bibliography by Charles Evans and subsequent bibliographic works by Roger Bristol, James Mooney and Clifford Shipton.
Alternate Name(s):America's Historical Imprints
Books, pamphlets, government papers, and more published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Based on the American Bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker
Archival documents documenting everyday, political, religious, working, trading, and administrative life in England from 1500-1700. Includes court records, books and images of objects commonly owned by people during the era; wills and inventories; tax and trade records; diaries; and annotated print books. Materials digitized from collections held by the British Library, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, London Metropolitan Archives, Lambeth Palace Library, and others.
India Office Records from the British Library, including royal charters, factory records, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings, and reports of expeditions from 1599-1947. Documents relate to operations in India, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Africa.
English language books, pamphlets, broadsides, and more published between 1701 and 1800, covering numerous subjects.
Plays from the John Larpent Collection in the Huntington Library, as well as correspondence, diaries, legal and financial documents, and scrapbooks. Plays were those submitted for license from 1737 to 1824. Reference features include the London Stage 1660-1800, Biographical Dictionary database 1660-1800, an image gallery, thematic indexing, and background essays.
British periodicals published from 1685-1835, documenting colonial life, French and American revolutions, literature, fashion, politics, and gossip. Features many titles targeted towards women, plus an image gallery, chronology, and background essays. Includes modules 1-5.
Diaries, illustrations, maps, manuscripts, books, and reports documenting the rise and fall of the European colonial empires worldwide from 1750 to 1960’s. The principal focus is British, it also documents the experience of colonized peoples, focusing on history, politics, and culture.

Personal papers of environmentalists and records of United States and United Kingdom government agencies covering the history of land rights, resource usage, environmental protections, disaster response strategies, and international trade rules. Includes modules on Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870-1980; Colonial Policy and Global Development, 1896-1993

Produced in conjunction with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, this collection includes audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence, and ephemera collected between 1905 and 2019.
Database of records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750, covering exploration, colonization, disease, and slavery. Includes content related to Native American peoples.
Primary resources on everyday life from 1800-1920, including political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. Emphasizes differences in regional, urban, and rural cultures.

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Letters, diaries, photo albums, posters, propaganda, interactive maps, film clips, and official documents offering an international perspective on the Great War. Includes modules for Global Conflict, Personal Experiences, Propaganda and Recruitment, and Visual Perspectives.
Manuscript and printed cookbooks, menus, and advertisements documenting the history of food and drink in the United States and Europe from 1500 to 2000. Content addresses issues such as gender, race, status, agriculture, nutrition, and food production from both a culinary and socio-economic approach. Includes Modules I and II.

British Foreign Office files relating to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Sources include government documents, dispatches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, reports detailing influential Chinese personalities, and economic assessments during the rise of the modern state.

British Foreign Office files relating to South Asia, post- World War II. Content includes reports, dispatches, maps, photographs, analyses, and statistical information documenting social and political history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Includes Modules 1-3.

British Foreign Office files relating to Japan during Imperialism, World War II, and occupation. Content includes diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, and reports. Also includes files from the Western and American Department, and Far Eastern sub papers. Includes Modules 1-3.

This collection follows the establishment of an independent Malaysia in 1963, following the release of the Cobbold Commission Report. Under President Sukarno, Indonesia strongly opposed this decision and hostilities between the two countries escalated. Alongside tensions with Malaysia, Indonesia would experience growing civil unrest in this period, with anti-Communist sentiments on the rise. Documents featured in this collection cover these fundamental events alongside a number of key themes, including trade, economic development and authoritarian rule in this period.

British Foreign Office files relating to the Middle East during the Arab-Israeli War, oil crisis, Lebanese Civil War, Iranian Revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War. Includes reports, dispatches, maps, photographs, analyses, and statistical information. Includes Modules 1-3

Art, broadsides, diaries, memoirs, letters, photographs, maps, legal and business documents documenting the lives of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It covers the colonial frontiers of North America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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Manuscripts, travel guides, maps, and other sources covering New York City from the 18th through early 20th centuries. Topics covered include industry, commerce, and immigration, from the collections of the New York Historical Society.
Images, books, diaries, speeches, legal documents, correspondence, and men's and women's organization papers, documenting changing gender roles and relations from the early nineteenth century to the present. Material sourced from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia covering women’s suffrage, feminism, the men’s movement, the family, education, labor, sexuality, and politics.
Alternate Name(s):Gender Watch
Articles, news stories, books and reports and archival content focusing on gender.
Alternate Name(s):The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Personal collections, business records, photographs, and images digitized from various libraries and archives in the United States. Documents date from 1870-1920 and include the papers of Edith Wharton, Theodore Roosevelt, the Rockefellers, and several photograph collections and the Joseph Keppler Cartoon Collection. Themes covered include art, literature, business, industry, labor movement, philanthropy, politics and corruption, poverty, protests, labor movement, and urban development.
Primary source materials related to trade of fifteen commodities, covering the 18th - 20th century, from a variety of collections including the American Antiquarian Society, British Library, and more.
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Goethe's literary and scientific works, diaries, and letters, as well as illustrations, notes, variants and indexes from the published volumes.
The Grand Tour is a wonderful source of information about daily life in the eighteenth century, highlighting such everyday issues as transportation, money, communications, food and drink, health and sex.The material also covers European political and religious life, British diplomacy; life at court, and social customs on the Continent, and is an invaluable resource for the study of Europe’s urban spaces.

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Primary resources including Federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers related to critical people and events in African American history, through the 20th century.

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Civil War images, with content from the American Antiquarian Society, the Virginia Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the New York Historical Society.
Facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and documents from 1710-1937 related to the Britain and India, from manuscript collections of National Library of Scotland.

Art, correspondence, diaries, business documents, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, printed books, treaties, and tribe records documenting early contacts between European settlers and American Indians, 1500-1998. Content digitized from the Edward E. Ayer Collection at the Newberry Library. Subjects covered include political, social, and cultural effects of early encounters; the turbulence of the Civil War; on-going repercussions of government legislation; and the civil rights movement.

Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada from 1828-2016. From the collections at the Newberry Library, Chicago, and the Sequoyah National Research Centre at the University of Arkansas. Key topics covered include community news, public health and welfare, education, tribal laws and elections, sovereignty, and more.

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Alternate Name(s):Advertising America
The J. Walter Thompson Company Archive documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms. The papers here reveal many aspects of twentieth-century cultural, social, business, marketing, consumer and economic history while investigating the human psyche.
Jewish Life in America will enable you to explore the history of Jewish communities in America from the arrival of the first Jews in the 17th century right through to the mid-20th century. This rich collection brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, whilst tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Database of plant type specimens from numerous sources, including reference works and primary sources, such as drawings and photographs.

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Complete works of Kafka, including critical commentary.

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Collection of Le Corbusier’s (1887-1965) architectural works, including drawings and photographs.
This resource presents a multi-national journey through well-known, little-known and far-flung destinations unlocked for the average traveller between 1850 and the 1980s. Guidebooks and brochures, periodicals, travel agency correspondence, photographs and personal travel journals provide unique insight into the expansion, accessibility and affordability of tourism for the masses and the evolution of some of the most successful travel agencies in the world.
19th century manuscripts, including early editions, annotations, correspondence, sketches and more by Victorian authors. From the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.
17th and 18th century verse from the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. Includes essays and biographical information.
Documents from 1554 to 1984 related to the development of the printing and publishing industries.
Victorian London documents, including maps, sketches, street views, scrapbooks, broadsides, and more from the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

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Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963 provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) (CAB 128) and memoranda (CAB 129) of Harold Macmillan’s government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees (CAB 134).

Transcriptions, motions, petitions, proceedings, and arbitrations from historical trials in North American and European Anglo-American courts.

Transcripts, motions, petitions, and other documents from the United States Court of Appeals.

Archive of drawings, photographs, letters and other materials related to the early career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century; from a collaborative digitization project headed by Syracuse University Libraries.
Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965 provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst, market research pioneer and widely-recognised ‘father’ of Motivational Research.
Diaries, surveys, and more from the Mass Observation Archive University of Sussex, Special Collections.
Collection of responses to directives (questionnaires) about the lives and opinions of people in the UK, on many topics such as current affairs, family, leisure, politics, society, work, the economy, and more..
Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries.
Medieval and early modern sources from Great Britain, 1100-1800, including state papers, manuscripts and more.
This resource contains full colour images of the original medieval manuscripts that comprise these family letter collections along with full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where they are available. The original images and the transcriptions can be viewed side by side.

Along with the letter collections themselves there are many additional features useful for teaching and research. These include:

A chronology, a visual sources gallery, an interactive map, a glossary, family trees and links to other scholarly free to access digital resources useful for researching the medieval period.
This new collection from Adam Matthew Digital presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia. The collection also includes a number of important accounts of travels to or through the Holy Land although in this it makes no claims to full or even broad coverage: a separate collection, covering crusading and pilgrimage narratives, would be required for that. It features a number of medieval maps such as the famous ‘Beatus’ and ‘Psalter’ maps, individual manuscript illuminations, and some modern translations of key travel texts. It should become an indispensable source for scholars of medieval travel, geography, exploration, trade, literature, and the new field of medieval postcolonial studies.
The Edward Sylvester Morse papers (ca. 1858-1925, 40 cubic feet), document the numerous and valuable contributions made by Morse to the areas of malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. The range and depth of his interests are reflected in the complexity of the papers. Included are diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, publications and teaching materials. Morse utilized his artistic abilities to illustrate his research as well as daily observations and correspondence. Drawings which were particularly fragile and/or on odd shaped pieces of paper have been encapsulated in polyester.
From the century of immigration, through to the modern era, Migration to New Worlds charts the emigration experience of millions across 200 years of turbulent history. Explore the rise and fall of the New Zealand Company, discover British, European and Asian migration and investigate unique primary source personal accounts, shipping logs, printed literature and organisational papers supplemented by carefully compiled teaching and research aids.

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Alternate Name(s):John Murray Publishing Archive
Discover the work of one of the world’s most important publishing dynasties through this collection from the historic John Murray Archive. From book history to travel writing, politics to poetry, this newly digitised resource introduces an unparalleled repository for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.
This collection provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency.

Top-level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers dominate these papers. There is also a wealth of material on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and the environment.

In addition, there is strong coverage of US policy decisions by the FCO and the British embassy in Washington; White House staff appointments and UN discussions; views on Europe; the deployment of F-111 aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over funding from Congress; visits to the US by Harold Wilson and Edward Heath; and the internal situation in the US and domestic reform. There are also detailed assessments of all the changes brought about by the presidential election of 1972, in which Nixon beat George McGovern by a record-breaking margin and in every state but one, only to resign two years later in the face of almost certain impeachment.

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Open access catalog of digital collections from a number of research libraries and repositories.
Collection of oral history interviews.

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Manuscripts of writing by women from the 16th and 17th centuries including poetry, prose, drama, account books, medical writing, travel writing and more; produced in association with the Perdita Project, based at the University of Warwick and previously Nottingham Trent, with content from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, The Edinburgh University Library, the Cambridge University Library.
Archive of papers related to philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, science, logic and other fields.

Oral histories, ephemera, campaign materials, government records, and other materials from and about political extremist movements. Includes the modules Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe, and Australia in the Twentieth Century; Far-Right Groups in America; Global Communist and Socialist Movements.

Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history. Explore our interactive chronology to learn a wealth of fascinating facts, take a tour of our visual resources, and watch video footage to experience the spectacular sights and sounds of the period for yourself.
This unique collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera.
Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the government policy, social reform movements and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty.

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Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.

Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
Discover the working methods of Romantic poets and trace the evolution of celebrated verse in this powerful digital resource. Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.

Take a moment to browse the rich collection of fine art pieces which include works by such eminent artists as J.M.W. Turner, John Constable and Benjamin Robert Haydon. This evocative collection vividly brings to life the landscape that inspired literary creativity and poetic genius.

All of the documents are digitised in colour and include: verse manuscripts, printed manuscripts, prose manuscripts, printed verse, correspondence, diaries, travel journals, autograph albums, guide books, fine art and maps.

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Service newspapers from the British Library; Imperial War Museums; US Army Heritage and Education Center, US Army War College; Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand; Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage.
Unpublished papers of American sexologists, sex researchers, advocacy groups and campaigners, digitized from the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections. Documents include correspondence between professional and private individuals, autobiographical accounts, official records, and literary works spanning the 19th through 21st centuries. Includes modules 1-2.
Prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.
Diaries, letters, autobiographies and memoirs, written and oral histories, memorabilia, and more related to the 1960s through 1970s.
Archival collection covering slavery from 1490-2007; focus areas include the African Coast, Underground Railroad, abolition, desegregation and more. Includes content from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.

Books, journals and documents from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953, originally collected by the South Asian Research Foundation (SARF), covering India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Documents included in the archive are written in English, Bengali, Sanskrit, and more.

Primary resources documenting a great range of students’ activities, including protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. Materials including newsletters, campaign materials, protest literature, and other materials.

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Explore domestic consumerism, life and leisure in America between 1850-1950 with Trade Catalogues and the American Home. This resource presents a wealth of highly illustrated primary source documents that highlight commercial tastes and consumer trends, and provide a valuable visual record for a breadth of interdisciplinary study.
This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Students and researchers will find sources covering a variety of topics including; architecture; art; the British Empire; climate; customs; exploration; family life; housing; industry; language; monuments; mountains; natural history; politics and diplomacy; race; religion; science; shopping; war.

A wide variety of forms of travel writing are included, ranging from unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs. The resource includes a slideshow with hundreds of items of visual material, including postcards, sketches and photographs.

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Documents related to U.S. intelligence efforts in the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa from the World War II to the present.

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Archival Victorian popular culture collections including content from the Senate House Library, University of London; The Harry Price Library of Magical Literature; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; The British Library; the British Film Institute National Archive and more.
Film content that provides insight into the experimental work of early filmmakers in creating news, animation, drama, and special effects, as well as providing an invaluable exploration into how Victorians went about their day-to-day activities from their work to their leisure time
This online project presents those Ferrar Papers which are in Magdalene College, Cambridge. They are reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of the college, with whom the copyright remains. In addition, transcripts of those documents that throw light on the Virginia Company of London are included, as are the four volumes of The Records of the Virginia Company of London (Washington, D.C., 1906-35), edited by Susan Myra Kingsbury
Registration (free) required for first-time users.

Streaming video interviews and testimonies from genocide survivors and witnesses including content from the Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1996.

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Primary source resources, including pamphlets, letters, speeches, and publications from women's organizations, archives, and other sources across the United States.
Primary source collection of conference proceedings, books, pamphlets, articles, correspondence, diaries, non-governmental organization documents, and more focusing on women's international movements.
This collection consists of two distinct elements:

A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives
Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories

The finding aid is the result of a five-year project by staff at The National Archives in the mid-1990s and enables researchers to quickly locate details of documents at TNA relating to women. This finding aid is far more detailed and extensive than anything available elsewhere online and has the benefit of ranging across all of the document classes TNA hold.

The original documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962.

Female-authored literature, women’s periodicals, and other materials on women’s political activism, suffrage, birth control, civil rights, and socialism. Documents are from North and South America, Europe, East and South Asia, and Africa. Content is in English, French, German, and Dutch.

Explore the phenomenon of world's fairs from the Crystal Palace in 1851 and the proliferation of North American exhibitions, to fairs around the world and twenty-first century expos. Through official records, monographs, publicity, artwork and artifacts, this resource brings together multiple archives for rich research opportunities in this diverse topic.

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Alternate Name(s):Nineteen Eighties Culture and Society

Newsletters, newspapers, policy papers, zines, photographs, video footage, advertisements, and other documents that highlight the political, social and welfare issues of the 1980s such as the rise of conservatism, nuclear threat, civil rights issues, anti-drug campaigns, and the AIDS crisis.

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