History Resources at the UTM Library

PERIOD COVERED: 1863-1986
Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina, this resource presents multiple aspects of the African American community through pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records, reports and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.

PERIOD COVERED: 1420-1920
— Captain Cook’s secret instructions, ships’ logs and journals from three voyages of James Cook, written by various crew members and Cook himself which relate to early British Pacific exploration and the search for Terra Australis
— Le Livre des merveilles by Marco Polo including the illuminations of Maître d’Egerton – this illuminated manuscript compendium dates from c.1410-1412 and is comprised of geographical works and accounts of travels in Asia and Africa

PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1949
The collection includes: for example,
— Memories of Wanda Damberg, a Dutch civilian woman imprisoned in Manila by the Japanese, who smuggled medicine into the camp with the aid of a Jesuit priest.
— Account by Dorothy Lucas, member of the Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) who transported planes and flew as a target tow pilot.

PERIOD COVERED: 19th - 20th Century
Products Included
— J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America
— Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
— Trade Catalogues and the American Home

PERIOD COVERED: 1493-1945

SOURCE ARCHIVES: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York
Module I: Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform, 1493-1859
Module II: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era, 1860-1945

PERIOD COVERED: 17th to mid 20th Century
✶ Indigenous Peoples by Region offers Exonyms, Endonyms, and Alternative Names (e.g., Northeast)
The collection includes:
— An original copy of The Red Man’s Greeting, 1492-1892 (1893), written on birch bark by Potawatomi Indian Simon Pokagon
— Treaties between American Indian Nations and the US Government
— First Nations of Canada
— Missionaries and Education
— Indigenous Newspapers from the 1960s-1990s

PERIOD COVERED: 1828–2016
A collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions. The 45 unique titles include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

PERIOD COVERED: Early 18th to Mid-20th Century

The collection includes:
— Papers of early pioneers and explorers, including the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon.
— Documents relating to Canada and the Pacific Northwest including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.

— Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
— Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834 - 1922
— Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
— Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
— Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
— Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
— Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
— Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
— Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
— Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
— Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980
— Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
— The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
— Women in The National Archives, UK

PERIOD COVERED: 1948-1980

SOURCE ARCHIVE: The National Archives, UK
The collection includes: previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activist biographies and first-hand accounts

PERIOD COVERED: 1792-1980
— China Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers and Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942
— China Inland Mission, 1865-1951: From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
— Asian Economic History Series 1: The Opium Trade and the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 1945-48
— Asian Economic History Series 2: Economic Development in Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, 1950-1980

PERIOD COVERED: 1650-1942
— Colonial Discourses Series 3: Colonial fiction, 1712-1933
— The official and personal papers of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, 1898-1905, from the India Office Records
— The Empire Writes Back Part 1: Indian views on Britain and Empire, 1810-1915
— India during the Raj: Eyewitness Accounts
— India in the Age of Empire: The journals of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812-1881) from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
— Indian Newspaper Reports, c. 1868-1942

PERIOD COVERED: 1400-1942
— Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, 1853-1941
— East Meets West: Original records of Western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1952
— Asian Journals: The Anglo-Japanese Gazette, 1902-1909
— Asian Journals: ‘A Weekly Journal for Law, Commerce, Politics, Literature and Useful Information’, 1899-1908

PERIOD COVERED: 1875-1970
The Mechanical Engineer (1897-1917), Oil News (1912-1939), the Papers of William Stanley Jevons, the Diaries of John Neville Keynes, the Papers of Carl Menger, the Papers of Hugh Dalton: Diaries (1916-1960), the Papers of David A Morse, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (1948-1970), the Stock Exchange Official Year-Book, 1875-1945, and Treasury Papers

It encompasses the era of “The Great Game” — a political and diplomatic confrontation between the Russian and British Empires for influence, territory and trade across a vast region, from the Black Sea in the West to the Pamir Mountains in the East. It comprised of correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts and other materials from the Foreign Office (FO) 65, FO 106, FO 371 and FO 539 series. Highlights:
— Correspondence from the government of British India, British Prime Ministers and Viceroys of India
— Letters to and from the Shahs of Persia and the Emirs of Afghanistan
— War diaries of the Kurram Field Force and dispatches from Lord Roberts
— Material relating to early Soviet military takeover of Bukhara, and early Soviet relations with Afghanistan
— Letters from Russian Foreign Ministers, diplomats, and military officials
— Correspondence from national governments including Russia, Persia, Afghanistan and British India
— Correspondence on Francis Younghusband’s expedition to the Pamirs
— Diaries and reports of British intelligence officers and agents recording — Russian activities and events in Afghanistan and on the North-Western Frontier

PERIOD COVERED: between the 1810s and the 1920s
This collection focuses primarily on American literature and culture and includes a selection of titles from European publishers and some written in French or German. Central to the resource are the items published by McLoughlin Bros.
It includes first and early editions of classic titles from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, and Hannah More.

PERIOD COVERED: 18th century to early 20th century
The collection includes:
— Correspondence, logbooks, diaries and shipping papers, revealing the immense impact of the Old China Trade on America’s economic and cultural development
— The logbooks for the first American ships to visit China
— A rare letter book of Houqua, a Canton trader
— Trade letters from King Tamoree and Queen Charlotte Tapoolee of Kaua‘i (Hawai‘i)
— Early fur traders in Canada and the Pacific Northwest

PERIOD COVERED: Mid-18th to early 20th century

Spanning three centuries, China: Culture and Society provides access to the Wason Pamphlet collection at Cornell University in its entirety. Mostly in English and published between c.1750 and 1929, these rare pamphlets make up one of the most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world.

PERIOD COVERED: Late 18th to late 20th century
Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service – from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze – are accessible and searchable alongside original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies. There are letters relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War and tantalising glimpses of life in China from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family. Significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals are also featured.

PERIOD COVERED: 1799–1959
— Africa Missions
— Central Records
— East Asia Missions
— General Secretary's Papers
— Middle East Missions
— Missions to India
— Missions to the Americas
— Missions to Women
and reports of visits to schools, minutes of meetings of education committees, and material on the training of teachers and clergypeople.

PERIOD COVERED: 1804-2009
Module I: Global Missions and Contemporary Encounters, 1804-2009
Module II: Medical Journals, Asian Missions and The Historical Record, 1816-1986

Church Missionary Society Periodicals features publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.

Module I: Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries
Module II: Towards Revolution
Module III: The American Revolution
Module IV: Legislation and Politics in the Colonies [New for 2018]
Module V: Growth, Trade and Development [2019]

— Settlement, Slavery, and Empire, 1624-1832
— Colonial Government and Abolition, 1833-1849
— Economic Change and Indentured Labour, 1850-1870

From coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy's defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence, this resource covers the modern period of European colonization of the continent.

Documents issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices in the British Government.
— The nine-year siege of Montevideo (1843-52)
— British emigration to Argentina and Brazil (1860s-90s)
— British filibustering expeditions against Cuba (1884-5)
— Protestant schools in the Mosquito Indian Reserve (1900)
— The building of the Panama Canal (1900s)
— Proposals for a confederation of Central American states (1907)
— The dictatorships of Getúlio Vargas (1930-45) in Brazil and Juan Perón (1946-55) in Argentina

Highlights
— Axis influence in Afghanistan
— The importance of the Suez Canal to British imperial policy
— The Mahdist Wars in Sudan
— Egyptian politics during the Second World War
— The ambitions of Atatürk’s Turkey
— Views of Mossadeq’s government in Iran after the oil nationalisations
— European diplomatic manoeuvrings during the First Balkan War

Highlights
— The birth of the railways and industry, the Hudson’s Bay Company, trade, economy and agriculture, sheries and shipping
— Native Americans, border disputes, slavery and apprenticeship, the Morant Bay rebellion
— Prohibition, the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi activities in Chile, McCarthyism
— The League of Nations, US nancial position, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the USA into the World War II
— Spheres of influence in Latin America, nuclear policy and US-Canadian relationships

PERIOD COVERED: mid- 15th to early 20th Century (1920)
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original British source material to enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology and education from a gendered perspective.

THEMATIC AREAS: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, the Body

Documents cover an array of topics relating to England with a significant focus on the lives of ‘everyday’ people. For example,
— Quarter Session Papers reveal the lives of ‘ordinary’ people alongside the structure of justice
— Papers of Anthony Bacon, private secretary to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, provide insights into continental networks
— Commonplace books detail the thoughts and organisation of Early Modern minds
— Objects show the material culture of the age, etc.

Module I: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947
Module II: Factory Records for South Asia and South East Asia
Module III: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East

PERIOD DISCOVERED: 1737-1824

Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth-century society, and explore how the plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history.

From political journals circulated in London coffee houses to colonial newspapers, and from poetic reviews to magazines for ladies of fashion, Eighteenth Century Journals illuminates aspects of social, political and literary life, providing an opportunity to examine a variety of topical issues, and to compare a range of perspectives on the debates of the day. 'Lady's Magazine Index' is a part of the site feature.
Sources from India, Ireland, Caribbean, Canada, Scottish and Provincial English are included.

PERIOD COVERED: Late 15th to early 21st century
— Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969
— Section II: Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire
— Section III: The Visible Empire
— Section IV: Religion & Empire
— Section V: Race, Class, Colonialism, Imperialism
With primary source material from American, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German and British perspectives, Empire Online provides documents from Africa, India and North America.

PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1980
Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the Ethnomusicology Archive at the University of Washington, the material in this collection includes audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

SOURCE LIBRARIES: the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University, and The New York Public Library
The primary sources cover a variety of themes, for example, popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment. There is also an emphasis on advice literature, and on both women and men’s issues.

PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1920s
Module I: Personal Experiences
Module II: Propaganda and Recruitment
Module III: Visual Perspectives and Narratives
Module IV: A Global Conflict
Themes include: Empire and colonial forces, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British Africa, French West Africa and India; The German perspective; Austria-Hungary and Italy; The Eastern Front and Russian Revolution; The Balkans; Africa and the Middle East; Gallipoli; The war in the Far East; Chinese labourers; Air raids; Blockades and the war at sea; US involvement; Portuguese troops on the Western Front; Occupation; Versailles and the Paris Peace Conference; Relief Work and regeneration; and Demobilisation

PERIOD COVERED: 1514-1980
Features the summary of the history in the 1850s, 1900s, and 1950s in Australia, UK, and U.S.
Primary sources cover printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government documents, marketing reports, films and illustrated content to discover the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere.

— Section I: Cold War in the Pacific, Trade Relations, and the Post-Independence Period, 1963-1966
— Section II: Foundations of Economic Growth and Industrialisation, 1967-1980

Formerly restricted British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.
— 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
— 1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
— 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
— 1949-1956: The Communist revolution
— 1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
— 1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution

Survey the high politics of Independence and Partition, social and cultural interchange after 1947 and the ramifications that these changes continue to have throughout South Asia today.

1931-1945, Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific
1946-1952, Occupation of Japan [New for 2018]
1919-1930, Japan and Great Power Status [2019]

1971-1974, The 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Oil Crisis
1975-1978, The Lebanese Civil War and the Camp David Accords
1979-1981, The Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War

PERIOD COVERED: 1650 - 1920

Experience settlements across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Explore documents on the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people in these regions alongside the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples.

PERIOD COVERED: 19th to 21st centuries
Predominantly covers the US, UK, and Canada (and to a lesser extent, Australia).
The collection includes:
— Documents relating to Doris Stevens and Martha Carey Thomas in their fight for suffrage, including letters to Emmeline Pankhurst
— Papers from the collection of Betty Friedan, a leading figure in the feminist movement
— A collection of newsletters representing the development of the men’s movement from the 1970s onwards

PERIOD COVERED: around 1801 - 1976
The period after the Civil War in America became known as the Gilded Age, coined by Mark Twain in his seminal novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), playing on the failure of the expected 'golden era' of Reconstruction. This resource aims to showcase the transformation of America into a modern, urban, industrial global power through business, legal and personal papers. This includes personal papers of John D. Rockefeller Sr (1839-1937), the Astor Family papers, personal correspondence and holograph manuscripts of The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1862-1937), and so forth.

PERIOD COVERED: 18th - 20th century
The fifteen commodities explored in this resource are: Chocolate, Coffee, Cotton, Fur, Opium, Oil, Porcelain, Silver and Gold, Spices, Sugar, Tea, Timber, Tobacco, Wheat, and Wine and Spirits
The collection includes:
— Records of individual traders, showing patterns of consumption for a range of commodities over time.
— Business Accounts and Records of both small and large companies from an early fur trapper to a major chocolate manufacturer.
— Government records concerning taxation, economic development and colonial business schemes.

PERIOD COVERED: 1550-1850
This resource explores the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy. The material also covers European political and religious life, British diplomacy; life at court, and social customs on the Continent, and supports the study of Europe’s urban spaces.
This collection includes letters; diaries and journals; account books; printed guidebooks; published travel writing; paintings and sketches; architectural drawings and maps.

PERIOD COVERED: 17th - 19th century
This collection consists of writings of Governor-Generals, Commander-in-Chiefs, Indian Princes, soldiers, traders, missionaries, explorers, historians and authors of literary works, indigo farmers and tea and coffee planters: e.g.,
— An account of a duel, court martials and of the murder of a servant
— Papers of Andrew Hunter, coffee planter, 1860-1870
— Illustrated accounts of tea-planting in India, 1780-1855
— Discussions of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s (Correspondence of Patrick Geddes, 1892-1931)

The collection includes:
— The evolution of early Jewish Settlements in areas such as New York, Rhode Island and Philadelphia
— The immigration process and structures of support for those arriving from the Old World – the differing experiences of immigrants and, from the late 19th century, strategies adopted at Ellis Island and in Galveston
— The role of Jews in the American War of Independence and the Civil War
— The Jewish Diaspora – the influx of Jews from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and other places around the world and their dispersal across America

PERIOD COVERED: 1900–2000
The J. Walter Thompson Company Archive documents the history, operation, policies and accomplishments of one of the world's largest and oldest advertising firms.

PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1980

From the emergence of travel agencies in the 19th century, to the impact of wilderness tourism on American national identity, and the golden age of package holidays in the 1970s, this content offers a wealth of essential material for any scholar or student of social, cultural and business history.

PERIOD COVERED: 19th Century
The collection includes:
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s two ­part diary from 1832, plus four notebooks containing working drafts of poems from 1843.
— Charles Dickens’ correspondence to Mrs Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Leigh Hunt, George Lewes and many others.
— Bound holograph manuscript of Hardy’s The Three Strangers.

PERIOD COVERED: 17th - 18th Century

This resource offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. Alongside original compositions are copied verses, translations, songs and riddles.

PERIOD COVERED: 1554 – 1984
— The Entry Book of Copies (1554-1842) provide unique information about literary and dramatic works. Notable entries include Shakespeare’s First Folio, entered on November 8th, 1623.
— The Court Records (1602-1982) are an essential source for understanding the workings of the Stationers’ Company and can be used to trace the establishment of book trade practices.
— The English Stock documents (1603-1961) record the activities of the successful publishing arm of the Stationers’ Company which held a monopoly over popular and frequently re‑published works.

— American Writers: Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
— Gothic fiction (1765-1912): e.g., Mary Meeke's Midnight Wedding (1802) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818).
— Autobiographies from men of all ranks in Britain
— Correspondences of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) and Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) and Literary Manuscripts of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
— The Collected Writings of Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
— — Caroline Norton is probably most well-known for being a committed advocate for creating equality in marriage between a husband and wife. Her public campaigning led to the successful passing of parliamentary acts.

PERIOD COVERED: 19th and early 20th centuries
The topics focus on working-class culture, street literature, popular music, urban topography, ‘slumming’, prostitution, the Contagious Diseases Act, the Temperance Movement, social reform, Toynbee Hall, police and criminality.

It 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). Highlights:
— The aftermath of Suez and a new Middle East policy, 1957-1963
— The foundation of the EEC by the Treaty of Rome, 1957
— The 1957 Defence White Paper, a landmark in British defence policy
— The Wolfenden Report on Homosexuality and Prostitution, 1957
— West Indian Independence, 1958
— The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1961, including the building of the Berlin Wall

Delve into the pseudo-psychological world behind the advertising of some of America’s biggest brands. What motivates women and men to buy and how can knowing that be used to sell?

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 and market research pioneer.

PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1967
This resource covers the original Mass Observation project, the bulk of which was carried out from 1937 until the mid-1950s, offering an unparalleled insight into everyday life in Britain during these transformative years.
The material covers:
— The end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’ when the impact of the Depression was still being felt;
— The onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front;
— The post-war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.

PERIOD COVERED: 1981-2009
— Module I 1980s: covers poignant events, including the Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana, the Falklands War, and the AIDs crisis, as well as the daily lives of individuals from a range of social and economic backgrounds.
— Module II 1990s: covers social and political events, such as the Mad Cow epidemic, the death of Princess Diana, and the General Election.
— Module III 2000s: include the Millennium Diaries, the events of September 11th and Environmental concerns, as well as detailing the everyday lives, thoughts, and opinions of respondents.

PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1970
This collection focuses on the Crimean War (October 1853–February 1856), the American Civil War, and the First World War among other conflicts. The resource tells the story of medical advances during warfare from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the influenza epidemic in 1918 and the discovery of penicillin in 1927. Material has been sourced from across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to enable comparisons on key areas of ambulance systems, disability, hospital care, medical developments and equipment, mental health, nursing, personal experience, public health, welfare and reform, rehabilitation, sanitation, women at war.

PERIOD COVERED: 15th to 18th centuries
— Crown Servants: Series One to Three
— Black Death: Sources concerning the European Plague: Series One
— Renaissance Man - The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700: Series One
— Masculinity: Men Defining Men and Gentleman, 1600-1800
— Medieval and Early Modern Women

PERIOD COVERED: 1400-1490
Only five major family letter collections from this period survive and all are included here:
— The Paston letters document the life of a gentry family during the War of the Roses. Hundreds of documents and letters exchanged between different family members cover in microcosm the dilemmas of a nation beset by war, disease and legal disputes.
— The Celys were a merchant family, and crucial players in the wool trade between England and the Channel ports. This collection, which covers every aspect of their commercial dealings, will fascinate the economic and social historian.
— The Stonors were a well-established gentry family in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. These documents cover the longest time period of any of the collections and throw light on both business and domestic issues.
— The Plumptons were a dominant northern family. Their documents, which continue right through to the early sixteenth century, reveal a family entangled in the social and economic affairs of the region.
— The Armburgh family material is primarily concerned with a dispute over a family inheritance.

PERIOD COVERED: from the 13th to the 16th centuries
This collection focuses on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Topics covered include: pilgrimage, the origins of global trade, travels to the Holy Land, the Silk Road, and the representation of the 'East' and the 'Other' in the Middle Ages.
Featured individuals include ambassadors, missionaries, merchants, fantasists and literary creations, including Prester John, John of Plano Carpini, Ascelin, William of Rubruck, and Marco Polo.

PERIOD COVERED: 1856-1925
Edward S Morse (1838-1925) was a great polymath – notable for his work in natural history, ethnography and art history – but, perhaps most famous for his work in bringing Japan and the West closer together.
Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan – teaching science at the Imperial University of Tokyo – and he devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.

PERIOD COVERED: 1800-1980
Module I, The Century of Immigration: Documenting the period from 1800 to 1924, this module focuses on the British colonisation of Canada during the early nineteenth century, Chinese and Japanese immigration to the United States and the movement of indentured Asian labourers to plantations in the West Indies.
Module II, The Modern Era: Beginning with the activities of the New Zealand Company during the 1840s, this module focuses on the growth of colonisation companies, activities of immigration and welfare societies, and the plight of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War.

PERIOD COVERED: 19th and 20th centuries
African Missions, Education and the Road to Independence, Church of Scotland Missionary Archive, Congo Mission Archives, Korean Mission Records, Missionary Pamphlets, Pacific Island Culture and Society, Regions Beyond Missionary Union Archive, Scottish Missionary & Philanthropic Register, 1821-1842, Women's Missionary Archives

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.

FEATURED WOMEN INCLUDE:
Esther Inglis (1570/71–1624), Sarah Cowper (1644–1720), Margaret Cunningham (d. 1622?), Mary Evelyn (1887–1960), Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681), Lady Elizabeth Lowther (d. 1747), Katherine Philips (1632–1664)

Music, Politics, Fashion, Youth Culture – the period from 1950 to 1975 witnessed dramatic changes in society. There was the onset of Rock & Roll; the introduction of computers and credit cards; the boom of radio and television; and campaigns for black power, civil rights and women’s liberation. All around the world there were challenges to authority.

Explore the medicine chests and bookshelves of the everyday nineteenth-century American through a colourful array of advertisements, popular texts and much more.

Uncover the history of ‘popular’ remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, through primary source materials from the extensive collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

PERIOD COVERED: 1800-1900
This digital resource documents the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century society, tracing developments in welfare reform and the social tensions surrounding poverty.

PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1970
The collection includes:
— Over 100 hours of audio recordings of speeches given by prominent members of the Civil Rights Movement, eminent sociologists, economists, industrial experts and psychologists.
— A wealth of survey material covering school desegregation, church integration, employment practices, housing and recreation.
— Detailed case studies and community self-surveys on key cities across the United States.

PERIOD COVERED: 1768 - 1903
The collection includes:
— Explore William Wordsworth’s original verse manuscripts, working notebooks and some printed, annotated, editions.
— View over two thousand fine art pieces from celebrated artists such as John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, Benjamin Robert Haydon and John Ruskin.

PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1948
The collection contains a range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world.
Publications are included from many key nations involved in the conflict, such as Great Britain (over 119), U.S. (64), New Zealand (48), Germany (17), Canada (16), South Africa (10), and so forth. Both Allied and Axis publications are presented.

PERIOD COVERED: Late 19th - 20th century
— Module I focuses on sexology and the work of sex researchers, combining advice sought by members of the public with the corresponding answers, thoughts on research proposals and work sent by academics and medical professionals to the Kinsey Institute, Indiana.
— Module II covers LBGTQI+ individual personal histories from the late-19th century to the present day, , sourced from archives in the US, UK and Australia.

PERIOD COVERED: 1670s to 1970s (bulk 19th century)
Highlights
— Prompt books for over 90% of Shakespeare’s plays, including editions owned by notable actors and directors such as Charles and John Philip Kemble, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and Laurence Olivier.
— Performances of particular cultural importance have been selected as case studies including David Garrick’s revised 1772 production of Hamlet, Henry Irving’s famous 1879 production of ­The Merchant of Venice, and Laurence Olivier’s Academy Award-winning cinema release of Hamlet in 1948.

PERIOD COVERED: 1997-2016
The collection contains information on around 170 different plays, concerts or events and over 400 different productions of these plays.

PERIOD COVERED: 1490 - 2007
The resource offers in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.
Thematic areas include: Slavery in the Early Americas, African Coast, The Middle Passage, Slavery and Agriculture, Urban and Domestic Slavery, Slave Testimony, Spiritualism and Religion in Slave Communities, Resistance and Revolts, The Underground Railroad, The Abolition, Movement and the Slavery Debate, Legislation and Politics, Freed Slaves, Freedmen and Free Black Settlements, Education, Slavery and the Islamic World, Varieties of Slave Experience, and Slavery Today and the Legacy of Slavery.

PERIOD COVERED: Early twentieth century to the 1980s
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.
Module I: Wars & Revolutions
Module II: Newsreels & Cinemagazines [New for 2018]
Module III: Culture & Society [2019]

PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1950

Explore domesticity, daily life, consumerism and technology in America between 1850-1950.

PERIOD COVERED: 1835–1976
Places visited include: USA and Canada; China, Japan and the Philippines; Europe (very well documented); Russia; Africa; and Australia.
The collection includes:
— Elizabeth Cary Agassiz’s scientific and cultural explorations of Brazil in the 1860s.
— Lillian Schoedler’s remarkable world travels between 1927 and 1963.
— Travel to countries within the British, French, Chinese and American empires and discussion of empire and nationalism, as well as the post-colonial world.

PERIOD COVERED: 1779 - 1930

Module I: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic
Module II: Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks
Module III: Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment
Module IV: Moving Pictures, Optical Entertainments and the Advent of Cinema

PERIOD COVERED: 1590–1790
This resource documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas and provides a rich source for the study of trade between Britain and America.

PERIOD COVERED: 1559-1995 (finding aid); early 20th Century (original documents)
— The campaign for women's suffrage in Britain and the British Empire
— Biographical information on individual suffragettes
— The 'Cat and Mouse' campaign
— Police surveillance
— Prison conditions
— Parliamentary debates and committee reports, and more.

PERIOD COVERED: 1662/1740–1960
— Aristocratic Women
— Colonial Discourses: Series One
— International Women’s Suffrage: Part One
— Women, Emancipation and Literature
— Women, Morality and Advice Literature
— Women’s Autobiographies
— Women’s Journals of the Nineteenth Century: Part One

PERIOD COVERED: 1851-1967
From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hot dogs, world’s fairs have shaped our world. Over 200 world’s fairs and exhibitions are represented through a range of primary sources.

Subjects include:
— American History
— Newsreels
— Women's Studies
— Women and Social Movements Library
— LGBT Studies
— Religion and Thought
— Black Studies in Video

A collection of primary source documents, secondary sources, and videos on the establishment of African diasporic communities throughout the world after the abolition of slavery. Items include personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera from the Caribbean, Brazil, India, United Kingdom, and France.

This collection includes newsreels, documentaries, oral histories, scholarly essays, photographs, newspapers, regimental rosters, conference proceedings, political pamphlets, letters, diaries, and other archival documents.
It covers the Plymouth Rock landing, westward expansion, the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, the Space Race, the Gay Rights Movement, the Iraq War, and more.

Contains over 7,900 items that are newsreels, documentaries, interviews, speeches/addresses, public service announcements, conference materials, archival footages, and so forth. More than half is contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. These videos were produced by PBS, California Newsreel, Bullfrog Films, Documentary Educational Resources, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, The History Channel®, etc.

This video collection covers video series, such as 37 days, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution, Cambridge Spies, Churchill's Bodyguard, Defence of the Realm, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Series 003 America Was Here, Secrets of World War II, etc.

PERIOD COVERED: 1841 - 1960
contains 1,303 sources with 1,210 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of African Americans.
The collection begins with the works of Frederick Douglass and is targeted to include the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and so forth.

PERIOD COVERED: 1773–2010 [moved to ProQuest]
includes works by authors from Africa and the African diaspora with a wide range of cultures, thereby offering a finely nuanced perspective of a group facing issues that, taken together, are unique to this literature.
Coverage includes writers such as Ida B. Wells, Maya Angelou, Zora Neale Hurston, Sonia Sanchez (US), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Grace Ogot (Kenya), Michelle Cliff (Jamaica), Bessie Head (South Africa), and many others.

PUBLICATION DATES: 1864–2008 [move to ProQuest]
The materials have been compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors. Some 30 percent of the collection is fugitive or ephemeral, or has never been published before.

PERIOD COVERED: 1558 - 1945
The collection spans more than 400 years of personal writings, bringing together the voices of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

Starting with the literature produced in Spanish and French colonies in the 1800s, the collection (poetry and fiction) offers an extensive selection of 19th- and 20th-century works from every Caribbean country. Among the authors featured are Wilson Harris, Kwane Dawes, Lorna Goodison, Cyryl Dabydeen, Earl Lovelace, Samuel Selvon, Derek Walcott, Corly Verlooghen, Diana Lebacs, Hubert Booi, Maryse Condé, André Paradis, Phillipe Thoby-Marcelin, José Martí, Julian de Casal, José de Diego, and Salomé Ureña de Henríquez.

Works include:
– The Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke (1911) contains not only military affairs in the West, but also politics, social life in the South, prison life, and the fleeing of the government from Richmond at war's end
– Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir by His Wife (1890), by Varina Howell Davis
– The diary of Gideon Welles, who was Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson
– Soldier Boy's Letters to His Father and Mother 1861-5, by Chauncey H. Cooke

HarpWeek's collection of 19th century journals

The current release features the English translation of Barth's magnum opus, The Church Dogmatics, in its entirety. The original German version, Die kirchliche Dogmatik, is also included as are the first 45 volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, which includes hundreds of letters, sermons, lectures, conversations, and academic writings.

PERIOD COVERED: 1500–1700
The Library includes works by authors, such as Robert Barclay, Johann Buxtorf, Pierre Du Moulin, Melchior Leydekker, Stephen Nye, Michael Servetus, John Whitgift, Pietro Martire Vermigli, and Daniel Zwicker can be found alongside the opera of the most famous names: Jacob Arminius, Richard Baxter, Theodore Beza, John Calvin, Thomas Cramner, Thomas Goodwin, Martin Luther, Faustus Socinus, and Ulrich Zwingli.

PERIOD COVERED: 1500–1700
With 845 titles by 277 authors, the collection includes theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, social and political works, sermons, letters, polemical treatises, and other key documents from this critical epoch in European history.

Examples of topics covered in the collection: Employment, Job training, Government programs, Social activism and activists, Protests, Laws and legislation, Policy, Transportation, Patents, Wages, Sexuality, Veterans, Soldiers, Industry, Factories, Accessibility, Physical disabilities, Mental disabilities, Race, Intellectual disabilities, Gained disabilities, Arts, Deafness, Blindness, Identity, Pensions, Class, Employment opportunities, Rehabilitation, Welfare and public relief, Poverty, Civil rights, Education, Medical Model vs, Social Model, Unemployment, Athletics and more.

PERIOD COVERED: 1534–1850
The collection contains published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, and letters. It also includes a full set of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.
It focuses on personal accounts and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials, both men and women.
For example, you can identify encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.

– Thousands of unique documents including letters, diaries, and photographs, covering the early Australasian experience.
– Detailed semantic indexing that allows the sources to be browsed and searched in a variety of ways, by date, person, subject, and more.
– Sources spanning over 100 years of Australasian history from repositories located across Australia and New Zealand.

PERIOD COVERED: 1920–2019
Documentaries were published by The Video Project (95 documentaries), Science Photo Library (32), TVF International (15), TMW Media Group (13), Bubble Media (8), Cinema Libre Studio (8), Berkeley Media (7), Cable News Network (CNN) (6), Java Films (4), Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Organization) (4), BBC Worldwide (3), China International TV (3), Green Planet Films (3), Paradigm Documentaries (3), Blue Water Entertainment (2), etc.

PERIOD COVERED: 1937–2013
These collectors’ bodies of work contain some of regional music on record, including Mark Slobin’s survey of Afghan music, Nazir Jairazbhoy’s survey of classical Indian music, and Hugh Tracey’s survey of southern and central African music.

PERIOD COVERED: 1938–2019
— Vols. I & II: Foundational Films
— Vol. III: Indigenous Voices
— Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives

This collection contains many films that were produced during the decades of the 1930s and 1940s in U.S. and some British and Danish films. Film production companies/Studios include Warner Brothers, RKO Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, etc.
Volume 1: more than 1,000 scripts of American cinema's greatest classic films. Notable scripts in this collection include The Wizard of Oz, Singin’ in the Rain, Ben Hur, Casablanca, American Gigolo, Raging Bull, The Maltese Falcon, Unforgiven, Blade Runner (draft script & 2nd script), State and Main, Hotel Rwanda.
Volume II: 500 new screenplays from StudioCanal, Ealing Studios, Faber & Faber, Newmarket Press, Warner Brothers, and others. Film origins go beyond American classic cinema to include international and contemporary films.

PERIOD COVERED: 1865–1902
The collection includes songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.

The collection provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide from 1900 to 2010. Primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event include: Ottoman Empire and Armenia (1914-1922), Holocaust (1933-1945), Cambodia Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979), Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Burma-Myanmar Conflict (1982-2008), Yugoslav Wars: Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats (1991-1995), Kosovo War (1998-1999), and Darfur Conflict (2003-).

Part of the American History collection. The collection captures, for example, World War II, 1939-1945, U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865, World War I, 1914-1918, Great Depression, 1929-1941, American Revolution, 1775-1783, Reconstruction, US, 1865-1877, and more.

The collection’s materials are presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Content partners include Canal Futura (Brazil’s paid educational television channel), Federal Distribución Internacional (a distributor of Argentinian films), Cine Ojo (a production and distribution company from Argentina), Camila films (an independent film and video production company based in Nicaragua), and Argentinean Eduardo Montes Bradley (an independent filmmaker).

The collection starts at the 18th-century with works by writers, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico), and Francisca Josefa de Castillo y Guevara (Colombia), with their plays, poetry, and other meditative texts. In the 19th century, women were able to start the critique of their own status within heavily patriarchal societies. Throughout the 20th century we can see an increase in production and publication of women’s works. A number of important figures are present, such as Rachel de Queiroz (Brazil), Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay), Isidora Aguirre (Chile), Ida Granko (Venezuela), and Cristina Peri Rossi (Uruguay).
Besides the literary works, over 25% of the collection is comprised of feminist works.

PERIOD COVERED: 1872 - 2007
It includes over 450 plays written in English and Spanish by hundreds of Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Latino authors working in the United States.
It includes not only fiction and poetry, but also supplementary resources, such as playbills and performance material, poetry readings, book presentation flyers, book covers, and photographs. Among other precious material we have four recordings of theatrical performances from the early 1980s, over 500 photographs documenting Hispanic Theater activities from its beginning to the present, and hundreds of pages of Chicano folklore.

PERIOD COVERED: from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries
Featured content includes:
— Case papers for a number of indecent publication trials, including the 1928 obscenity trial for The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall.
— The Damron Guides: The collection includes the 1965-1980 runs of this pocket-sized National Directory that documents LGBT-friendly places, presenting insight into the evolution of pro-LGBT establishments in the United States and Canada.

The collection will have cross-disciplinary relevance beyond LGBT courses, serving research and teaching in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, political science, gender studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.

The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. Check Personal Events before seaching.

The project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files.
Rare books are included, representing King Philip, Red Jacket, Sequoyah, Thayendanegea, Tomochichi, Standing Bear, Red Cloud, John Ross, and Geronimo. Additional materials extend coverage to the present day. Twenty prominent Indians have been selected for special emphasis, with multiple biographies presented, including Pocahontas, Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Plenty Coups.

The collection includes some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals writing from Colonial times to 1950, including more than 6,000 pages of previously unpublished materials.
Examples of materials:
— Extracts from the Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754–1781
— Julia Heller’s Boyfriend Book, the 1932 diary of a Pennsylvania teenager
— Letters of Phyllis Wheatley
— Letters of Ellen Louisa Tucker to Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene

Interview Dates: 1930s–2000s
Historical Events are about U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945, Cold War, 1945-1989, Korean Conflict, 1950-1953, Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975, Persian Gulf War, 1991, and so forth.

PERIOD COVERED: the 17th century through to the present day
The collection including primary sources, such as sketches, photographs, technical drawings, monographs, articles, and dissertations. Secondary material, with titles such as Making Stage Props and Starting Your Career as a Theatrical Designer, offer practical support for the business of creating designs in professional applications.

More than 1,200 streaming videos includes:
— Frontline: PBS's investigative documentary program
— Nova: an American popular science television program produced by WGBH
— American Experience
— Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
— PBS series created by The WNET Group

PERIOD COVERED: the 18th century through the 21st century
Resources cover Arab Revolt, 1916-1919, Chinese Revolution of 1911, Cuban Revolutions, 1898, Zanzibar Revolution, 1964, Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901, Egyptian Revolution, 1952, European Revolutions of 1848, Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro Regime, 1953-2011, Iranian Revolutions 1953-1979, Great Syrian Revolt, 1925-1927, Russian Revolution, 1905 and 1917, German Revolution of 1918-1919, Hungarian Revolution, 1956, Long Civil Rights Movement, United States, Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, and so forth.

The collection includes diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. The topics are about Freedom rides, sit-ins, the draft, the Equal Rights Amendment, Earth Day, the Free Speech Movement, the Stonewall riots, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the Space Race, and so forth. Historical events include Vietnam Conflict (1955-1975) and U.S. Civil Rights Movement II (1966-).

includes: American Theater, Black Theater, Ethnic Theater, Modern Theater and so forth.

includes:
– Asian American Drama
– Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
– Black Drama
– Black Drama: Second and Third Editions
– North American Indian Drama
– North American Women's Drama
– Twentieth Century North American Drama

PERIOD COVERED: 1859–2007 The areas include:
— How wars—including World War I, World War II, and the Korean War—affected the lives of men and women on the home front and in the battlefield
— Women’s rights, sex, and gender relations
— Citizenship in different contexts
— The role of religion
— Perspectives on the American Dream
— Representations of other cultures

includes the complete 17-volume German edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke (DBW) and English edition of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Series (DBWE); an international selection of English-language editions of key authors, such as Pope Benedict XVI, Hans Urs von Baltasar, Leonardo Boff, Sergius Bulgakov, Rudolf Bultmann, Helder Camara, James Cone, Mary Daly, Ivone Gebara, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Adolf von Harnack, Bernard Lonergan, Ernst Troeltsch, and John Howard Yoder; and a selection of the papers of Reinhold Niebuhr.

focuses on modern Islamic theology and tradition and details Islam’s evolution from the late 19th century by examining printed works and rare documents by Muslim writers, both non-Western and Western voices.
It includes an international selection of English-language editions of key thinkers such as Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm, Khaled Abou el Fadl, Fethullah Gülen, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Said Nursî, and so forth.

The Library contains:
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements, International – 1840-2010
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820

— Volume I covers major works from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists.
— Volume II contains non-mainstream, post-code comics and secondary materials from around the world, including the US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, England, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Korea, Japan, and more.
Older comics include a part of Polly and Her Pals, Baron Bean, Bungle Family, Al Capp's Li'l Abner: Complete Daily & Sunday Comics, Dynamic Comics, True Comics, Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, and Frontline Combat.

— US National Archives - Records related to the school lunch program 1940-1973
— National Archives - WWII Food Campaign Files, 1941-1948
— Food Ephemera Collection, 1864-1983
Companies and Brands Featured: Jell-o, Quaker Oats, Coca Cola, McDonalds, Dominique Ansel, Devine Chocolate, Innocent Drinks, Whole Foods, Ruiz Foods, and Wetzel’s Prezels

Video Publication Dates: from 1918 to 2014
The collection includes 1,730 videos. The top 10 publishers: BBC (387 titles), World Wide Entertainment (274 titles), Dutch Polygoon-Profilti (232 titles), A&E Television Networks (114 titles), NBC Universal (85 titles), Landmark Media (75 titles), Entertainment One Ltd. (67 titles), Columbia Broadcasting System (57 titles), Filmakers Library (56 titles), and Sky Vision (51 titles).

The topics include War (Bombardment, Solders, Battles), Airplanes, Invasions, Sports, International Relations, and so forth. Languages include Dutch, English, French, and Japanese.

It includes more than 800,000 pages of original documents, produced between 1874 and 1965, ranging from Winston S. Churchill’s personal correspondence to his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.

— Asian Theatre Video Collection
— BBC Drama Films and Documentaries
— British, American and Australian Theatre Video Collection
— National Theatre Collections 1
— National Theatre Collections 2
— Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection (Canada)
— European Theatre Video Collection
— Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 and 2
— Shakespeare's Globe to Globe Festival on Screen 1
— Shakespeare in the Present
— Shakespeare Video Collection
— The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen
— Hamlet (Maxine Peake as Hamlet)
— The Royal Shakespeare Company Live Collection
— Shakespeare’s Heroes and Villains
— The Classic Spring Oscar Wilde Collection

Sources from Gujarat United School of Theology, Ahmedabad
This collection (roughly from 1840–1957) includes:
― Monographs printed by the Irish Presbyterian Mission Press in Surat, India.
― Monographs printed by other mission presses in India.
― Monographs printed outside India and relevant for research purposes.

Documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

Sources from the Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Rio de Janeiro; New York University Libraries; and four private collectors in Brazil
― Unique access to more than 60 magazines
― Fan magazines, trade magazines, Cinema Novo magazines

Sources from Filmoteca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
The collection includes magazines, such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1951-1955), two extremely rare issues of El Cine Gráfico from 1935, and copies of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910).

Formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher).
This provides record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Sources from C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
In 1876 Japan "opened" Korea to outside contact, and subsequently sparred with China over the right of influence in Korea. This rivalry culminated in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95. After Japan's victory, the Japanese government steadily increased its presence and interference in Korean matters until finally, in 1910, the country was annexed outright. Korea remained a Japanese colony until the end of the Pacific war in 1945.
This collection includes Japanese publications on Korea, Western (mostly English) early impressions of Korea, and Korean colonial-period literature.

This library contains the entire corpus of Dead Sea Scrolls texts. This online version presents a complete Hebrew transcription and English translation of the Biblical and Non-Biblical texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls corpus:
— Biblical Texts
— Non-Biblical Texts

Korans had been printed in Arabic type in several European cities. The collection includes Korans and Koran translations, printed between 1537 and 1857: e.g., the first Arabic Koran produced by the Venetian printer Alessandro Paganini and the Hamburg Koran edition produced by Abraham Hinckelmann in 1694.

The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1900–1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan’s engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century.

Sources from Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI) in Moscow
The collection contains correspondence with ministries, state organizations, and authors; administrative-managerial documents; plays performed by or submitted to the theater, and more fascinating material. This material is in Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian, English, French, and other European languages.

This unique collection contains complete runs of kopeck (penny) newspapers, the most widely circulated Russian newspapers in the beginning of the 20th century. The St. Petersburg Kopeika and Moscow Kopeika were read by lower-class readers, mainly newly literate migrants from the countryside or working people who had grown up in the city.

Sources from Leiden University Libraries, Leiden
This collection contains Arabic manuscripts originally collected by Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597), Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667).

The Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian texts are from one autograph (Codex Orientalis 432), 10 unique manuscripts (Cod. Or. 498; 517; 801; 870; 1088; 1090; 1096; 1110; 1143; 1155; and 1175), and 11 manuscripts with unique parts (Cod. Or. 309; 333; 662; 697; 730; 765; 835; 870; 898; 917; and 923).

The collection include the earliest dated manuscript in the collection (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḥib Tāǧ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author’s death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century.

MEMO-4 offers 150 manuscripts that form the collection of Rafi’ Shamghudi (1863-1932), a famous scholar and bibliophile from Shangoda, a town in central Dagestan. The collection, which consists of texts in Arabic and Persian, includes copies from the Timurid period. All metadata is LoC-compliant.

Sources from The National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
This collection contains many rare and intriguingly obscure books, as well as well-known and critically acclaimed texts, almanacs, periodicals, literary manifests. Among the groups included are the Ego-Futurists and Cubo-Futurists, the Imaginists, the Constructivists, the Biocosmists, and the infamous nichevoki - who, in their most radical manifestoes, professed complete abstinence from literary creation.

Sources from National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg
― Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 1: The Origins 1600-1800
― Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 2: Shifts in the Balance of Power, 1800-1853
― Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 3: The Crimean War (1853-1856)
― Russian-Ottoman Relations Online, Part 4: The End of the Empires, 1857-1914

Founded in Seoul in 1890 and published by the Office of the Resident-General (tōkan) 1906-10, then, post-annexation, by the Office of the Government General (Sōtoku) of Korea, the Seoul Press is the English-language newspaper of record for the Japanese protectorate then colony in Korea, 1906–1945. The mission was to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising and modernising force in East Asia. It represented the Japanese administration of Korea to the world. Missing from this collection includes the years 1910–1927.

This collection includes English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912.
See also The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History

Particular emphasis is given to America’s principal antagonists in Asia during the Cold War era: the People’s Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam. However, countries such as Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia are covered as well.

This collection covers the U.S. intelligence community’s activities in Europe, including Eastern Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, covering the time period from the end of World War II to the fall of the Iron Curtain and beyond.

It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran’s nuclear program.
Since 1945, the U.S. intelligence community has had to cover a half-dozen major wars and several dozen smaller but equally bloody armed conflicts in the Middle East, as well as innumerable civil wars, border clashes, armed insurgencies, and terrorist attacks. This comprehensive document set sheds light on the U.S. intelligence community’s spying and analytic efforts in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa.

Well known works include those by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1520/1-1592); Pietro della Valle (1586-1652); J.B. Tavernier (1605-1689); Jean de Thevenot (1633-1667); John Chardin (1643-1713); Cornelis de Bruyn (le Brun; 1652-1726); J.P. de Tournefort (1656-1708); Richard Pococke (1704-1765); James Bruce (1730-1794); and Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815).

Contributor: Parliamentary Archives, UK
This collection includes Slave Trade 1641-1838, African Co. Trade, Reports and Papers 1671-1815, American Papers 1621-1916, Canadian Papers 1628-1917, British relations with Spain and France 1641-1810, Papers re. other countries including Ireland and the Caribbean 1641-1853, Military and Related Papers 1641-1903, Trade and Industry 1640-1917, and Miscellaneous 1641-1798.
Canadian records include the original letters from Governor Edward Cornwallis; a military man, he was Canada's first Governor.

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was the culmination of an increasingly fraught relationship between the Thirteen Colonies of British America and the Colonial Government, which represented the British Crown.
Various primary sources include Pamphlets for the Years, 1763-1764, 1765-1766, 1767-1768, 1769-1770, ... 1783-1784.
Materials include Founding Father John Adams’ History of the dispute with America; From Its Origin in 1754.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The Associates of Dr. Bray was a group comprised of English clergymen and philanthropists who created and funded schools for Black, and to a lesser extent, Indigenous North American, children in the American Colonies between 1758 and 1776. Their aim was not only to educate, but also to Christianise their pupils.
This collection contains correspondence files, minute books, and financial reports compiled by the Associates during the period 1724-1900. It also includes some relevant documents that pre-date the organisation itself.

Contributor: The Royal Artillery Insititution, Woolwich
These lists reveal where the British army regiments fought from the Seven Years War to the American Revolution. These detailed lists will assist those researching military regiments or trying to trace ancestors.
These lists contain soldiers' names, ranks and regiments. The names of different regiments sometimes include the countries they served in.
The classes of soldier listed include officers, chaplains, adjutants, quartermasters, and surgeons.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG) is a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. During the 18th, 19th, and early-20th centuries, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
USPG C series records are divided by area: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Fredericton, Quebec, Montreal, Upper Canada, Toronto, and Nova Scotia.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG) is a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. During the 18th, 19th, and early-20th centuries, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
The collection includes Founding documents of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Journal of the SPG in Foreign Parts, Appendix to SPG Journal, and Annual sermons and reports of the SPG 1701-1845.

Contributor: National Library of Scotland
Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound (1845-1914), the Fourth Earl of Minto, was involved in Canadian governance in various roles between 1883 and 1905. He served as Canadian Military Secretary from 1883 and 1885 before becoming Governor-General from 1898 to 1905. This collection is drawn from his personal papers and offers a detailed account of the changing shape of governance and development in Canada.
The files include material relating to rebellions by French-Canadians and indigenous peoples, the recruitment of Canadian troops for Britain’s imperial wars, and questions of trade between Canada and the rest of the world. Additionally, the collection hosts a wealth of correspondence between Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound and important British political figures like Queen Victoria and Joseph Chamberlain.
In addition, the First Nations were visited and information about them was recorded in the early 1900's. Statistics on the First Nations' populations and an attempt to record the Blackfoot language also feature.

Contributor: All Souls College Oxford, Nat Lib of Scotland
Sir Charles Vaughan (1774-1849) was a career diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States during the period 1825-1835. This collection contains Vaughan's personal and professional papers from before, during, and after his time in Washington. The collection also includes the papers of one of Vaughan's predecessors, Sir Robert Liston (1742-1836), which provide a unique insight into Anglo-American relations in the late 18th century.
The collection also includes:
— Papers on the question of the North East Boundary (between the United States and Canada), 1824-1839
— Correspondence & Henrietta Liston's American & West Indian journals, 1798-1801
— Newspaper cuttings, 1800s

Contributor: Public Record Office, London
— Prison Ships and Depots in England: Chatham 1812-1814, Dartmoor 1813-1815, Plymouth 1812-1815, Portsmouth and Stapleton, 1812-1814
— Prison Ships and Depots in Overseas Locations: Barbados 1812-1815, Bermuda 1812-1815, and Halifax, Nova Scotia 1812-1815
— Parole Locations, 1812-1815
— Prisoner Deaths, Exchanges, and Transfers, also Brokers and Correspondence for Exchanges, 1812-1815

Contributor: The British Library
This collection contains a series of American journals, magazines, and trade papers published in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. While Canada receives much less attention than the United States, it still features regularly in some publications and prominently in others:
On 2nd May 1903, The Courier changed its name to The Anglo-American and Canadian Journal, claiming to be in its sixth year of existence. By this time, the Canadian government had begun to promote immigration in much the same way as their neighbours to the south—a fact reflected by increased commentary on and comment from Canada and Canadians. That said, the Journal retained the same distinguished address (Trafalgar Buildings, Trafalgar Square), and its format, style, and tone are identical to its predecessor. It later called itself ‘The Official Organ of the American and Canadian Colonies in Europe’.

Contributor: Bolton Archive and Local Studies Service
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American beat poet and essayist. This collection contains letters, photographs and other material produced by the Bolton Whitman Fellowship during the period 1891-1913. Whitman maintained an active correspondence with the group and his inner-circle continued this tradition long after the poet’s death.

Contributor: Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain, The Communist Heritage Trust
The records include minutes, agendas, and promotional materials from various women's campaigns, events, and conferences: for example,
— The Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB's) Women's Department records, 1950-1989
— Link: Communist Party Women’s Journal, 1973-1984
— Women in Europe Conference, 1991
— Records of the CPGB National Women’s Advisory Committee, 1950-1991
— Papers of the Working Women’s Charter Campaign, 1950-1989
— Red Rag: a Magazine of Liberation, 1971-1977
— Papers of the National Joint Action Campaign Committee for Equal Women’s Rights, 1969

Contributor: Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Dona Ruth Anne Torr (1883-1957) was brought up in a large and newly-built Victorian mansion, at Eastham, in Carlett Park, on Merseyside. She became a member of the Labour Party in 1914 and held pacifist views. [...] In 1920, she became a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
This collection contains Torr’s personal papers, including research notes and other materials relating to her biography of noted labour activist Thomas Mann. Together, these documents provide an invaluable insight into Marxist historiography and the social history of the British labour movement. In addition, they shed light on the life and times of one of British communism’s most important female figures.

Contributor: The National Archives
— Documents relating to the United Nations, 1944-1961:
—— These records come from British government departments—the Board of Customs and Excise, Board of Trade, Central Office of Information, Foreign Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, International Labour Division and Overseas Department, and War Office—the Brussels Treaty Organisation, and the UN itself.
— Documents relating to post-war commodities, inc. prices, 1945-1961:
—— This volume contains records from eight British government departments—the Admiralty, Board of Trade, Cabinet Office, Foreign Office, Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Fuel and Power, and Treasury

Source: Senate House Library, University of London
Contributor: Institute for Commonwealth Studies, Senate House
— Papers relating to the African National Congress (ANC), 1919-1989
— Papers of the National Party, 1948-1986
— Papers of the Progressive Party and the Progressive Federal Party, 1959-1987
— Papers of the Conservative Party, 1982-1985

Contributor: Kate Legum
Colin Legum (1919–2003) was a South African journalist and writer on African politics. Born in the rural farming town of Kestell, his worldview was shaped by the degrading poverty and racial injustice he witnessed in his hometown.
This collection contains a range of his writings and reports on twentieth century African politics. This includes material on Pan-Africanism, including on the Organisation of African Unity, articles documenting and attacking the Apartheid regime in South Africa, as well as an exploration of African politics against the backdrop of decolonisation and the Cold War.

— Nigeria [Lagos] Blue Book 1863
— Cape of Good Hope Blue Book 1821
— Kenya Blue Book 1914
— Gold Coast Blue Book 1859

This collection provides sources to explore colonial laws, administrated by the British, in 10 different African countries from the abolition of slavery to the end of the First World War.
— Kenya, 1899-1919
— Nigeria (Lagos), 1887-1919
— Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), 1899-1919
— Malawi (Nyasaland), 1899-1919 & Malawi (Nyasaland) Gazeztte, 1911-1912
— Sierra Leone, 1808-1919
— Ziombabwe (Southern Rhodesia), 1894-1919
— The Gambia, 1883-1919
— Ghana (Gold Coast), 1876-1919
— Uganda, 1908-1919
— Tanzania (Zanzibar), 1892-1919

This collection provides the opportunity to explore the laws implemented by successive British government in eleven African countries from January 1920 to December 1945. Countries are Kenya, Lagos (Nigeria), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Nyasaland (Malawi), Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), The Gambia, Gold Coast (Ghana), Uganda, Zanzibar (Tanzania), and Tanganyika (Tanzania).

Contributor: British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
This collection covers the period from January 1946 to December 1966.
During the 19th and 20th centuries the British government published gazettes on an annual basis. These outlined the colonial laws prevailing in its African territories. These include: Basutoland (Lesotho), Kenya, Lagos (Nigeria), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Nyasaland (Malawi), Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), The Gambia, Gold Coast (Ghana), Uganda, Zanzibar (Tanzania), and Tanganyika (Tanzania).

Beginning near the end of the nineteenth century with the formation of Gambia as a British colony and protectorate, this collection tracks the wide-ranging administrative duties of various governmental departments within Gambia up until the country’s independence in the 1960s.
This collection is divided into the following categories: Administration, Finance, Judicial and Police, Natural resources, Public Services, Communications and Financial Services, Trade, Co-operatives, and the Oil Seeds Marketing Board, and Population and Climate.
This collection is accompanied by an online guide to the microfilm edition by D. C. Dorward, Lecturer in African History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Throughout the period covered by this collection Ghana and Togo were known as the Gold Coast and British Togoland.
This collection is divided into the following categories: Administration 1846-1956, Finance 1895-1956, Judicial and Police 1895-1956, Natural Resources 1889-1957, Social Services 1886-1956, Transport and Public Works 1895-1956, Communications and Post Office Savings Bank 1895-1956. Commerce 1889-1956, Staff Lists 1896-1957, Miscellaneous 1895-1956, and British Togoland 1920-1955.

The government reports contained in this collection cover several important developments and events in 20th century Kenyan history, including the period that the country was controlled by the East Africa Colony, the Mau Mau uprising, and the achievement of Kenyan independence in 1963.
This collection is divided into the following categories: Administration 1924-1963, Finance 1910-1964, Police and Judicial 1918-1963, Natural Resources 1907-1964, Social Services 1920-1964, Transport and Public Works 1910-1964, Communications and Post Office Savings 1910-1963, Commerce 1917-1963, Corporations and Boards 1950-1964, and Miscellaneous 1907-1964.

The government reports contained in this collection cover several important developments and events in the 20th century, including the dissolution of the Central African Protectorate in 1907, the First and Second World Wars, and Malawi’s declaration of independence.
The collection is divided into the following categories: Administration 1931-1963, Finance 1911-1966, Judicial and Police 1917-1964, Natural Resources - Arable and Animal Husbandry 1909-1965, Natural Resources - Geology, Water and Power 1923-1964, Social Services 1907-1967, Transport and Public Works 1910-1964, Communications and Post Office Savings 1912-1964, and Miscellaneous 1917-1963.

The government reports contained in this collection cover several important developments and events including the establishment of the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, the First and Second World Wars, and the creation of the independent Nigerian state.
The collection is divided into the following categories: Administration 1899-1960, Finance 1904-1960, Judicial and Police 1899-1960, Natural Resources 1887-1960, Social Services 1893-1960, Transport and Public Works 1900-1960, Communications and Post Office Savings 1904-1960, Commerce 1899-1960, Miscellaneous 1900-1962, and British Cameroons 1920-1961.

The government reports contained in this collection cover several important developments and events in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the First and Second World Wars, social services during colonial governance, and Sierra Leone achieving independence in 1961.
The collection is divided into the following categories: Administrative Reports 1914-1961, Finance 1912-1961, Judicial and Police 1914-1961, Natural Resources 1893-1961, Social Services 1895-1961, Transport and Public Works 1908-1961, Communications and Post Office Savings 1914-1961, Commerce 1905-1961, and Staff Lists and Miscellaneous Content 1924-1961.

Uganda was a colonial creation that was formed by joining the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. In 1894, Uganda became a protectorate of the British Empire and was thereby administrated by the British.
The collection is divided into the following categories: Administration 1909-1961, Finance 1929-1962, Judicial and Police 1912-1960, Natural Resources 1903-1961, Social Services 1908-1961, Transport and Public Works 1912-1961, Trade and Commerce 1910-1961, Development Corporation and Boards 1948-1961, and Miscellaneous Reports 1923-1961.

In the 1880s, Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company started to make inroads into the region that is now known as Zimbabwe. In 1895 the British South Africa Company adopted the name “Rhodesia” for the area, as an honour to Cecil Rhodes. However, in 1898 the official name of the region became Southern Rhodesia. In October 1923, following a new constitution, Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony.
The collection includes: Administration 1897-1977, Auditor General 1914-1980, Accounting Estimates 1899-1980, Miscellaneous Financial Records 1918-1980, Judicial and Police 1897-1979, Natural Resources 1897-1981, Social Services 1897-1980, Transport and Public Works 1897-1980, Communications and Post Office Savings 1896-1980, Commerce 1899-1980, Corporations and Boards 1926-1980, and Meteorology, Public Relations and Tourism 1897-1980.

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Contributor: National Library of Scotland
This collection covers the Viceroys of both Lord Curzon and Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound in the British Raj between the period of 1899 and 1910.
The collection demonstrates how Britain tried to maintain and control its most valuable colonial asset in the face of rising resistance and anti-colonial nationalism. It includes: Selection from the non-Indian papers, Printed papers from Lord Curzon's administration 1899-1905, Printed papers from the 4th Earl of Minto's administration, Correspondence 1905-1914, and Miscellaneous papers 1905-1919.

Contributor: National Library of Scotland
The First Earl of Minto, Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, served as Governor-General of India from 1806-1813. This collection is drawn from his personal papers during his time as premier of the East India Company (EIC), with extensive correspondence with other officials, papers from the political department, papers from the secret department, and files pertaining to his time as President of the Board of Control.
The collection includes: President of the Board of Control 1806-1807, General correspondence and papers 1806-1814, Correspondence with the Directors of the East India Co. 1793-1813, Personal correspondence and papers 1806-1813, Proceedings of the Governor-General in Council, Secret Department 1808-1813, Proceedings of the Governor-General in Council, Political Department 1807-1808 and 1810-1813, Persian correspondence 1807-1813, Miscellaneous Papers of the Bengal Government 1806-1813, Correspondence re. Presidencies of Bombay and Madras 1808-1814, Papers of the 1st Earl as Governor General of India, Family Correspondence 1788-1814, and Papers re. the Nandakumar trial and impeachment of Elijah Impey 1776-1788.

Contributor: National Library of Wales
Drawing from the personal and professional papers of two East India Company employees, Colonel Robert Clive and Brigadier-General John Carnac, the collection offers an insight into how the East India Company became increasingly influential after the weakening of the Mughal Empire during the 18th century.
The collection includes: Original correspondence 1752-1774, Contemporary transcripts [of correspondence 1756-1760], India financial papers 1752-1774, Civil Administration of Bengal papers 1758-1766, Military administration of Bengal papers [c.1750s]-1771, Papers of the Calcutta Council and its committees 1757-1768, Records of the Calcutta mayor's court [c.1765]-1766, East India Company records 1752-1772, Jagir papers 1758-1767, Acquired India papers 1727-[c.1763], Supplementary papers concerning the trial of Nandakumara, The correspondence of Brigadier-General John Carnac 1760-1769, and more.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates globally. From the 18th to the early 20th century, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
This collection includes letters, reports, and supplementary material compiled by its Indian and Sri Lankan branches during the period 1770–1931.

Contributor: British Library; LHASC; WCML
The Meerut Conspiracy Case was a controversial court case initiated in British India in 1929. It began with the arrest and subsequent trial of twenty-nine trade unionists, including three Englishmen. These men were collectively charged under Section 121A of the Indian Penal Code, it was alleged that they had attempted ‘to deprive the King Emperor of the sovereignty of British India… ordained by the Communist International’.
The collection includes: Selected India Office Records, Ben Bradley papers, Selected files from the William Gillies papers, and Miscellaneous books and pamphlets relating to the trial.

Contributor: India Office Library
This collection contains copies of three English language newspapers published in India during the period 1782–1908: The India Gazette (1782–1834); The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle (1822–1866); and The Bengal Times (1876–1908).
These newspapers were primarily sold to colonial businessmen, merchants, and administrators with an interest in regional and international trade. Editors and reporters therefore focused on providing readers with an overview of significant political, military, economic, scientific, and societal trends, as well as their potential impact on stocks, commodities, and other investments.

Contributor: Labour History Archive and Study Centre
The Labour Party was founded in 1900 to represent the interests of trade unions and working-class voters. In political terms, it has often been characterised as a “broad church”, encompassing a range of left and centre-left viewpoints.
This collection contains minutes and related records compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) during the period 1906-1969. These records cover the party’s formative years.
The records provide an insight into the PLP’s often divided outlook on several important domestic and international political issues, including: the campaign for women’s suffrage; the Great Depression; the first and second world wars; the Beveridge Report and the emergence of the post-war welfare state; Britain’s nuclear weapons programme; imperialism and decolonisation; and Britain’s potential membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).

Contributor: The National Archives
Though most often associated with the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Germany and Italy, fascism was also a feature of the British political landscape during the 1930s and 1940s. Founded in 1932 by former Conservative and Labour MP Oswald Mosley, the British Union of Fascists (BUF) initially garnered considerable support, including from popular periodicals such as the Daily Mail. The party and its supporters – known as “blackshirts” – drew on racist British imperial discourse and mirrored the antisemitic attitudes of its German and Italian counterparts. The party frequently engaged in violent confrontations with anti-fascist groups, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street in London’s East End, in October 1936.

Contributor: London School of Economics and Political Science
The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British left-wing political party founded in 1893. The ILP was affiliated with the Labour Party from 1906 to 1932. This collection contains minute books, annual reports, committee reports, conference resolutions, and weekly notes for speakers from the party’s archive.

Contributor: Bishopsgate Institute
George Howell (1833-1910) was a prominent and well connected member of the labour movement during the growth of trade unions and the Chartist movement’s fight for male suffrage. During his time as an apprentice shoemaker, he was introduced to radical publications like the Northern Star and Red Republican and subsequently became a member of the Chartist movement in 1848. He steadily gained a strong reputation in the rising labour movement and worked with figures like Karl Marx, Charles Bradlaugh, George Jacob Holyoake, E. S. Beesly, and Frederic Harrison. Howell became Secretary of the Reform League in 1865, and was also involved in the London Trades Council and Marx’s International Workingmen’s Association. He later became a Member of Parliament for North East Bethnal Green in 1885 as part of the Liberal-Labour movement.

Contributor: Hull University Archives
This collection is drawn from the personal papers of Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a politician and diplomatic advisor famous for his role in the partition of the Middle East around the period of the First World War. He is best known for his role in the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, which was a secret treaty between European powers that divided up the Ottoman Empire in the face of its impending collapse.
— Foreign affairs and travel, 1888-1919
— Papers regarding the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the Zionist movement, and British policy in Islamic countries, 1914-1918
— Papers of Sir Mark Sykes formerly on display at Sledmere House, 1915-1917
— Miscellaneous other papers

Contributor: Somerset Record Office
This collection contains records pertaining to the Tudway family’s ownership of an Antiguan sugar plantation during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The papers cover the period from the early slave trade to the post-slavery economy. The combination of statistical ledgers and narrative correspondence provides a unique insight into the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies.

Contributor: British Foreign & Commonwealth Office
For the most part these statistical records cover the years from 1839 to 1938, although some records commence from 1824 and others continue until 1950.
The records are grouped by nation/location: Antigua 1828-1887, Bahamas 1828-1939, Barbados 1839-1947, Bermuda 1836-1950, British Guiana 1868-1938, British Honduras 1839-1938, Dominica 1826-1887, Grenada 1860-1938, Jamaica 1836-1945, Leeward Islands 1889-1945, Montserrat 1830-1887, Nevis 1841-1882, St Christopher 1828-1886, St Lucia 1828-1938, St Vincent 1828-1938, Tobago 1824-1892, Tortola 1839-1842, Trinidad 1873-1901 Trinidad and Tobago 1889-1938, Turks and Caicos Islands 1878-1891, and Virgin Islands 1843-1887.

Contributor: Public Record Office, London
Information provided by the shipping lists includes the name of the vessel, the name of its home port and colony, details of the vessel’s construction, the name of the owner(s), the tonnage of the vessel, the number of guns carried, the number of crew, and the cargo carried (including enslaved people as well as raw material).
The collection includes Nova Scotia 1730-1820, North Eastern American States 1686-1769, South Eastern American States 1689-1769, and Jamaica 1685-1818.

Contributor: National Library of Scotland
This collection contains the financial and administrative records of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (also known as the Darien Company). The documents cover the period from the company’s formation in 1694 as a rival to the East India Company to its dissolution due to debts incurred in pursuit of the ill-fated Darien scheme. The latter is widely regarded as being the chief factor which gave rise to the 1707 Act of Union.
As with the collection held by the Royal Bank of Scotland, these papers include copies of the general journals for the Company from 1696 through to 1707.

Contributor: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales)
Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech, born in 1733, was a British plantation owner. In 1759, Phillips moved to Jamaica and brought a share at the Pleasant Hill Plantation. During his time in Jamaica, he also owned several other slave plantations. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Jamaica became a major destination for the delivery of enslaved African people and emerged as one of the busiest markets in the world.
Phillips’ early years in Jamaica were well documented through a range of materials. This collection, drawn from the National Library of Wales, contains a wealth of information regarding Philips’ activities in the West Indies.

Contributor: Surrey History Centre
This collection contains records of the Goulburn family’s longstanding ownership of the Amity Hall plantation and associated properties in Jamaica during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The plantation had 300 acres of land cultivated for the lucrative sugar cane and, at its peak, housed almost 300 enslaved people.
Most of the papers concern the properties when they were administered by Conservative MP Henry Goulburn between 1805 and 1856.

Contributor: Bodleian Library, British Library, and others
This collection explores and offers varying perspectives on the explosive debate around the Transatlantic Slave Trade during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
— Correspondence from Planters and Traders, 1694-1776
— Official Reports on the Conclusion of the Slave Trade in Africa, 1811-1865
— Anti-Slavery Papers, 1833-1892
— Records from the Slavery Business, 1692-1849
— Jamaican History, 1658-1792

Contributor: Bodleian Library
This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. From the 18th to the early 20th century, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). This collection contains letters, reports, and supplementary material relating to missionaries in the West Indies during the period 1704-1950.
This archive contains information on the West Indies from the perspective of its Anglican missionaries. Included are documents relating to the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, Antigua, Nevis, and Montserrat.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The records include:
— A journal of the travels and ministry of the Reverend George Keith, 1702-1704
— Rev. Thompson's account of two missionary voyages
— Honolulu letters received, 1871-1910
— the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) chaplaincy services to emigrants, 1821-1864

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The Associates of Dr. Bray was a group comprised of English clergymen and philanthropists who created and funded schools for Black, and to a lesser extent, Indigenous North American, children in the American Colonies between 1758 and 1776. Their aim was not only to educate, but also to Christianise their pupils.
This collection contains correspondence files, minute books, and financial reports compiled by the Associates during the period 1724-1900. It also includes some relevant documents that pre-date the organisation itself.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG) is a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. During the 18th, 19th, and early-20th centuries, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
USPG C series records are divided by area: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Fredericton, Quebec, Montreal, Upper Canada, Toronto, and Nova Scotia.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG) is a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. During the 18th, 19th, and early-20th centuries, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
The collection includes Founding documents of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Journal of the SPG in Foreign Parts, Appendix to SPG Journal, and Annual sermons and reports of the SPG 1701-1845.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
Originally the "Ladies' Association for the Promotion of Female Education in India and other Heathen Countries", a semi-autonomous body linked with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). In 1895 this became the "Womens' Missionary Association for the Promotion of Female Education in the Missions of the SPG", and in 1904 an SPG Committee for Women's Work was established, responsible to the Standing Committee. Includes minutes of main and sub-committees, candidates' books, in and out letters, and reports.
These records cover the full range of countries where the committee was active. The records for Ghana that are included here can also be found in 'Gold Coast records from the archives of the USPG, 1886-1951'.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
This collection contains letters and supplementary material compiled by the organisation’s West African branches during the period 1700–1850. It includes the papers of Thomas Perronet Thompson, the first governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, and those of Rev. Phillip Quaque, the first African to be ordained a minister of the Church of England.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The SPG’s mission was established at Cape Coast Castle in 1752 by Rev. Thomas Thompson. Thompson was succeeded by Rev. Philip Quaque, the first African to be ordained a priest of the Church of England. The mid-19th century saw a revival of Anglican missionary activity with the arrival of missionaries sent by the Mission of the West Indian Church to West Africa, an organisation that was based in Barbados.
The original letters from abroad cover West Africa from 1899 to 1933. They include Sierra Leone 1900–1933; Ghana 1903; Cape Verde 1904–1910; and St. Vincent 1907–1912.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates globally. From the 18th to the early 20th century, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).
This collection includes letters, reports, and supplementary material compiled by its Indian and Sri Lankan branches during the period 1770–1931.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
Anglican missionaries first arrived in New Zealand and Polynesia in the 17th century, their mission was to spread the gospel to the indigenous Māori and Polynesian people. The arrival of Europeans disrupted traditional ways of life.
Documents include correspondence from missions based in the West Indies. These items are indexed in the volume ‘Indices to the New Zealand province record in the USPG archive’. Subjects covered include monetary grants and the allocation of Bishops.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
These documents contain: the progress of the mission; financial concerns; movements of people; and numbers of people who attended church.
The records are grouped by location: Capetown, Grahamstown, Natal, St John - Kaffraria, and Zuzuland.

Contributor: South American Missionary Society
Includes most of the material held in the SAMS archives for the period up to 1919. When originally founded in 1844, this Church of England-affiliated organisation was called the Patagonian Mission. This collection reproduces the minute books, reports from the mission field, articles and photographs on the geography, anthropology, natural history and economic development for the society's magazine, launched in 1867, as well as the journals of its Anglican founder, Captain Allen Gardiner, and two others of its missionaries, Edward Bernau and Adolfo Henriksen.

Contributor: Bodleian Library
— The 'Central Africa' magazine included descriptions of events that the missionaries had experienced. The Masasi Disaster is covered from image 7 of the 1883 edition; this was a conflict with the Wagwangwara tribe.
— Among the journals is that of Bishop Steere's between 1863 and 1868. These records name places that he passed through and describes native tribes that he heard of or saw, naming their leaders.
— The 'miscellaneous' items include the 'Dini' book of religious teachings which also describes Africans being maltreated by the German rulers of East Africa, and a Decree against slavery by the Sultan of Zanzibar in 1890.

Contributor: Somerset Record Office
This collection contains records pertaining to the Tudway family’s ownership of an Antiguan sugar plantation during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The papers cover the period from the early slave trade to the post-slavery economy. The combination of statistical ledgers and narrative correspondence provides a unique insight into the operation and eventual abolition of the slave trade in the West Indies.

Contributor: National Library of Scotland
This collection contains the financial and administrative records of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies (also known as the Darien Company). The documents cover the period from the company’s formation in 1694 as a rival to the East India Company to its dissolution due to debts incurred in pursuit of the ill-fated Darien scheme. The latter is widely regarded as being the chief factor which gave rise to the 1707 Act of Union.
As with the collection held by the Royal Bank of Scotland, these papers include copies of the general journals for the Company from 1696 through to 1707.

Contributor: Liverpool (England). Record Office
Over the course of the 18th century, Liverpool became Britain’s busiest and most profitable slave-trading port in the country. Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was abolished in 1807 but not before British merchants had gained unimaginable wealth at the expense of enslaved African people, who were sold to new markets in the Americas.
The documents cover all aspects of the trade, from payments made by the owners of enslaved people to dealings with groups along the coast of West Africa. The records also include: Correspondence with David Tuohy 1779-1788, Letter book and correspondence of Robert Bostock 1779-1792, Letter book of Thomas Leyland 1786-1788, and more.

Contributor: Keele University Library
William Davenport was born in Red Lion Square, London, in October 1725 and was a Liverpool merchant and British slave trader.
Davenport dedicated almost all his adult life to the pursuit of commerce, retiring from business only five years before his death. Central to his activities was investment in overseas trade. In company with William Whaley and others, he began investing in trading ventures during the late 1740s and he continued to do so during the ensuing forty-five years. He traded to the Mediterranean, notably Venice and Leghorn, and became a partner in a firm of wine merchants trading from Harrington Street, Liverpool. From the late 1740s till the early 1790s, he invested regularly in the African slave trade and was a partner in slaving ventures with other leading merchant Liverpool families.

Contributor: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales)
Nathaniel Phillips of Slebech, born in 1733, was a British plantation owner. In 1759, Phillips moved to Jamaica and brought a share at the Pleasant Hill Plantation. During his time in Jamaica, he also owned several other slave plantations. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Jamaica became a major destination for the delivery of enslaved African people and emerged as one of the busiest markets in the world.
Phillips’ early years in Jamaica were well documented through a range of materials. This collection, drawn from the National Library of Wales, contains a wealth of information regarding Philips’ activities in the West Indies.

Contributor: Surrey History Centre
This collection contains records of the Goulburn family’s longstanding ownership of the Amity Hall plantation and associated properties in Jamaica during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The plantation had 300 acres of land cultivated for the lucrative sugar cane and, at its peak, housed almost 300 enslaved people.
Most of the papers concern the properties when they were administered by Conservative MP Henry Goulburn between 1805 and 1856.

Contributor: Bodleian Library, British Library, and others
This collection explores and offers varying perspectives on the explosive debate around the Transatlantic Slave Trade during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
— Correspondence from Planters and Traders, 1694-1776
— Official Reports on the Conclusion of the Slave Trade in Africa, 1811-1865
— Anti-Slavery Papers, 1833-1892
— Records from the Slavery Business, 1692-1849
— Jamaican History, 1658-1792

Contributor: Bodleian Library
The subject matter largely pertains to the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) missionaries' experience of Japanese expansionism during the Second World War. Missionaries had a range of penal punishments brought against them, including internment, house arrest, and assignment to work camps. Others attached to the SPG fled their assigned countries by any means necessary. As such, the collection offers both personal experiences of the Second World War, as well as how the SPG as an organisation coped with its intrusion. Missionaries’ accounts from Japan, Burma (modern day Myanmar), China, Singapore, and Malaysia are the main focus of the collection.

Docuseek streams independent, social-issue and environmental documentaries to colleges and universities, providing access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Women Make Movies, Kartemquin Films, First Run Features, KimStim, First Hand Films, MediaStorm, Scorpion TV, Terra Nova Films, Viewpoint Productions, Film Movement, Deckert Distribution, The Films of Anand Patwardhan, etc.
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Materials cover current affairs, historical archives, scholarly publications, military collections, and more from Russia, China, Egypt, or anywhere in-between.
— Aggregated Databases include:
Russian Central Newspapers (UDB-COM), Russian National Bibliography (UDB-BIB), Ukrainian Publications (UDB-UKR), Baltics, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine (UDB-EUR), Central Asia and Caucasus (UDB-CAC), and World News Connection Archive (WNC)
— EBooks include:
China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database (EB-PISHU), Kotobarabia Modern Arab Renaissance Collection (EB-KAMAR), and Kotobarabia: Arab Leaders, Historians and Philosophers Collection
— Digital archives include:
Moscow News Digital Archive (DA-MN), Pravda Digital Archive (DA-PRA), the Current Digest of the Russian Press (DA-CDRP), Voprosy istorii Digital Archive, and Krokodil Digital Archive (DA-KRO).

his database includes:
— STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS:
China Statistical Yearbooks: 中国统计年鉴数据库 (1949 – present)
— NEWS MEDIA:
China Core Newspapers: 中国重要报纸全文数据库 (655 titles: 1981 – present)
— JOURNALS AND SERIAL PUBLICATIONS:
China Academic Journals: 中国期刊全文数据库 (1915 – present)
China Monographic Serials: 中国学术辑刊全文数据库 (1979 – present)
China Yearbooks: 中国年鉴网络出版总库 (1949 – present)

Ebony, a monthly magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson. Johnson intended it to be a Black version of Henry Luce's Life magazine.
Featuring Black celebrities, Ebony has served as an influential African-American magazine promoting stories important to the black community and focusing on the achievements of African-American leaders. This magazine covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus.