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China: Culture and Society
China: Culture and Society features primary resources and secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection. Coverage: 1750-1929. primary sources primary sources historical newspapers periodicals reports
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
Complete volumes of all British Government Confidential Print for Africa, from the Colonial, Dominion, Foreign and War Offices. Coverage: 1834-1966. primary sources reports
Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
Complete runs of all British Government Confidential Print volumes relating to the nations of South and Central America. Coverage: 1833-1969. primary sources reports
Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, and covers such topics as slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb. Coverage: 1834-1961. primary sources reports

Empire Online
Includes over 70,000 images of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. Contains manuscript and printed material, from not only British but also French, Dutch, Spanish, North American and other points of view. Supported by the Presidential Trust for Faculty Excellence. Coverage: 1400s-present. primary sources documents manuscripts reports

Foreign Office Files for China
Featuring diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, political pamphlets, reports of court cases and other materials, this collection represents a constant exchange of information between London and the British embassies and consulates. Coverage: 1919-1980. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals reports

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture
This collection charts the development of one of the world’s largest and most culturally significant industries. Material is sourced from international archives, including the archives of Thomas Cook, the world’s best known travel agency and a pioneer of tourism for the masses. Coverage: 1850-1980. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts reports

Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
Provides complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan’s government, plus selected minutes and memoranda of policy committees. Coverage: 1957-1963. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts reports
Market Research and American Business Reports, 1935-1965
An 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. Coverage: 1935-1965. primary sources reports
Mass Observation Online
Mass Observation was a social research organization formed in 1937 to study the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. This collection includes studies and publications, diaries and personal writings, photographs, and interactive maps. It describes everyday life in the words of ordinary people, with interviews and records of overheard conversations, rather than through polls. Coverage: 1937-1965. primary sources documents manuscripts reports

Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
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. Coverage: 1490-2007. primary sources primary sources documents manuscripts primary sources historical newspapers periodicals reports