Articles: Newspapers & Magazines (9)

• Annee Philologique

  Provides citations to international scholarly work concerning the areas of: ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics; Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art and music, archaeology, religion, mythology, science, and more. The scholarship concentrates on the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D. Coverage: 1959-2010.

• British Library Newspapers (1800-1900)

  The British Library Newspapers collections feature London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• China National Knowledge Infrastructure

  Access available through VPN only. The ZSR Library subscribes to Series F: Literature / History / Philosophy

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

• International Medieval Bibliography

  A bibliography of modern scholarship concerning the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500). The entries are drawn from over 4000 periodicals and from over 5000 miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften). Coverage: 1967-.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  Indexes books and over 1700 periodicals concerning Europe and the Middle East from 400-1700. Includes history, literature, art, politics and government, etc. The separate book database covers books, materials published in books, and collected essays. Coverage: 1784-.

• South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

  SAOA is a free open-access resource for research and teaching. It is a growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.

• Times Digital Archive

  As the "world's newspaper of record," The Times (of London) has covered major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source. Coverage: 1785 - 5 years ago.

• New! Trans-Pacific Online

  Launched in Tokyo in 1919 as the flagship of the Japan-America Association by Benjamin Fleisher (1870-1946), publisher of the Japan Advertiser, the Trans-Pacific began with a mission to stimulate US-Japan amity. Sharing editorial and corporate resources with the Japan Advertiser, the Trans-Pacific soon became that newspaper’s de facto weekly edition, serving up a heady mix of political, cultural and commercial news to forward-looking Japanese and western readerships. Coverage: 1919-1940.

Articles: Scholarly Journals (10)

• Annee Philologique

  Provides citations to international scholarly work concerning the areas of: ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics; Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art and music, archaeology, religion, mythology, science, and more. The scholarship concentrates on the second millennium B.C. to roughly 500-800 A.D. Coverage: 1959-2010.

• British Library Newspapers (1800-1900)

  The British Library Newspapers collections feature London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• China National Knowledge Infrastructure

  Access available through VPN only. The ZSR Library subscribes to Series F: Literature / History / Philosophy

• Hein Online

  Contains the full text of over 300 academic legal periodicals. Coverage begins at the earliest issue for each journal. Also includes the pre-1981 Federal Register, U.S. Supreme Court documents, and Treaties and Agreements Coverage: 1776-.

• Historical Abstracts

  Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life. Coverage: 1954-.

• International Medieval Bibliography

  A bibliography of modern scholarship concerning the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500). The entries are drawn from over 4000 periodicals and from over 5000 miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften). Coverage: 1967-.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  Indexes books and over 1700 periodicals concerning Europe and the Middle East from 400-1700. Includes history, literature, art, politics and government, etc. The separate book database covers books, materials published in books, and collected essays. Coverage: 1784-.

• Military and Government Collection

  Provides full text from military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. Includes full text country reports from CountryWatch Coverage: 1985-.

• ProQuest Military Database

  The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. Coverage: 1987-.

• South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)

  SAOA is a free open-access resource for research and teaching. It is a growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.

Artwork & Images (4)

• New! Eighteenth Century Drama

  Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here.

• New! Popular Culture in Britain and America

  From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950's to the 1970's through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975.

• New! Victorian Popular Culture

  The Victorian Popular Culture portal is a resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Coverage: 1779-1930.

• New! World’s Fairs

  This resource digitises primary source material from hundreds of internation fairs and expositions spanning 1829-2015. Coverage: 1851-2015.

Biographies (1)

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  Biographies of deceased people who were British or who impacted the British Isles, including Ireland and colonial America. Coverage: 4th Cent. B.C.E. - 2000.

Books & E-Books (1)

• New! Diaolong Full-text Database of Chinese & Japanese Ancient Books

  A project of collaborations among scholars from China, Japan, and Taiwan. It is one of the most comprehensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ancient books including almost 30,000 volumes of ancient books covering historical, political, economic, religious, philosophic, literary, ethnic and geographic documents.

Data & Statistics (1)

• Historical Statistics of the United States

  Over 30,000 data series covering all aspects of American life. View tables in HTML or PDF and create your own custom charts. Gift of the George W. Paschal Endowment Fund. Coverage: Colonial period-present.

Encyclopedias & Reference (12)

• Cambridge Histories

  Cambridge Histories is the essential reference collection spanning 350 volumes in 10 subject areas.

• Encyclopaedia Iranica

  The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

• Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition)

  The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Second Edition) Online sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. It is a reference tool and the authoritative source not only for the religion, but also for the believers and the countries in which they live.

• Encyclopaedia of Islam (Three)

  Encyclopaedia of Islam-Three is the third edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam which sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World. EI-Three is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It is published in five substantial segments each year.

• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

  Bibliography only, no full text. This database is derived from the seminal reference work "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750," commonly known as the Alden-Landis bibliography (after the co-editors John Alden and Dennis Landis). Features works produced in Europe that make some mention of the discovery and emerging awareness of the Americas. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

• Historical Atlas of Islam

  A collection of historical maps showing the reach of Islam throughout history.

• New Pauly

  From BrillOnline Reference Works, the English edition of the authoritative classics encyclopedia "Der Neue Pauly." Covers more than 2,000 years of Greco-Roman history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe.

• Oxford Bibliographies: African Studies

  Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

• Oxford Bibliographies: Latin American Studies

  Oxford Bibliographies Online are authoritative, scholar-developed research guides covering a variety of subject areas. They combine features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship on the topic.

• Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation

  Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation offers exclusive, authoritative research guides that combine the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

  Biographies of deceased people who were British or who impacted the British Isles, including Ireland and colonial America. Coverage: 4th Cent. B.C.E. - 2000.

• World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

  Includes a wide variety of sources about Latin America and the Caribbean: reference articles and commentary; academic journals and news-feeds; primary-source documents; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more. Covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology.

Literary Criticism & Reference (7)

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

  Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer's Index to the Times. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• Early English Books Online - EEBO

  Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1475 and 1700. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Corresponds to the Pollard and Redgrave, and Wing Short-Title Catalogues, as well as Thomason Tracts. Coverage: 1473-1700.

• Early European Books

  Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources. Access to content from Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) only (Collections 8 & 12).

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO

  Full text--including page images--of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1701 and 1800. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Includes ECCO parts I and II. Coverage: 1701-1800.

• International Medieval Bibliography

  A bibliography of modern scholarship concerning the European Middle Ages (c.450-1500). The entries are drawn from over 4000 periodicals and from over 5000 miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections and Festschriften). Coverage: 1967-.

• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

  Indexes books and over 1700 periodicals concerning Europe and the Middle East from 400-1700. Includes history, literature, art, politics and government, etc. The separate book database covers books, materials published in books, and collected essays. Coverage: 1784-.

• Nineteenth Century Collections Online

  Primary source collections of the “long” nineteenth century. Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries and specialist libraries. Content includes monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and more. Coverage: 1769-1906.

Literary Texts (1)

• India, Raj and Empire

  Explore the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, through the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.

News & Current Events (3)

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

• Times Digital Archive

  As the "world's newspaper of record," The Times (of London) has covered major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source. Coverage: 1785 - 5 years ago.

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive

  A catalog of news broadcasts. Contains streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present); video requires RealPlayer. Also contains abstracts of evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS from August 1968 to present; daily news programs from CNN (1995 to present), FOX News (2004 to present), and ABC Nightline (12 September 1988 to present); and a selection of special programs, including coverage of political events, events related to September 11, 2001, and more. Content is added approximately 72 hours after it was broadcast. Loan requests accepted for video of broadcasts that are not available online (fees apply). Coverage: August 1968 to present.

Primary Sources (33)

• New! Apartheid South Africa

  Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Coverage: 1948-1980.

• British Library Newspapers (1800-1900)

  The British Library Newspapers collections feature London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• Cambridge Histories

  Cambridge Histories is the essential reference collection spanning 350 volumes in 10 subject areas.

• New! China, America and the Pacific

  A collecetion of archival material, including manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects, and maps, connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

• New! 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.

• New! China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

  With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give insight into the changes in China during this period. Coverage: 1793-1980.

• New! Church Missionary Society Periodicals

  This resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work, periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters. Coverage: 1804-2009.

• New! 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.

• New! 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.

• New! Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

  Complete volumes of all British Colonial Office and Foreign Office Confidential Print for the Middle East. Coverage: 1839-1969.

• Early English Books Online - EEBO

  Full text of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1475 and 1700. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Corresponds to the Pollard and Redgrave, and Wing Short-Title Catalogues, as well as Thomason Tracts. Coverage: 1473-1700.

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online - ECCO

  Full text--including page images--of books, pamphlets and broadsides published in England or in English between 1701 and 1800. Includes many of the items indexed in the English Short Title Catalogue. Includes ECCO parts I and II. Coverage: 1701-1800.

• New! Eighteenth Century Drama

  Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here.

• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750

  Bibliography only, no full text. This database is derived from the seminal reference work "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to the Americas, 1493-1750," commonly known as the Alden-Landis bibliography (after the co-editors John Alden and Dennis Landis). Features works produced in Europe that make some mention of the discovery and emerging awareness of the Americas. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

• New! First World War

  Includes Modules I, II, and III. From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war.

• New! 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.

• New! Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

  This is a resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. Coverage: 1947-1980.

• New! Foreign Office Files for the Middle East

  Includes Section I. A resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the modern Middle East, this collection contains complete runs of Foreign Office files, providing an expansive view of key events and their global political impact. Coverage: 1971-1974.

• New! Global Commodities

  This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

• New! Grand Tour

  This digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works explores the relationship between Britain and Europe from c.1550 to 1850, exploring the Anglo-European response to continental travel for pleasure, business and diplomacy. Coverage: 1550-1850.

• New! London Low Life

  Drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, this resource contains full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and Tallis’ Street Views of London, and George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection.

• New! 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.

• New! Medieval Travel Writing

  The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays.

• New! Meiji Japan

  Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse.

• New! Migration to New Worlds

  Module I. This module covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement. Significant material on the movement of Indian and Chinese indentured labourers is included from The National Archives. Coverage: 1800-1924.

• New! Popular Culture in Britain and America

  From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950's to the 1970's through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975.

• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

  Presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, researchers unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers. Authors and artists represented include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Ruskin, Gainsborough, and others. Also includes over 2,500 fine art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust's fine art collection.

• New! 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.

• New! Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

  This world history resource includes rare diaries and the supporting correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. These personal accounts describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. Coverage: 1835-1976.

• New! Victorian Popular Culture

  The Victorian Popular Culture portal is a resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Coverage: 1779-1930.

• New! Women in The National Archives

  A finding aid for women's studies resources in The National Archives, UK is presented alongside original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. Coverage: 1559-1995.

• World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean

  Includes a wide variety of sources about Latin America and the Caribbean: reference articles and commentary; academic journals and news-feeds; primary-source documents; maps and statistics; audio and video; and more. Covers topics such as politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science, and technology.

• New! World’s Fairs

  This resource digitises primary source material from hundreds of internation fairs and expositions spanning 1829-2015. Coverage: 1851-2015.

Primary Sources: Documents & Manuscripts (41)

• Ancestry.com

  The world’s largest online family history resource provides instant access to hundreds of years of history in billions of historical documents and millions of historical photos from all over the world.

• New! Apartheid South Africa

  Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. Coverage: 1948-1980.

• British Parliamentary Papers

  House of Commons Parliamentary Papers allows researches to access the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century papers, and the Hansard parliamentary debates, via a single interface, cross-searching across topics to see how issues were explored and legislation formed.[Coverage: 1688-2015]

• New! China, America and the Pacific

  A collecetion of archival material, including manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects, and maps, connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

• New! China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

  With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give insight into the changes in China during this period. Coverage: 1793-1980.

• Chinese Civil War And US-China Relations: Records Of US State Dept Office Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955

  Provides insight into the domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period. This product comprises all 41 reels of the former Scholarly Resources microfilm product entitled Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs. [Coverage 1945-1955].

• New! Church Missionary Society Periodicals

  This resource encompasses publications from the CMS, the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society and the latterly integrated South American Missionary Society. Documenting missionary work, periodicals include news, journals and reports offering a unique perspective on global history and cultural encounters. Coverage: 1804-2009.

• Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons

  Collection consists of items originating from prisoners held in German concentration camps, internment and transit camps, Gestapo prisons, and POW camps, during and just prior to World War II. Most of the collection consists of letters written or received by prisoners, but also includes receipts for parcels, money orders and personal effects; paper currency; and realia, including Star of David badges that Jews were forced to wear. Coverage: 1936-1945.

• Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800)

  An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of all known existing books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the Thirteen Colonies or the United States between 1639 and 1800. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included. Coverage: 1639-1800.

• Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw/Shoemaker (1801-1819)

  An electronic version of the Early American Imprints set. Includes the full text of 36,000 books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the United States between 1801 and 1819. Periodical and newspaper articles are not included. Coverage: 1801-1819.

• Early European Books

  Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources. Access to content from Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) only (Collections 8 & 12).

• New! Eighteenth Century Drama

  Explore the Larpent Collection from the Huntington Library – a unique archive of almost every play submitted for licence between 1737 and 1824. Larpent preserved the original submissions, over 2,500 of which are presented here.

• 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.

• New! First World War

  Includes Modules I, II, and III. From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war.

• New! 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.

• New! Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

  This is a resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. Coverage: 1947-1980.

• New! Foreign Office Files for the Middle East

  Includes Section I. A resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the modern Middle East, this collection contains complete runs of Foreign Office files, providing an expansive view of key events and their global political impact. Coverage: 1971-1974.

• Gale Primary Sources

  Combined interface for searching three primary-source databases simultaneously: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), The Making of the Modern World, and British Library Newspapers 1800-1900.

• New! Global Commodities

  This resource focuses on the following fifteen significant commodities whose stories are often intertwined: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, oil, opium, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.

• India, Raj and Empire

  Explore the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, through the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland.

• Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees: The West's Response to Jewish Emigration

  The Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGCR) was organized in London in August 1938 as a result of the Evian Conference of July 1938, which had been called by President Roosevelt to consider the problem of racial, religious, and political refugees from central Europe. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1938-1947.

• New! 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.

• Making of the Modern World

  Digital facsimile images of primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth from the period 1450-1914. Full-text searching across works in the areas of history, political science, social conditions, technology and industry, economics, area studies and more. Coverage: 1450-1914.

• 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.

• Medieval Family Life

  Contains full-color images of original medieval manuscripts from five family letter collections. Includes full text searchable transcripts from the printed editions, where available, plus supplementary material such as family trees, chronology, glossary, images, links to related scholarly websites, etc. Coverage: Middle ages.

• New! Medieval Travel Writing

  The project combines multiple manuscript sources, detailing the journeys of famous travellers from Marco Polo to John Capgrave, and the stories of legendary figures such as Prester John and Sir John Mandeville, with translations, route maps and introductory essays.

• New! Meiji Japan

  Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse.

• New! Migration to New Worlds

  Module I. This module covers all aspects of the migration experience, from motives and departures to arrival and permanent settlement. Significant material on the movement of Indian and Chinese indentured labourers is included from The National Archives. Coverage: 1800-1924.

• Nineteenth Century Collections Online

  Primary source collections of the “long” nineteenth century. Collections are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries and specialist libraries. Content includes monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and more. Coverage: 1769-1906.

• Records of the Persian Gulf War

  This collection contains materials related to the diplomatic and military response by the United States (as part of a multi-national force) to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Coverage: 1990-1991.

• Republic of New Afrika: Independence, Reparations, and Citizenship

  This collection provides documentation collected by the FBI and chronicles the activities of the social movement organization The Republic of New Afrika (RNA), including activities of national and local leaders, power struggles within the organization, its growing militancy, and its affiliations with other Black militant organizations. Source Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Library. Coverage: 1968-1980.

• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

  Presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, researchers unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers. Authors and artists represented include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Ruskin, Gainsborough, and others. Also includes over 2,500 fine art pieces from the Wordsworth Trust's fine art collection.

• New! 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.

• Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations, 1989-1993

  This digital collection reviews U.S.-China relations in the post-Cold War Era, and analyzes the significance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China’s human rights issues, and resumption of World Bank loans to China in July 1990. Source Library: George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Coverage: 1989-1993.

• New! Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

  This world history resource includes rare diaries and the supporting correspondence from the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. These personal accounts describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. Coverage: 1835-1976.

• U.S. Relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950

  Correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes as U.S.-Vatican relations, the Vatican's role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope's personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews. Source Library: U.S. National Archives. Coverage: 1940-1950.

• United Nations Treaty Collection

  Contains: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Signature Ceremonies, Treaty titles in the UN Official Languages, Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, Treaty Handbook, Monthly Statements of treaties and International Agreements, Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General, United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and Notes verbales from The Legal Counsel relating to the depositary practice and the registration of treaties pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter. Coverage: 1946-.

• New! Women in The National Archives

  A finding aid for women's studies resources in The National Archives, UK is presented alongside original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories. Coverage: 1559-1995.

• World Constitutions Illustrated

  This collection includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and more. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands of classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, and bibliographic references.

• World Trials Library

  The HeinOnline World Trials Library Includes more than 3,500 trials including complete sets of American State Trials, Howell’s State Trials, and the Nuremburg Trials. It contains trial transcripts, critical court documents, and trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many of the greatest trial lawyers in history.

• New! World’s Fairs

  This resource digitises primary source material from hundreds of internation fairs and expositions spanning 1829-2015. Coverage: 1851-2015.

Primary Sources: Historical Newspapers & Periodicals (21)

• British Periodicals

  Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth. Coverage: 1680s-1930s.

• C19: The Nineteenth Century Index

  Covers books and periodicals of the 19th century. Corresponds to or provides indexing for: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, American Periodicals Series, Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, ArchivesUSA, and Palmer's Index to the Times. Coverage: 1800-1900.

• New! China, America and the Pacific

  A collecetion of archival material, including manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects, and maps, connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

• New! 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.

• New! China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

  With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give insight into the changes in China during this period. Coverage: 1793-1980.

• Economist Historical Archive

  Fully searchable, complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper covering politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. Contains more than 600,000 pages, with full-colour images, topic and area supplements and surveys. An excellent multidisciplinary primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries. Coverage: 1843-2008.

• New! Eighteenth Century Journals

  Draws together material from selected archives across the UK and the US, with the aim of representing the rich variety of the eighteenth century press. Topics covered include colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, the French and American revolutions, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and London coffee house gossip and discussion.

• New! First World War

  Includes Modules I, II, and III. From personal collections and rare printed material, to military files, ephemera and artwork, The First World War highlights the experiences of soldiers, civilians and governments on both sides of the conflict and in multiple theatres of war.

• New! 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.

• New! Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan

  This is a resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in this period, featuring essential content on Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and Kashmir, as well as other frontier regions. Coverage: 1947-1980.

• New! Foreign Office Files for the Middle East

  Includes Section I. A resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the modern Middle East, this collection contains complete runs of Foreign Office files, providing an expansive view of key events and their global political impact. Coverage: 1971-1974.

• Japan Times Archives

  The Japan Times Archives enables users to search for articles from the first English-language newspaper in Japan. Historical content includes domestic and international politics, economy, culture, TV schedules, advertisements, weather forecasts and other useful topics across 120 years.

• New! London Low Life

  Drawn from the holdings of the Lilly Library, this resource contains full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and Tallis’ Street Views of London, and George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection.

• North China Herald Online

  From BrillOnline Primary Sources, The North China Herald was published in Shanghai from around 1850 to the 1940s. It was the official journal for British consular notifications and for announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council. It also features translations of Chinese official notifications and news. Coverage: 1850-1940.

• New! Popular Culture in Britain and America

  From the collections of original archival material from key libraries in Britain and America, discover the 1950's to the 1970's through a wealth of printed and manuscript sources, visual material, ephemera and video clips. Coverage: 1950-1975.

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection

  Collection of 17th and 18th century English newspapers and news pamphlets. Published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. Includes page images. Coverage: 1604-1804.

• New! 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.

• Times Digital Archive

  As the "world's newspaper of record," The Times (of London) has covered major international events from the French Revolution to the War in Iraq. The Times Digital Archive allows users to search over 200 years of this invaluable historical source. Coverage: 1785 - 5 years ago.

• New! Trans-Pacific Online

  Launched in Tokyo in 1919 as the flagship of the Japan-America Association by Benjamin Fleisher (1870-1946), publisher of the Japan Advertiser, the Trans-Pacific began with a mission to stimulate US-Japan amity. Sharing editorial and corporate resources with the Japan Advertiser, the Trans-Pacific soon became that newspaper’s de facto weekly edition, serving up a heady mix of political, cultural and commercial news to forward-looking Japanese and western readerships. Coverage: 1919-1940.

• New! Victorian Popular Culture

  The Victorian Popular Culture portal is a resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Coverage: 1779-1930.

• New! World’s Fairs

  This resource digitises primary source material from hundreds of internation fairs and expositions spanning 1829-2015. Coverage: 1851-2015.

Reports (9)

• New! 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.

• Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO

  A source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Coverage: 1991-.

• New! 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.

• New! 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.

• 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.

• New! 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.

• New! 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.

• 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.

• New! 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.

Video & Multimedia (2)

• Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive

  The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide.<br /> Initially a repository of Holocaust testimony, the Visual History Archive has expanded to include testimonies from the Armenian Genocide that coincided with World War I, the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in China, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide of 1978-1996 and the Cambodian Genocide of 1975-1979.

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive

  A catalog of news broadcasts. Contains streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present); video requires RealPlayer. Also contains abstracts of evening news broadcasts from ABC, NBC, and CBS from August 1968 to present; daily news programs from CNN (1995 to present), FOX News (2004 to present), and ABC Nightline (12 September 1988 to present); and a selection of special programs, including coverage of political events, events related to September 11, 2001, and more. Content is added approximately 72 hours after it was broadcast. Loan requests accepted for video of broadcasts that are not available online (fees apply). Coverage: August 1968 to present.