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American History I 1493-1859: from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history

Will ultimately comprise over 50,000 primary source documents supported by a range of secondary resources including chronologies, essays, and video lectures.

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American West

From the Graff Collection at the Newberry Library - includes papers of early pioneers & explorers; original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon; evolution of Western towns & growth of railway & road networks

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China: culture and society

1200 English-language pamphlets from 1750-1929 relating to China.

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China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980

Includes a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.

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Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

Foreign and Colonial Office documents concerning Africa

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Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969

Foreign and Colonial Office documents concerning Latin America.

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Confidential Print: Middle East, c1839-1969

Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to the Middle East

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Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961

Foreign and Colonial Office documents relating to Canada, the Caribbean and the United States.

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Defining gender

110 source documents (books and periodicals) from the early modern period to the nineteenth century supported by introductory essays, biographies, and chronologies.

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Eighteenth Century Journals: Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815

British periodicals of the eighteenth century.

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Empire Online

Primary documents, supported by interpretive essays and other secondary materials, for the study of 'Empire'.

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Everyday Life & Women in America, c.1800-1920

Primary source material from the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries.

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First World War

Primary source documents, supported by contextual essays, covering various aspects of World War I. Includes interactive maps, a chronology of the War etc.

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Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

The complete British Foreign Office Files for the period concerning China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947 - 1980

An outstanding resource for the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters

Digitised primary source materials documenting the relationships and interactions between European settlers and indigenous peoples. Includes material from repositories in N. America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

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Global commodities: trade, exploration and cultural exchange

Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. Covers fifteen commodities ranging from coffee to wine and spirits.

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Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was a rite-of-passage for many aristocratic and wealthy young men between c1550 and c1850: a phenomenon which influenced British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.

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India, Raj and Empire

Drawing upon the wonderfully rich and diverse manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this collection looks at History of South Asia.

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Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America

Printed and archival material from the Edward E. Ayer collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Covers North and Central America from the period of first contact to the twentieth century.

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Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954

Primary sources from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York

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Literary Manuscripts: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.

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Literary Manuscripts: Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of The New York Public Library

Literary manuscripts supplemented by rare printed material.

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London Low Life

Street culture and the underworld of Victorian London during the nineteenth century from primary sources housed in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.

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Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963

Documents from the highest level of the British Government during the Macmillan Administration.

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Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965

Presents the complete market-research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era's foremost consumer analyst, along with an ad gallery, contextual essays and other material.

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Mass Observation Online

One of the most important archives for the study of twentieth-century British social history.

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Medieval Family Life

Full-colour images of medieval manuscripts from the Paston, Stonor, Cely, Plumpton and Armburgh Papers. Includes, where available, searchable full-text transcripts from the principal printed editions.

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Medieval Travel Writing

An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy. The main focus is on accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China.

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Meiji Japan: The Edward Sylvester Morse Collection from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum

Papers from the Edward Sylvester Morse Collection at the Peabody Essex Museum's Phillips Library, Salem. Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) was one of the first Americans to live in Japan.

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Nixon Years, 1969-1974

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from The National Archives, Kew, relating to the Nixon administration, 1969-1974.

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Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700

British women's writings from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries. Contents range from memoirs to account books to medical receipt books.

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Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest

Politics, youth culture, music, fashion and other phenomena of the post-world war. Britain and America from 1950-1975.

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Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

Literary manuscripts,letters and other material by Wordsworth, Coleridge, de Quincey and others supplemented by selections from printed books and images of the Lake District created by Gainsborough, Turner and others.

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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007

An important portal for slavery and abolition studies.

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Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda

Explores many of the conflicts, tensions and uprisings of the twentieth century from the unique perspective of socialist filmmakers around the globe.

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Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History

Women's travel diaries and correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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Victorian Popular Culture

A collection of primary sources, together with interpretive essays, describing popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930.

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Virginia Company Archives

Documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624, and other sources.

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Women in the National Archives

Documents from the Colonial Office and the Dominions Office relating to i) the status of native colonial women and ii) the debate over universal suffrage throughout the British empire.

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