Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
The Voice & Vision collection provides resources for researching historical women authorship and publishing. Click to explore the history of women in print.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals, Part I: Women's, Children's, Humor, and Leisure
This collection provides insight into the evolving life of British culture, where reading for leisure, women's rights, children's entertainment, and sports grew as publishing expanded. This resource provides students, researchers, and enthusiasts with unprecedented online access to what people were reading, how they were living, and what was influencing their lives during the Victorian era.
State Papers Domestic for the Stuart era (1603-1714) is the richest primary source archive of its kind to cover national affairs in England in the seventeenth century. The manuscripts and accompanying calendars are vital to any scholar's understanding of this turbulent century of civil strife, revolution, and regicide. Users can explore the nature of monarchy, the details of religious conflict, and the emergence of party politics.
Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021*
The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010 is an essential, comprehensive, and unbiased research tool for those studying public affairs and economic and financial history from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
Through a partnership with the Bodleian Library, Gale has digitally scanned each page of this collection, and with Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection brings these rare documents to scholars around the world in an easy-to-use, full-text searchable digital format.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Part I
Eighteenth Century Collections Online contains 135,000 printed works comprising more than 26 million scanned facsimile pages of English-language and foreign-language titles printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. While the majority of works in ECCO are in the English language, researchers will also discover a rich vein of works printed in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh.
British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950
Part of the most comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers published in Britain between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries ever made available in a digital collection, British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950 provides 23 publications (nearly 1.4 million pages) from across the United Kingdom and Ireland to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the times.
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
The fully text-searchable online archive of Punch -- Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992 -- is available for scholars, students, and the general researcher to explore. The archive is an unrivaled resource for researching and teaching nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and social history on key themes such as World War I and World War II; colonialism, imperialism and End of Empire; impact of new technology and modernity; public health, conservation and environmentalism; social change; and the role of women.
Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822–2021*
Since 1822, The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's global news and society at large. World famous for its cutting-edge investigative journalism, the newspaper broke many of the key stories of the twentieth century. In more than 600,000 full-text searchable pages, this digital collection is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers, and culture of the last two centuries.
Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids includes the complete run of the magazine from the first issue in 2009 to the present and provides authoritative, age-appropriate digital content suitable for younger students in subjects like English Language Arts, social studies, and science.
British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance
The second part of British Literary Manuscripts Online series, British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance offers students and researchers unprecedented online access to nearly 400,000 pages of rare manuscripts from the Medieval and Early Modern periods, c.1100 to 1660. Researchers and students can explore a rich tapestry of letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and commonplace books through searchable online catalog records. Scholars will find important cultural and historical sources, like the 1488 manuscripts of Barbour's Life and Acts of Robert the Bruce.
Gale Presents: National Geographic Virtual Library People, Animals, and the World
National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World oferece acesso ilimitado a conteúdo digital que atrai, envolve e informa estudantes, educadores, pesquisadores e leitores em geral, incluindo livros com texto completo, revistas, vídeos, mapas e imagens da National Geographic.
Explore the development of American literature in a changing culture through novels, short stories, romance, fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.
Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500–1926
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, this digital archive provides a firsthand account of 450 years of history in the Americas, including discovery and exploration, slavery and European colonization, native peoples, wars of independence, religion and missionary work, social and political reforms, economic development, westward expansion, notable individuals, and much more.
Chatham House Online Archive: Module 2: 1980–2008
Module 2 of this series with Chatham House contains high-level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues from the latter part of Cold War to the War on Terror.
Associated Press Collections Online: European Bureaus
From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the Associated Press (AP) covered Eastern Europe during World War II and the Cold War. This collection is composed almost entirely of rare wire copy, recording the declining influence of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic restructuring of the former Soviet satellites.
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
The firsthand perspectives in this cross-disciplinary collection illustrate decolonization as a historical process by which over 70 previously colonized nations shifted from imposed structures to independent systems. Chronicling events primarily after World War II, these documents highlight local and Indigenous narratives from non-Western primary sources—and meet urgent needs for less Eurocentric areas of historical and political study.
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
This archive consists of over 1.3 million pages of archival material covering Latin American and Caribbean culture and society from the fifteenth century to the twentieth century.
China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869–1950
This archive presents a valuable collection of primary source material through Chinese records and Chinese archives carefully selected from the British India Office Records, covering modern Chinese history ranging from Anglo-Chinese relations and the British interests in South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia from 1869 to 1950. The collection comprises files from three series: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma Office Records, and the Records of Military Department.
China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain, and China, Part I: 1841–1951
An essential primary source archive for researching the history of China and the history of Hong Kong in the context of modern China and the British Empire in Asia—from the inception of this British colony in the 1840s to the early 1950s, immediately after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.