East India Company offers access to a collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1600 to 1947.Continue reading “East India Company – Trial ended 22 February 2017”
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Victorian Popular Culture – Trial ended 24 November 2016
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and traveling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures. Please send additional comments to Chris Africa. *Please noteContinue reading “Victorian Popular Culture – Trial ended 24 November 2016”
Frontier Life – Trial ended 7 October 2016
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement, and Colonial Encounters is a digital collection of primary source documents that helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoplesContinue reading “Frontier Life – Trial ended 7 October 2016”
Colonial America, modules I & II – Trial ended 7 October 2016
Colonial America will make available all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series from The National Archives, UK, covering the period 1606 to 1822. CO 5 consists of the original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies.* Please send additional comments to Janalyn Moss. *Please note that PDF download optionsContinue reading “Colonial America, modules I & II – Trial ended 7 October 2016”
World’s Fairs — Trial ended 26 April 2016
World’s Fairs: A Global History of Expositions showcases a diverse range of primary source material to represent the origination and planning of fairs, the experience of visiting them and the physical, cultural and political legacies they leave behind. With content from hosting and participating countries from every continent, imperial history, race and national identity areContinue reading “World’s Fairs — Trial ended 26 April 2016”
African American Communities – Trial ended 4 November 2015
African American Communities presents multiple aspects of the African American community — focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina — 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 AfricanContinue reading “African American Communities – Trial ended 4 November 2015”
Empire Online – Trial ended 24 December 2013
Empire Online brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of ‘Empire’ and it’s theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology. Please send additional comments to Edward Miner.
The First World War: Personal Experiences – Trial ended 30 April 2013
The First World War: Personal Experiences contains digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond. Supplementing the primary sources is a wealth of secondaryContinue reading “The First World War: Personal Experiences – Trial ended 30 April 2013”
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 – Trial ended 30 April 2013
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan consist of the British Government’s files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The files in this collection cover these events from the standpoint of British officialdom. In addition to high politics, the papers in the files cover suchContinue reading “Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 – Trial ended 30 April 2013”
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 – Trials ended 11 December 2012
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 “This collection will supplement, in a vital way, a period of India’s post-colonial history which is in many areas thinly documented within the existing official archives. As well as tracing the international connections between India, the Commonwealth and the wider world, this collection offers unique insightsContinue reading “Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 – Trials ended 11 December 2012”