New resources for academic year 2021/22: Digital primary sources and archive collections
Permanent collections
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Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database This link opens in a new windowprimary documents relating to the Anti-Rightist Campaign,
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Confidential Print, Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowaccess to the Confidential Print series issues by the British Government covering the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.
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Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980 This link opens in a new windowall British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980
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Foreign Office files for Japan, 1919-1952 This link opens in a new windowaccess to formerly restricted top level discussions and correspondence from the British Embassy and consulate in Japan. Includes detailed assessments of key events, speeches, maps, and topics of special interest.
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Gender: Identity and Social Change This link opens in a new windowprimary sources documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies This link opens in a new windowprimary source materials covering social, cultural, political, science and religious perspectives from 12th to early 18th centuries. Sources include manuscripts relating to Arthurian legends, early music, renaissance man, masculinity 1600-1800 and medieval and early modern women as well as several other areas.
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Meiji Japan: the Edward Sylvester Morse collection from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum This link opens in a new windowmanuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education covering the period 1856-1925
Resources available until 30th June 2022
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The American Civil War :Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowdiaries, letters and memoirs including some previously unpublished manuscripts which provides access to personal views on different aspects of the Civil War
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Black thought and culture This link opens in a new windownon-fiction works by major American black leaders. Includes key works, letters, speeches, political leaflets, trial transcripts and periodicals
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C19: The Nineteenth Century index This link opens in a new windowProvides integrated bibliographic coverage of over over 1.3 million books and official publications, and 10 million articles published in over 2,000 journals, magazines and newspapers.
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China and the Modern World This link opens in a new windowprimary source materials from archives including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library providing an insight into China during the 19th and 20th centuries
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Classical music reference library This link opens in a new windowa collection of reference materials covering the history of Western classical music, includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
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Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new windowa collection of in-copyright classical scores, ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Includes traditionally studied composers and contemporary artists.
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Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess to 50 new collections in addition to our existing content. The DNSA provides access to declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward world events from 1945-present.
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Early European Books This link opens in a new windowCollections 5-14 to add to our existing access of collections 1- 4
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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new windowpersonal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries from the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Security Issues Online This link opens in a new windowprinted materials (personal papers, organizations, government documents, journals, reports, monographs, and speeches) and videos covering themes such as terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counterinsurgency, cybersecurity, ethnic conflicts and resolution, and nuclear threats.
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Slavery & Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part I & 2 This link opens in a new windowprimary resources relating to the history of slavery across the world. Part 1 covers debates over slavery and abolition and part 2 the slave trade in the Atlantic World
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State Papers Online: This link opens in a new windowThe Stuart and Cumberland Papers from The Royal Archives, Windsor Castle (adding to our existing access to State Papers Online)
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Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library This link opens in a new windowresources to explore Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations and key concepts in theology across religions. Covers comparative religion, world religion, religion and law and religion and politics