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ArabDigest is a source of information and political analysis on current events in the Middle East and North Africa. Arab Digest members have access to articles and podcasts containing a mix of material drawn from a wide range of published sources together with original input from the editor and Arab Digest’s high-level network. Members have the option to sign up to receive the daily newsletter and podcasts direct to their emails or can access them at any time via the website.
Eastern European Newspaper Archive, containing scientific and professional journals, weekly and daily newspapers, encyclopaedias, and thematic book collections.
Digitised primary sources for the study of the British Indian Empire and the history, culture and literature of the Indian subcontinent from 1712 to 1942. Highlights include:
The official and personal papers of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, 1898-1905, from the India Office Records at the British Library
Rare printed works of colonial literature from India and volumes of travel writing from Indians travelling to the West, 1712-1933
Printed weekly abstracts compiled by the India Office, summarising both English- and Indian-language newspapers from British India
A wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century. Highlights include:
Medieval manuscripts relating to Japan, including an account by Marco Polo
The logbook of William Adams (1564-1620), alias Miura Anjin, the first Englishman known to have visited Japan
The journals, printed articles and other papers of William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928), American author, teacher and educational reformer in Japan
A range of important sources from Britain and America, covering key subjects within this historical field, including Keynesian economic policy in post-war Britain; international labour movements; the London Stock Exchange; and the papers of important economists. Highlights include:
A complete run of the Stock Exchange Official Year-book for 1875-1945, tracing the development of British, Commonwealth and world finance and industry from the heights of the Victorian era to the end of the Second World War
All the working papers of John Maynard Keynes and his private office during his second period of service at the Treasury, from 1940 until his death in 1946
The papers of David A. Morse, Director-General of the International Labour Office in Geneva from 1948 to 1970
The complete manuscript diaries of the British Labour politician Hugh Dalton, 1916-1960, covering his extensive career as an MP and government minister
A complete run of The Mechanical Engineer for 1897-1917, featuring authoritative articles and reports, along with excellent diagrams and illustrations concerning the rapid scientific and technical advances of the period.
Alternate Name(s)
The Civil & Military Gazette Online, 1876-1963
The Civil and Military Gazette Online, 1876-1963
The Civil & Military Gazette stood as an unrivalled media institution, offering extraordinarily broad perspectives on South Asia during the late 19th and 20th centuries. This database offers access to holdings from 1876-1963 and covers British rule in India at its height, partition and the early years of the independent countries of India and Pakistan. As well as political events, the paper also cultivated and published literary talent, including Rudyard Kipling, some of whose earliest works first appeared in the Gazette.
This collection is a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861-1865. These newspapers "recorded the real and true history of public opinion during the war. In their columns is to be found the only really correct and indicative 'map of busy life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns' in the South, during her days of darkness and of trial." From the collections of Western Reserve Historical Society.
This collection of ephemera (brochures, clothing items, booklets, flyers, etc.) offers important insights into LGBTQ activism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans in the past decade. It includes 140 items (more than 2,000 pages) of valuable research materials collected by East View in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland and Serbia.
This collection offers a rich array of sources for the study of the British Empire. It features material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class.
Highlights include:
Letterbooks and personal papers of Duncan Campbell, a key figure in the founding of the Sydney colony in New South Wales
Manuscript sources on the condition of indigenous women and the extension of suffrage to women within the Empire from The National Archives
The personal papers of Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810-1821
Correspondence and papers relating to Jamaican plantation life in the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries
No part of ICRG-Table 3B may be duplicated in hardcopy or machine-readable form without prior written authorization from PRS Group. You may download and copy the file for study and research but NOT for commercial purposes.
This archive traces the emergence of modern Iran through the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 and the establishment and reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty into the 1950s. The documents here are sourced from the Central Files of the General Records of the Department of State. The records are under the jurisdiction of the Legislative and Diplomatic Branch of the Civil Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. It will interest scholars in need of documents from the perspective of the U.S. State Department.
LexiQamus is an aggregator for all major dictionaries of Ottoman Turkish matching the given restrictions. With LexiQamus, you can find a word with missing or unclear letters almost immediately, a task that would have been almost impossible with a regular dictionary. (https://www.lexiqamus.com/en)
This collection of digitised primary material includes literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as rare and obscure literary texts and genres. Collections included are as follows:
Walden and Other Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) from the Huntington Library
Autobiographies from Men of All Ranks: manuscripts and rare printed autobiographies of men in Britain; a portrait of life in Britain from 1760-1820
Gothic Fiction: Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Fiction at the Alderman Library, University of Virginia
Nineteenth Century Literary Manuscripts: manuscript sources from libraries across the world. Split up into 7 different parts; highlights include autograph manuscripts of literary texts from writers such as George Eliot, Robert Browning and Anthony Trollope
Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771
The Diaries and Papers of Elizabeth Inchbald, from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the London Library
Gaskell and the Brontës: literary manuscripts of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) and the Brontës from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
The Literary Manuscripts of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
Irish Women Writers of the Romantic Era: Papers of Mary Tighe (1772-1810) and Lady Sydney Morgan (1776-1859) from the National Library of Ireland
The Collected Writings of Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
Nineteenth Century Women Writers: authors including Matilda Betham-Edwards, Florence Marryat, Helen Mathers, Charlotte Riddell, Dora Russell, Adeline Sergeant and Emma Jane Worboise
Collected Writings of Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
Collected Writings of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), plus Correspondence and Literary Manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) from the National Library of Scotland
Recollections, Conversations and Commonplace Books of the Reverend John Mitford (1781-1859) from the British Library, London
Al Manhal is a full-text searchable database of scholarly and scientific publications from the Middle East, Africa and Asia giving access to hundreds of thousands of full-text searchable publications (books, peer-reviewed journals, strategic studies, academic dissertations and educational videos) from the Arab world’s leading publishers, across a diverse range of topics.
Scanned from older microfilms, this resource gives access to 13 collections of scanned primary sources which document the rich and evolving cultural, social, political, scientific, and religious life from the 12th to the early 18th centuries. Largely covers British and some European content. Topics include culture, literature, music, history of science & medicine, women studies, domestic life, Reformation and religious history, political history, and global travel.
The sources are largely digitised manuscripts, rare printed works, literary texts, papers of individuals, treatises, correspondence, music scores, advice books, tracts, sermons, recipe books, manuals, travel writing.
The 13 collections are:
Arthurian Legends and the Influence of French Prose Romance: The Grail, Lancelot, Tristan and related manuscripts from the British Library
Black Death: Sources concerning the European Plague
Crown Servants: Papers of Wentworth, Wynns or Gwydir, Lauderdale
Early music: Music sources from Pembroke College, Cambridge and the National Library of Scotland
English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1704: Popular Culture, Entertainment and Information in the Early Modern Period
Foxe and the English Reformation, c1539-1587: Collected manuscript sources from the British Library, London
The History of Science and Technology. Series One: The Papers of Sir Hans Sloane, 1660-1753 from the British Library, London
Masculinity: Men Defining Men and Gentlemen. Part 1: 1600-1800, Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Medieval and Early Modern Women
Orinda: The Literary Manuscripts of Katherine Philips (1631-1664)
Renaissance Man: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700 Series One: The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608
Spanish Historical Writing About the New World, 1493-1700. From the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
Le Monde is one of the newspapers of record for France. The newspaper website is available in French and English versions, which can be selected at the top of the page.
Muteferriqa, by artificial intelligence company Miletos, is an online research portal containing an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century. It lets you perform full-text search in Latin and Arabic scripts within seconds across millions of pages of its corpus, which consists of virtually all the books and a large majority of periodicals ever printed in Ottoman Turkish. Refining queries through rich and extensive metadata gives relevant cross-sections of the material.
This resource documents the history and impact of pandemics from the 16th century to the early 20th century with a particular focus on the plague, cholera, smallpox and influenza. Over 79,000 images from The National Archives, British Library, University College London and London Metropolitan Archives provide access to a rich and diverse source collection (documents, prayers, records, registers, sheet music, and more).
This resource will be of interest to those researching history of medicine, history of public health, social and economic history, and the impact of pandemics on British life in the course of five centuries more generally.
Alternative name: South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922
Online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including such titles as Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Kayasare Hinda (Bombay), Pioneer (Allahabad, India), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka).
Taiwan Nichinichi Sinpou was first published in 1898 and was the most long-lasting and widely circulated newspaper in Taiwan during the Japanese Colonialism.
A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women. Highlights include:
Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers
Life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women
The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner
Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries
Women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire.