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Good for: Finding newspaper reports about life, culture and historical events published in England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.
Contains: National and regional newspapers representing multiple political and cultural views.
Dates covered: 1732-1950.
Good for: Finding newspaper coverage of news and events in Asia from English speaking reporters in Hong Kong.
Contains: Newspapers.
Dates covered: 1903-2001.
Good for: Finding articles from The Times (London).
Contains: The Times newspaper.
Dates covered: 1785-2019.
Good for: Finding newspaper articles from around the world, including Nevada.
Contains: Newspaper articles from global news outlets, both print and web-only.
Collections of several types of primary sources curated around a topic or theme.
Good for: First hand accounts of European exploration, trade and colonization worldwide using primary sources.
Contains: Manuscripts, maps, illustrated documents, diaries, and ship logs.
Dates covered: 1420-1920.
Good for: Exploring social justice, civil rights, and decolonization movements in Africa and for understanding the American Committee on Africa's (ACOA) efforts to inform the public and promote solidarity with African liberation movements
Contains: Records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) which chart the organization's involvement in African liberation struggles in the twentieth century
Dates covered: 1953-1981
Good for: Exploring Amnesty International’s records of activism supporting human rights.
Contains: Organizational records, press releases, posters, and oral histories.
Good for: Studying the history of South Africa's apartheid regime.
Contains: British government files.
Dates covered: 1948-1980.
Good for: Searching a large collection of British government and agency records.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1833-1981.
Good for: Researching LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Contains: Primary sources.
Dates covered: 1940-present.
Good for: Studying the history of displaced people, refugees, and undocumented or unauthorized migrants.
Contains: Primary source documents, archival collections, documentary films, and ephemera.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Good for: Studying the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia, and Afghanistan.
Contains: Correspondence, intelligence reports, diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts, and other primary sources from British Foreign Office Files.
Dates covered: 1834-1922.
Good for: Researching international affairs from a British perspective.
Contains: Commentary, speeches, and analysis from a nonprofit NGO.
Dates covered: 1920-2008.
Good for: Studying China's relations with the West in the 19th and early 20th century.
Contains: Academic and literary journals and missionary periodicals in English about China.
Dates covered: 1817-1949.
Good for: Researching China and its relations with the West during the late Qing and Republican periods.
Contains: Official correspondence, dispatches, reports, memoranda, and records of the Maritime Customs Service of China.
Dates covered: 1858-1949.
Good for: Exploring Chinese life and culture over the past 300 years.
Contains: Primary source documents like printed books, pamphlets, paintings, manuscripts, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals.
Dates covered: 1750-1980.
Good for: Researching the life and career of Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during and after World War II.
Contains: Primary sources including personal papers and official records.
Dates covered: 1690-1965 (mainly 1940-1955).
Good for: Understanding the perspective of Anglican missionary administrators and workers on cultural encounters around the world.
Contains: Newspapers, journals, and reports.
Dates covered: 1804-2009.
Good for: Primary source evidence of the British administration of the American colonies.
Contains: British government documents from the Colonial Office (CO 5).
Dates covered: 1606-1822.
Good for: Primary sources documenting European colonization of the African continent from the British government’s perspective.
Contains: Government records from the British Colonial Office and Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1834-1966.
Good for: Primary sources recording the British perspective on Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1833-1969.
Good for: Primary sources about British involvement in the Levant, the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1839-1969.
Good for: Evidence of changing views about gender, themed around conduct, domesticity, consumption and leisure, education, and the body.
Contains: Primary sources like correspondence, advice literature, periodicals, ephemera and government documents.
Dates covered: 1500s-1920.
Good for: Researching British trade and colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent.
Contains: British government records from the India Office.
Dates covered: 1599-1947.
Good for: Exploring colonial history, politics, culture and society from British and European perspectives.
Contains: Primary sources from archival collections.
Dates covered: 1492-1969.
Good for: Studying personal experiences, propaganda, visual perspectives, and narratives of the First World War.
Contains: Archival collections, films, and oral histories.
Dates covered: 1900-1950.
Good for: Primary sources documenting British relations with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Contains: British Foreign Office files.
Dates covered: 1919-1980.
Good for: Primary sources documenting the political and social history of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from the viewpoint of British officials.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office and Dominions Office.
Dates covered: 1947-1980.
Good for: Primary sources documenting Japanese imperialism, the War in the Pacific, the Occupation of Japan, and Japan's rise to great power status from the perspective of British diplomats.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1919-1952.
Good for: Primary sources documenting British Foreign Office involvement in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines.
Contains: Correspondence, reports, maps, and other primary source evidence.
Dates covered: 1963-1980.
Good for: Understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s, such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1971-1981.
Good for: Studying European colonization in North America, Africa, and Australasia.
Contains: Primary sources like expedition records, letters, diaries, and government records.
Dates covered: 1650-1920.
Good for: Studying the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations, like women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, family and the body.
Contains: Primary sources like personal papers, diaries, and organizational records.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Good for: Examining primary sources that tell the story of global trade in chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea, timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Contains: Archival collections.
Dates covered: 1500-present.
Good for: Studying the history of South Asia between the initial involvement of the East India Company and Indian and Pakistani independence.
Contains: Primary sources from colonial government and archival collections.
Dates covered: 1615-1947.
Good for: Studying the history of tourism.
Contains: Archival material from Thomas Cook travel agency.
Dates covered: 1850-1980.
Good for: Studying historical medical advances during warfare.
Contains: Primary sources.
Dates covered: 1850s-1930s.
Good for: Studying Japan and its relations with the West.
Contains: Publications, papers, journals, and diaries of Edward Sylvester Morse.
Dates covered: 1850s-1930s.
Good for: Studying Arab-Israeli relations through documents from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers.
Contains: Primary source documents.
Dates covered: 1917-1970.
Good for: Studying migration from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe, and Asia to the New World and Australasia.
Contains: Personal accounts, correspondence, maps, plans, and photos.
Dates covered: 1800-1924.
Good for: Primary sources about the history of the Olympic Games.
Contains: Historical archives from the International Olympic Committee, the USOPC, World Abilitysport, and more.
Dates covered: 1890s-1990s.
Good for: Studying fringe political movements.
Contains: Campaign materials, periodicals, propaganda, government records, oral histories, and ephemera.
Dates covered: 1900-2000.
Good for: Examining records of humanitarian aid for displaced persons and refugees after World War II.
Contains: Records from the National Archives of the UK.
Dates covered: 1945-1950.
Good for: Studying signals intelligence reports and government policy and strategy from the British government.
Contains: Documents from The National Archives, U.K.
Dates covered: 1873-1953.
Good for: Exploring the story of World War II through newspapers for members of the armed forces.
Contains: Newspapers.
Dates covered: 1939-1948.
Good for: Researching the trade in enslaved people in America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba using material examining European, Islamic, and African involvement in the slave trade.
Contains: Case studies and primary source documents.
Dates covered: 1490-2007.
Good for: Viewing documentaries, newsreels, and feature films from a socialist perspective.
Contains: Films by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers.
Dates covered: 1918-1990.
Good for: Researching colonial and early post-colonial India.
Contains: Journals, books, primary source documents, and film booklets.
Good for: Exploring travel writing and its history.
Contains: Manuscripts, diaries, correspondence, drawings, guidebooks, and photographs.
Dates covered: 1818-1974.
Good for: Documents recording the experiences of colonized women.
Contains: Primary sources.
Dates covered: 1820-present.
Good for: Examining primary sources about the work of women activists working on social reforms around the world
Contains: Archival collections including organizational records, letters and diaries
Dates covered: 1840-present
Good for: Examining primary sources about the work of women activists contributing to international development programs, including the Peace Corps and United Nations organizations
Contains: Archival collections including organizational records from intergovernmental (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and personal papers of activists
Dates covered: 1919-2019
Video and documentary film
(Documentary films or television news reports may include footage that can be considered as a primary source, though the narrative and film's point of view make it a secondary source)
Good for: Studying the history of displaced people, refugees, and undocumented or unauthorized migrants.
Contains: Primary source documents, archival collections, documentary films, and ephemera.
Dates covered: 1800-present.
Good for: Viewing television news coverage of events in American and world history
Contains: Video clips from CBS news programming
Dates covered: 1950s - 2010s
Good for: Viewing narratives and images of 20th century China created by non-Chinese visitors
Contains: Newsreels, documentaries, and government and amateur films
Dates covered: 1900-1997
Good for: Understanding key human rights issues and atrocities of the twentieth century.
Contains: Primary and secondary sources, including television footage, photographs, presidential archives, government documents, NGO and court documentation, maps, and reference entries.
Good for: Streaming videos including documentaries, features and independent films.
Contains: Films.
Good for: Viewing or searching documentary films and video series on a wide range of topics in science, history, art, business and many more.
Contains: Streaming video
Dates covered: 1979-current
Good for: Viewing documentaries, newsreels, and feature films from a socialist perspective.
Contains: Films by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers.
Dates covered: 1918-1990.
Digitized collections of books published during different time periods.
Good for: Finding primary source materials on exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions, and more.
Contains: Historical books, pamphlets, serials and other documents about North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Dates covered: 1500-1926.
Good for: Reading primary sources that document the evolution of feminist consciousness and the women's rights movement.
Contains: Books and periodicals.
Dates covered: 1543-1945.
Good for: Access to nearly any public domain (pre-1929) book owned and scanned by a library.
Contains: Digitized books.
Good for: Researching historical legal materials.
Contains: Treatises, primary sources, trials, and foreign, comparative, and international law.
Dates covered: 1600-1926.
Good for: Researching colonial and early post-colonial India.
Contains: Journals, books, primary source documents, and film booklets.
Official government publications, including laws, treaties, and records of legislative proceedings.
Good for: Searching a large collection of British government and agency records.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1833-1981.
Good for: Studying the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia, and Afghanistan.
Contains: Correspondence, intelligence reports, diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts, and other primary sources from British Foreign Office Files.
Dates covered: 1834-1922.
Good for: Primary sources documenting European colonization of the African continent from the British government’s perspective.
Contains: Government records from the British Colonial Office and Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1834-1966.
Good for: Primary sources recording the British perspective on Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1833-1969.
Good for: Primary sources about British involvement in the Levant, the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1839-1969.
Good for: Primary sources generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices about events in the United States, Canada, and the English-speaking Caribbean.
Contains: Government and agency records.
Dates covered: 1824-1961.
Good for: Primary sources about trade, economic development, and political and military conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the 1960s and 70s.
Contains: Records created by the British Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1959-1979
Good for: Researching British trade and colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent.
Contains: British government records from the India Office.
Dates covered: 1599-1947.
Good for: Exploring colonial history, politics, culture and society from British and European perspectives.
Contains: Primary sources from archival collections.
Dates covered: 1492-1969.
Good for: Primary sources documenting British relations with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Contains: British Foreign Office files.
Dates covered: 1919-1980.
Good for: Primary sources documenting the political and social history of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan from the viewpoint of British officials.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office and Dominions Office.
Dates covered: 1947-1980.
Good for: Primary sources documenting Japanese imperialism, the War in the Pacific, the Occupation of Japan, and Japan's rise to great power status from the perspective of British diplomats.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1919-1952.
Good for: Understanding the events in the Middle East during the 1970s, such as the Arab-Israeli War, the Lebanese Civil War and the Iranian Revolution.
Contains: Archival collection from the British Foreign Office.
Dates covered: 1971-1981.
Good for: Researching legal topics.
Contains: Law journals and federal legal materials.
Good for: Studying the history of South Asia between the initial involvement of the East India Company and Indian and Pakistani independence.
Contains: Primary sources from colonial government and archival collections.
Dates covered: 1615-1947.
Good for: Researching historical legal materials.
Contains: Treatises, primary sources, trials, and foreign, comparative, and international law.
Dates covered: 1600-1926.
Good for: Studying Arab-Israeli relations through documents from the British Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers.
Contains: Primary source documents.
Dates covered: 1917-1970.
Good for: Examining records of humanitarian aid for displaced persons and refugees after World War II.
Contains: Records from the National Archives of the UK.
Dates covered: 1945-1950.
Good for: Researching colonial and early post-colonial India.
Contains: Journals, books, primary source documents, and film booklets.
These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.
Good for: Searching all ProQuest U.S. historical newspaper collections simultaneously.
Contains: Newspapers.
Dates covered: 1841-2014.
Good for: Searching historical periodicals.
Contains: Magazine and journal articles.
Dates covered: 1740-1940 with some more recent.
Good for: Searching across historical newspapers and books for primary sources about American life and culture.
Contains: American historical newspapers, printed books, pamphlets, and ephemera.
Dates covered: 1639-1922.
Good for: Searching across all primary source collections from Adam Matthew Publishers.
Contains: Archival collections.
