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.

China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part I: 1815–1881 is the first part of an archive that provides a vast and significant primary source for researching every aspect of Chinese-British relations during the nineteenth century and comprehending modern Chinese history.

China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part II: 1865–1905 is the second part of an archive that provides a vast and significant primary source for researching every aspect of Chinese-British relations during the nineteenth century.

Digitized primary sources from the records of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO 40), held at The National Archives, UK. This digital archive documents the process of Hong Kong maneuvering, surviving, thriving, and transforming into a modern international metropolis and financial center in the wider context of the Cold War—opening a portal into the history of modern China.

British Foreign Office files from The National Archives, UK, that are related to the history of Shanghai and the International Settlement, plus a small number of files selected from the records of the British Ministry of Labour, Treasury, and War Office, this collection deciphers and illuminates the International Settlement as the seat of formative events that shaped the history of modern China as it transitioned from an imperial dynasty to a globally engaged republic.

A compilation of 39 series of mostly British Foreign Office (FO) files, China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759–1972 includes general correspondence and registers composed by the British legation in Beijing as well as British consulates based in more than 20 Chinese coastal and inland treaty ports. Also included are the private and semiofficial correspondence of Sir Henry Pottinger, Sir John N. Jordan, and Lord Edmund Hammond as well as the records and photographs of the British concession in Tianjin.

Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence, An Intelligence Empire brings together files from five government departments to provide researchers with access to detailed, previously classified documents from the communications compiled by Britain and its Empire throughout the twentieth century.

Declassified Documents: Twentieth Century British Intelligence, Monitoring the World brings together documents from the Cabinet Office, UK, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The included archival data files illustrate the worldwide interception and global reach of British secret security agencies throughout the last century and during two world wars.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Literature, Grammar, Language, Catalogues, and Periodicals is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books from a range of genres that provide additional background and multiple points of entry into the study of the cultural, intellectual, and social lives of the people of the Middle East.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Religion and Law is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books on Islamic literature, including numerous editions of the Qur'an with translations and commentaries, traditions (hadith), works of the religious life, and Islamic law materials such as fiqh, statutes, and rulings, all of which provide insight and multiple points of entry into the study of the cultural, intellectual, and social lives of the people of the Middle East.

Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library: Sciences, History, and Geography is a full-text searchable archive of early Arabic printed books on medicine and physiology, classical sciences, mathematics, astrology, chemistry, natural history, philosophy, logic and ethics, politics, history and genealogy, biography, travel, geography, and much more. This collection presents the range of Arab learning that influenced the scholarship and scientific development in Europe through the Middle Ages and Early Modern period.

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.

Expanding Eighteenth Century Collections Online, the titles in Part II have an emphasis on literature, social science, and religion. This second edition includes nearly fifty thousand titles and seven million pages from the library holdings of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, University of Cambridge, the National Library of Scotland, and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

With the effects of climate change already upon us, the need has never been greater to understand the long history behind today’s uniquely American conflagrations around resource usage, trade rules, land rights, and environmental conservation. Access the correspondence, manuscripts, pamphlets, and much more that chronicle the effort to balance the good of the planet with the economic drivers of the Industrial Revolution through the late twentieth century—and witness the beginnings of the modern American conservation movement.

Expand your collection with twentieth-century British government primary source material relating to environmental issues and the history of human-environment interaction. Access files from three departments, focusing on themes such as colonialism, land use and exploitation, exploration, agriculture, the technological revolution, industrial change and urbanisation, conservation, pollution, climate, development programs and sustainability, natural resources, and industries such as forestry and mining.

Gale Case Studies: Intersectional LGBTQ Issues offers a closer look into the history of LGBTQ people and activism into the twenty-first century. Paired with other teaching materials, including documentaries about ACT UP and coverage of their actions in mainstream news sources, these primary sources reveal what the other sources cannot—the careful planning of the activism and responses to it that reveals its impact on the cultural debates about LGBTQ issues.

Gale Case Studies: Public Health Issues delves into the history of the United States' public health campaigns, programs and resources beginning in the early twentieth century into current times. It provides insight into how public policy impacted health issues for all Americans, but especially marginalized populations such as immigrants and minority groups.

This module explores the evolution of political radicalism in the United States and across the world. It addresses student and faculty needs with carefully curated primary sources and case studies, such as Female Activism in the Black Panther Party and Reinventing Nazism.

The largest single collection of English news media from these two centuries, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection provides rare and often unique content for scholarly research into a wide range of political, educational, economic, or journalistic study.

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.