The documented history of forced migration from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century is fully reported in Archives of Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement. The first in the series, Forced Migration and World War II, presents roughly 700,000 pages to document the causes, effects, and responses to refugee crises across the world before, during and immediately after the Second World War. Government records, refugee agency files, correspondence, and personal accounts provide the hidden history of those forcibly displaced from their homes and the relief, resettlement, and repatriation efforts that followed.  This archive can be searched by nationality and ethnicity, country fled, and settlement/resettlement destination. 

While U.S. Supreme Court briefs are essential for legal doctrine, courts of appeals documents are equally valuable for their records of our lower courts. The latest collection in Gale’s Making of Modern Law series, Landmark Records and Briefs of the Appeals Courts provides a comprehensive review of trial history including depositions, transcripts, and arguments that never made it to the highest court. Addressing historical issues beyond legal theory and precedent, Landmark Records and Briefs unlocks material that was for the most part, previously inaccessible.

Founded in 1903, the Daily Mirror initially launched as a newspaper for women, run by women. It was not well received by the public so the format was changed to a more illustrative approach with prominent use of photography to appeal to a broader readership. During the 1930s the newspaper established its status as the paper of the ordinary working man, and by the 1950s it was the UK’s bestselling newspaper. Now the UK’s only mainstream, left-wing tabloid, the Daily Mirror provides a contrast to the more conservative leaning UK newspapers. As such, Mirror Historical Archive provides an ideal counterpoint for students and researchers looking to compare left-wing journalism to right-wing counterparts such as the Daily Mail.


 

International Perspectives on LGBTQ Activism and Culture examines diversity in underrepresented areas of the world such as southern Africa and Australia, highlighting cultural and social histories, struggles for rights and freedoms, explorations of sexuality, organizations and key figures in LGBTIQ history, and countering the erasure of the stories and experiences of LGBTIQ people from official histories. Materials include the papers of Simon Nkoli, a prominent South African anti-apartheid, gay and lesbian rights, and HIV/AIDS activist; Exit newspaper (formerly Link/Skakel), South Africa’s longest-running monthly LGBT publication; Geographic Files, also known as “Lesbians in…” with coverage from Albania to Zimbabwe; and the largest available collection of Australian LGBTIQ periodicals.

Key Facts
Date range: 1828–2016; bulk of material 1970–2016
Document types: manuscripts, periodicals, ephemera
Source libraries: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA); Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (ALGA); Lesbian Herstory Archives
Subjects supported: gender studies, women’s studies, anthropology, international studies, twentieth-century social history, media and communications, and sociology

This collection offers definitive coverage of the “Age of Capital,” the industrial revolution, and the High Victorian Era, when the foundations of modern-day capitalism and global trade were established. It completes Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London. It is especially strong in “grey literature” and nonmainstream materials rarely preserved by libraries—including pamphlets, plans, ephemera, and private collections. It covers much more than economics. With access to all four of the The Making of the Modern World modules users will have the world’s greatest economic literature collection at their desktops.

Key Facts
Date range: 1800–1890
Document types: Monographs, pamphlets, grey literature
Source library: Senate House Library, University of London
Subjects supported: history; economic history; world history; and history of technology, economics, and finance