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The Chamberlain Papers: The Papers of Joseph Chamberlain
Official and personal papers of Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) comprise material relating to his involvement in the family business in Birmingham, his activity in municipal affairs, his election to Parliament, and his service as President of the Board of Trade, 1880-1885, President of the Local Government Board, 1886, Chairman of the Washington Fishery Conference, 1887-1888, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1895-1903.
This collection offers original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers from the 1917 Balfour Declaration through to the Black September war of 1970-1.
The Chamberlain Papers: The Papers of Austen Chamberlain
The papers of Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) consist of material relating to his election to Parliament in 1892 and the offices he held thereafter
This collection includes receipts and archives from the Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Philharmonic Society music manuscripts, and the largely forgotten Wandering Minstrels archive, which opens a rare glimpse into the decades of Gilbert and Sullivan. The archive enables scholars to explore primary sources covering such topics as Victorian popular culture, street literature, social history, music, bloods and penny dreadfuls, professional acting on the London stage, the Royal Literary Fund, British dramatic works, and many others.
State Papers Online Colonial Asia, Part II: Singapore, East Malaysia, and Brunei
Discover the lives of the many indigenous and migrated peoples co-existing with the development of plantations, oil, mining operations and trade, under Sultan and British administration with the digitised manuscripts comprising State Papers Online Colonial Asia
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive: Part III: The Institution of Slavery
Further expanding the depth of coverage of the topic, Part III of this series explores, in vivid detail, the inner workings of slavery from 1492 to 1888. Through legal documents, plantation records, first-person accounts, newspapers, government records, and other primary sources, this collection reveals how enslaved people struggled against the institution. These rare works explore slavery as a legal and labor system, the relationship between slavery and religion, freed slaves, the Shong Masacre, the Dememara insurrection, and many other aspects and events.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society
With this collection, scholars can research and explore primary sources covering such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure, and many others.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online
U.S. Declassified Documents Online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the US government. The collection brings together the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single, easily searchable database. This collection provides access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture presents a dramatic, gripping chronicle of exploration and missions from the early nineteenth century through the Conference of Berlin in 1884 and the subsequent scramble for Africa. Unique sources provide a wealth of research topics on explorers, politicians, evangelists, journalists, and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the competition for markets and converts. These monographs, manuscripts, and newspapers cover key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
The Papers of Sir Ernest Mason Satow
Sir Ernest Mason Satow (1843���1929) was a legendary British diplomat, whose diplomatic career began from 1862 in Japan during its dramatic transformation from a feudal state to a modern nation, then continued to Thailand, Uruguay, Morocco, Japan again, and lastly China at the turn of the 20th century.
Decolonization Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories
Decolonization: Politics and Independence in Former Colonial and Commonwealth Territories addresses the need for primary sources to provide frameworks and narratives that extend beyond the white, western point of view – to include indigenous and diverse voices in syllabi. Taking a period that is often viewed from the perspective of the retreating Western Empires around the world, this collection provides political ephemera and organisational material written for, by and about local players in former colonial territories from Antigua to Zimbabwe.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Asia and the West
Researchers can explore rare government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more within this resource, which covers such topics as British and US foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and much more.
Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822–2021*
Since 1822, the Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week's global news and society at large. World famous for its cutting-edge investigative journalism, the newspaper broke many of the key stories of the twentieth century. In more than 600,000 full-text searchable pages, this digital collection is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers, and culture of the last 180 years.
Confederate Newspapers A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
One of the first digital archives on far-right and left political groups, the content focuses on political extremism and radical thought in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America, providing a range of documents and audio recordings covering the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Japanese American Internment: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
President Roosevelt���s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen from a wide coastal area stretching from the state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona.
Alexander III and the Policy of "Russification," 1883-1886
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Subject Files of US State Department's Office of the Republic of China Affairs (1951-1978)
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
Political Extremism and Radicalism: Global Communist and Socialist Movements
Political Extremism and Radicalism, Part III: Global Communist and Socialist Movements contains c. 890, 000 pages of documents focusing on left-wing thinking so researchers can explore political ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Trotskyism, and anarchism across different countries, as well as the world's response to the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet Union, and the Red Scare.