Spanning three centuries (c.1750-1929), China: Culture and Society makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, one of the oldest and most distinctive collections of its kind.
China : Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
A collection of English-language sources which include unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China, rare periodicals, color paintings, maps, photographs and drawings depicting Chinese people, places, customs and events.
Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Primary sources documenting missionary work from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The periodicals contain news, journals and reports, including annual reports of the Mission in various countries and an image gallery.
Over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records on Colonial History between 1574-1739. This collection covers Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals and also the Caribbean and Atlantic world.
Papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices c1820-1970. They cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Government’s perspective. Includes an interactive map to search by country.
Around 60,000 images of original documents and printed publications including books, maps, diaries, pamphlets, reports, correspondence from the period 1492-1969, relating to Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, and South Asia. Material is arranged thematically and linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies.
A collection of primary source documents from the India Office Records. It tells the story of the East India Trading Company from the late sixteenth century to Indian independence in 1947, including trade with the East, politics and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world.
Primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history in the form of manuscript, print and illustrations. Useful for the study of transport, trading practices, exchange, consumption and society generally.
From the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947. Sources range from the papers of key East India Company representatives and colonial officials to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras.
Making of the Modern World Parts I-III
Covers the history of Western trade, industries, banking and finance, and the emergence of the modern corporation, covering 1450-1945. It is also strong in the rise of the modern labor movement, the evolving status of slavery, the condition and making of the working class, colonization, the Atlantic world, Latin American/Caribbean studies, social history, gender, and the economic theories that championed and challenged capitalism in the nineteenth century.
Migration to New Worlds is an archive collection on the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Royal Geographical Society with IBG Archive
Founded in 1830, The Society’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. The RGS holds one of the largest private map collections in the world. It includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
Databases for History provide access to a huge range of primary source archives online. They allow you to search and access material without having to travel to archives and can bring material from across different archives together under a theme. They can also provide character recognition, full-text search, transcripts along with supporting contextual analysis, accompanying essays or tools such as timelines to help you make sense of the material you are working with.
China: Culture and Society
Colonial State Papers
Confidential Print Africa
Empire Online
East India Company
Global Commodities
India, Raj and Empire
Migration to New Worlds