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Contains a new, sustainable model for the creative reuse of archive material for non-commercial use by filmmakers.

Offers researchers new ways of understanding the emergence of modern economics and other social sciences.

Contains an archive of Irish educational films

Provides a collection of 96 books, written by leading names in the field, covering political evens, ideas, movements, roles of government, voters, parties and leaders and the way that these elelments shape society as a whole.

Delivers a rich source of scholarship on cultural encounters between the coloniser and colonised, the circulation of power through the production and organisation of colonial knowledge, and the construction of identity both at the heart and on the margins of empire.

Provides a unique insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to the complete market research reports of Ernest Dichter, the era’s foremost consumer analyst and market research pioneer.

Part of the Global Issues Library, this curated database provides a rare breadth of study for students to investigate both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries.

An archive for the study of Social History in the modern era. Access to the new online material, microfilm series, and physical and digital material in the archive itself.

Online resources including 'Observing the 80s' project, Mass Observation Project Database, podcasts and occasional papers

The Mass Observation Project was launched in 1981 by the University of Sussex as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation. Its founders' aim was to document the social history of Britain by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. Still growing, it is one of the most important sources available for qualitative social data in the UK.

A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. Access to reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications.

Bibliographic database for biomedical literature covering research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

A collection of men’s-interest magazine backfiles serving research in men’s studies/history but also offering important additional perspectives for women’s studies. It includes some of the earliest publications of this type – National Police Gazette and Argosy – and covers key topics such as fashion, sports, health, and arts/entertainment.

Explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia.

Contains intelligence reports from the British armed forces during the Second World War and the Cold War.

Produces hundreds of reports into European, UK-specific and Chinese consumer markets every year. You will need to login to access Mintel.