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American Film Scripts Online, Volumes I and II This link opens in a new window
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The Film Scripts Online Series contains over 1,100 scripts and makes available, for the first time, accurate and authorized versions of copyrighted screenplays.
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The Archive of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and connected collections from UK universities covers astronomy, biology, technology, industrial design, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, agriculture, meteorology, physics, history of science and STEM, and government grants for scientific research. It contains administrative records, correspondence, illustrations, manuscripts, photographs, prototypes, clippings, personal papers, gray literature—all presented as fully searchable digital images that can be analyzed, downloaded, manipulated, and compared with content from other societies and universities in the Wiley Digital Archives program.
Artforum Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains the backfile of Artforum (later Artforum International), the leading magazine for coverage of international contemporary art, from its launch in 1962 to 2020
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century This link opens in a new window
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Access to a wide range of information with a focus on the Black Freedom Movement of the 20th Century
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Consists of personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Among the collections are: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM); Mary McLeod Bethune Papers; Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC); Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Bayard Rustin Papers; Claude A. Barnett Papers.
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Consists of personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Among the collections are: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM); Mary McLeod Bethune Papers; Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC); Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Bayard Rustin Papers; Claude A. Barnett Papers.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a collection focused on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history
Black Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
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Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history
Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others
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Offers a unique insight into what successive British governments wanted their citizens to know, think, and do.⠀
BYU Corpus This link opens in a new window
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Now known as English-Corpora
Cambridge Companions Online This link opens in a new window
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Access to 10 Cambridge Companions Online.
Campus Underground This link opens in a new window
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Includes over 75 publications that originated from college and university campuses and surrounding communities. The collection includes such iconic publications as the Berkeley Barb, The Paper (East Lansing), the Los Angeles Free Press, The Fifth Estate (Detroit) and the East Village Other; collectively the founding members of the Underground Press Syndicate.
Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
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Contains a series of four volumes with a mission to provide a reliable and authoritative source for scores of the classical canon, as well as a resource for the discovery of lesser-known contemporary works. The collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
Colonial Caribbean This link opens in a new window
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Makes available materials from 27 Colonial Office file classes from The National Archives, UK. Covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870
Colonial Law in Africa 1808-1919 This link opens in a new window
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During the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries, the British published official ‘Government Gazettes’ that outlined the colonial laws of an African country for the year. This collection, drawn from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office records, includes an accumulation of the published gazettes in 10 different African countries
Colonial State Papers This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of documents and bibliographic records concerning Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals, the Caribbean and Atlantic world. Covers early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
Coronavirus Corpus This link opens in a new window
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The Coronavirus Corpus is designed to be the definitive record of the social, cultural, and economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in 2020 and beyond.
Country Life Archive 1897-2005 This link opens in a new window
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An archive of the weekly British culture and lifestyle magazine Country Life, focusing on fine art and architecture, the great country houses, and rural living.
Covid-19 in America: Responses, Issues and Law This link opens in a new window
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Brings together publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, from testing issues, to stimulus payments, to the quest for a vaccine
Creation of Israel This link opens in a new window
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The British Foreign Office Political Correspondence files on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948 are essential for understanding the modern history of the Middle East, the establishment of Israel as a sovereign state, and the wider web of postwar international world politics.
Daily Express and Sunday Express This link opens in a new window
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The Daily Express archive is a fully searchable database of the newspaper, providing access to Daily Express newspapers dating back to 1900. The Sunday Express is also available from World War II and from 2000-to-now
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Contains the personal and political papers of J.T. Murphy, which cover a wide range of subjects, from his imprisonment in 1925 and campaign to become a Member of Parliament to his travels in post-revolutionary Russia and disagreements with the CPGB leadership. Documents detailing his wife Molly's time as a nurse on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War are also included. Together, these materials provide an invaluable insight into the internal debates that plagued the British and European left during the 1920s and 1930s
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
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Consists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
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One person in seven experiences disability, yet the story of this community and its contributions is largely absent from the scholarly record. Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement is a landmark online collection that fills the gap, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy.
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Designed to provide a window into this uniquely American story. Series 15 contains 160 immigrant papers, many of which are considered the most important 19th-century publications of this genre. Complementing these and providing valuable context are traditional, general-interest newspapers published contemporaneously in those same cities or regions.
Education Magazine Archive, 1910-2015 This link opens in a new window
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An archive of magazines in the field of education, ranging from the early 20th to 21st centuries. The publications are aimed at teachers and other educational professionals and constitute valuable primary sources through which the evolution of educational policy, practice, and theory during this period may be delineated and interpreted. This content also pertains strongly to several related fields such as social history, psychology, and childhood studies.
Edward Elgar 2017 Law ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Access to over 200 Law ebooks published by Edward Elgar
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
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Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.
Enhanced Electronic Grammars Online This link opens in a new window
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Features comprehensive descriptions of languages from around the world.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World This link opens in a new window
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Provides a comprehensive reference work that catalogs all the known living languages in the world today. It has been an active research project for more than 60 years. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue
Far Eastern Economic Review (1946-2009) This link opens in a new window
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Comprises the run of the renowned newsweekly, The Far Eastern Economic Review (1946-2009). Known for its authoritative reporting, this publication was devoted to many facets of the Asia-Pacific region, including politics, economics, international relations, and the arts/culture.
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016 This link opens in a new window
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A complete online, fully searchable facsimile, the Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016* delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue.
Food Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Food Studies Online provides researchers rich archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.
Fortunoff Video Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Collection holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.
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Records of the Communist Party of Great Britain's Womens' Department, the archive shows how certain segments of the CPGB came to embrace some of the concerns of the women's liberation movement, highlighting communist involvement in campaigns related to abortion law, employment rights, and the whole gamut of feminist politics
Global Financial Data This link opens in a new window
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Contains a wealth of detail on both current and historical financial data across the world.
GQ Archive This link opens in a new window
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The backfile of GQ magazine, from its launch in 1931 (as Apparel Arts) to the present. One of the longest-running, most influential men's magazines, GQ expanded its initial focus on fashion to cover general men’s-interest subjects.
Green's Dictionary of Slang This link opens in a new window
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Green’s Dictionary of Slang is the largest historical dictionary of English slang.
Harper's Bazaar Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains the complete runs of the US and UK editions of Harper’s Bazaar, from 1867 to the present (US edition) and 1929-2015 (UK edition)
Hindustan Times (1924 - 2000) This link opens in a new window
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Contains the entire newspaper between 1924 and 2000.
Historical Data UK This link opens in a new window
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The UK Historical Data repository has been developed jointly by the Bank of England, ESCoE and the Office for National Statistics. The site is both a repository of historical UK data and relevant statistical publications, as well as a hub that links to other data websites and sources.
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ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of key archival materials with a single search. Researchers can access digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.
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Consists of the NAACP Papers and federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers regarding the Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century. It charts the NAACP's work and delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues, running between 1909 and 1972
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Women at Work during World War II consists of two major sets of records documenting the experience of American women during World War II: Records of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and Correspondence of the Director of the Women's Army Corps.
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These collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College consist of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional, and local leaders.
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Consists of a wide range of collections documenting the American workers and labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers and the U.S. federal government.
House of Lords Parliamentary Papers 1800-1910 This link opens in a new window
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Enables researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through an archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.
House of Lords UK Bills 1901-2005/6 This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the bills brought forward in the House of Lords
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House of Lords Parliamentary Papers encompass wide areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, providing evidence of committees and commissions during a time when the Lords in the United Kingdom wielded considerable power.
Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive collection of UK industry market research and industry risk ratings. Includes statistics, analysis, forecasts and Brexit Impact Reports.
Independent Digital Archive, 1986-2012 This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a UK daily national newspaper launched in 1986. Its freedom from party political affiliation and neutral ownership make it unique in British journalism
Johnson's Dictionary Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the 1st and 4th Editions of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Kopernio This link opens in a new window
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Offers a free, easy-to-use browser plugin that helps save time accessing full-text journal articles by bringing your institutional subscriptions as well as open access content into your workflow at your point of need.
Law Trove This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Law Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of law. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Law Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook law list.
LGBT Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Archival runs of many of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community
LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window
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Contains an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
Library Hub Discover This link opens in a new window
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Alternate Name(s) Allows searching of a database of UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues
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The Stationers’ Company Archive is one of the most important resources for understanding the workings of the early book trade, the printing and publishing community, the establishment of legal requirements for copyright provisions and the history of bookbinding. Explore extremely rare documents dating from 1554 to the 21st century.
Loeb Classical Library This link opens in a new window
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Contains more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek and English texts, aiming to be a virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin Literature: epic and lyric poetry, history, travel, philosophy and oratory, medical writers and mathematicians, and the Church Fathers who make particular use of pagan culture.
Make Film History IFI Irish Film Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains an archive of Irish educational films
Manchester Political Studies This link opens in a new window
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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.
Manchester Studies in Imperialism This link opens in a new window
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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.
Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies This link opens in a new window
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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.
Mass Observation Project This link opens in a new window
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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.
Men's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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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.
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Contains intelligence reports from the British armed forces during the Second World War and the Cold War.
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Covering years 1909 through 1972, this collection contains internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People throughout the United States.
National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window
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National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
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An archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), spanning areas including current events, international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events, trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth century.
Overdrive This link opens in a new window
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Access to a collection of audio books for leisure and wellbeing listening.
Oxford Handbooks Online Criminology 2015 This link opens in a new window
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24 extended articles on various aspects of criminology
Oxford Law Trove This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Law Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of law. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Law Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook law list.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics This link opens in a new window
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The Oxford Research Encyclopedias contain peer-reviewed, long-form overview articles written and edited by leading scholars. The Encyclopedias are intended to be regularly updated, with new articles and topics being added and authors updating their existing articles.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
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Provides a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Leftist Newspapers and periodicals is a collection of English-language publications spanning beyond the 20th century (1845-2015) covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles which give rise to renewed interest in alternative social organizations.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
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Brings together the most comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) This link opens in a new window
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PEP has been designed to provide a powerful rapid search of the entire psychoanalytic literature in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish.
Race Relations in America This link opens in a new window
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Documenting three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights, this resource showcases the speeches, reports, surveys and analyses produced by the Race Relations Department’s staff and Institute participants, including Charles S. Johnson, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall.
Research Methods Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Designed as a tool to support students of the humanities and social sciences, Research Methods Primary Sources introduces the key approaches to working with source materials and historical evidence.
Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window
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Contains a research and learning database providing in one place comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of political processes through the lens of revolutions, protests, resistance and social movements.
Routledge Performance Archive This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to a range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. Included are interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions and documentaries previously unavailable to global audiences.
Royal College of Physicians Archive - Part I This link opens in a new window
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Includes content within the date ranges of 1101 through 1862. From the founding charter to 20th-century reports on the effects of smoking, there is a wealth of material on the RCP's role in relation to contemporary medical advances.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection This link opens in a new window
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These high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare’s plays featuring the world’s best Shakespearean actors, like David Tennant, Sir Antony Sher, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale, and directors like Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey.
Sage Campus This link opens in a new window
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Supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 250+ hours of structured online learning.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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Digitised version of Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary.
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Provides access to resources on the origins of intelligence agencies MI6 and the CIA.
Security Issues Online This link opens in a new window
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Security Issues Online delves into conflicts, policies, and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history.
Sex and Sexuality This link opens in a new window
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Explores changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender identities and sexual behaviors from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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Provides access to Plantation records concerning Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War
Times Higher Education This link opens in a new window
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Times Higher Education (THE) provides analysis and insight on higher education.
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The ETU ballot-rigging trial was a case brought to the High Court by prominent union members John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple in 1961. They alleged that members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had engaged in "a conspiracy to defraud" in the most recent elections of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), a relatively successful body that represented electricians, wire fitters, and telephone engineers. The judge ultimately ruled in the plaintiffs' favour.

This collection contains verbatim transcripts of the court case. The transcripts provide a unique insight into the CPGB’s influence in the post-war trade union movement.
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Documents women's activism in public life by bringing together books, images, pamphlets, advice literature, training guides, documents (including primary documents), scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, links to other websites, and other ephemera.
Women and Social Movements, International This link opens in a new window
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Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.
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Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices.
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Examines efforts to foster gender equity through expanded economic and social participation of women on a global scale.
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