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Global Horizons
The Global Horizons journal is a space of representation and recognition, demonstrating the exemplary work produced by undergraduate Global Studies students at the University of Sussex.
Thematically, papers address, generate and disseminate knowledge concerning some of the most pressing global issues of our time – from global inequalities and justice, climate and environmental change, war and peace, and global health, to finance crises, intolerance, and discrimination. Inter-disciplinary by the nature of its diverse contributors, the journal reflects the pedagogical and methodological approach adopted by the School of Global Studies more broadly.
Archives and Primary Data Sources
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 This link opens in a new windowPresents important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. Covers experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community.
- Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new windowConsists 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.
- Food Studies Online This link opens in a new windowFood Studies Online provides researchers rich archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us.
- Frontier Life This link opens in a new windowA multi-archive collection which captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Covers various colonial frontiers of North America and the settlers of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
- Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the special collections of academic institutions. Materials produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
- Mass Observation Online This link opens in a new windowAn 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.
- Security Issues Online This link opens in a new windowSecurity Issues Online delves into conflicts, policies, and relationships that have impacted the global arena throughout modern history.
- Women and Social Movements, International This link opens in a new windowWomen 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.
Government/Organisations
- UK Government Publications SearchUK central government publications, including command papers, act papers and policies and guidance.
- IGO search This link opens in a new windowUse this customised Google search to find publications from the sites of hundreds of International Governmental organisations (IGO). Includes organisations like NATO and WHO.
- NGO search This link opens in a new windowUse this customised Google search to find publications from the sites of hundreds non-governmental organization(NGO).
- EuropaThe European Union's own freely available information portal
- Google Advanced SearchUse this more detailed search with advanced operators to find information from governments and organisations.
- NATOAccess to an online library including basic treaties and texts, the Nato handbook, and multimedia such as audio/video of speeches.
- Official Publications GuideTo see more suggested resources visit the Library's Official Publications guide.
- UN ArchivesThe Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS) identifies, preserves and provides access to those records that document the history of the United Nations.
Analysis
- Wilton Park ReportsWilton Park is an executive agency of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, based in West Sussex. It hosts events that focus on issues of international security, prosperity and justice and brings together senior specialists from the worlds of politics, diplomacy, academia, business, civil society, the military and the media. Reports from their conferences provide summaries of these events, with the main points and conclusions.
Newspapers
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- African Newspapers 1800-1922 This link opens in a new window40 fully searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
- Chinese Newspaper Collection This link opens in a new windowProvides insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 This link opens in a new windowConfidential print documents issued by the UK Foreign and Colonial Office since c. 1820. The collection covers the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the 19th century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek) (1918 - 2015) This link opens in a new windowAn 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.
- Nexis This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India (1838 - 2010) This link opens in a new windowThis 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.
- South China Morning Post Archive This link opens in a new windowAccess to the digital archive of the renowned newspaper known for its authoritative and influential reporting on Hong Kong, China and all of Asia.
- Newspaper GuideTo see the full collection of newspaper resources available through the library visit our newspaper guide
Statistics and Datasets
- CIA World Factbook This link opens in a new windowInformation and statistics on the countries of the world.
- OECD StatisticsThe OECD collects statistics needed for the analysis of economic and social developments by its in-house analysts, committees, working parties, and member country governments from statistical agencies and other institutions of its member countries.
- UN Comtrade This link opens in a new windowAccess to commodity trade data for all available countries and areas since 1962.
- UNdataCollates the data from several major UN databases and allows the user to browse or search multiple resources.
- World BankFree and open access to data about development in countries around the globe.
- WITS (United Nations) This link opens in a new windowAccess to major international trade, tariffs and non-tariff data compilations.
- GOV.UK -StatisticsOfficial statistics produced by government departments.
- Office for National StatisticsStatistical backsets and publications, produced by the UK Statistics Authority.
- Statistics and Datasets GuideFor more data resources visit our Statistics and Datasets guide.
- UN Human Development ReportsReports available from 1990 includes statistics for industrialized and developing countries. Subjects covered include Health, Education, Income/Composition of Resources, Inequality, Gender, Poverty, Work, employment and vulnerability, Human Security, Trade and Financial Flows, Mobility and Communication, Environmental sustainability, Demography, Socio-economic sustainability.