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A growing bibliographic index providing integrated access to millions of records from key 19th-century research sources. Covers books, periodicals, newspapers, official publications, archives, and reference works.

Digitised and fully searchable records of the British Cabinet from 1915-78. Contains papers, precedent books, and notebooks, including minutes, memoranda, and conclusions from meetings. Divided into three themes: ‘The United Kingdom and the World,’ ‘The Economy, Business, and Resources,’ and ‘Society and the Welfare State.’   

A searchable full-text collection of  the Cambridge Histories, first published in 1902.  This series contains over 400 volumes detailing US and British history. It also includes volumes focused on other subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, with a concentration on political and cultural history, literature, philosophy, religious studies, music and the arts.

A faithfully, digitally reproduced collection of over 75 publications originated from North American college and university campuses and surrounding communities during the 1960s to the early 80s. The included publications became the founding members of the Underground Press Syndicate.

The largest  primary resource collection of 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers. Covers colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery, and U.S. relations with the region. 

A key newspaper of the African-American press. Easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

A collection of 12 historical English-language Chinese newspapers published between 1832 and 1953, providing a chronicle of China’s turbulent transition from Imperial rule to the founding of the Republic.

Leading source of systematic reviews in health care, covering a wide range of medical and health-related topics. Includes full Cochrane reviews, review protocols, editorials, and conference supplements, aimed at supporting evidence-based clinical and policy decision-making.

A National Archives (UK) collection of materials from 27 Colonial Office file classes covering the various territories under British governance from 1624 to 1870. Includes administrative documentation, details of plantation life, colonial settlement and imperial rivalries across the region.

A database of primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, integrating two archives: ‘Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers’ and ‘The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.’ The collections relate to the British governance of early settlements, encounters with Native Americans, piracy, the slave trade, and conflicts with the Spanish and French. 

Documents from the Communist Party of Great Britain’s International Department, covering global communist movements and ideological divisions from 1944 to 1986. Focuses on the Sino-Soviet split, Eastern Europe, anti-colonial struggles, and Western leftist responses during the Cold War.

British Foreign Office records documenting political unrest and conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Includes correspondence, reports, maps, and photographs covering internal politics, foreign intervention, and Britain’s diplomatic role during the early years of the Indochina conflict.