A vast archive of material drawn from hundreds of international and local organizations, documenting important aspects of LGBTQ life from 1940 onwards. Documents include: records and materials produced by LGBTQ rights groups, government briefings, reports and policy statements, surveys and election questionnaires, international news and magazine articles, photographs, interviews and more.
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.
An online collection of more than 100,000 declassified records documenting historic U.S. foreign and military policy decisions since 1945.
An extensive online collection of edited correspondence from the early modern period, containing over 80,000 letters and documents and 10,000+ correspondents. Interconnected documents link people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
Provides researchers with rich archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Includes cookbooks, menus, pamphlets, posters, vintage commericals, interviews and documentaries, as well as secondary sources.
An archive of the British Foreign Office Political Correspondence files on Palestine and Transjordan from 1940 to 1948, providing insight into the modern history of the Middle East, the establishment of Israel as a sovereign state, and post-war international world politics.
A 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.
The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) is Europe's most comprehensive research collection on development issues. It holds over 80,000 monographs, including individual research reports, working papers and books, and over 10,000 magazine, newspaper, annual report and newsletter titles. Over 50% of the collection is published in the Global South, including many unique holdings.
BLDS printed books are located in two areas in the Library. The sequence begins in the Rolling Racking on the Ground Floor (after shelfmark Z) for authors A-N then continues in the North Basement (again after shelfmark Z).
BLDS journals are located in a Library Store and will need to be requested at the Information Hub. Please do ask staff for help with finding the resources that you need.
You will need to use your University identity card to enter the University Library and to borrow books. If you have not yet obtained this, you will need to go to the University Print Unit in Lancaster House. Information about access to library services for individuals who are not members of the University or IDS is available here: sussex.ac.uk/library/visitors
