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.’
Access to over 50 'Cambridge Companion' e-books. Cambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by experts, which offer ccessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods. Subjects: Literature, Arts, Humanities, Philosophy, Law, Music, Queer Studies
Provides access to a range of textbooks published by the Cambridge University Press, spanning all disciplines, and aimed at both students and instructors. Also known as 'Higher Education from Cambridge University Press'.
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.
This five-volume digital collection features works from more than 4,600 classic and contemporary composers. It covers all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.
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.
Dating from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022, this archive is designed to be a record of the social, cultural, and economic impact of COVID-19, allowing you to see the daily frequency of words and phrases compared between 20 countries.