1948-1980 - Makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980.Can also be searched as part of Archives Direct
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The Rand Daily Mail, published daily in Johannesburg, is a critically important title that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa. It is renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall.
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1500-2000 - search all of the Adam Matthew primary source databases with a single interface. Result counts are shown for each collection and may be filtered by the individual collection.
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The interface allows searching of multiple full text primary source databases at the same time using a flexible, intuitive interface. Currently included within the index are Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Sabin Americana. 17th, 18th and 19th Century British Newspapers, Illustrated London News, Times of London, the Times Literary Supplement and Archives Unbound (300+ small primary source archives). Formerly called Artemis Primary Sources
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The documents in Confidential Print: Africa begin with coastal trading in the early nineteenth century and the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa. They then follow the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. Together they cover the whole of the modern period of European colonisation of the continent from the British Government’s perspective. Each self-contained collection is clustered in a portal for ease of cross-searching and browsing or can be searched as part of the Archives Direct collection.
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Designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery is devoted to the transatlantic history of slavery. It includes books, manuscripts, court records, and serials.
Generously funded by the James E. Jones endowment
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Includes Collections 1 and 2. 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, African Newspapers offers coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922.
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1492-1969 The collection spans five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires; from the explorations of Columbus, Captain Cook, and others, right through to de-colonisation in the second half of the twentieth century and debates over American Imperialism.
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Covers 1420-1920. Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration.
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