History @ CUL

Gale’s Nineteenth Century Collections Online now available

Nineteenth Century Collections Online provides full-text, searchable content from a broad range of primary sources including a variety of material types: monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Selected with guidance of an international team of experts, these primary sources cover a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study. They include […]

State Papers Online Eighteenth Century part I, 1714‐1782: Domestic – now available

State Papers Online: Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, part 1: Domestic, Military, Naval and Reigsters of the Privy Council, represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the […]

Cambridge Archive Editions Online — now available

Cambridge Archive Editions Online presents a wealth of historical reference materials which otherwise would remain unknown, difficult to access, or fragmentary. Considered collectively, this body of documents represents many thousands of original documents of the National Archives (UK) represented in facsimile, including numerous maps, on the national heritage and political development of many countries. The […]

Gale’s Slavery & Anti-Slavery digital collection –parts II-IV now available

Gale’s Slavery & Anti-Slavery collection consists of four parts: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition Part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World Part III: Institution of Slavery Part IV: Age of Emancipation From the Gale site: Part II, The Slave Trade in the Atlantic World  covers the inception of slavery […]

African Blue Books, 1821-1953 – now available online

About “African Blue Books, 1821-1953” from the British Online Archives site: The Blue Book was a key item of considerable standing in 19th century colonial administration. With a particular focus on the latter nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the focus of these Blue Books is upon economic development; imports, exports and each territory’s balance […]

Colonial State Papers Online – now available

[Proquest] Colonial State Papers Online Colonial State Papers Online provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonial State Papers integrates two important research tools as one service: Collection CO 1 from The National Archives (full name: Privy Council and […]