Files of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) from the U.K. National Archives, along with the secret minutes of the special 1944 War Cabinet Committee "Breaking the German Will to Resist." Included here is all the correspondence, minutes and agents’ mission files along with a complete collection of all the airborne propaganda leaflets dropped over mainland Europe during the war by the British and American air forces. Includes leaflets, single sheets and miniature books.
Access to all the Gale Primary Source Collections.
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Access to a wide range of British documents; includes finding aids for print and microfilm collections, as well as digital documents. To search for only digital items, limit to DocumentsOnline. To view digital items, add them to your "shopping cart" then download. Includes free and pay-per-view content.
This collection of original source material from British and European archives will enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective.
Contains digital facsimile page images of works printed in English from 1470-1700. Includes the ages of Spenser, Shakespeare and of the English Civil War.
Includes books, pamphlets, and essays, broadsides and more published in the UK during the 18th century.
Content is primarily in English, but also includes other languages.
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Spans the five centuries of the rise and fall of empires around the world. Contains pages of unique primary source material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings, and rare books.
Access to a curated list of primary sources from the 19th century, including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
Topics include: Asia and the West; British politics and society; British Theatre, Music and Literature; Children's Literature and Childhood; Europe and Africa, colonialism and culture; European literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840; Maps and travel literature; Photography; Religion, reform and society; Science, technology and medicine, Women and transnational networks
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains books, pamphlets, newspaper and periodical titles, and major manuscript collections that explore the inner workings of slavery from 1492-1888.
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A comprehensive collection that offers a broad range of documents, dated between 1500 and 1930. Included are many rare and fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches. Documents are primarily in Latin, English, and German.
British government documents, including papers, memos, minutes and reports covering all major British government decisions from 1915-1980. Topics covered include the Empire, decolonisation and the development of the Commonwealth; diplomacy, foreign policy and British involvement in the world wars.
A digital collection of some of the key primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Includes parliamentary documents, royal papers, church documents, amongst other things. Includes some pay-per-view content.
Major British historical resources for the period 1500-1900. Includes Parliamentary, government, church/ecclesiastical and local records, British Museum images, history of science, and more.
Collection of criminal court proceedings of London's Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913, and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts between 1676 and 1772. Includes trials & biographical details of men and women executed at Tyburn.
More formally known as the 'Report from the Committee on the "Bill to regulate the labour of children in the mills and factories of the United Kingdom." Available via the HathiTrust.
Access to the domestic state papers from the Tudors through the reign of George III.
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Pamphlets were an important means of public debate in British history and addressed important social, technological, political and environmental issues. This collection holds 26 000 significant 19th century pamphlets.
1732-1950. Content ranging from early tabloids to radical papers covering more than 160 newspaper titles from the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Publications span a vast range of national, regional, and local interests.
1896-2004. Includes more than one hundred years of this major UK national newspaper, viewable in full digital facsimile form, includes advertisements, news stories, and images that capture twentieth-century culture and society.
Every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. The archive features full-colour images and browsability for each and every issue.
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1888-2010. 1888-2010. Financial Times began as a City of London news sheet, covering international financial, economic and industry events from the late nineteenth and entire twentieth centuries to today.
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The Archive includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003.
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Dating back to the 17th century, this is one of the world's oldest English-language scientific journals still in publication. Open access (free of charge) for issues from 1665 - 70 years ago.
Punch was a well known magazine of British wit and satire linked to campaigns for social justice and to British identity.
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A digital archive of 19th century periodicals covering topics such as politics, rural life, children's literature, leisure and humour.
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A collection of early English newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, pamphlets, and proclamations from London, British Isles, and colonies.
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An online, full-text facsimile of every complete page of every issue of The Times over a span of 200 years, from 1785 to 2014.
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