History

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.

For a full list of permitted uses for a particular collection, please refer to the entry for that collection in the MRU Library database list.

Alberta residents who are not MRU students or employees can access some of the resources via the Alberta Research Portal instead.

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.

Access to over 180,000 digitized books, pamphlets, and broadsides from 1701–1800, with over 32 million searchable pages. It is based on the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC) of works from Britain, Ireland, the U.S., and British colonies.

Primary source material focusing on colonial history, politics, culture and society, spanning 5 centuries of the rise and fall of empires around the world. Includes maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings, and rare books.

Contains expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914. This is a perpetual package with unlimited simultaneous user access.

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.

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.

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 state papers starting with Henry VIII's accession in 1509 through to the reign of George III. MRU access includes:

• Part I: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Domestic
• Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603: State Papers Foreign, Scotland, Borders, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council
• Part III: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic
• Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military, Naval and Registers of the Privy Council
• Eighteenth Century, 1714-1782, Part II: State Papers Foreign, Low Countries and Germany

Every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. The archive features full-colour images and browsability for each and every issue.

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.

The Archive includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003.

Punch was a well known magazine of British wit and satire linked to campaigns for social justice and to British identity.

A digital archive of 19th century periodicals covering topics such as politics, rural life, children's literature, leisure and humour.

A collection of early English newspapers, newsbooks, Acts of Parliament, addresses, pamphlets, and proclamations from London, British Isles, and colonies.

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.