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Award-winning primary source collections for teaching and research.

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    Period covered
  • Thumbnail for Medieval Travel Writing
    AM Primary
    Medieval Travel Writing
    AM Primary
    The Middle Ages

    An extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy.

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    AM Primary
    Meiji Japan
    AM Primary
    1856-1925

    Manuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925).

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    Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution
    AM Primary
    c.1500-1929

    Discover the history of Mexico through the unique print and manuscript Spanish-language collections of the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.

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    Migration to New Worlds
    AM Primary
    1800-1900
    A selection of original documents that tell the story of European and Asian migration to North America, Australia and New Zealand during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Official records from governments, shipping lines and agencies are found alongside the letters, oral histories and diaries of the migrants themselves. The resource includes material on life for successive generations, refugees and displaced persons, and those who were transported as criminals.
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    Missionary Studies
    AM Scholar
    1700-2002
    This collection includes primary sources for the study of missionary work, educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict, and the emergence of indigenous churches.
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    AM Primary
    Nineteenth Century Literary Society
    AM Primary
    c.1768-1900

    An unparalleled resource for nineteenth century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.

  • Thumbnail for Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
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    Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
    AM Primary
    1500-1700
    This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. Their goal was to identify and describe all manner of writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. The resource links digital scans of the original documents with the researchers' catalogue and notes.
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    Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
    AM Primary
    1950-1975
    A wide range of material, from government documents to fanzines, video content to posters and scrapbooks, tells the story of a time of music, political unrest, fashion and new technology.
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    AM Primary
    Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
    AM Primary
    1800-1900
    Explore the medicine chests and bookshelves of the everyday nineteenth-century American through a colourful array of advertisements, popular texts and much more. This resource offers access to an outstanding collection of highly visual primary source material, together with supplementary features designed to aid research and teaching.
  • Thumbnail for Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
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    Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
    AM Primary
    1800-1900

    This digital resource documents the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century society, tracing developments in welfare reform and the social tensions surrounding poverty. Includes a variety of material on conditions of workhouses and the administration of the new poor relief system through the official government correspondence of the Poor Law Commission.

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    AM Primary
    Race Relations in America
    AM Primary
    1928-1970

    Surveys and Papers from The Amistad Research Center, 1943-1970

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    Research Skills Foundations
    AM Research Skills

    Develop students' primary source literacy and critical thinking skills and introduce key approaches to working with source material.

  • Thumbnail for Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
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    Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
    AM Primary
    1768-1903
    A digital version of the single largest collection of working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers anywhere in the world. Highlights include annotated full manuscripts of such notable works as The Prelude and Michael, or Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Dejection: An Ode.
  • Thumbnail for Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance
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    Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance
    AM Primary
    1922-2013

    Insights into the RSC and its most innovative and pioneering productions.

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    Service Newspapers of World War Two
    AM Primary
    1939-1948
    Contains an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world. Publications are included from many key nations involved in the conflict, such as the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
  • Thumbnail for Sex & Sexuality
    AM Primary
    Sex & Sexuality
    AM Primary
    Late 19th century - present day

    Sex & Sexuality covers a broad range of topics and is drawn from leading archives around the world. From papers of leading sexologists to LGBTQI+ personal histories, the collection is an essential resource for the study of human sexuality, its complexities and its history.

  • Thumbnail for Shakespeare in Performance
    AM Primary
    Shakespeare in Performance
    AM Primary
    1670s to 1970s (bulk nineteenth century)
    Rare and unique prompt books from the world-famous Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. The prompt books tell the stories of key performances as they were put on in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and further afield, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
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    Shakespeare's Globe Archive
    AM Primary
    1997-2016
    Documenting over 300 productions from 1997-2016 from the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, this digital collection is a critical resource for the study of Shakespeare, theatre, cultural history and early-modern literature.
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    Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
    AM Primary
    1490 - 2007
    This resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world covering an extensive time period from 1490. Close attention has been 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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    Socialism on Film
    AM Primary
    Early twentieth century - 1980s
    Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers. Ranging from the early 20th century to the 1980s, material encapsulates the themes of war, revolution, news, current affairs, culture and society.
  • Thumbnail for The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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    The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    AM Primary

    A range of archival sources charts the contradictions of the age. The resource includes the personal and business papers of key industrialists and financiers; records of rail, steel and oil corporations; material on labour disputes, politics and progressivism; rich visual content on fashion, material culture and architecture.

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    The Grand Tour
    AM Primary
    c1550 - 1850
    A digital collection of manuscript, visual and printed works that allows students and researchers to explore and compare a range of sources on the history of travel. Many come from private or neglected collections.
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    AM Archives Direct
    The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
    AM Archives Direct
    1969-1974
    British Government documents on North America during Nixon's presidency.
  • Thumbnail for The Olympic Movement: Sport, Global Politics and Identity
    AM Primary
    The Olympic Movement: Sport, Global Politics and Identity
    AM Primary

    A multi-archive resource examining the history of the modern Olympic Games through primary sources.

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