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From the workhouses and the slums to political movements and charitable institutions, discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain.

Drawn from Adam Matthew’s extensive microfilm back catalogue, Women’s Studies contains a breadth of printed and manuscript material providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. 

In the post-WWII period as the Vietnam War raged on, the threat of communism grew, and the influence of Western Empires diminished, Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, 1963-1980 Section I: Cold War in the Pacific, Trade Relations, and the Post-Independence Period, 1963-1966, offers an insight into the region’s struggle for independence against a backdrop of conflict and a shifting political landscape.

Sonoma County Library, known nationally for innovation and connection to its local communities, has signalled its intention to preserve collections and make them easier for the public to access with an announcement today that it will begin using Adam Matthew Digital’s Quartex platform.

World War Two Studies, the latest addition to Adam Matthew’s Research Source suite provides students and scholars with access to important primary sources relating to many aspects of World War Two.

Explore the changing attitudes towards human sexuality, gender and sexual behaviours in America and beyond, throughout the twentieth century.

Adam Matthew Digital was delighted to hold the first Digital Primary Sources Day, kindly hosted within the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The first of its kind, the aim of our Digital Primary Sources Day was to create a forum for discussion of primary sources and their use in teaching and research.

Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew Digital, is delighted to announce a major new collaboration with the internationally renowned Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) which will see key items in the RSC’s archive digitised and made accessible to the global academic community.

New resource now available.

Adam Matthew Digital today announces the publication of its latest digital collection: Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings.

Quartex enables Loyola Marymount University to further library's mission of availability and accessibility of diverse digital collections.

Adam Matthew Digital is delighted to announce today that University of Exeter has become the first European university to purchase its entire digital primary source portfolio of over 100 modules.

Experience the events of WWII through the personal histories of those that lived through it.

Wednesday 6th March 2019 - Archives from the world-renowned Shakespeare’s Globe are now available online, as part of a collaboration with award-winning primary source publisher, Adam Matthew Digital.

Literary Print Culture, released in September 2017, made the archive of the Stationers’ Company, London digitally available to literary scholars and students.

American Indian Newspapers, the vital new collection from Adam Matthew, provides digital access to 200 years of North American Indigenous journalism from a range of communities, historic pressings, and contemporary periodicals.

Students and scholars can now explore three centuries of primary source material documenting extensive developments in gender roles and relations. The expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Age of Exploration, a new digital primary source collection is now available from Adam Matthew Digital. This collection tells the story of European maritime exploration from the earliest voyages of Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus, through the age of discovery, to the race for the Poles.

Adam Matthew Digital publishes prestigious American cultural history collection: J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America, providing access to the archive of one of the world’s oldest, largest and most innovative advertising agencies.

The story of war as told by rare and well-known publications circulated to the forces in major theatres across the globe. Adam Matthew Digital announces the publication of a landmark digital newspaper collection: Service Newspapers of World War Two, containing an extensive range of both rare and well-known wartime publications for soldiers serving in major theatres around the world.

A unique vantage point for research into a globally unstable political climate. Previously-restricted UK government documents, offering insight into the Allied occupation of post-war Japan, have been published within Adam Matthew Digital’s resource Foreign Office Files for Japan. Section II of this resource, published this month, covers The Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952. From 1946-1952 Japan was occupied by Allied Powers...

Research the history of the first great multinational corporation with new digitised records sourced exclusively from the British Library. Students and scholars are now able to navigate their way through newly digitised manuscripts using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), with the latest release of new content in Adam Matthew Digital’s landmark primary source collection East India Company.

(Marlborough, UK – November 2017) Medical Services and Warfare, 1850-1927, the latest primary source collection from Adam Matthew Digital, has transformed access to the personal and professional writings of Florence Nightingale with exclusive Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR). The HTR technology allows these handwritten papers to be fully searchable for the first time. Dr Patrick Spero, Director, American Philosophical Society Library, explains the...

(Marlborough, UK – November 2017) UK Higher Education institutions are now able to benefit from a second group purchasing initiative with Jisc which sees multiple Adam Matthew Digital research and teaching collections made available to purchase at an exceptional discount level. After great success of an...