Collections of monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy. Some key topics such as: Partition of Africa and British Imperial Policy, the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, the Fashoda Incident, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry, African response to Imperialism, the "Scramble for Africa", Chinese emigration, etc. Document supply available. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
The UK Foreign Office files for South East Asia provides insight into challenges faced by political leaders. It documenting guerrilla activity, coups and financial struggles in a time of conflict. It covers the move to industrialisation and the emergence of modern South East Asia. By Adam Matthew Digital.
This collection from Adam Matthew Digital captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It ranges across the various colonial frontiers of North America before touching on the settlers and indigenous peoples of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Discover information on a wide range of history topics from ancient to modern times from reference works, academic journals, primary and multi-media sources.
Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across Gale's primary source collections. It provides tools to analyse content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Content covered includes Gale's historical newspaper and periodical collections, historical books, and other primary source material. Useful for HSC History.
The Chinese Newspaper Collection covers a range of papers published between 1832 to 1953 providing a primary source chronicle of the country's turbulent transition from Imperial rule to the founding of the Republic. Titles include North China Herald, The China Press, The China Critic, and the China Weekly Review.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format for newspapers dating back to the 18th century. Titles include The Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian and The Observer, The Irish Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Scotsman, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The South China Morning Post and the Chinese Newspaper Collection. Document supply available.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital archive of scholarly material in the social sciences and humanities and the sciences. It includes the full text of non-current issues from over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials. The State Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections Parts I - IX and the Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets collection. Document supply available. Useful for HSC History, HSC Society & Culture and HSC English.
This resource focuses on European emigration to the United States, Canada, and Australasia during the 19th and 20th centuries (1800-1980). This resource includes personal diaries, letters, travel journals and scrapbooks supplemented by original maps, watercolours, engravings, objects, emigration pamphlets, shipping papers and rare printed material. Convict shipping logs to Australia in the 1850s. Immigration to the US, Australasia and Canada and the movement of indentured Asian labourers. By Adam Matthew Digital.
An integrated primary source collection of topic-based modules covering the vast array of nineteenth-century content in this period of industrialisation, technology, revolution, nationalism, colonialism, education and culture. Search the complete collection or choose from the following modules:
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (19th Century Collections)
British Politics and Society
Children’s Literature and Childhood
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest 1800-1914
This 19th century John Murray Publishing archive includes correspondence, financial papers, book drafts, and advertisements. It covers biographies of key figures, commissioned essays, and an exhibition of the life cycle of the book. Key authors include: Lord Byron, Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Sir Walter Scott, Washington Irving, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Eastlake and Isabella Bird, William Gladstone, Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli, Austen Henry Layard and Charles Lyell. By Adam Matthew Digital.
Contains hundreds of specialist encyclopaedias, dictionaries, language resources, and other reference works published by Oxford University Press as ebooks. Covers all subject areas.
It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.
Periodicals Archive Online is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service that provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 2005. It gives the full text of articles from over 700 journals indexed.
Collections of photographs, albums and photographically-illustrated books from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Topics include exploration, travel, Empire, colonization, life in colonized regions, topography, archaeology, science, medicine, criminology, photography as reproduction of art works, Key events and wars, etc. Document supply available.
Complete searchable archive of a popular British news magazine with extensive pictorial content and covering history, politics, the arts and popular culture.
Politekhnik was a journal published in Sydney across the period 1969-2012 by Russian immigrants connected with the Harbin Polytechnic Institute in China. It was a NSW publication primarily focused on a mix of Russian and Chinese history, social and political.
[Content is in Russian only though can be copy and pasted into a translator]
ProQuest Research Library provides access to thousands of full-text periodicals. Search scholarly journals, professional and trade publications and magazines covering over 150 topics including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and science.
