A virtual library of all Greek and Latin literature covering over 550 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts. Topics include: epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians. James Loeb founded the Loeb Classical Library in 1911.
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.
Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It has over 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.
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Oxford Music Online contains; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.
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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.
The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PMB | Pambu) copies archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands and the material provides the most extensive collection of non-government primary documentation on the Pacific Islands available to researchers on microfilm held by member libraries. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. The full version of this catalogue – including access to digitised materials – is available for Member libraries such as the State Library of New South Wales. NSW residents can access Pambu’s full catalogue by clicking on Log in with a Library card below.
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 Central contains a broad range of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. It covers over 160 subjects including business, health, technology, social science and literature.
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.
Queen Victoria reigned as Queen from 1837 to 1901 and as Empress of India from 1877. These diaries cover the period from Queen Victoria's childhood days to her Accession to the Throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and later, her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.
This archive brings together sources to examine the challenges faced by individuals forced to flee their homes and homelands and the obstacles posed to government departments and relief agencies that sought to resettle and repatriate refugees. Material includes pamphlets, ephemera, government documentation, relief organization publications. Covering the onset of the Cold War and the rise of independence movements that followed decolonisation in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Contains 1.5 million pages of documentary materials for the exploration of religious and philosophical movements brought on by the dramatic changes in culture and society. Collections within the Archive cover literature of Theology and church history.
