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.
The Rare Book Hub is a resource for information on rare, antiquarian, and collectible books and related ephemeral material – manuscripts, letters, maps, posters, broadsides, photographs, and prints (works on paper). It has over 11 million records of rare book transactions and 122 searchable upcoming auctions.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature.
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.
ProQuest Religion Database has a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and formal theological studies. Document supply available.
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.
Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.
Collections of journals and monographs, covering nineteenth-century science: electricity and electromagnetism, mathematics and engineering, astronomy and astrophysics, color theory and the theory of natural selection, geology and mineralogy, chemistry and medicine.
This eresource 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. It includes some digitised material from the Uni of Sydney Rare Books Library, The Kinsey Institute, and others.
The prompt books tell the stories of key performances as they were put in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. Included are a mixture of handwritten manuscripts, printed typesets, personal notes, and sketches. The eresource includes curated case studies around 17 performances (King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Covers Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth. By Adam Matthew Digital.
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published since 1948. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or a play, or a group of plays, and features the best international Shakespeare scholarship in English.
tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. The index provides access by author, title, and publication, as well as topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals, ethnicities, or professions).
ProQuest Social Science Database covers hundreds of international social science journals. Topics include gerontology, economics, international relations, minority studies and urban studies. Document supply available.
Founded in 1903 by Alfred Cunningham and Tse Tsan-tai, a key figure in the Chinese revolt against the last imperial Qing Dynasty at the turn of the 20th century, the newspaper became a platform for advocating the reform movement in China, along with Imperial Japan and Communist China.
SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes records from leading sports medicine journals, books, and dissertations. SPORTDiscus contains over 1,300 titles of which 60% are full text including material from Australia and New Zealand
The SMH Archive covers the period 1955 to February 1995. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable including advertisements, captions, and birth, death and marriage notices. Full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published. Document supply NOT available.
The SMH Library Edition reproduces the printed edition of the Sydney Morning Herald covering the period 2006 to today. It contains a replica of all pages, photos, articles, etc of the printed edition and can be searched and browsed.
ProQuest Telecommunications Database includes top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. Document supply available.
