Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes current newspapers and full-text periodicals of major bibliographic resources including CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLA, PsycINFO, ERIC, EconLit, RILM and modern primary sources such as podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN.

This collection focuses on maritime exploration starting through the age of discovery and search for the new world. Key figures include: Vasca da Gama, Columbus, Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, Sir Ernest Shackleton. Captains' Log of HMS Bounty, HMS Assistant, HMS Discovery, HMS Resolution. Journal of the ship Chesterfield and more.

A substantial collection of LGBTQI+ publications including periodicals, personal papers, manuscripts, photographs and more drawn from countries across the world, including significant content from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives (AGLA), now known as the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA).

This collection of primary source material includes U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Broad topic clusters include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBTQIA+ studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.

Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange contains a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century.

Documents include government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, missionary files and papers, personal letters and diaries, nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports and more.

This database is a resource for the study of:

• The history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy
• Asian political, economic, and social affairs
• The Philippine Insurrection
• The Opium Wars
• The Boxer Rebellion
• Missionary activity in Asia

Part of Nineteenth Century Collections online

Watch the Library’s recent webinar on using Australian Historical Newspapers, available until 7 April 2025. This archive from ProQuest includes fresh scans of the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and The Age: issue 1 of each through to the year 2000. All content is fully searchable including birth, death and marriage notices.

The British Newspapers 1600-1737 collection includes the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers collection and the 17th-18th Century Nichols Newspapers collection. Document supply available.

British Politics and Society includes primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Collections within this archive include Home Office records, papers of British statesmen, working class autobiographies, ordnance surveys, drawings, maps, newspapers, periodicals, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more. This database is a resource for the study of British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure and many others. Document supply available. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Cambridge Companions Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 360 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companion series. It's regularly updated with new titles in the Companion series.

The subject areas covered are literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies.

• Document supply NOT available
• Useful for HSC English
• Ebooks

A searchable online collection of more than 260 volumes published in various history series by Cambridge University Press since 1960.

This collection provides unique authoritative content covering history in 15 different subject areas including world history, ancient and medieval history, economics, science, literature, philosophy and religion.

• Document supply NOT available.
• Useful for HSC History.
• Ebooks

By Gale. This archive of 3 million pages charts the study of the history of the child in Europe, Asia, North America, Australia and Latin America during the Long Nineteenth Century. It includes children's literature texts documenting the changing construction of childhood, the growing popularity of children's literature, and the legal and sociological contexts. Document supply available. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online

Module I includes publications from the Church Missionary Society and the South American Missionary Society between 1804 and 2009 such as The Church Missionary Gleaner, The South American Missionary Magazine, The Church Missionary Intelligencer, Ruanda Notes, and the Register of Missionaries. 

Module II Includes publications of CMS medical mission auxiliaries, the work among women in Asia and the Middle East, newsletters from native churches, student missions in China and Japan, and 'home' material including periodicals aimed specifically at women and children subscribers.

Content includes India’s Women (1880-1957), Mercy and Truth (1897-1940), along with The Church Missionary Society Record, CMS Historical Record and CMS Annual Reports (1830-1986).

With content digitised from The National Archives, this resource provides an insight into British trade, history and overseas expansion between the 16th and 18th centuries. This collection (CO 1) contains thousands of papers presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757 covering the governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies of England. 

Over 100 years of this major UK national newspaper can be viewed in full digital facsimile form, with copious advertisements, news stories and images that capture 20th century culture and society. It also includes also includes the Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, which was published on board the cruise ships that sailed between New York and Southampton between 1923 and 1931.

Archival material on political and trade union movements and labour organisations, as well as voices for independence and self-determination across former British, French and Portuguese colonies. The collection includes material from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, North and Central America, Australasia and the Pacific, with a major focus on Southern Africa and Australasia.  

The Australian content includes pamphlets and other ephemera from political parties, trade unions and pressure groups. These range in date from the 1950s to the early 2000s, with a particular focus on the 1970s and 1980s.  

EEBO is an ongoing project providing full text access to publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473 and 1700.

• Document supply available.
• Ebooks

This resource provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century. Material includes first-person accounts, letters and diaries, narratives, and other primary source materials.

Covering the development of the East India Company from its charter in 1600 to Indian independence in 1947. This collection follows the story of trade with Asia, China, Japan and the Middle East; politics; and the rise and fall of the British Empire. It records the challenges of a globalising world and sheds light on many contrasting narratives – from records of powerful political figures, through to the lives of native populations and the individual traders who lived and worked at the edge of Empire. Material includes charters, deeds, statutes, factory records, letters, military documents, treaties, printed books, trading diaries and financial documents. Includes the following modules:

Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947

Module 2: Factory Records for South Asia and South-East Asia

Module 3: Factory Records for China, Japan and the Middle East

Module 4: Correspondence: Early Voyages, Formation and Conflict

Module 5: Correspondence: Domestic Life, Governance and Territorial Expansion 

Based on The English Short Title Catalogue. Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Document supply available.

This database covers journals journals printed between c1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Topics covered: colonial life; provincial and rural affairs; the French and American revolutions; reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe; political debates; and London coffee house gossip and discussion. It also contains some Australian content.