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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

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