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Digital primary collections sourced from around the world.
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Primary source documents from the 16th to 18th centuries, and journals & magazines from the 20th century.
Colonial State Papers (1574 - 1757) provides access to over 7,000 manuscript papers and 40,000 bibliographic records concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Colonial State Papers offers access to over 7,000 hand-written documents and more than 40,000 bibliographic records with this incredible resource on Colonial History. In addition to Britain's colonial relations with the Americas and other European rivals for power, this collection also covers the Caribbean and Atlantic world. It is an invaluable resource for scholars of early American history, British colonial history, Caribbean history, maritime history, Atlantic trade, plantations, and slavery.
Colonial Legacies: Empire & Commonwealth Periodicals has over 30 periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies.
This archive offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century to the 21st – these publications encompass the key events in the empire's later phase and its post-independence legacies.
Combines primary source databases with British, American, and some international content. Allows analysis of content using frequency and term-relationship tools.
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