British and UK History

Includes dozens of collections that can be searched together, individually, or as part of the following series:

• Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
  
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922
  
• Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
  
• Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
  
• Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
  
• Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
  
• Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
  
• Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
  
• Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
  
• Foreign Office Files for South East Asia, 1963-1980
  
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981
  
• Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
  
• Nixon Years, 1969-1974
  
• Women in The National Archives
  

Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.

Includes these collections:

• Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files
  
• Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970: The Middle East Online Series 1
  
• Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910
  
• Iran (Persia): Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1883-1959
  
• Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jordan: Records of the U.S. Department of State, 1836-1944
  
• The Middle East Online: Iraq 1914-1974
  
• Records of the Persian Gulf War
  

Covering the period 1606 to 1822, this collection constitutes the original correspondence between the British government and the governments of the American colonies. In particular, it includes correspondence of the colonial governments with the Board of Trade, the Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, together holding responsibility for the British possessions in mainland North America and the Caribbean.

Colonial America documents the early history of the colonies, and includes founding charters, material on the effects of 1688’s Glorious Revolution in North America, records of piracy and seaborne rivalry with the French and Spanish, and copious military material from the French and Indian War of 1756-63.

Includes the following modules:

• Early Settlement, Expansion and Rivalries
  
• Towards Revolution
  
• The American Revolution
  
• Legislation and Politics in the Colonies
  
• Growth, Trade and Development (coming in 2019)
  

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Colonial State Papers provides users with access to primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in slaves and English conflicts with the Spanish and French are all covered in this database. Combines two resources: CO 1: Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers and The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.

Covers 1492-1962. Original manuscripts and printed material related to imperialism. Topics include: Cultural Contacts; Empire Writing; the Invisible Empire; Religion and Empire; Race, Class & Colonialism. Covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania & South Asia.

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The history of British India is brought to life through the large and diverse South Asian holdings of the National Library of Scotland. The 18th and 19th centuries are especially well represented in manuscript sources which look at:

• Social history
  
• Urban history
  
• Trade
  
• Wars
  
• Agriculture
  
• Travel and antiquities
  
• Indian and Imperial politics
  

There are records of doctors and diplomats, civil servants and army officials, tea planters and natural historians, travelers and traders.

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