British and UK History

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Includes these collections:

• African American Communities
  
• Age of Exploration
  
• America in World War Two
  
• American History
  
• American Indian Histories and Cultures
  
• American Indian Newspapers
  
• American West
  
• Apartheid South Africa, 1948 - 1980
  
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922
  
• Children's Literature and Culture
  
• China, America and the Pacific
  
• China: Culture and Society
  
• China: Trade, Politics and Culture
  
• Church Missionary Society
  
• Colonial America
  
• Confidential Print: Africa
  
• Confidential Print: Latin America
  
• Confidential Print: Middle East
  
• Confidential Print: North America
  
• Defining Gender
  
• Early Modern England
  
• East India Company
  
• Eighteenth Century Drama
  
• Eighteenth Century Journals
  
• Empire Online
  
• Everyday Life and Women in America
  
• First World War
  
• Food and Drink
  
• Foreign Office Files for China
  
• Foreign Office Files for India
  
• Foreign Office Files for Japan
  
• Foreign Office Files for South East Asia
  
• Foreign Office Files for the Middle East
  
• Frontier Life
  
• Gender Identity and Social Change
  
• Gilded Age
  
• Global Commodities
  
• India, Raj and Empire
  
• J Walter Thompson: Advertising America
  
• Jewish Life in America c.1654-1954
  
• Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture
  
• Life at Sea
  
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
  
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
  
• Literary Print Culture
  
• London Low Life
  
• Macmillan Cabinet Papers
  
• Market Research and American Business
  
• Mass Observation Online
  
• Medical Services and Warfare
  
• Medieval Family Life
  
• Medieval Travel
  
• Meiji Japan
  
• Migration to New Worlds
  
• Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive
  
• Perdita Manuscripts
  
• Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
  
• Race Relations in America
  
• Research Source - AS:China and Southeast Asia
  
• Research Source - AS:India
  
• Research Source - AS:Japan
  
• Research Source - Business, Economic and Labour History
  
• Research Source - CMS
  
• Research Source - Empire
  
• Research Source - Literary Studies
  
• Research Source - Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  
• Research Source - Missionary Studies
  
• Research Source - Women's Studies
  
• Research Source - World War Two Studies
  
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
  
• Service Newspapers of World War 2
  
• Shakespeare In Performance
  
• Shakespeares Globe Archive
  
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
  
• Socialism on Film: The Cold War
  
• The Grand Tour
  
• The Nixon Years
  
• Trade Catalogues and the American Home
  
• Travel Writing
  
• Victorian Popular Culture
  
• Victorians on Film
  
• Virginia Company Archives
  
• Women in the National Archives
  
• Worlds Fairs
  

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.

Includes these collections:

• American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
  
• Archives of Sexuality & Gender
  
• Archives Unbound
  
• Associated Press Collections Online
  
• Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture
  
• British Library Newspapers
  
• China and the Modern World
  
• Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004
  
• The Economist Historical Archive
  
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  
• Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021
  
• The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
  
• The Independent Historical Archive
  
• Indigenous Peoples of North America
  
• International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887-2013
  
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
  
• The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991
  
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 16001970
  
• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926
  
• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 18001926
  
• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
  
• The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 16001926
  
• The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 18231978
  
• The Making of the Modern World
  
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online
  
• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
  
• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
  
• Picture Post Historical Archive
  
• Political Extremism and Radicalism
  
• Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970
  
• Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
  
• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection
  
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive
  
• Smithsonian Collections Online
  
• The Sunday Times Historical Archive
  
• The Telegraph Historical Archive
  
• The Times Digital Archive
  
• Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive, 1910-2000
  
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
  
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online
  
• Women's Studies Archive