History

This collection provides access to key events in the history of European maritime exploration from c.1420-1920 and features rare manuscript and early printed material, illustrated maps and documents, diaries and ships' logs.

Full-text digital reproductions of primary documents relating to the British Empire. 1492-1969. Documents are organized under five themes: Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969. **Stellingwerf gift purchase

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. **Stellingwerf gift purchase

Bringing together unique primary sources drawn from world-class maritime archives and heritage collections "Life at Sea" takes a sociocultural approach, focusing on the individual experiences and personal narratives of seafarers. Through a broad range of sources, from journals and memoirs to ships’ logs and court records, the lives of ordinary seamen, merchants, whalers and pirates can be explored. This resource offers exciting new insights into three centuries of the Anglo-American maritime world.

Access to twelve unique collections that chronicle Britain’s relationship with countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Includes Foreign Office papers, diplomatic correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and published pamphlets. Each collection is self-contained and can be searched individually as well as through the Archives Direct portal. Sourced from The National Archives in Kew, Archives Direct documents 200 years of British history from the 19th to the 20th century. **Stellingwerf gift purchase

Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.

eHRAF World Cultures is an online cross-cultural and ethnographic database that contains descriptive information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and every document is subject-indexed at the paragraph level, facilitating precise retrieval within documents.