Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
Through a partnership with the Bodleian Library, Gale has digitally scanned each page of this collection, and with Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection brings these rare documents to scholars around the world in an easy-to-use, full-text searchable digital format.
Chatham House Online Archive: Module 2: 1980–2008
Module 2 of this series with Chatham House contains high-level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues from the latter part of Cold War to the War on Terror.
China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854–1949
This archive provides an excellent primary source collection, mainly in English, for the study of the history of modern China and its relations with the imperial West in the late Qing and Republican periods.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Air & Space and Smithsonian Magazine Archive
This collection brings together Smithsonian Magazine and Air & Space Magazine for the first time in a combined and fully-searchable digital archive. Together, the complete history of both of these premier publications represent decades of in-depth and expert coverage of high-demand topics and unique insights into aviation, space, innovation, science, technology, the arts, and culture, all of which is accessible in an integrated, intuitive display.
State Papers Online: State Papers Domestic: Military and Naval and the Registers
This collection focuses research on British domestic politics and society in an age punctuated by plots, rebellions, uprisings, and financial crises. Part I offers researchers online access to approximately 300,000 folios from the reigns of King George I, King George II, and part of the reign of King George III, plus military, naval, and plantation registers, sheriffs' lists, and State Papers of Scotland and Ireland.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture presents a dramatic, gripping chronicle of exploration and missions from the early nineteenth century through the Conference of Berlin in 1884 and the subsequent scramble for Africa. Unique sources provide a wealth of research topics on explorers, politicians, evangelists, journalists, and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the competition for markets and converts. These monographs, manuscripts, and newspapers cover key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy.
Associated Press Collections Online: Washington, DC Bureau, Part II
This collection covers significant news reporting on the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of World War I and the post-war period in America and abroad.
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part II: 1865–1905
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part II: 1865–1905 is the second part of an archive that provides a vast and significant primary source for researching every aspect of Chinese-British relations during the nineteenth century.
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part I: 1815–1881
China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, Part I: 1815–1881 is the first part of an archive that provides a vast and significant primary source for researching every aspect of Chinese-British relations during the nineteenth century and comprehending modern Chinese history.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II expands subject coverage in Part I, gathering together periodicals and monographs from renowned sources and providing a global view of science and technology from a critical era of scientific development.
Smithsonian Collections Online: World's Fairs and Expositions, Visions of Tomorrow
With coverage beginning in 1834 and including the pivotal Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in London, this collection allows users to explore key cultural and technological progress that shaped contemporary outlooks on life and reflected national identities.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
The Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks collection covers issues of gender and class, igniting nineteenth-century debate in the context of suffrage movements, culture, immigration, health, and many other concerns. Using a wide array of primary source documents, including serials, books, manuscripts, diaries, reports, and visuals, this collection focuses on issues at the intersection of gender and class from the late eighteenth century to the era of suffrage in the early twentieth century, all through a transnational perspective.
British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900
This collection contains 22 regional and local newspapers that widen the geographic and political range of the British Library Newspapers series.
Associated Press Collections Online: U.S. City Bureaus
The U.S. City Bureaus offers access to records from the AP's domestic bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.
China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain, and China, Part I: 1841–1951
An essential primary source archive for researching the history of China and the history of Hong Kong in the context of modern China and the British Empire in Asia—from the inception of this British colony in the 1840s to the early 1950s, immediately after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869–1950
This archive presents a valuable collection of primary source material through Chinese records and Chinese archives carefully selected from the British India Office Records, covering modern Chinese history ranging from Anglo-Chinese relations and the British interests in South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia from 1869 to 1950. The collection comprises files from three series: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma Office Records, and the Records of Military Department.
Smithsonian Collections Online: Evolution of Flight, 1784-1991
This collection sketches the "story behind the story" of man's desire to fly, including early flight, inventions, air races, the fighter pilot, the evolution of aerial weaponry, Germany's WWII jet program, the Cold War aviation race, and other flight-related developments and events critical to the history of science and technology and the military.
The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019*
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of the Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage, with every page of every issue from 1785 to 2019.
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016*
The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000 is the fully-searchable digital archive of what was once the world's largest-selling newspaper. Researchers and students can full-text search across 1 million pages of the newspaper's backfile from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
Gale Presents: National Geographic Virtual Library National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-2020
With comprehensive, timely articles and legendary photos, this award-winning magazine documents life on our planet and beyond. Provide your students with over one hundred years of history through articles on culture, global events, nature, science, technology, anthropology, geography, and the environment, as well as gripping first-person accounts of epic exploration and discovery.