British social history from 1939 to 1972. Source documents include books, diaries, directives, ephemera, essays, file reports, interactive maps, and surveys. Subjects included are the BBC, wartime sexual behaviour, shopping, and the future of Britain. 

A collection of digitised primary sources documenting medical history during times of armed conflict dating from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. This database focuses on the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First World War, and the Second World War among other conflicts. The impact on medicine during peacetime is also charted, notably through documents relating to the influenza epidemic of 1918 and post-war rehabilitation.

A huge range of primary source covering social, cultural, political, scientific and religious perspectives, from the 15th to early 18th centuries. The breadth of sources provided within this collection is extraordinary, from sources concerning the Black Death to the Restoration of the English monarchy and the Glorious Revolution.

This collection presents manuscripts of some of the most important works of European travel writing from the later medieval period. The chief focus is on journeys to central Asia and the Far East, including accounts of travel to Mongolia, Persia, India, China and South-East Asia.

These primary sources are a hugely important resource for the study of missionary work, educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict, and the emergence of indigenous churches. The collections are truly global in scope, with Africa, East and South Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, and the Americas all well-represented. The sources will be of interest to scholars in a range of fields, from missiology to colonial history and anthropology.

The digitised archive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP):

• NAACP Papers: Board Of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, And National Staff Files: ProQuest’s digitisation of the NAACP Papers begins with the central organizational records: thousands of pages documenting important meetings, monthly reports to the board of directors, and the association’s annual conferences. This module also collects special reports by NAACP officers and committees on issues including the Ku Klux Klan, discrimination in public employment, the depiction of Blacks in motion pictures, economic equality, the church and civil rights and the changing attitudes of Black youth.
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns— Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces: The Education files in this module document the systematic assault on segregated education that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Fighting for voting rights was one of the NAACP’s earliest major campaigns; the 1916-1950 files document the NAACP’s campaign against the “white primary,” discriminatory registration practices and the “grandfather clause.” The armed forces portion of this module is an exceptionally rich documentary source on African American military service between 1918 and the early 1950s.

The Historical New York Times with Index provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times. Coverage is from 1851 to 2018.

This collection contains records compiled by the United Society Partners in Gospel (USPG), a UK-based Anglican missionary organisation that operates around the world. From the 18th to the early-20th century, the USPG went by the name of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG).

Anglican missionaries first arrived in New Zealand and Polynesia in the 17th century, their mission was to spread the gospel to the indigenous Māori and Polynesian people. The arrival of Europeans disrupted traditional ways of life.

This collection includes letters, journals and supplementary material composed by the SPG’s New Zealand and Polynesian branches during the period 1838-1958. These documents contain a wealth of information, including: progress of the mission, relations with the indigenous Polynesians, the geography of the land, and insights into how monetary grants were spent.

Throughout the nineteenth century, pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets, created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the nineteenth century held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.

Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitisation and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century.

The ANU has access to seven modules: Asia and the West, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music and Literature; Photography: the World Through the Lens; Religion, Reform and Society; Science, Technology and Medicine: 1780-1925 pt.2; and Women: Transnational Networks.

Providing access to over a million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, the collection features full text content and images from numerous newspapers across the United States. It depicts American culture and daily life with an emphasis on the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, western migration and Antebellum era life.

From a British, European and Commonwealth perspective, these files allows the researcher to assess Nixon's handling of numerous Cold War crises, his administration's notable achievements, as well as his increasingly controversial activities and unorthodox use of executive powers culminating in Watergate and his resignation. 

Beginning at the end of World War II and continuing through the Cold War period and beyond, tools of radioactive, chemical, and biological warfare played a role in many of the 20th century's most significant events. From the Cuban missile crisis to the Gulf War, the development, proliferation, and containment of weapons of mass destruction shaped technology, international conflicts, politics, and more. This collection of primary source documents was curated by a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA as part of a program monitoring media from around the world and translating the material into English.

This resource provides access to key primary source texts and a range of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world.

A guide to Latin American literature across the humanities and social sciences covering a range of topics from general overviews to highly-specialized themes. Each entry provides a synoptic, bibliographic guide to the key literature and most useful online resources in the area of research. 

Covering European and Mediterranean civilization from the 4th to the 15th centuries, this resource focuses on the Medieval period including a combination of several disciplines from history to literature, from art to archaeology, from religion to gender studies.

Oxford Handbooks Online is a collection of scholarly research reviews across many different subject areas. Each handbook evaluates current thinking on a topic and makes an original argument about the future direction of the debate.

An online version of Richard Taruskin’s 5 volume reference work on the evolution of Western classical music. The full text from the 2009 edition has been reproduced including notes, bibliographies, further readings, illustrations and musical examples. Vol I: Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century Vol II: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Vol III: Nineteenth Century Vol IV: Early Twentieth Century Vol V: Late Twentieth Century.

The Paris Peace Conference was a meeting of Allied diplomats that took place in the aftermath of the First World War. Its purpose was to impose peace terms on the vanquished Central Powers and establish a new international order.

This collection contains archival material relating to this tumultuous period in European and world history. The documents cover the treaties of Versailles, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Trianon, Sèvres, Lausanne, and Locarno, as well as the foundation of the League of Nations. Together, these treaties severely curtailed German power and influence, redrew national boundaries in Europe and the Middle East, and led to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.

Most of the files, including FO 608 (Foreign Office: Peace Conference; British Delegation, Correspondence and Papers), are drawn from the UK National Archives, while the British Library provided the personal papers of Lord Robert Cecil and Sir Arthur Balfour.

Using the search engine for Australian parliamentary documents, ParlInfo, users can look for Senate chamber documents, House of Representatives chamber and business documents, bills and legislations, Hansard and more.

Officially entitled the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, the "Pentagon Papers" are a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

Produced in association with the Perdita Project, this database includes over 230 carefully selected manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.