An evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. The library provides a variety of resources including thousands of images and descriptions of vases, coins, sculpture, buildings, and sites, and also some extended virtual resources. Subjects included are history, religion, literature, culture and social aspect of the Greco-Roman world. 

This archive assembles collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically-illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. Some images are well-known while many have rarely been viewed. The 19th century was about family and society, invention and scientific discovery, exploration and colonization, urban versus rural life, work, leisure and travel – all this is captured in photographs. This engaging resource serves multiple disciplines and supports a range of research and study topics delivering around 2 million photographs from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Key areas of research covered include: Exploration and travel, Empire, colonization, and life in colonized regions, Topography and archaeology, Daily life in 19th century in countries across the globe, People and portraiture, Science, medicine, and criminology, Photography as reproduction of art works, and Key events and wars.

A reference resource providing access to full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Subject coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science, and sociology. 

Covers the period 1840-1865 through newspapers and pamphlets. Topics include the economic factors, the abolitionist movement, casualties, and slavery. Full text, abstract, index as well as images can be accessed.

This newspaper collection includes nine databases:

• Australia & New Zealand Newsstream - access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers;
• Canadian Newsstream - access to the full text of over 400 Canadian news sources from Canada's leading publishers;
• ProQuest Civil War Era - a vast range of topics including the formative economic factors and other forces that led to the abolitionist movement, the 600,000 battle casualties and the emancipation of nearly 4 million slaves;
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Scotsman
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India

A reference resource providing access to full text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content. Subject coverage includes anthropology, business and economics, history, literature, political science, and sociology. 

Religion, Reform, and Society examines the influence of both faith and skepticism on the shaping of many aspects of society—politics, law, economics, and social and radical reform movements. In the nineteenth century, the intellectual work of Comte, Marx, Weber, Darwin, Freud, and others unleashed secularizing impulses that gave rise to both new humanist religious projects and new faith-based social reform movements. The heightened interest in the perfection of man, the power of science, and the confidence in social progress also had an impact. Alongside Comte's positivist “religion of humanity,” utopian collectives, and settlement houses, there grew a new fascination with alternative spiritual and mystical practices.

The archive provides essential documentary materials that explore religious and philosophical movements in reaction to dramatic changes in culture and society wrought by the industrial revolution and modernity. Topics covered include positivism and anti-positivism, freethinking, the cooperative movement, alternative Christianities, and the application of the social principles of Christianity to everyday life by a variety of denominations.

Provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles, the British Empire, and Commonwealth, during all periods for which written documentation is available (from 55BC to the present). The Bibliography lists books, articles in books and articles in journals. There are also links to online book reviews and, from 2019 onward, the Bibliography has carried information about printed reviews of the books that it lists. 

For more information on how to use this product please see the BBIH Help pack.

Produced by Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) at the University of Sydney Library, the collection contains more than 300 Australian literary and historical texts. Texts are listed in alphabetical order by author's name. Users can also search keywords or browse by category.

This collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

This database includes topics such as the African coast, the Middle Passage, slaves experience, religion, revolts, the Underground Railroad, the abolition movement, legislation, education and the legacy of slavery. Included are full text manuscripts, rare books, pamphlets, periodicals, broadsides, ephemera, maps, manuscripts, pamphlets and paintings from 1490 to 2007.

Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba. The database is comprised of 3 modules:

• Module 1: Wars and Revolutions
• Module 2: Newsreels and Cinemagazines, and
• Module 3: Culture and Society.

The South Asia Archive holds 5 million pages of primary and secondary material from novels, film posters, religious tracts, census reports, government acts and journal publications ranging roughly from the early 18th century to the early 1950s. Although a majority of the material is in English, there is much in Bengali, and some in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi and other South Asian languages. Most of the material pertains to India, with some on Sri Lanka, Burma, Nepal, Tibet and other neighbouring countries.

Part I: Far East, Hong Kong, and Wei-Hai-Wei - contains the Colonial Office files on Hong Kong and the naval port, Wei-hai-Wei, as well as the series on Asia more generally.

Part II: Singapore, East Malaysia and Brunei - includes the original correspondence series for Singapore (CO 953, 1936-51), Brunei (CO 943, 1946-51), Labuan, (CO 144, 1844-1906), British North Borneo (CO 531, 1907-51), Borneo Territories (CO 954, 1946-51), papers dealing with matters common to North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, and Sarawak (CO 938, 1946-51). Entry Books and Registers of Letters of incoming and outgoing letters supplement these

State Papers Online, 1509-1714 gathers together sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British State Papers, from the reign of Henry VIII to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, and links these rare historical manuscripts to their fully text-searchable calendars. The four-part collection offers original historical materials, including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators to present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain. Included in the archive are: the Irish Manuscript Commission series of Calendars of State Papers Ireland; the manuscripts collections of Sir William Cecil (Lord Burghley) and his successor, Robert Burghley, from the National Archives and the British Library (Lansdowne Collection), as well as the complete twenty-four volumes of the Calendars of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House and the Haynes/Murdin transcriptions.

Part I: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509–1603: State Papers Domestic. - delivers the complete series of State Papers Domestic for the Tudor era, encompassing every facet of early modern government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions, and intelligence. The collection is of immense value to researchers of religious history, chronicling social unrest in England as it pitched back and forth between the religious positions of its rulers: from the boy-king Edward VI's promotion of the Reformation, to Mary I's bloody reassertion of Catholicism and Elizabeth's loyalty to Protestantism and enduring suspicion of Catholic plots.

Part II: The Tudors: Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509–1603: State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Registers of the Privy Council. - details every foreign facet of early modern government, including international relations, alliances, wars, naval and military policy, commercial and maritime law, trade, intelligence, and correspondence between the Tudors and their regal peers.

Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603–1714: State Papers Domestic. - The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714: State Papers Domestic is a collection of English government documents originating primarily from the seventeenth century. The Stuarts' internal struggles come to life through a wealth of primary source documents from one of the most compelling and turbulent eras in Britain's social, political, and religious history. Among the more than one million pages of manuscripts, researchers will find accounts of the English Civil War, the execution of Charles I, and the invasion of William of Orange.

Part IV: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603–1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council. - The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign is a collection of English government documents originating from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Stuart era was witness to great changes, civil war, and transformation, particularly affecting matters of religion and politics that are still influential today. State Papers Online, Part IV charts international affairs throughout periods of revolution and upheaval in Britain and Europe's history.

State Papers Online: 18th Century 1714 – 1782 represents the final section of the State Papers series from the National Archives in the UK before the series was closed and replaced by the Home Office and Foreign Office series in 1782. Covering the reigns of the Hanover rulers George I (1714-1727) and George II (1727-1760) and part of the reign of George III (up to 1782), the series provides unparalleled access to thousands of manuscripts that reveal the behind-the-scenes, day-to-day running of the British Government during the eighteenth century.

Part I: State Papers Domestic, Military and Naval and the Registers of the Privy Council - contains documents that provide evidence of the extent and nature of decisions taken by government and, more importantly, who was making those decisions. The records serve to illustrate the personal style of the secretaries of state who, with the chancellor of the Exchequer, controlled almost the entire life of the nation. Researchers can examine the different ways in which the three Hanover monarchs conducted the business of monarchy and also develop perspectives on the king’s changing role in political and administrative history.

Part II: State Papers Foreign- Low Countries and Germany - expands on the domestic papers in Part I and presents the first section of the foreign papers during the reigns of George I, George II, and George III until 1782 when the State Papers series ends. The collection turns its lens on the eighteenth-century world beyond England, documenting the relationship of the Hanoverian reign with Flanders, Holland, and Germany, with particular focus on European powers such as the Holy Roman Empire and German states and towns. It also includes the Military Expedition series and the Archives of British Legations.

Part III: State Papers Foreign: Western Europe - includes the State Papers series relating to France, Dunkirk, Portugal, Spain, Malta, the Italian States and Rome, Genoa, Tuscany, Venice, Savoy and Sardinia, Sicily and Naples, as well as supplementary records of the Levant Company in Aleppo and the Aleppo consulate. It also includes the Royal Letters and Treaties series.

Part IV: State Papers Foreign: Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Turkey [2018] - covers nations and events at the borders of Europe and European power, from Russia emerging as an imperial force in the North as Sweden’s power declined after the Great Northern War (1700-1721), to piracy and conflict in the Mediterranean, wars and treaties with the Ottoman Empire at the outer reaches of Russia and Austria, and the constant building up of armies and fleets to bolster status and secure territories. Discussion of colonial schemes and wars was a key part of the diplomatic chatter crossing eighteenth century Europe, particularly during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763), when European machinations in the West Indies, the Americas and India had far-reaching consequences.

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.