Blackwell Reference Online (BRO) has been incorporated into Wiley Online Library. BRO provides full text access to handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias and concise companions in the social science and humanities area, bringing together the world's leading scholars to cover the latest research in their fields. 

The Bloomsbury Cultural History Core Collection offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.

The ANU has access to the Cultural Histories of: Animals, The Human Body, Childhood and Family, Sexuality, Gardens, Women, Food, The Senses, Theatre, and Comedy.

The Bristol Presentments are bills of entry derived from official sources, namely the reports and manifests of ships which docked in the port of Bristol in South-West England. These bills are divided into two categories. The first contains details of imports, usually foreign produce carried on foreign vessels. The second records exports, usually produced or manufactured in Britain and destined for foreign markets. This collection thus provides an insightful overview of global trade from the onset of the industrial revolution to the height of the First World War.

Esmé Howard (1863-1939) was an influential British diplomat during the early 20th century. As a young man, he worked as private secretary to the British ambassador in Berlin and witnessed the forging of the recently unified Germany. During the 1900s, he held various diplomatic positions in Crete, Budapest, and Berne and between 1913 and 1919 he was posted to Stockholm and was mainly trusted with tackling blockade diplomacy during the First World War. The zenith of his career occurred between 1924 and 1930, when he was a successful British ambassador to the United States. Upon his retirement in 1930 he was elevated to the House of Lords for his work in Washington. This collection contains extensive material collected over the fascinating and fruitful life of Esmé Howard. This includes a plethora of personal correspondence with important figures, further correspondence, memorandum, and other material from his many diplomatic occupations, his personal diaries, and files documenting his personal estate. As such, the collection offers a compelling account of British diplomacy during and after the First World War.

Access to some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Source documents include Journals of the Houses of Commons and Lords, guides and calendars, gazetteers and dictionaries, and maps. 

The Labour Party was founded in 1900 to represent the interests of trade unions and working-class voters. In political terms, it has often been characterised as a “broad church”, encompassing a range of left and centre-left viewpoints.

This collection contains minutes and related records compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) during the period 1906-1969. These records cover the party’s formative years, from its creation and early successes through the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and the wartime coalition to the Atlee administration and Harold Wilson’s first premiership.

The records provide an insight into the PLP’s often divided outlook on several important domestic and international political issues, including: the campaign for women’s suffrage; the Great Depression; the first and second world wars; the Beveridge Report and the emergence of the post-war welfare state; Britain’s nuclear weapons programme; imperialism and decolonisation; and Britain’s potential membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).

Sourced from extensive holdings of the British library, British library Newspapers delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

British Online Archives provides access to unique collections of primary source documents to support research in the humanities and social sciences. ANU has access to ALL Collections.

This collection contains manuscripts and records relating to the history of Parliament and British politics. It covers the most important events which gave rise to the modern British state, from Magna Carta and the Civil Wars to the Act of Union and the birth of Empire. The documents themselves are many and varied, including Parliamentary papers, debate records, and private diaries. Given its breadth and depth, this collection is one of the most significant resources available to students of British political history.

Including papers of British statesmen, Home Office records, ordnance surveys, working class autobiographies, and other unique collections, British Politics and Society is a remarkable resource for scholars looking to explore the political and social history of Britain. Source libraries are the British Library, Oxford University, and The National Archives, Kew.

British Politics and Society enables researchers to explore such topics as British domestic and foreign policy, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, leisure and many others. With this archive scholars have instant access to a range of never-before-available primary sources, including manuscripts, maps, drawings, newspapers, periodicals, government correspondence, letters, diaries, photographs, poster, pamphlets and more.

British Theatre, Music, and Literature features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering more than a century, British Theatre, Music, and Literature is without equal as a resource for 19th century scholars.

This unparalleled collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world with, for example, not only manuscripts and compositions, but also documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records, offering scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the arts world and life in Victorian Britain.

A range of important sources from Britain and America, covering key subjects within this historical field, including Keynesian economic policy in post-war Britain, international labour movements, the London stock exchange and papers of important economists.

Historical reference compendium with instant access to the texts of the Cambridge Histories series. All the available volumes are grouped into topics such as American history, Ancient history & classical studies, Asian history, British & European history, Global history, Literature, Middle East & African studies, Music & theature, Philosophy & politcal thought, Religion.

This collection of Foreign Office files explores the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan from the decline of the Silk Road in the first half of the nineteenth century to the establishment of Soviet rule over parts of the region in the early 1920s. It encompasses the era of “The Great Game” - a political and diplomatic confrontation between the Russian and British Empires for influence, territory and trade across a vast region, from the Black Sea in the west to the Pamir Mountains in the east.

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and trading relationships between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include:

• Old China Trade (roughly 1783-1844)
• Early commercial development of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Salem, Providence, Baltimore
• Maritime routes between East and West Coasts (before overland trails)
• Development of Hawaii as key American trading post before annexation
• Chinese-American cultural exchange (including 19th century Chinese immigration)
• Commodities of the China trade
• Fur Trade in Northwest Pacific
• Diplomacy and politics of America and the Far East

This English language database contains manuscripts; historic journal articles, and artwork and photographs covering events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People's Republic.

A database of scanned printed material from the Chinese Cultural Revolution era held in the ANU Library Rare Books collection.

This collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher) provides readers for the first time with the declassified documentary record about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Many of the documents you see here have only just been declassified, with over 5,000 pages of the documents contained in this collection having been released by the U.S. government since January 2012.

InteLex Corporation’s Past Masters series encompasses the collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy in the world, including the collected works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the collected works and correspondence of Chauncey Wright, Chinese philosophy, and more. 

A digital archive comprising periodicals concerning the 20th-century history of the British Empire, decolonization, and the history and culture of former colonies. This collection offers a mixture of British publications about the empire and titles published in Commonwealth countries (including Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea). Coverage spans over 150 years, ranging from the late-19th century to the 21st – these publications encompass the empire’s later phase and its post-independence legacies. It will support research in key events in colonial history, including the latter stages of the Scramble for Africa, the world wars, independence movements, the creation of the Commonwealth and more. While official publications contain valuable information about colonial administration and ideology, more popular titles, covering the arts, society, and general interests, provide insights into many facets of Commonwealth countries’ history and society before and after independence.

Here is a unique collection of rare documents relating to the Japanese occupation of Korea, from the late nineteenth century up to 1945, representing a highly significant period in Korean history, and vital for a true understanding of many reflexes in the Koreas today. In 1876, Japan “opened” Korea to outside contact for the first time. What followed was a period of sparring with the Chinese over the right of influence in Korea, a rivalry which culminated in the Sino- Japanese war of 1894-95. Following victory, Japan steadily increased its presence and interference in Korean matters until the outright annexation of the country in 1910. Korea would remain a Japanese colony until the end of the Pacific War in 1945. Drawn from the holdings of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, New York, the collection includes more than 62,000 pages in Japanese language, 18,000 pages of Western (in most cases English) early impressions of Korea, and Korean texts (16,000 pages). This true treasure-trove, preserved through our online service, now presents the texts conveniently on your desktop.

The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, is a fundamental building block for political, social and economic research. This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the countries of the Levant and the Arabian peninsula, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Sudan.

Issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, this collection consists of the Confidential Print for Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Topics covered include slavery and the slave trade, immigration, relations with indigenous peoples, wars and territorial disputes, the fall of the Brazilian monarchy, British business and financial interests, industrial development, the building of the Panama Canal, and the rise to power of populist rulers such as Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil.