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.

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. The titles span the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.)

The Adam Matthew Digital collection provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to these collections: Age of Exploration; Archives Direct; China, America and the Pacific; China: Culture and Society; China: Trade, Politics and Culture; Defining Gender; East India Company; Eighteenth Century Journals; Empire Online; Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920; Ethnomusicology; First World War; Global Commodities; Frontier Life; Grand Tour; Gender : identity and social change; India, Raj and Empire; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; London Low Life; Mass Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing; Perdita Manuscripts; Research Source; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Sex & Sexuality; Shakespeare's Global Archive; Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice; Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History.

Explore five centuries of journeys across the globe, scientific discoveries, the expansion of European colonialism, conflict over territories and trade routes, and decades-long search and rescue attempts in this multi-archive collection dedicated to the history of exploration.

The Adam Matthew Digital collection provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to these collections: Age of Exploration; Archives Direct; China, America and the Pacific; China: Culture and Society; China: Trade, Politics and Culture; Defining Gender; East India Company; Eighteenth Century Journals; Empire Online; Everyday Life and Women in America, 1800-1920; Ethnomusicology; First World War; Global Commodities; Frontier Life; Grand Tour; Gender : identity and social change; India, Raj and Empire; Literary Manuscripts Leeds; London Low Life; Mass Observation Online; Medieval Travel Writing; Perdita Manuscripts; Research Source; Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape; Sex & Sexuality; Shakespeare's Global Archive; Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice; Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History.

This collection offers searchable digital facsimiles of thousands of titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries and much more, this collection uniquely chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life through this period.

This social sciences and humanities bibliographic database covers Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs from 1978 onwards. It includes a wide range of materials including Australian journals and conference materials.Many articles are available in full text.

Archive Finder is a current directory of over 220,000 collections of primary source material housed across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Designed as a research tool, Archive Finder is a central collection of archival information providing descriptions of primary sources held in various kinds of repositories. This product is updated annually.

Archive Finder draws from three major information sources: the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS), the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), and the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

Asia and the West features primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the nineteenth century. These invaluable documents—many never before available—include government reports, diplomatic correspondences, periodicals, newspapers, treaties, trade agreements, NGO papers, and more. Documents are sourced from The National Archives, Kew; The National Archives, United States; and other collections.

This unmatched resource allows scholars to explore in great detail the history of British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection; the Opium Wars; the Boxer Rebellion; missionary activity in Asia; and many other topics. Asia and the West also includes personal letters and diaries, offering first-hand accounts and revealing the human side of international politics, as well as nautical charts, maps, shipping ledgers, company records, and expedition and survey reports for more than a century of world history.

AustLit provides authoritative and comprehensive information on creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 100,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. The period spans from European settlement in Australia to the present. Some selected full text content is available.

Covers indexed articles from published material on pre-1980 Australian, New Zealand and Papua-New Guinean military history and related topics and is produced by the University College Library, Australian Defence Force Academy.
Please note: MIHILIST is no longer updated and is only available as an archive database.  

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).

In 1783 the British Government sent 1,500 people on a fleet of 11 ships, now known as the First Fleet, to establish a penal colony in New South Wales. The first missionaries from the SPG arrived a decade later in 1793. In the generations since the arrival of the mission, Christianity has become the main religion practised in Australia.

This collection includes letters, journals and supplementary material composed by the SPG’s Australian branches during the period 1808-1967. These documents contain reports on the progress of the mission, relations with the indigenous people, the passage to Australia, and insights into how monetary grants were spent. The papers provide an unparalleled insight into the establishment and subsequent development of the Church of Australia.

This database contains digitised versions of key texts recording the making of the Australian Commonwealth including debates of the Federal Conventions of the 1890s; debates of the people's conferences at Corowa and Bathurst, and a large selection of writings of contemporaries of Federation such as Sir Robert Garran and Sir Henry Parkes.

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. 

Digitised newspapers is a part of the National Library of Australia’s TROVE database and is freely available.  It includes digitised newspapers from every Australian State and Territory with over 11 million pages from over 600 Australian newspapers.  Newly digitised articles are added daily.

An index of citations on articles and books in various languages focusing on Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Subject coverage includes literature, philosophy, history, religion, the arts, economics, political science, law, and the sciences. 

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.

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.

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).