History e-resources and databases
- 19th Century British Pamphlets
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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Academic Video Online (AVON)
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.)
- Adam Matthew Digital Collections
The AM Digital Collections provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to the following collections:
- Age of Exploration;
- Archives Direct;
- China, America and the Pacific;
- China: Culture and Society;
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture;
- Defining Gender;
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700;
- 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;
- Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library;
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive;
- London Low Life;
- Mass Observation Online;
- Medical Services and Warfare;
- 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Age of Exploration
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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Allied Propaganda in World War II and the British Political Warfare Executive
This collection presents the complete files of the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) kept at the U.K. National Archives as FO 898 from its instigation to closure in 1946, along with the secret minutes of the special 1944 War Cabinet Committee "Breaking the German Will to Resist." Included in the archive is all the correspondence, minutes and agents' mission files along with a complete collection of all the airborne propaganda leaflets dropped over mainland Europe during the war by the British and American air forces. These leaflets, single sheets and miniature books are often highly illustrated, sometimes satirical and sometimes intended to boost morale with speeches or addresses from exiled leaders. They were produced in all nine languages of the recipient countries.
- AM Digital Collections
The AM Digital Collections provides unique primary source collections from archives around the world. ANU has access to the following collections:
- Age of Exploration;
- Archives Direct;
- China, America and the Pacific;
- China: Culture and Society;
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture;
- Defining Gender;
- Early Modern England: Society, Culture and Everyday Life, 1500-1700;
- 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;
- Literary Manuscripts from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library;
- Literary Print Culture: The Stationer's Company Archive;
- London Low Life;
- Mass Observation Online;
- Medical Services and Warfare;
- 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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - American proxy wars : Korea and Vietnam : global perspectives, 1946-1975
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. The collection contains translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.
- American race relations : global perspectives, 1941-1996
This database contains thousands of news articles, radio transcripts, and television transcripts from around the world. They were chosen by a U.S. government agency called the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)--which became part of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947--to be disseminated among government officials and decision makers. Where necessary, the materials were translated into English from their original language. No U.S. papers or broadcasts are included in this database
- America’s Historical Newspapers: Nineteenth Century Collection
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.
- APAIS (Australian public affairs information service) index
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.
- Apartheid : global perspectives, 1946-1996
This database contains news reports about apartheid from South Africa and from around the world. The reports include transcripts of radio and television broadcasts as well as articles from newspapers. The reports were chosen by a U.S. government agency called the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)--which became part of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947--to be disseminated among government officials and decision-makers. The reports were selected for their informational value to keep policy-makers informed of global concerns. When necessary, the reports were translated into English. No U.S. papers or broadcasts are included in this database.
- Archive Finder
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).
- Archives of Latin American and Caribbean history, sixteenth to twentieth century
Archives of Latin American and Caribbean history offer a range of content for the region, providing opportunities for research into issues and events in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as historical perspective back to the colonial period. Coverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations.
- Archives Unbound: Diary of the Operations Division, War Depart General Staff, 1942-46
The War Department's Operations Division (OPD), created in March 1942, provided the strategic and logistical planning for all theaters of operation. This official division diary, never before published, comprises summaries of information received from commanding generals and sent by the OPD daily between 29 March 1942 and 31 May 1946.
- Archives Unbound: Federal Response to Radicalism in the 1960s
Organized alphabetically by organization, this collection covers a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, cultural, and economic issues. It sheds light on internal organization, personnel, and activities of some of the most prominent American radical groups and their movements to change American government and society. Date range: 1956-1971
- Archives Unbound: Food History: Printed and Manuscript Recipe Books, 1669-1990
Over 330 cookbooks range in publication date from Charles Carter’s The Complete Practical Cook, published in London in 1730, to Susan Anna Brown’s Mrs. Gilpin's frugalities: remnants, and 200 ways of using them, published New York in 1883, to Ruth Ellen Church’s Mary Meade's magic recipes for the electric blender, published in Indianapolis in 1952. This is a delectable collection comprising centuries of recipes for the kitchen, medicinal formulas for the home, advice for the housekeeper, practical ways to cook on a budget, tips on serving and table etiquette, guidance concerning household management, how to grow one’s own food, how to select and buy food, and much more. Food History shows the types of foods that were being eaten, different cultural cuisines, and the diversity of foodways.
- Archives Unbound: Through the Camera Lens: Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
For those within the film industry, information and opinion were shaped by a number of aggressive trade publications, each competing for the same limited number of subscribers. Chief among these was the Moving Picture World, which, setting a standard for the broadest possible coverage, reviewed current releases and published news, features, and interviews relating to all aspects of the industry. First published on March 9, 1907, The Moving Picture World was the first trade paper of the film industry. It continued until December 31, 1927.
- Asia and the West
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: Australian literature gateway
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.
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Australasian Military History Database
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. - Australia in Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1808-1967
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.
- Australian federation full text database (via SETIS)
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.
- Australian literary and historical texts (via SETIS)
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.
- Australian newspapers on Trove
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.
- Bibliographie internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance
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.