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.

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.

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 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.

A collection of journals in science and social sciences published by Annual Reviews.

A wide range of sources, by writers, diplomats, tourists, businessmen, missionaries and others, documenting the political, cultural and social history of Japan from 1400 to the 20th century.

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.

Cambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world and are widely respected as a world leader in publishing for subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics. Access via Cambridge Core.

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

A collection of digitised, full colour pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University. The collection, mostly in English and published between c.1750 and 1929, amount to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes. The pamphlets are full text searchable.

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 collection of biomedical journals published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The Laboratory was founded in 1890 and has shaped contemporary biomedical research and education with programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology and quantitative biology.

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.

E-books on animals, built environment, food & agriculture, gardening & horticulture, health, marine & freshwater, natural environment, physical sciences, plant science, and science in society published by Australia's leading science publisher CSIRO.

Journals presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects, including physical sciences, food and agriculture, health, and natural environment.

De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.

The study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture is one of the most vibrant areas of social, cultural and intellectual research, transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries. Key topics covered include conduct and politeness; domesticity and the family; consumption and leisure; education and sensibility; and the body.

This collection of primary sources looks at two centuries of everyday, political, religious, working, trading and administrative life in England during this pivotal epoch. Documents cover an array of topics relating to England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with a significant focus on the lives of ‘everyday’ people. Volumes of correspondence from more prominent families look at governance, politics, monarchy, relations between landowners and tenants, war, politics and relations with England’s neighbours. The materials offer in-depth case studies of different regions in England from the Southeast to the Scottish borders allowing for comparison of experience across the country.

East India Company offers access to a unique collection of India Office Records from the British Library, London. Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, among other document types, this resource charts the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent and beyond from 1599 to 1947.

Access to the six journals published by the Ecological Society of America, including Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecosphere, and Bulletin.

Delve into the theatrical world of eighteenth century society and explore how the Larpent plays reflect the politics of the time, the role of women, views on race and religion, opinions on empire, and European and British history. Eighteenth Century Drama features three distinct areas:

• Primary source documents; the focus of which is the Larpent collection of plays and Anna Larpent's Diaries
• The London Stage Database; and
• The Biographical Dictionary Database.

The collection provides digital versions of content originally in Adam Matthew Publication’s microfilm project Eighteenth Century Journals from the Hope Collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. It includes journals written for and by women and journals dealing with eighteenth-century drama, providing insights into London life during the period.

The collection is based on the holdings of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. As one of the finest collections of rare 17th and 18th century British periodicals in the world, it contains newspapers, magazines, journals, almanacs on diverse themes - politics, theatre and arts, mercantile and trading, current affairs, and literature.

Materials for Eighteenth Century Journals III are drawn from two sources: the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. This section focuses on journals published outside of London. The inclusion of Canadian, Caribbean and Indian journals allows users to explore the ways in which major world events were reported in different areas of the globe. There are also a large number of Irish journals and British provincial publications.

The collection consists of material sourced primarily from Chetham’s Library in Manchester. A collection of rare magazines and newspapers, literary periodicals and political journals have been included to chart the transformation of Manchester during a time of rapid industrialisation and political turmoil. These varied sources are supplemented by a selection of periodicals, many European, from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

Eighteenth Century Journals V includes the full run of The Lady’s Magazine, 1770-1832 from the British Library, Birmingham Central Library and Cambridge University Library. Readers of the magazine today can trace shifts in public opinion, taste, culture and political climate, making it a major source for scholars of gender, social and literary studies and an invaluable source for any scholar of the eighteenth century.

Full text access to eBooks and Journals covering accounting & finance, economics, education, health & social care, sociology and more.

A collection of full text original documents relating to empire studies from libraries around the world. Each section is accompanied by an essay which contextualises the material. Topics include cultural contacts 1492-1969, empire writing and the literature of empire, and imperialism and colonialism 1607-2007. Regions include Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania, South Asia and Middle East. The source material is mainly British and European.

Empire Studies offers a rich array of sources for the study of the British Empire. The collection includes material on British colonial policy and government; perspectives on life in British colonies; the relationship between gender and empire; race; and class. Sources include government and official records, personal papers and diaries, rare periodicals, and conference proceedings.

Access to the six journals published by the Ecological Society of America, including Ecology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Monographs, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecosphere, and Bulletin.

Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study.

Reflects 19th - 20th century political, social and gender issues in the United States, including religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes. The collection is rich in conduct of life and domestic management literature, offering insights into the daily lives of women and men, and emphasising contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

This resource showcases primary source material for the study of the First World War, from personal narratives and printed books to military files, propaganda pamphlets and strong visual documents. A range of contextual secondary material including scholarly essays, case studies, and interactive maps complements the material.

1. Personal Experiences
2. Propaganda and Recruitment
3. Visual perspectives and Narratives
4. A Global Conflict

The collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980, including:

1. 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
2. 1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
3. 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
4. 1949-1956: The Communist revolution
5. 1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
6. 1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution

This collection of files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and Dominions Office focuse on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, covering events of independence and partition, war between India and Pakistan, tensions and war between India and China, the turbulent independence of Bangladesh, and more.

This collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. It includes three parts:

1. Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945
2. Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952
3. Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930

Published in two parts, this extensive collection of Foreign Office Files explores South East Asia between 1963 and 1980 in a time of conflict, growth and change.

This collection addresses the policies, economies, political relationships and significant events of every major Middle East power. Utilising the significant collection of diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles, students and researchers can explore a decade characterised by conflict.

This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.

Provides full text access to a solid body of Spanish-language and bilingual publications in both the academic and lifestyle spheres. It offers unique content and an indexing scheme and interface specifically geared toward the Spanish-speaking researcher.

This resource brings together manuscript, and printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices.

Covering the period 1550-1850, this collection of manuscript, visual and printed works allows scholars to compare a range of sources on the history of travel for the first time, including many from private or neglected collections, with letters; diaries and journals; account books; printed guidebooks; published travel writing; paintings and sketches; architectural drawings and maps. The Grand Tour includes the travel writings and works of some of Britain’s greatest artists, writers and thinkers, revealing how interaction with European culture shaped their creative and intellectual sensibilities. It also includes many writings by forgotten or anonymous travellers, including many women, whose daily experiences offer a vivid insight into the experience and practicalities of travel across the centuries.

The world’s leading international scientific organisation and thought leader, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) produces this global repository of science, engineering, and technology-focused content. It comprises technical papers, eBook chapters and all IET journals, magazines, conference publications and seminar digests from 1994 onwards. Also available is the IET Digital Library Journals Archive, which contains over 70,000 articles including the complete collection of research journals published by the IET between the years 1872 and 1993.

Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland this resource documents the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Provides full text access to a solid body of Spanish-language and bilingual publications in both the academic and lifestyle spheres. It offers unique content and an indexing scheme and interface specifically geared toward the Spanish-speaking researcher.

A comprehensive electronic archive of scholarly journal literature in full text.  JSTOR has a moving wall that excludes the last 3 to 5 years of journal issues.  The database contains academic journals, images, letters and other primary sources in the social sciences, humanities and sciences.  

JSTOR Lives of Literature is a collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. Key thematic topics include: medieval authors & texts; modernist authors; Victorian, Edwardian & gothic authors; and literary theorists.

Commercially published books are "unlatched" via crowdfunding.  The books are then made available from freely accessible open access platforms - either Hathitrust or oapen.org.  In oapen.org look for this button:

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Offers complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse. The database includes first lines, last lines, attribution, author, title, date, length, verse form, content and bibliographic references for over 6,600 poems within the collection. 

This resource offers an unrivalled opportunity to explore the manuscripts, notebooks, letters and diaries of the nineteenth century’s greatest authors, including: Matthew Arnold; The Brontës; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Robert Browning; Wilkie Collins; Joseph Conrad; Charles Dickens; George Eliot; George Gissing; Thomas Hardy; Henry James; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; John Ruskin; Alfred Tennyson; W.M Thackeray. Researchers and students can trace the close interconnection of these Victorian authors – and subsequently their texts – through the mass of personal correspondence between them, revealing the close circles in which the Victorian literary world moved.

Explore the history of printing, publishing and bookselling from 1554 to the 21st century. The archive of the Stationers’ Company is widely regarded as one of the most important sources for studying the history of the book, publishing and copyright.

Literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of a range of leading literary figures, as well as unique access to a goldmine of rare and obscure literary texts and genres. This collection provides student and scholars of British and American literature access to a rich seam of resources to support in-depth study in this field.

London Low Life is a full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London. The resource covers a wide range of disciplines, including literature, cultural studies, urban studies, social history and the study of leisure and tourism.

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.

A multidisciplinary collection of books published by MIT Press. Key subject areas covered in the complete collection include art and architecture, biomedical sciences, business and finance, computer science, cognitive science, design, education, environment, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, neuroscience, new media, philosophy, and social sciences.

A multidisciplinary collection of journals published by MIT Press.

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.

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. 

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring thousands of e-books, chapters, tables and graphs, papers, articles, summaries, indicators, databases and Podcasts. OECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).  

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.

A small collection of journals published by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Project Muse dates from 1995 to present and is an electronic journal collection of full text/full image scholarly journals in the humanities, the arts and the social sciences from Johns Hopkins University Press and other University presses.

Provides access to literary sources relating to William Wordsworth and the Romantic period, as well as works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, and Sara Hutchinson. Source documents include full manuscripts, personal correspondence, diaries, and travel journals. Over 2,500 fine art pieces are also included from the Wordsworth Trust's fine art collection. 

Sage Journals Online is a searchable database of abstracts and table of contents for all Sage published journals, and also provides full text access to the subscribed titles in health sciences, social science and humanities, medical sciences and engineering, as well as life and biomedical sciences.

Sage Reference Online provides the full text of selected eBooks and eReference titles from Sage Publishing. Subject areas covered in this collection include business and management; counselling; criminology; education; geography; health and social care; media and communication; politics and international relations; psychology, and sociology.

SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports is a peer reviewed, open access journal. It publishes short case reports providing key insights into real medical cases essential for physicians, and that ultimately help to improve patient outcomes. Case reports may span the full spectrum of medicine across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including all clinical medical specialties, nursing, allied health and dentistry.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

SAGE Open Medicine is a peer reviewed, open access journal which covers all aspects of medicine and welcomes articles and reviews across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including all clinical medical specialties, nursing, allied health and epidemiology. Papers are subjected to rigorous peer review and are selected basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open Medicine facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Sage Reference Online provides the full text of selected eBooks and eReference titles from Sage Publishing. Subject areas covered in this collection include business and management; counselling; criminology; education; geography; health and social care; media and communication; politics and international relations; psychology, and sociology.

SAGE Research Methods contains books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including a large collection of qualitative methods books available online. SAGE Research Methods Cases provides case studies written by the researchers to show the challenges and successes of doing research; SAGE Research Methods Datasets collects teaching datasets and instructional guides for users to learn data analysis; SAGE Research Methods Video contains tutorials, case study videos, expert interviews, and more on the entire research methods and statistics curriculum.

This collection of documents offers insights into the performance practice in the particular space of the reconstructed Globe Theatre. It details the way in which the theatre was constructed as a place of radical experiment. It documents over 200 performances through prompt books, wardrobe notes, programmes, publicity material, annual reports, show reports, photographs and architectural plans.

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.

South Asia Open Archives is the product of a collaborative initiative of a broad consortium of 26 current member research libraries in South Asia and around the world. It is a free open-access collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region.

The Theologische Realenzyklopädie is a modern specialist encyclopaedia comprising 36 volumes of text (1976–2004) representing the present state of theological research as a whole. More than a generation of scholars have collaborated in its production, to create a unique internationally-oriented reference work containing more than 2,500 articles (on over 28,000 pages of text) which stands as a document of the history of scholarship. The TRE is an indispensable tool for research, study and teaching, principally in theology, but also in its neighbouring disciplines such as history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies.

The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive was founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Times (London). It offers reviews of major books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, as well as essays and criticism in the areas of art, architecture, economics, exploration, history, music, philosophy, politics, religion, sport, science and medicine.

This resource brings together hundreds of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Coverage includes architecture, art, the British Empire, climate, customs, exploration, family life, housing, industry, language, monuments, mountains, natural history, politics and diplomacy, race, religion, science, shopping and war. Unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs are included.

De Gruyter publishes books, journals and databases in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer sciences, natural sciences, and law, and also offer a wide range of digital media, including open access journals and books.

Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers integrated access to millions of articles from journals, online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Included are the online journals and books previously published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd., which merged with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2007.

This resource is comprised of two distinct elements: 1. Original documents on the suffrage question in Britain, the Empire and colonial territories; 2. A finding aid to women's studies resources in The National Archives. The original documents cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-1928 and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-1962.

A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history. This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.

Highlights include:

• Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers
• Life writing and autobiographies of a range of 18th and 19th century women
• The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner
• Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18th and 19th centuries
• Women's travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire.