History

Access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories that covers: American History, Ancient History & Classical Studies, Asian History, British & European History, Global History, Literature, Middle East & African Studies, Music & Theatre, Philosophy & Political Thought.

The collection includes Colonial State Papers, documenting Britain’s colonial relations with the Americas and other European powers; the Digital National Security archive from 1945 to the present. Documents on British policy overseas from 1918 to 1939; Trench journals from the First World War published between 1914 and 1919; backfiles of 15 major historical newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Observer, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

Collection of primary source material includes U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Broad topic include: African American studies; American Indian studies; Asian studies; British history; Holocaust studies; LGBTQIA+ studies; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Middle East studies; political science; religious studies; and women’s studies.

A resource dedicated to learning historiography and other key historical theories from around the world.

Includes scholarly history journals and eBooks. To find these, select ‘Content type’: Books/Journals, and under ‘Research Area’, tick History

A collection of videos consisting of more than 1,750 documentaries of worldwide human history. Covering topics such as the Berlin Wall, the fall of early civilizations and more. The link will take you to home page, you can locate the title in My Collections.

Extensive full-text collection of history journals, some dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

Accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century.

Images, original documents for gender studies, history, men's studies and women's studies.

The history of fifteen major commodities including chocolate, coffee, cotton, oil, sugar, tea and their impact on the world. Includes interactive maps, tools mapping commodity prices across time, images in galleries and exhibitions, scholarly essays, chronology and glossaries.