History - Modern History primary sources

Date range: 16th Century to 20th Century
Geographical range: Britain, US
"Database of English language letters, diaries, autobiographies, oral histories, and other personal narratives providing insight into history dating from the 1550s to the present. Documents included in the index and full-text collections are indexed for subjects, historical events, personal events, places, and dates."

Date range: 18th, 19th and early 20th Centuries
Geographical focus: London
Colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials. Ephemera and other literature relating to entertainment and pleasure in London, including women, gender and prostitution.

Date Range: 19th Century
Geographical focus: US, Britain, Asia, British colonies
A number of collections comprising monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, ephemera, statistics and more. Collections inclue: "Asia and the West", "British Politics and Society", "British Theatre, Music and Literature", "Europe and Africa", European Literature, 1790-1840", "Photography", "Science, Technology and Medicine" and "Women".

Date range: 19th Century to 1930s
Geographical range: Britain, US, Europe
"Victorian popular culture is a database in the subject area of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth century." Material includes pamphlets, posters, postcards, photographs, books and videos. Database is divided into sections on magic and spiritualism; cicuses; music halls and theatres and early cinema

Date range: 1950 to 1975
Geographical focus: US, Britain
"Topics include changing lifestyles, student protests, civil rights, consumerism, nuclear disarmament, and the Vietnam War. The database contains original archival material, including colour images of manuscript and rare printed material, as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia. "