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Modern History

Find and use relevant resources for Modern History primary sources

Primary sources

Primary sources
Historical newspapers

Archives of Human Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window
Colonial America This link opens in a new window
Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901 This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO This link opens in a new window
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Gale Primary Sources (formerly Artemis) This link opens in a new window
Making of modern law : legal treatises 1800-1926 This link opens in a new window
Nineteenth Century Collections Online NCCO This link opens in a new window
North American Women's Letters and Diaries This link opens in a new window
Oral history online This link opens in a new window
Travel writing, spectacle and world history This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements, International - 1840 to Present This link opens in a new window

See our complete list of newspaper databases and collections. And for further details about searching for newspapers see our Newspaper Guide.

Digitised newspapers and more: National Library of Australia (Trove) This link opens in a new window
The Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016 This link opens in a new window
Gale NewsVault This link opens in a new window

Secondary and tertiary sources

Reference sources
Databases

APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Brill Online Books and Journals This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window