History - Modern History primary sources

This collection brings together approximately 1.5 million pages of primary sources on social, political, health, and legal issues impacting LGBTQ communities around the world.

Date range: 16th Century to 20th Century
Geographical focus: Britain
Over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters by approximately 500 women.

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: 1750-1950
Geographical focus: US
100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

Date range: 17th Century to 1960s
Geographical focus: North America
Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150,000 pages of diaries and letters. Also includes biographies and an annotated bibliography.

Date range: 19th and 20th Centuries
Geographical focus: US, World
Accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century to the late 20th century... A wide variety of forms of travel writing are included, ranging from unique manuscripts, diaries and correspondence to drawings, guidebooks and photographs.

Date range: 1600-2000
Geographical focus: US
Brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life.