History - Modern History primary sources

Date range: 17th-20th Centuries
Geographical focus: US
"Non-fiction works by African-American leaders and others who have dealt substantially with issues of race in America. Includes books, essays, articles, speeches, letters, interviews, and other materials, some of which have not previously been published."

Date range: 1606-1822
Geographical focus: US, Britain
This collection encompasses all 1,450 volumes of the CO 5 series of Colonial Office files held at The National Archives in London. Covering the period 1606 to 1822, this collection of largely manuscript material from the archives of the British government is useful for students and researchers of all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.

Date range: 15th to 20th Centuries
Geographical focus: North America
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters.

Date range: 1788-1901
Geographical focus: Australasia
First person accounts of early Colonial life in Australia and New Zealand, including letters, diaries, narratives, Government documents, maps and pictures.

This fulltext database offers approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The five sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969.

Date range: 16th-20th Centuries
Geographical focus: Britain, US, Americas
Providing access to a vast range of visual, manuscript and printed materials exploring the history of fifteen major commodities and examining the ways these commodities have changed the world. Also includes data visualisation for commodity prices.

Date range: 1800-1950
Geographical focus: North America
Composed of contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives.

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.