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Search across several collections of primary source materials spanning the social sciences and humanities from the 15th-21st centuries. Covers disciplines including borders and migrations, gender and sexuality, global history, war and conflict, the British Empire, Victorian popular culture etc.
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African American Communities
Age of Exploration
America in World War Two
American Indian Histories and Cultures
American History, 1493-1945
American Indian Newspapers
American West
Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980
Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan 1834-1922
Children's Literature and Culture
China, America and the Pacific
China: Culture and Society
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Colonial America
Colonial Caribbean
Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966; Latin America, 1833-1969; Middle East, 1839-1969; North America, 1824-1961
Defining Gender
Early Modern England
East India Company (India Office records from the British Library, 1599-1947)
Eighteenth Century Drama
Eighteenth Century Journals
Empire Online
Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life and Women in America, c1800-1920
First World War
Food and Drink in History
Foreign Offica Files for China,1919-1980; India, Pakistan and Afghanistan; Japan, 1919-1952; Southeast Asia, 1963-9180; Middle East, 1971-1981 (source from the UK National Archives)
Frontier Life
Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Gender: Identity and Social Change
Global Commodities
India Raj and Empire
Interwar Culture
J.Walter Thompson: Advertising America
Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture
Life at Sea
Literary Manuscripts (Berg Collection New York Public Library)
Literary Manuscripts (Brotherton Library Univeristy of Leeds)
Literary Print Culture
London Low Life
Macmillan Cabinet Papers, 1957-1963
Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Mass Observation Project
Medical Services and Warfare
Medieval Family Life
Medieval Travel Writing
Meiji Japan
Migration to New Worlds
Nineteenth Century Literary Society
Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Race Relations in America
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape
Service Newspapers of World War Two
Sex and Sexuality
Shakespeare in Performance
Shakespeare's Globe Archive
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
Socialism on Film
The Grand Tour
The Nixon Years, 1969-1974
Trade Catalogues and the American Home
Travel Writing, Spectacle and World History
Victorians on Film
Victorian Popular Culture
Virginia Company Archives
Women in the National Archives
World's Fairs
Gale Research Complete provides access to millions of pages of primary sources, e-reference and periodical content within a number of Gale databases and collections.
Full access for Lancaster University members to the New York Times. This link will show you how to set up an account, and then you can log in at http://www.nytimes.com.
New York Review of BooksThis link opens in a new windowFrom the 1960s into the 21st Century, The New York Review of Books has posed the questions in the debate on American life, culture, and politics. "The New York Review of Books is where the most important issues are discussed by writers who are themselves a major force in world literature and thought. Every two weeks, these writers publish essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film."
ProQuest One Literature brings together a comprehensive collection of primary texts, ebooks, reference sources, full-text journals, dissertations, video and more, for unparalleled access to historical and contemporary content by and about celebrated and lesser-known authors from around the world.
This unique collection documents American History from the earliest settlers to the mid-twentieth century.
Module I Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 Module II Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Children's Literature and Childhood provides a wide range of primary sources related to the experience of childhood in the long nineteenth century. Included in the archive are books and periodicals for children, primers and other material related to education, pamphlets produced by child welfare groups, documents and photos related to children and crime, newspapers produced by youths, and much more.
In its focus and range, Children's Literature and Childhood offers an array of compelling subjects for research and teaching. Children's literature from any period reflects that period's social, moral, economic, and political views. This archive serves as a rich resource for nineteenth-century study across disciplines.
Drama Online provides access to the texts of over 1,500 plays from Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints, as well as Faber and Faber, and Oberon. It also includes 350 modern plays from Nick Hern Books.
The database also includes video recordings of theatre productions from the National Theatre, the Globe Theatre in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Stratford Ontario Festival and other early modern dramas.
BFI Player is an online service, streaming landmark British and European independent films. Click on the link above to create an account (or sign in if you already have one). Select Lancaster University from the dropdown list and authenticate subscription using your university credentials. T&Cs: You will need to re-subscribe at the start of each academic year. BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK. Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer.
BoB is an off-air recording and broadcast media archive service available to Higher Education Institutions providing access to TV and radio programmes from over 65 'free-to-air' channels using a programme guide and a search option.
It includes a permanent archive of all broadcast content from nine channels: BBC1 London / BBC2 / BBC4 / ITV London / Channel 4 / More4 / Channel 5 / BBC Radio 4 / BBC Radio 4 Extra.
There is an option to schedule recordings up to seven days in advance and request programmes broadcast over the previous 30 days.
Digital Theatre+ is an educational platform providing institutions around the world with access to theatre productions and educational resources to support the teaching of English and Drama.
Kanopy contains a wide variety of curated lists to assist with discovery and browsing. Try searching for individual writers to find film adaptations or documentaries such as the one on Maya Angelou, above.
You can also search on broader categories, such as North American Studies, for a wider picture of American history, identity, politics, religion, history etc.
Top Tip: set up a free account for more search functionality and the ability to save films to your watchlist.
Kanopy Streaming VideoThis link opens in a new windowKanopy provides access to over 18,000 films. You will find a range of films including documentaries and world cinema.
The service includes features such as captions, transcripts, clip creation, and playlist creation that allow users to share videos.
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