Contains primary documents, together with brief introductory essays by historians, under the following headings: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, 1607-2007

A collection of primary source materials on South Asians in the U.S.A.. Includes anti-colonial critique and revolutionary movements directed against British rule in India that were based in the U.S. (the Gadar Party, publications by the India Home Rule League in America, Friends of Freedom for India), and materials documenting the experiences of South Asians in the U.S. in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Imperial Gazetteer of India responded to a need in the latter half of the nineteenth century for descriptive accounts of the expanding British territory. The Gazetteer is encyclopedic in nature, containing detailed geographical, historical, ethnic, linguistic, economic, and administrative information. (From website)

The Centre holds a sizable archive of films - approximately 50 individual collections totalling in the region of 80 hours of footage. Most of the material we hold is 16mm or 8mm home movies, taken between 1911 and 1956, which give a unique perspective of life in South Asia towards the end of the British Empire and in the first years of independence. (From website)

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. See also the Centenary Archive of the Times Literary Supplement

Full-text. Newspapers and periodicals, primarily British, from 1699-1812.

Presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.

The Historical Guardian (1821-2003) and the Historical Observer (1791-2003) offer full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Discover English Poetry, Serial Fiction and Novels, Economic Statements, Essays and Belles-Lettres from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century in the British Periodicals Collections I and II. This collection includes millions of high-resolution facsimile page images and has:

The 1947 Partition Archive is a people-powered non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving and sharing eye witness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the Partition of British India in 1947.