As part of the recent CRKN - DCI Agreement we now have access to additional collections from Adam Matthew Digital.
Our exisiting Adam Matthew Digital content includes:
Eighteenth Century Journals I and II
Empire Online
Literary Manuscripts
Medieval Travel Writing
We now have access to the following additional collections:
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980:
Unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980, together with rare periodicals, colour paintings, maps, photographs and drawings. All of the printed materials (including the typescript records of Chinese Maritime Customs officials) have been double-keyed and are full-text searchable. All of the manuscript material has been indexed to provide ready accessibility for students by person, place and subject. An interactive map encourages searches by city and region. There is no overlap with material published in ‘China and the West: The Maritime Customs Service Archive: From the Second Historical Archives, Nanjing, China’.
Defining Gender, 1450-1910:
Defining Gender is structured in five sections, each containing a substantial body of original source material, together with thematic essays by leading scholars in the field.
Section I: Conduct and Politeness
Section II: Domesticity and the Family
Section III: Consumption and Leisure
Section IV: Education and Sensibility
Section V: The Body
The study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture has now become one of the most vibrant areas of social, cultural and intellectual research, transcending the disciplinary boundaries of history, literature, sociology, education and gender studies. This publication will provide resources for many new projects and conference papers, as well as for graduate seminars and undergraduate teaching.
Mass Observation Online:
Mass Observation Online offers revolutionary access to one of the most important archives for the study of Social History in the modern era. The material covers:
The end of the ‘Hungry Thirties’ when the impact of the Depression was still being felt;
The onset of war, the Blitz and war on the home front;
The post war world, with the rise of consumerism and television.
The archive has always been immensely popular with students because it offers immediate and engaging evidence of major trends such as the increasing role of women in work, the birth of the welfare state, anti-Semitism and anti-communism, the growth of secularism and the increasing importance of radio, television and cinema in people’s lives. Through interviews, overheard conversations, directive responses and diary entries it offers brilliant cameos describing life in the jazz halls, what people thought of the movies they saw, how people survived the random terror of the Blitz, and where they lived and worked.
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice 1490-2007:
This extraordinary resource on trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition brings together original manuscript and rare printed material from dozens of libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Published in three sections between 2007 and 2009, this collection will prove invaluable for postgraduate and scholarly research and will also provide a user-friendly classroom tool for undergraduates.
This project provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Most are reproduced as high quality greyscale images, but there are also a significant number of colour images. All printed items are full text searchable and manuscripts have document level indexing. All documents have distinct URLs and can be embedded in course notes and reading lists or downloaded as PDFs.