This collection examines two centuries of everyday, political, religious, working, trading and administrative life in England. Documents focus significantly on the lives of ‘everyday’ people. Volumes of correspondence from more prominent families look at governance, politics, monarchy, relations between landowners and tenants, war, politics and relations with England’s neighbours.
British government files, following the establishment of an independent Malaysia, on the Cold War in the Pacific, trade relations, economic development, and authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia.
Launched in 1981 as a rebirth of the original 1937 Mass Observation, its founders' aim was to document Britain's social history by recruiting volunteers to write about their lives and opinions. This collection consists of questionnaires sent in the 1980s and the responses. Those from the 1990s and 2000s will follow in 2021 and 2022.
Including book history to travel writing, politics to poetry, this resource is repository for 19th century culture and the literary luminaries who shaped it.
This digital resource documents the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century society, tracing developments in welfare reform and the social tensions surrounding poverty.
Contains over 4.2 million records with reviews/abstracts of articles in pure and applied mathematics. Coverage begins in the 18th century and is complete from 1868 to the present. Also contains the database of mathematical software swMATH.