This resource was compiled from archival collections housed across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. It focuses on the voices of under-represented groups, grassroots organizations, and countercultural movements, addressing themes such as sexuality and identity, Black resistance movements, Indigenous land rights, subcultures, and health and social issues.
Printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century pertaining to the history of European colonization across the African continent.
The archival records of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International from the period of 1961-1991, covering a wide range of human rights concerns and issues.
More than 6,000 early twentieth-century newsreels (short-form, visual news content intended to inform and entertain the public, in black and white and entirely silent) originally shown in cinemas across Britain.
The papers of David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), supplemented with company records, trade catalogues and advertisements. Most material spans the 1920s to the 1970s. The papers in this resource provide insight into the impact of broadcasting innovations on advertising, consumer culture, global conflicts, and the Space Race.
This collection of Foreign Office Files, comprising correspondence, maps, photographs and memoranda, provides a history of key events across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during a period of political upheaval, civil unrest and escalating conflict, 1959-1979. Reports offer insight into both internal politics (covering key themes such as trade, economic development and increasing political instability) and the growing intervention from foreign powers.
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A comprehensive record of the performance history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including almost 1,400 prompt books, as well as additional documentation including production records, costume designs, music files and photographs.
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JSTOR Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
This collection focuses on liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.