Sculpture, Monuments & Open Space
Sculpture, Monuments & Open Space is dedicated to the advancement, development and appreciation of realist sculpture. Our objective is to show the various ways in which sculptors worldwide and throughout time have worked to express themselves in various media. – Publisher
The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, Second Edition
This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition is an all-new update and extension of the historic 2013 first edition. Like the first, it contains over forty chapters encompassing social cognition’s history and methods, primary approaches and theories, and applications across social psychology and other social sciences, all written by luminaries in the field. – Publisher
Choya Shinbun was a major Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo during the early and mid-Meiji periods. Best known for its support of the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement, Choya Shinbun shaped public opinion during a political era that saw the establishment of the Meiji Constitution and the Imperial Diet. The Choya Shinbun Digital Archive is a valuable resource for scholars of history, politics, and East Asian Studies.
Access from July 5, 1875 to Nov. 27, 1889.
Zimbabwe Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1897-1980
This collection provides a unique opportunity to explore the British administration in Zimbabwe by looking at annual governmental reports. In the 1880s, Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company started to make inroads into the region that is now known as Zimbabwe. In 1895 the British South Africa Company adopted the name “Rhodesia” for the area, as an honour to Cecil Rhodes. However, in 1898 the official name of the region became Southern Rhodesia. In October 1923, following a new constitution, Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony. While the colony was self-governing and technically could draft its own legislation it was still subject to supervision. This collection allows you to explore this in more detail. The collection compromises of over 90,000 pages of progress reports written by various government departments in Zimbabwe. – Publisher
Reporting on Africa: From Apartheid to Pan-Africanism, 1949-1995
This collection contains a range of his writings and reports on twentieth century African politics. This includes material on Pan-Africanism, including on the Organisation of African Unity, articles documenting and attacking the Apartheid regime in South Africa, as well as an exploration of African politics against the backdrop of decolonisation and the Cold War. – Publisher
Malawi Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1967
Malawi Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1967 contains papers from the colonial government in Malawi. They reveal the approach the British took to colonial rule in this country. The reports are divided into nine distinct volumes for convenience. These are Administration, Finance, Judicial and Police, Natural Resources (1), Natural Resources (2), Social Services, Transport and Public Works, Communication and Post Office Savings, and Miscellaneous. – Publisher
Kenya Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907-1964
Kenya Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1907–1964 contains papers from the British colonial government in Kenya. The documents in this collection reveal the approach that the British took to colonial rule throughout the country. British settlers exploited Kenya’s natural resources, forcing indigenous farmers onto infertile land and making them work on European-owned farms and plantations.
The government reports contained in this collection cover several important developments and events in twentieth century Kenyan history, including the period that the country was controlled by the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the Mau Mau uprising that began in 1952, and the achievement of Kenyan independence in 1963. – Publisher
Gambia Under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports, 1881-1966
This comprehensive collection explores in detail Gambia’s history under British colonial rule through extensive governmental reports. Beginning near the end of the nineteenth century with the formation of Gambia as a British colony and protectorate, this collection tracks the wide-ranging administrative duties of various governmental departments within Gambia up until the country’s independence in the 1960s.
From recording crime and disease levels throughout the territory, to in-depth reports concerning agricultural reform. These documents contributed by The British and Commonwealth Office provide a thorough level of insight into Gambia’s history as a British colony. – Publisher
Apartheid Through the Eyes of South African Political Parties, 1948-1994
Apartheid was a system of white minority rule that prevailed in South Africa for much of the 20th century. This collection contains various materials published by political parties on both sides of the racial and ideological divide. The bulk of the documents are drawn from the archives of the main opposition movement, the African National Congress (ANC). The main party of government, the National Party, is also well represented, as are several minor parties and independent candidates. – Publisher
Conflict in Indochina, Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1959-1979
This collection of Foreign Office Files provides a comprehensive history of key events across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during a period of political upheaval, civil unrest and escalating conflict. Published in two sections, Conflict in Indochina explores the rising tension across Indochina after 1959:
1. Crisis and Upheaval, 1959-1964
2. Escalation, Reunification and Withdrawal, 1965-1979
Buddhist Digital Resource Center Core Text Collection 19
Archive of digital images of scanned Tibetan Buddhist literature from the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center. Access to digital texts provided by detailed indices called outlines. Literature can be retrieved by author, title, and subject. Also includes information in a knowledge base about relationships among works, people, institutions, and places. Each collection contains multiple works on Tibetan literature which have been assembled specifically to be incorporated into institutional libraries.
To find and browse core collections, select “in collections” from search box and search for the word <core> in English.
Times Digital Archive: 2015-2019 Supplement
Total coverage is 1785-2019.
The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Read by both world leaders and the general public, The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, along with coverage of all major international historical events.
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