History Subject Guide

A wide variety of material including: Exploration journals and logs; Letter books and correspondence; Periodicals; Diaries; Official Government Papers; Missionary papers; Travel writing; Slave papers; Memoirs; Fiction; Children's Adventure Stories; Traditional folk tales; Exhibition Catalogues and guides; Maps; Marketing Posters; Photographs; and Illustrations, with many in colour.

This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.

Currently contains an index for 1801-2004, and full text for 1840-1891 and 1901-1904

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. Includes pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Primary documents.

WNA-South Asia contains more than 500,000 pages of historical content from 10 newspapers published throughout the subcontinent.
WNA-Africa contains more than 420,000 pages of historical content from newspapers published throughout sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and other countries