History: Modern World: Archival Resources

Major collection of primary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century, researchers and scholars can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas. This growing archival program offers rich research opportunities across a wide span of human history.

A collection of British and Irish women's diaries and correspondence, bringing "the personal experiences of nearly 500 women to researchers, students, and general readers."

The British Union of Fascists: 1933-1953 is part of the British Online Archives' Politics and Protest series. The collection charts the rise and fall of fascism in Britain during the 1930s and 1940s, with a particular focus on Oswald Mosley’s blackshirt movement.

A digital collection of English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980.

A digitized collection of original documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It has five thematic sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body.

Module I: Trade, Governance and Empire From 16th century origins as a trading venture to the East Indies, through to its rise as the worlds most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amid allegations of greed and corruption the East India Company was an extraordinary force in global history.
Consists of the India Office Records, covering classes IOR/A, B and D, and comprises the foundational charters of the Company plus the minutes and memoranda of its various central administrative organs. This is material generated by the East India Company's London headquarters and top-level material sent back by Company servants overseas and pertains to the governance of the Company and its territorial possessions.
Types of material include, minutes of council meetings, memoranda and papers laid before councils, correspondence, lists of administrative, military and ecclesiastical personnel, Patronage books and other financial documents.

Module II: Factory Records for South Asia and South East Asia The Factory Records consist of papers sent to London from the East India Company's 'factories', or trading posts, across Asia and parts of Africa, including letters sent and received, official trading diaries, accounts of the Company's embassies to rulers, proceedings of provincial councils and revenue boards, military documents and account books.

Provides access to "the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the long 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers."

A digitized collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism worldwide. It has five thematic sections: Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; Section III: The Visible Empire; Section IV: Religion and Empire; Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, 1607-2007. Empire Online is cross-searchable with Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange.

An annotated collection of documents on British history surveying the years 500 to 1914, and covering a wide spectrum of topics. Primary sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries, and more.

The records of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions provide invaluable information on social conditions in China and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Documenting the church’s educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters.

Includes a wide range of primary resources such as diaries and journals, letters and postcards, scrapbooks and albums, photographs and 360° views of personal items and objects, oral histories, sketches and paintings, sheet music, photographs, war art, cartoons and comics, propaganda and recruiting posters and trench maps.
Module 1: Personal Experiences
Module 2: Propaganda and Recruitment
Module 3: Visual Perspectives and Narratives

Primary source documents from the 17th century to the mid-20th century, covering the regions and colonial frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Includes correspondence, diaries, government papers, business records, land transactions, legal documents, speeches, books, and pamphlets.

Visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over 20 key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world about the history of 15 major commodities.

A digital collection of millions of pages of unique primary sources tracking the development of the modern, western world using trade and wealth as a central focus. Supports research in history, political science, technology and industry, economics, and more. In 2015, the University of Saskatchewan updated this resource with part two of the collection, and in 2018, we added part three.

Digitized manuscripts and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, a pioneering social research organisation whose papers cover the cultural and social history of Britain primarily from 1937 to 1965.

Medical Services & Warfare is a collection of digitized primary source materials about the history of illness and treatment as influenced by wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Module I, 1850-1927. Module II, 1928-1949.

A database indexing oral history narratives, interviews, and other English language oral histories relevant to 20th and 21st century modern world history from academic, cultural, and government repositories. Collections within the database span diverse geographical areas and historical events, such as: the Argentina Project and the China Missionaries Project (Columbia University, Center for Oral History); the Oral History Project of the Vietnam Archives (Texas Tech University); Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive (University of Michigan); Cold War Oral History (George Washington University); British in India Oral Archive (British Library, National Sound Archive); the Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Teams Project (U.S. Institute of Peace); Living Voices (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum for the American Indian). The database includes a subject index--see Table of Contents: All Subjects (Collections), and also has search functions based in subject, geographical and date criteria—see Find Collections.

"Includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and ... thirty thousand dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts)."

AM Research Skills is an online learning tool for primary source literacy that can be used in classroom-based and online teaching, as well as for independent study.

Sex & Sexuality covers a broad range of topics and is drawn from leading archives around the world. From papers of leading sexologists, to LGBTQI+ personal histories, the collection is an essential resource for the study of human sexuality, its complexities and its history.

Index of manuscripts of early modern women authors, including full digital facsimiles of over 230 selections, produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. "Perdita" means "lost woman" and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were lost because their writing exists only in manuscript form."

A portal to an extensive collection of digitized documents and collections related to slavery and abolition studies from libraries across the Atlantic world. Topics include" the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. This resource will be released in three phases between 2007 and 2009.

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) constitutes a major resource for the historical record of Britain, its former colonies including Canada and the United States, and the wider world. It facilitates researchers’ exploration of the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents from 1688 to the present. Through HCPP, researchers can seamlessly access the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st century papers, plus the Hansard parliamentary debates.

"Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents. Covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond, this single source enables users to locate key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, journalism and more". Formerly Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS).

A portal to digitized books and documents describing Victorian popular culture and popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Users are invited "into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist seances."

A full-text collection of early womens writing in English, published by the Women Writers Project at Northeastern University. It includes full transcriptions of texts published between 1526 and 1850, focusing on materials that are rare or inaccessible.

Artemis Primary Sources is an integrated search tool that allows researchers to simultaneously search from primary sources from the following Gale databases which are accessible to University of Saskatchewan users: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection; Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO); Indigenous Peoples: North America; The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926; The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources; The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926; The Making of the Modern World; Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO); Sabin Americana, 1500-1926; The Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2006; The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2009.