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." [details]
"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." [details]
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. [details]
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." [details]
A digitzed 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 [details]
In the First PersonAn index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narrativesCoverage varies by collection
Full text transcripts of over 2,500 oral history collections in English from around the world. Other full text content will be added in future updates. Some of the full text content may require a current license agreement with the source institution. U of S Library patrons may access the open access (free) content and licensed sources only. [details]
MEMSOMedieval and Early Modern Sources OnlineMedieval and early modern period
A large and growing collection of medieval and early modern books and manuscript sources digitized from print (600 titles in January, 2010), essential to the study of medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. [details]
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. [details]
ORLANDOWomen's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present1066 - present
"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)." [details]
A collection of oral history narratives, interviews, and other English language oral histories. Also, a comprehensive index to free oral history information on the Web, often with links to full-text, audio, or video. [details]
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." [details]
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