Race and Empire: The British Experience from 1760

 

 

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  • Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
    Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
  • JSTOR
    Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)

See the Primary Sources Research Guide for additional information and search tips.

  • British Periodicals
    Searchable full text of hundreds of British periodicals from the late 17th century to the early 20th, with high-resolution facsimile page images.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) (1701-1800)
    Page images and full-text searching for more than 136,000 key English- and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, based on the English Short Title Catalogue.
  • Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) (1780-1925)
    Full-text, searchable content from a broad range of 19th-century sources in literature, politics, theater, music, religion, maps, science, and childhood
  • British Library: Digitised Manuscripts
    View digitised copies of manuscripts and archives in the British Library’s collections, with descriptions of their contents.
  • The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
    A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
  • Punch Magazine
    Punch, magazine of humour and satire, ran from 1841-2002.
  • Historic Hansard
    This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.

See the Images Research Guide for additional information and search tips. 

  • Amherst College Digital Collections
    Digitized art works, photographs, manuscripts, books, and other media from Amherst College Archives & Special Collections and the library’s Art & Architecture Collection.
  • ARTstor
    Image database including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
  • Bridgeman Education
    A visual resource offering digital images of art, history, and culture from museums, galleries, private collections, and contemporary artists.
  • Getty Open Content Images database
    Digitized materials from the Research Institute's collection
  • British Museum Collections
    Digitized materials from the museum's collection

Tip: "Hidden" images in full-text databases: 
Many indexes and multidisciplinary databases will allow you to limit your search search to articles and/or primary sources containing images, photographs, or illustrations. You can also find images in these resources by using keywords such as "illustration" in your search. See the "Primary Sources" tab in this guide for some of these resources.