A primary source provides first hand account of a topic or an event, from people that experienced it.
Primary sources can include: speeches, diaries, letters, interviews, radio and television broadcasts created at the time of the event, posters, paintings, maps, photographs, pamphlets, legal and official documents, survey data, and manuscripts.
Includes the publications, speeches and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Useful for researchers of international affairs, diplomacy, security, economics, law and business.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Online collection of declassified records documenting U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. It covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through to the 21st century.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes adverts, market listings etc in addition to text.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Focus on the History of Economic Thought (HET) from 1700 to 1914, and includes a wide range of primary and secondary sources.
Focus on the period between 1776 and 1928, and contain a wide range of primary and secondary sources on feminism.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Explores the movement of peoples from Great Britain, Ireland, mainland Europe and Asia to the New World and Australasia during the Century of Immigration (c.1800-1924).
Focus on the personal experiences of migrants and the administration of key organisations created to provide for newly-arrived immigrant communities.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
For current coverage please see New York Times.
Parliamentary papers (primarily House of Commons) from 1660 to 2005. Also contains content from Hansard from 1803 to 2005 and Command Papers 1833-2004.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
This archive includes both The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (launched in 1961).
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
See also: Sunday Times Digital Archive.
Covers U.S. involvement in the region from the early days of the Kennedy administration to the evacuation of U.S. troops in 1973. Documents trace the decisions of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus as well as events on the ground.
Key collections in this module include:
Digital archival collections in social, economics, political and cultural affairs of Britain throughout the Second World War.
Searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Consists of several collections of records on World War II. Together these provide many different views of World War II from the top level of military planning to the U.S. homefront and the fate of civilians in Europe.
Key collections in this module include:
Gale Primary Sources is a dynamic search platform which allows you to cross-search the content of The Daily Mail Historical Archive, The Times Digital Archive, The Sunday Times Historical Archive, The Telegraph Historical Archive, The Independent Historical Archive, The Financial Times Historical Archive and The Economist Historical Archive.
You can print, email, and download your search results, and you can create an account with Primary Sources to save and tag your research.