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.
Accessibility statement for Chatham House Online Archive
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Daily Mail Historical Archive
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.
Accessibility statement for Digital National Security Archive
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Economist Historical Archive
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes adverts, market listings etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Financial Times Historical Archive
Allows you to cross-search several newspaper archives and the Chatham House Online Archive.
Accessibility statement for Gale Primary Sources
Newspaper sources include The Daily Mail Historical Archive, The Economist Historical Archive, The Financial Times Historical Archive, The Independent Historical Archive , The Telegraph Historical Archive, The Times Digital Archive and The Sunday Times Historical Archive.
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Guardian (1821-2003) and Observer (1791-2003) Archive, The
Focus on the History of Economic Thought (HET) from 1700 to 1914, and includes a wide range of primary and secondary sources.
Accessibility statement for History of Economic Thought
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Independent Historical Archive
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).
Accessibility statement for Migration to New Worlds
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.
Accessibility statement for New York Times Archive
Parliamentary papers (primarily House of Commons) from 1660 to 2005. Also contains content from Hansard from 1803 to 2005 and Command Papers 1833-2004.
Accessibility statement for ProQuest U.K. Parliamentary Papers
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Sunday Times Historical Archives
Fully searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Telegraph Historical Archive
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.
Accessibility statement for Times Digital Archive
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.
Accessibility statement for Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy
Key collections in this module include:
Digital archival collections in social, economics, political and cultural affairs of Britain throughout the Second World War.
Accessibility statement for War, State and Society
Searchable and browsable digital archive. Includes images, adverts etc in addition to text.
Accessibility statement for Washington Post
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.
Accessibility statement for World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence (..)
Key collections in this module include: