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China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
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Access primary source material relating to China's history from 1793 to 1980. Offers rare, printed materials (including missionary periodicals, atlases and books), colour paintings, maps, drawings by English and Chinese artists, as well as photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting Chinese people, places, customs and events.
 A Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) initiative
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Defining Gender, 1450-1910, Online
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Search original source materials from British and European archives on the topics of gender, leisure and consumer culture. Benefits those studying history, literature, sociology, education and cultural studies from a gendered perspective.
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Eighteenth Century Journals : A Portal to Newspapers and Periodicals c1685-1815
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Search rare journals printed between 1685 and 1815 covering all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Covers important issues of the period, including crime, sport, advertising, the theatre; fashion; politics, revolution; agriculture; social issues and society life.
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Empire Online
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Search primary material covering the colonial experience, including Cultural Contact, 1492-1969; Literature and Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c1607-2007. Indexes exploration journals and logs; letter books and correspondence; periodicals; diaries; official government papers; missionary papers; travel writing; slave papers; memoirs; fiction; children's adventure stories; traditional; folk tales; exhibition catalogues and guides; maps; marketing posters; photographs; and illustrations, with many in colour.
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Mass Observation Online: British Social History, 1937-1972
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Access literature covering cultural and social history of Britain in the modern era. Covers:
Indexes original manuscript and typescript papers, photographs and interactive maps. Excellent source for studies in history, literature, sociology, anthropology, political science and gender studies .
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Medieval Travel Writing
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Access this extensive collection of manuscript materials for the study of medieval travel writing in fact and in fantasy, dating from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The main focus is accounts of journeys to the Holy Land, India and China. Supporting the manuscripts are relevant secondary texts, maps of journeys, bibliographies and glossaries.
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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
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Access thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images on the topic of trans-Atlantic slavery and abolition. Documents are presented alongside contextual essays contributed by leading academics in the field; each essay will have hypertext links to the primary sources it discusses.
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