History: Britain and the British Empire

Manuscripts and printed material. Approximately 60,000 images of original documents linked to essays by leading scholars in the field of Empire Studies. The sections cover Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969. The images from the British Library, including the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library; the University of Birmingham Library; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and the Public Record Office and the State Records, New South Wales, Australia.

Cross-search multiple Gale collections including Making of the Modern World, Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century collections, Making of Modern Law, and other Archives products.

Printed material. English-language and foreign-language books, pamphlets, broadsides, ephemera printed in the UK and the Americas, between 1701 and 1800.

Printed material. Includes seven individual collections held at universities within the UK, many of which are whole collections that belonged to individual politicians or political families. These are: Bristol Selected pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet collection, and LSE Selected pamphlets.

Digitized primary source collections of territories colonized by Britain. Collections range from colonial, missionary and transatlantic relations to twentieth century political and social development, covering four-hundred years of world history. Each collection includes a detailed finding aid.

Includes many digitized collections of primary sources in book form originally published in the 19th century.

Full-text online of nearly 2000 French books seventeenth to twentieth centuries.

A digital collection of European travel accounts of pre-modern (1613 - 1920s) Southeast Asia.

From Institute of Historical Research, University of London. 1300 volumes of digitized primary (and secondary) sources covering the medieval and early modern Britain. Useful subject guides

A collection of digitized editions of texts concerning economic, political, legal, and ecclesiastical history, such as treasury accounts, chronicles, papal registers, etc. from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.

Facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the 17th through the early 20th centuries.

A portal to Newspapers and Periodicals, c.1685-1835 Caution: Currently Cornell only subscribes to Section III which focuses on journals published outside of London– Canadian, Caribbean and Indian, Irish journals and British provincial publications.

Full-text and full-image articles from the Times of London for the years 1785-2006.

Index only. Searchable, but full text is not accessible for Cornellians. Use this as an invaluable index to articles in British newspapers. Specific articles can then be interlibrary loaned.

Covers 1770-1993. Index, only; Not full-text. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages.

Consists of 12 collections of manuscript material found in England. Includes materials such as journals, correspondence, official records, personal papers, and printed books from over a two hundred year period, all related to British involvement in the Atlantic region, including both Africa and the Americas. It has a wealth of information about Britain’s colonization, commercial, missionary and even literary relations with Africa and the Americas. Alongside the records of Liverpool merchants involved in the infamous Triangular Trade, there are those of slave plantation owners, of early Anglican missionaries, and of naval and customs officials.

The Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections and 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches as well as material that isn't narrowly legal.

Full text with detailed subject indexing.

Drawing upon the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland, this searchable online resource provides access to digital facsimiles of diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works. The collection documents the relationship between Britain and India in an empire where the Scots played a central role as traders, generals, missionaries, viceroys, governor-generals and East India Company officials. The dates of the documents range from 1710 to 1937.

A catalog which currently contains descriptions and digitized images of material dating from the reigns of George III to William IV, including personal letters, diaries, account books and records of the Royal Household.

In progress. Covers 1595-1947. Manuscripts.
Cornell has:
Module 1: Trade, Governance and Empire, 1600-1947
Module II: Factory Records for South Asia and South East Asia.
Module III: Factory records for China, Japan and the Middle East.
Module IV Correspondence, Early Voyages, Formation, and Conflict.
Materials come from the British Library and include minutes of council meetings (Court of Directors, Court of Proprietors and Council of India), memoranda and papers laid before councils, council resolutions, proceedings of revenue boards, charters, legislation, printed books, correspondence, lists of administrative, military and ecclesiastical personnel, and more.

Manuscripts. A large collection of manuscript sources (in European and South Asian languages) from the private collections of two prominent British empire-builders in India, from the National Library of Wales, now part of the digital collection British Online Archives.

Manuscripts. "Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1751-1814), who succeeded as 4th Bart. in 1777, assumed the additional names of Murray Kynynmound on succeeding to his mother's properties in 1778, and was created Baron Minto in 1797 and Earl of Minto in 1813. He was M.P. for Morpeth, 1776-7, for Roxburghshire, 1777- 1784, for Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1786-90, and for Helston, 1790-5; and served as Civil Commissioner at Toulon, 1793, Minister to the Italian states, 1794, Viceroy of Corsica, 1794-1796, Ambassador at Vienna, 1799-1801, President of the Board of Control, 1806, and Governor-General of India, 1806-1813. These papers are a valuable source for the study of British politics in the late eighteenth century, of war and diplomacy in Europe, 1793-1801, and for events in India and east of the Cape, 1806-1814. The diplomatic and Indian material is especially rich. The papers in this section are used and quoted in Emma Eleanor Elizabeth, Countess of Minto (ed.), Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to 1806, 3 vols., London, 1874, and Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807 to 1814, London, 1880. The 1st Earl of Minto is referred to throughout these papers simply as 'the 1st Earl'. His wife, Anna Maria, daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Bart., is referred to as 'the Countess of Minto'. Unless otherwise stated, correspondence and papers are of, and letters are addressed to, the 1st Earl."

A guide to help historians develop productive research strategies for the study of law in colonial South Asia.

American, foreign, and international legal sources, including law journals, foreign case reports, etc.