Books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, statistics, and other primary source documents from the 19th century. Focus is British.
Primary source material from hundreds of fairs and expositions around the world. Of local interest, the collection has documents from the 1982 Knoxville World’s Fair and the 1913 Knoxville National Conservation Exposition.
Color digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 19th and early 20th century London. Also includes secondary sources such as maps and essays.
Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Accounts of the English abroad from 1550 to 1850, highlighting the influence of continental travel on British art, architecture, urban planning, literature and philosophy.
Full-text of accounts by women of their travels across the globe from the early 19th century through to the 20th century. Topics range from race to local customs to war.
Primary sources of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Britain and the U.S.
Primary source material for the study and analysis of gender, leisure and consumer culture from 1450 to 1910. Key topics: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility and The Body.
Full-text searchable collection of early printed books in Arabic script covering many topics. Includes European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books. Coverage from 1475 to 1900.
Full-text of books, serials, pamphlets, and essays published from 1450 to 1914. Collection tracks the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Titles are in English as well as many other languages.
The Times (London) is considered the "world's newspaper of record." Full-text to over 200 years of the publication.
Full-text collection of both national and regional British newspapers. Digitized with full article images.
Coverage from 1732 to 1950.
Full-text of an important London newspaper. Coverage from 1896 to 2004.
Full-text of popular British humor magazine.
Full-text of this important business and political magazine. Covers science and technology as well as cultural topics. Coverage from 1843 to 2015.
Complete searchable run of one of the world’s most authoritative daily business newspaper. Great for studying economic and business history and current affairs from 1888 to 2010.
UTK has access to part 1. , 1888-2010.
Full-text of the first pictorial weekly newspaper. Coverage from 1842 to 2003.
The Sunday Times Historical Archive provides the complete run of the newspaper from 1822 to 2006, including all of its supplements.
Full-text of one of the oldest British newspapers.
Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982.
Online Access - 2 simultaneous users
A vast scholarly database for finding published material from the 12th century through 1960.
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