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  • Thumbnail for Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
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    Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
    AM Primary
    1950-1980

    Presenting content from across the globe, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study, including sites in West Africa, North America, South East Asia and more.

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    Everyday Life & Women in America, c1800-1920
    AM Primary
    1800-1920
    American social, cultural, and popular history during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes.
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    First Folios Compared (Open Access)
    AM Primary

    AM’s Open Access collection, First Folios Compared, represents a major milestone in Shakespearean scholarship and cultural heritage

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    First World War Portal
    AM Primary
    1914-1920s
    Revealing the voices and experiences of the men and women who served in the First World War, this rich and varied collection will be an invaluable source for anyone studying and researching the ‘Great War’. Material includes letters and diaries of service people, maps, photo albums, artwork, oral histories, official documents, newspapers, posters and much more, covering all aspects of the global conflict.
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    Food and Drink in History
    AM Primary
    1514-2010

    A wide range of primary source material, including printed and manuscript cookbooks, advertising ephemera, government reports, films and illustrated content. It reveals the evolution of food and drink within everyday life and the public sphere. The material in this collection has been sourced from across the globe to reflect a wide range of food cultures and traditions.

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    Frontier Life
    AM Primary
    1650-1920
    Through a large array of unique documents, this multi-archive collection captures the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. It ranges across the various colonial frontiers of North America before touching on the settlers of Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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    Gender: Identity and Social Change
    AM Primary
    19th to 21st centuries

    Explore the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations.

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    Global Commodities
    AM Primary
    17th-20th century

    Discover the histories of fifteen key commodities that changed the world through a wide range of manuscript sources, rare books, maps, advertising memorabilia, paintings, photographs and ephemera. Explore themes of exploration and discovery; imperialism and attempts at monopoly, trade Wars, translocation and economic geography, slavery, mass production, luxury, taste and the evolution of global branding.

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    Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
    AM Primary
    c.1950-2010

    A rich audio-visual resource exploring personal accounts of the Hindi filmmaking tradition.

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    India, Raj and Empire
    AM Primary
    17th-19th century
    The National Library of Scotland has wonderful collections documenting this history from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to the granting of independence for India and Pakistan in 1947. They are made available online through this collection.
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    Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
    AM Primary
    17th to mid-20th century

    From early contacts between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples and the subsequent political, social and cultural effects of those encounters on Indigenous American life, these materials tell both the historical and the personal stories of the colonisation of the Americas. 

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    Indigenous Newspapers in North America
    AM Primary
    1828-2016 (bulk of material from 1970-2016)
    Discover North American Indigenous journalism spanning two centuries with this major digital resource. Featuring publications from a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, including Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Nevada and Oklahoma, from 1828 to 2016.
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    Interwar Culture
    AM Primary
    1919-1939

    From entertainment and technology to relationships and current affairs, explore everyday life and society on both sides of the Atlantic through popular and lesser-known periodicals.

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    J Walter Thompson: Advertising America
    AM Primary

    The online version of the J Walter Thompson Company archive - the single most complete and informative corporate record of the history of modern advertising. It includes the account files of some of the world’s biggest brands, such as Kraft, Kodak, Oscar Mayer and Pan Am.

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    Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954
    AM Primary
    17th and 20th century
    Material is sourced from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York. It contains primary sources on the history of Jewish immigration to the United States, life and culture among the Jewish population there, and records of business and trade from Jewish-owned companies.
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    Leisure Travel and Mass Culture
    AM Primary
    Primary sources on the history of tourism. Bringing together collections from multiple archives, including Thomas Cook, this resource presents an untapped multi-national perspective on the evolution of affordable tourism around the world.
  • Thumbnail for Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
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    Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
    AM Primary
    1600-1900

    Explore three centuries of life at sea through the individual histories of ships’ crews during the Age of Sail and into the era of steam.

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    Literary Manuscripts Berg
    AM Primary
    19th century
    The Berg Collection is recognised as one of the finest literary research collections in the world, and the Victorian holdings are the undisputed jewel in its crown. This collection makes them available online, and includes unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings that trace the inspiration and genesis behind the period’s greatest works.
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    Literary Manuscripts Leeds
    AM Primary
    17th - 18th centuries
    Materials include 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
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    Literary Print Culture
    AM Primary

    The digital version of the Stationers' Company Archives, London. Explore the history of printing, publishing and bookselling dating from 1554 to the 20th century. Includes a complete run of the Stationers' Register, an essential resource for book history and a record publications prior to 1927.

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    London Low Life
    AM Primary
    19th century
    From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the Victorian city.
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    Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
    AM Primary
    1935-1965

    Delve into the pseudo-psychological world behind the advertising of some of America’s biggest brands. What motivates women and men to buy and how can knowing that be used to sell?

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    Mass Observation Online
    AM Primary
    1937-1967

    The Archive of Mass-Observation, a pioneering social research organisation, has been described as a "treasure trove", "an invaluable resource for sociologists and cultural historians" and "a fascinating source of precious data for researchers across the widest range of disciplines". Mass Observation Online makes the Mass Observation Archive available to researchers in its entirety, included diaries, surveys and questionnaires that reveal everyday life in Britain between the 1930s and 1960s.

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    Mass Observation Project
    AM Primary
    1981-2009

    Explore the history of Britain through three turbulent decades, written by those living through it.