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Discover the work of the Race Relations Department based at Fisk University, a highly influential think tank which emerged as a centre of scholarly investigation and public conversation on civil rights in the twentieth century.The extensive records of the Department, housed at the Amistad Research Center, are available now in Race Relations in America, a new online collection from Adam Matthew.

Explore a rich period of Middle Eastern history through complete runs of British Government Foreign Office Files. Formerly classified documents on the Middle East from the British Government’s Foreign Office have been published in Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1981, an online teaching and research collection from award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew.

From its trade origins in the East and rise to become the world’s most powerful company and de facto ruler of India, to its demise amongst allegations of greed and corruption, the latest online collection from Adam Matthew reveals the East India Company’s rich history through archival material sourced exclusively from the British Library, London.

Victorian Popular Culture, an online teaching and research resource, has been chosen as a Choice ‘Best of the Best’ Outstanding Academic Title for 2016. Shortlisted from over 5,000 titles reviewed by Choice, Victorian Popular Culture has been identified as one of the top three most significant publications of 2016.

Adam Matthew and the Big Ten Academic Alliance continue their highly valued partnership with a new agreement to provide access to award-winning primary source material for teaching and research.Incorporating many of the leading academic institutions in the United States, the agreement enables unparalleled access to a vast array of rare and unique material. The program grants institutions complete ...

Adam Matthew is delighted to continue its partnership with the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), supporting a second annual essay competition aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers. 

Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew, is delighted to announce a major new digitisation project in collaboration with Duke University that will see a selection of the world famous J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT) Archive digitised. On publication in 2018, the digital resource will be a major boon for researchers working on the history of American consumer culture, the advertising industry, ...

Adam Matthew is delighted to announce a major new project with the British Library that will see the digitisation of some of the core series of the India Office Records (IOR), dating from 1599 to c.1950.

Now available online, Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters, provides students and scholars instant access to content vital for comparative research and classroom use. Digitised material ranges across four centuries and offers a vast geographical spread capturing the lives, experiences and colonial encounters of people living at the edges of the Anglophone world.

Adam Matthew continues its new series of theatre-related projects with exclusive Shakespeare content from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The world’s largest collection of prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., is now available online, providing theatre, literature and popular culture researchers unprecedented access to this unique collection in a digital format.

Digital publisher Adam Matthew has today announced the publication of Colonial America Module II: Towards Revolution - the second instalment of a five-module resource featuring the complete CO 5 class at The National Archives, UK.

Adam Matthew and Shakespeare's Globe are delighted to announce their collaboration on a landmark digital project - Shakespeare’s Globe: Performances and Practices. The project will see the digitisation of the majority of Shakespeare’s Globe’s archives, preserved since its opening in 1997.

Throughout July to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Adam Matthew is providing free temporary access to Mapping Gettysburg – an interactive map placing historic photographs, letters and diaries on a map of the battlefield, contained within award-winning digital primary source collection, American History, 1493-1945.

Award-winning publisher, Adam Matthew, today announced the publication of History of Mass Tourism: a multi-archive collection providing an in-depth insight into the pleasures of nineteenth and twentieth century leisure travel and the growth of tourism for the masses between c.1850-1980s.

To celebrate the third annual Immigrant Heritage Month Adam Matthew is pleased to announce temporary free access to the Migration Map – a special interactive feature within the recently released Migration to New Worlds digital primary source collection.

Digitization of the ‘Larpent Collection’ an “Enormous boon for scholars and students”* allowing insights into censorship, celebrity and society. Award-winning publisher of digital content for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Adam Matthew, has today announced the publication of Eighteenth Century Drama: Censorship, Society and the Stage.

Adam Matthew is proud to announce its most recent project collaboration - with The National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The single archive project will cover personal experiences during the Second World War and also touch upon those specific to New Orleans.

Adam Matthew is delighted to announce the recipients of the first Adam Matthew / Irish (IAAS) and British Association for American Studies (BAAS) essay competitions are, Carmel Lambert (IAAS) from the National University of Ireland – Galway, and Patrick Doyle (BAAS) from Royal Holloway University, London.

Adam Matthew, a global provider of digital primary source content, has today announced the publication of the second and final module of Church Missionary Society Periodicals - ‘Medical Journals, Asian Missions and the Historical Record, 1816-1986’.

Adam Matthew are delighted to announce that the winners of the first SASA Adam Matthew Digital Essay Competition are Hannah-Rose Murray, from the University of Nottingham, and Laura Harrison, from the University of Edinburgh.

Adam Matthew, an award-winning publisher of digital primary source content has today launched World’s Fairs: A Global History of Expositions. From the Eiffel Tower and the Space Needle to the invention of television, chewing gum and hot dogs, world’s fairs have shaped the modern world.

Colonial America: Complete CO 5 files from The National Archives, UK, 1606-1822 has been awarded Library Journal’s ‘Best Reference’ title after being recently described as a “superb addition to any research collection” in The Charleston Advisor (Vol.17, No.3, Jan 2016).

Migration to New Worlds (www.migration.amdigital.co.uk), a collection of materials on the ‘Century of Immigration’, is to be made freely available to all UK academics and students in higher (HE) and further (FE) education institutions from January 2016 thanks to a collaboration between Jisc and Adam Matthew.

Containing complete runs of Foreign Office files from the UK government's official archives, this timely online collection provides an expansive and unique view of key events across the region, and their impact on global politics and everyday life.