Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library

  • Historical Archive
  • History and Literature
  • Culture Study
  • Brazilian and Portuguese
  • Pamphlets Collection
  • Monographs
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Originally the personal library of the Brazilian diplomat, historian, and journalist Manoel de Oliveira Lima, the Oliveira Lima Library has long been regarded as one of the finest collections of Luso-Brazilian materials available to scholars. It's now accessible for students, educators, and researchers alike to delve deeper into Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The library was publicly inaugurated in 1924 under the name Ibero-American Library. By the time of Oliveira Lima's death in 1928 it held 40,000 volumes, of which around 4,000 were pamphlets.

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Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2015

  • Historical Newspapers
  • Business and Economics
  • Politics and Culture
  • Tech and Science
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The Economist presents the worlds political, business, scientific, technological, and cultural developments and the connections between them. The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015, with full-colour images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue.

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Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010

  • Historical Newspapers
  • Business, Finance and Management
  • Global Economics
  • National and International Politics
  • Technology
  • Arts and Leisure
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A complete online, fully searchable facsimile, the Financial Times Historical Archive delivers the complete run of the London edition of this internationally known daily paper, from its first issue through 2010. Every article, advertisement, and market listing is included, shown both individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. Each item has been subject- or topic-categorized for fast retrieval and review.

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Gale eBooks

  • eBooks Collection
  • Encyclopedias and Reference Books
  • Multidisciplinary
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The Gale eBooks (formerly known as Gale Virtual Reference Library) is a platform of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research, provides comprehensive support from many of today’s top publishers, optimized for search, discovery, and integration across your library’s educational programs.

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Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003

  • Historical Newspapers
  • Multidisciplinary
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The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003 is a complete digital edition of the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, it includes every published issue, from the first in 1842 to the last in 2003. Entirely full-text searchable with over 260,000 full-color pages of high-quality digital imaging from flat unbound print sets, and covers a wide range of subject areas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries making it an invaluable resource for multi-disciplinary research.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online

  • Historical Archive
  • Monographs
  • Periodicals and Newspapers
  • Pamphlets and Manuscripts
  • Photographs and Maps
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. The content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

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  • Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
  • Photography: The World Through the Lens

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Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957

  • Historical Newspapers
  • Multidisciplinary
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The Picture Post Historical Archive comprises the complete archive of the Picture Post from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957—all digitized from originals in full colour. This resource provides a fascinating snapshot of British life from the 1930s to the 1950s, with thousands of photos of ordinary people doing ordinary things.

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Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992

  • Magazine Archive
  • Multidisciplinary
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Punch was the world's most celebrated magazine of wit and satire. From its early years as a campaigner for social justice to its transformation into national icon, Punch played a central role in the formation of British identity—and how the rest of the world saw the British nation. With approximately 7,900 issues (200,000 pages) from all volumes of Punch from 1841 to 1992, including Almanacks and other special numbers (issues), as well as prefaces, epilogues, indexes, and other specially produced material from the bound volumes, the images in the archive appear as originally published.

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Archives Unbound

  • Historical Documents
  • Political History
  • Asian Studies
  • British and European History
  • International Relations
  • Scanned Manuscript
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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

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  • European Colonialism in the Early 20th Century: Political and Economic Consolidation of Portuguese Colonies in Africa, 1910-1929
  • The Earl George Macartney Collection

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China and the Modern World

  • Historical Archive
  • History and Literature
  • China Studies
  • Monographs and Periodicals
  • Manuscripts and Letters
  • Historical Photos
  • Inspector General's Circulars
  • London Office Files
  • Semi-Official Correspondence
Gale, Cengage Group

China and the Modern World is a series of digital archive collections sourced from preeminent libraries and archives across the world, including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library. The series covers a period of about 180 years (1800s to 1980s) when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic. Consisting of monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence and letters, historical photos, ephemera, and other kinds of historical documents, these collections provide excellent primary source materials for the understanding and research of the various aspects of China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as diplomacy/international relations, economy/trade, politics, Christianity, sinology, education, science and technology, imperialism, and globalization.

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  • Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals, 1817–1949
  • Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854-1949

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