New E-Resources: AM Explorer: Humanities Essentials

New E-Resources: AM Explorer: Humanities Essentials

AM Explorer: Humanities Essentials

AM Explorer: Humanities Essentials provides access to millions of pages of digitised primary source materials from the collections of Adam Matthew Digital, covering the 15th to 21st centuries. The collections include manuscripts, government records, rare books, maps and other historical materials across a wide range of disciplines, for example History, English Literature, Gender Studies, Sociology and Area Studies.

History, Empire and Colonialism

• Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
• Age of Exploration
• Colonial America
• Colonial Caribbean
• Early Modern England
• East India Company
• Empire Online
• India, Raj and Empire
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice
• Trade in Early Modern London: Livery Company Records, 1450-1750

War, Conflict and Human Rights

• Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
• The First World War
• Medical Services and Warfare
• The Olympic Movement: Sport, Global Politics and Identity

Gender, Sexuality and Family Studies

• Service Newspapers of World War 2
• Defining Gender
• Gender: Identity and Social Change
• Girlhood, Module I: Magazines and Print Culture
• Medieval Family Life
• Sex & Sexuality
• Women’s Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968

Literature, Manuscripts, Print Culture and Research Skills

• Eighteenth Century Journals
• Literary Manuscripts Berg
• Literary Manuscripts Leeds
• Literary Print Culture: The Stationer’s Company Archives
• Nineteenth Century Literary Society
• Perdita Manuscripts, 1500-1700
• Research Skills Foundations
• Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape

Theatre, Film and Popular Culture

• 1980s Culture and Society
• British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
• Eighteenth Century Drama
• Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making
• Interwar Culture
• Popular Culture in Britain and America
• Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare’s Globe Archive
• Socialism on Film
• Victorian Popular Culture
• Victorians on Film: Entertainment, Innovation and Everyday Life

Society, Everyday Life, Travel and Trade

• Global Commodities
• A Global History of Epidemics, 1800-1970
• The Grand Tour
• Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900
• London Low Life
• Mass Observation Online Original
• Mass Observation Project
• Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain