Digital Archives beyond Britain

Compiled by Dr Sneha Krishnan, with additions by Dr Gordon Barrett, Dr Peter Brooke, and Dr Faridah Zaman, this provides a suggestion of digital archives with holdings relevant to global and imperial history. We welcome suggestions of additional resources.

Sections

University, National and other Large-Scale Digital Libraries
South/Southeast Asia
China
Middle East/Africa
Internationalism
Art
Gender/Sexuality
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Maps
Western Printed Material
Medical Science
Indigenous
Missionary / Christian

Recorded Lectures

University, National and other Large-Scale Digital Libraries

Archive.Org https://archive.org

Hathi Trust https://www.hathitrust.org

University of Pennsylvania Digitised Collections https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html

Cambridge Digital Library https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk

Northwestern University: https://digitalcollections.library.northwestern.edu/collections/

University College Dublin Libraries: http://digital.ucd.ie/

University of North Texas Libraries: https://digital.library.unt.edu/

University of St. Andrews: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/special-collections/

University of Washington Libraries: https://content.lib.washington.edu/

University of Toronto Library Digital Collection https://library.utoronto.ca/digital-collections

Princeton University Library Digital Collection https://dpul.princeton.edu

Digital Bodleian https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

University of Chicago Digital Collections https://luna.lib.uchicago.edu/luna/servlet/allCollections

Brown University Digital Collections https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/

UCLA Library Digital Collections https://digital.library.ucla.edu

The Huntington Digital Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/

Adam Matthew Archival Materials for Teaching https://www.amdigital.co.uk (Access via Oxford SSO)

Austrian National Library: https://onb.digital/

British Library Digital Collections https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/About.aspx

Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, digital collections), https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (BNE, Spain), http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/index.html

The Digital Collections of the Munich State Library https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/?l=en

The University of Heidelberg Digital Collections https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/en/helios/Welcome.html(Including a substantial South Asian Studies Library https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/fachinfo/suedasien/Welcome.html)

UK National Archives Digitised Collections https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/?letter=&search=&research-category=online

US National Archives and Records Administration Digitised Collections https://www.archives.gov/research

National Library of Scotland Digitised Resources https://www.nls.uk/digital-resources

Library of Congress Digital Collections https://www.loc.gov/collections/

Göttingen State and University Library https://sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de

Digital Repository of Ireland https://www.dri.ie

South/South East Asia

Films Division India on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision

Indian Kanoon (Indian Case Law and Legislation going back to the 1870s) https://indiankanoon.org

Lahore University of Management Sciences Digital Library https://archive.lums.edu.pk

National Digital Library of India https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in

Cornell South East Asia Collections https://asia.library.cornell.edu/collections/echols/databases

South Asian American Digital Archive https://www.saada.org

University of Tubingen Hermann Gundert Portal (Indian Language Printed Material and Manuscript Collections) https://www.gundert-portal.de

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Portal (Malayalam Language) http://keralasahityaakademi.org/online_library/index.html

University of Wisconsin Bhopal Disaster Archive https://repository.law.wisc.edu/s/uwlaw/page/bhopal-collection

National Archives of India Digital Collections https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/

Gokhale Library (Maharashtra, India) Printed Reports https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/

The Asiatic Society of Mumbai Digital Collections https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/

Cambridge Centre of South Asian Studies Audio Archive https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/

Cambridge Centre of South Asian Studies Video/Film Archive https://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/films/

National Archives of Singapore Digital Collections https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/

Shiju Alex Kerala History Archive (mainly consisting of printed texts in Malayalam but also including several English language Missionary papers) https://shijualex.in

Hong Kong Public Libraries Multimedia Information System Newspaper Archives https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/old-hk-collection

Singapore National Library Board Newspaper Collections https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/

West Bengal Public Library Network http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/

Harvard University Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection https://library.harvard.edu/collections/stuart-cary-welch-islamic-and-south-asian-photograph-collection

South Asia Open Archive https://www.jstor.org/site/saoa/ extensive archive of South Asian materials including several collections in the English language.

Indian Indenture Project https://indianindenture.wordpress.com

China

Cambridge Archive Editions: China Political Reports 1911-1960, 1961-1970

Reports created by British officials in China

https://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/login?url=https://dlib.eastview.com/browse/books/1670

China and the Modern World [temporary access to 1^st September 2020]

https://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/login?url=https://infotrac.gale.com/itweb/oxford?db=CFER

Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)

Collection of 12 English-language Chinese newspapers and missionary publications, including newspapers from Beijing, Canton, and Shanghai

https://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpchinesecollection?accountid=13042

Historical Photographs of China https://www.hpcbristol.net/

North China Herald (1850-1940) http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph021678027

Virtual Shanghai Project https://www.virtualshanghai.net/

Includes historical maps, films, and audio

Middle East and North Africa

Qatar Digital Library https://www.qdl.qa/en

Jarayed, archive of Arabic Newspapers (in Hebrew, Arabic and English) from Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine https://web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/en/jrayed/pages/default.aspx

Translatio Uni Bonn – Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Digitised Periodicals on the Universitat Bonn webpage https://www.translatio.uni-bonn.de/online-zeitschriften

Akkasah – Digitised Photographs from the Middle East and North Africa http://akkasah.org

Access to Middle East and Islamic Resources (AMIR) – Blog with links to numerous online resources on Teaching and Learning in this region http://amirmideast.blogspot.com

American Centre for Oriental Resources Library https://photoarchive.acorjordan.org

American University in Cairo Digital Collections http://digitalcollections.aucegypt.edu

Arab Image Foundation Archive http://arabimagefoundation.com (Non Profit archive of Middle Eastern images based in Beirut)

ArchNet archive of Middle Eastern Built Environments, curated by the Aga Khan Documentation Centre at MIT https://archnet.org

Das Bild des Orients https://das-bild-des-orients.info Library of Asian images searchable in both German and English

University of Hamburg, Islamic Printed Page project http://www.islamicpaintedpage.com

The Palestine Poster Project Archives https://www.palestineposterproject.org

Saudi Aramco World Digital Archive https://photoarchive.aramcoworld.com Dating from 1964, published and unpublished images belonging to the Aramco World magazine.

Shamela http://shamela.ws Free Digital Collection of Arabic Books

Waqfeya http://waqfeya.com Arabic books with a focus on Islamic Religious Sciences

Hebrew Books https://www.hebrewbooks.org Over 50,000 Hebrew printed books digitised

Historical Jewish Press https://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx National Library of Israel Collection of Jewish and Hebrew Periodicals Digitised

Africa

Digital Innovation South Africa (1948-1994) https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa https://www.aluka.org/struggles

UNIP Party Archive, 1948-1988 https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP121

International African Institute (Leiden) database of online resources: https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories

The Caribbean

The Digital Grainger https://digital-grainger.github.io/grainger/ The first edition of The Sugar-Cane, a 168-page poem about eighteenth-century Caribbean sugar plantations, appeared in London in 1764.

Slave Revolt in Jamaica, A Cartographic Narrative http://revolt.axismaps.com/map/

Canada

Canada, between the US and Empire, 1883-1904: In the Papers of the Governor General

https://microform.digital/boa/wayfless?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fregistry.shibboleth.ox.ac.uk%2Fidp&target=https%3A%2F%2Fmicroform.digital%2Fboa%2Fcollections%2F34%2Fcanada-between-the-us-and-empire-1883-1904-in-the-papers-of-the-governor-general

Héritage – Canadiana: http://heritage.canadiana.ca/: Digitized microforms of French and British colonial and military correspondence, 17^th – 18^th centuries and beyond

Simon Fraser University Digital Collections (Immigrant/Indigenous Experience in Canada) https://digital.lib.sfu.ca

Internationalism

Wilson Centre Digital Collections (Histories of Internationalism) https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org

Red Cross Archives (Humanitarianism) https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/international-conferences/

Audio-Visual Collections of the Red Cross https://avarchives.icrc.org

Commonwealth Online Archive https://library.commonwealth.int/Library/Catalogues/Search.aspx

CIA Electronic Reading Room https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/home

Foreign Relations of the US Collection https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments

UK Cabinet Papers Digitised https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/

Digital National Security Archive (George Washington University – Collection of Non-Governmental Papers relating to Foreign Affairs/Security) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/digital-national-security-archive

Blavatnik Archive https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/collections

League of Nations Digitized Publications and Archives https://libraryresources.unog.ch/c.php?g=462663&p=3163194

Art

Princeton Art Museum Digital https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/search/collections

ArtStor https://library.artstor.org/#/home Art Images Online (Access provided by Oxford SSO)

Getty Collections Online Resources http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/explore-getty-art-resources-closed-coronavirus/

US National Gallery of Art Digital https://www.nga.gov/collection.html

Yale Centre for British Art https://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-collections/online-collections

Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/collection

The Frick Collection: https://collections.frick.org/collections

The Huntington Digital Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/

Gender/Sexuality

Resources in the Study of Gender and Sexuality https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-n3HPlhRFHTsko5Kj0C3gyY8tWOqWDs0l3oLyVsZkvY/edit

Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran http://www.qajarwomen.org/en/ A unique project with private family papers, institutional documents and official material relating to gender and everyday life in Qajar (1796 – 1925) Iran.

The Gerritsen Collection of Women’s History http://ezproxy-prd.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:3316/home.do 19th and 20th century British and North American periodicals and books pertaining to women’s social and political rights

Rare Books/Manuscripts

E-Codices, Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland https://e-codices.ch/en

Fragmentarium: Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments: https://fragmentarium.ms/search

IIIF Collections of Manuscripts and Rare Books: https://iiif.biblissima.fr/collections/

Manuscripts illuminations from the French national library Collections (metadata mostly in French): https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/bbma.view?facet:etype-facet=Illumination&vid=search-results

e-rara.ch, the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries: https://www.e-rara.ch (top-level collection: https://www.e-rara.ch/i3f/v21/collection/top)

e-manuscripta.ch, the digital platform for manuscript material from Swiss libraries and archives: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch (top-level collection: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/i3f/v21/collection/top)

Fragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/

British Library Endangered Archive Programme Collections https://eap.bl.uk/search/site

Maps

David Rumsey Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Library of Congress (US), https://www.loc.gov/maps/

Bibliothèque Nationale de France Exhibit: histoire de la cartographie, http://expositions.bnf.fr/cartes/index.htm

John Carter Brown LIbrary Digital Collections (Maps, Cartoons, Images, Books), https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps (commercial site with excellent research on items in the collection), https://www.raremaps.com/

Western Printed Material

Folger Shakespeare Library https://collections.folger.edu

Collection of digitized Swiss newspapers: https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/

Medicine / Science

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Digital Collections https://plume.epfl.ch

Wellcome Library Digital Collections https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/

Indigenous

Indigenous Digital Archive: https://omeka.dlcs-ida.org/s/ida/page/home

Simon Fraser University Digital Collections (Immigrant/Indigenous Experience in Canada) https://digital.lib.sfu.ca

Archives of Professional Organisations

The Wiley Digital Archive https://www.wileydigitalarchives.com includes collections of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal College of Physicians and the New York Academy of Sciences, with plans to include more collections in the near future.

Missionary / Christian

Basel Mission Photographs http://www.bmarchives.org

Yale Divinity School https://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/digital-collections

GEI Digital Textbook Library (European Textbooks) http://gei-digital.gei.de/viewer/

Digitised Lectures and Podcasts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dh5yg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nrtf5/episodes/player

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017gm45/episodes/player

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012stwb/episodes/player

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00q3pzl/episodes/player

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg/episodes/player

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07rn38z/episodes/player