History: Getting Started

(1793-1980) English-language sources related to China and the West from the earliest English embassy to the early years of the People's Republic. Includes diaries, letters, manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and drawings, documents related to missionary activities (including missionary periodicals), travelers' accounts, and ephemera.

(1834-1966) British Government documents, including diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, investigative reports, treaties, and more, dating from the initial period of British colonization through the first years of African national independence. "Confidential prints" are British government documents generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices, marked "confidential," and circulated to other Foreign Office officials as well as to the Cabinet and heads of British missions abroad. Useful for research on historical, political, social, and economic topics.
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