History

(1948-1980) British Government documents from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices. Includes letters, diplomatic dispatches, investigative reports, excerpts of press reports, trial papers, activists' biographies and first-hand accounts of events, fliers, leaflets, maps, and more.
Part of Archives Direct.
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(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.
Part of Archives Direct.
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A primary source collection of digitized maps, manuscripts, books, pamphlets and paintings related to exploration, imperialism, and decolonization from archives around the world.
Generously funded for by the Mellon Grant.

20,000+ objects and over 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.

Featuring titles from Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this unique resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.