History Research

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 is a digitized collection of primary source documents, part of the British Governments series Confidential Print. Documents from the Foreign and Colonial Offices stamped Confidential Print were then printed and shared with officials from the Foreign Office, Cabinet, and heads of British missions abroad.

A comprehensive full-text collection of scholarly materials that focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

This resource is designed as an important portal for slavery and abolition studies, bringing together documents and collections covering an extensive time period, between 1490 and 2007, from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world. Close attention is given to the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social-justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today.

More than 27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images in 76 sub-collections, chronicling the liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime.

More 86,000 visual, contextual, and spatial objects in 30 sub-collections, providing documentation of African heritage sites.