British Online Archives
Did you know that we have a range of primary source material available through British Online Archives? Topics covered include colonialism, partition, trade unionism, communism and the establishment of the post-war international order. These archives are the perfect resources to use when researching and writing your dissertations, so dig around and see what you can find!
- British Online Archives: The East India Company: Corrupt Governance and Cruelty in India is a collection of personal papers of The First Earl of Minto, Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound who served as Governor-General of India from 1806-1813, from his time as premier of the East India Company (EIC).
- British Online Archives: The East India Company: Laying the Foundations for British Colonial Domination of India explores the often controversial events that preceded, accompanied, and followed the establishment of Britain's Indian empire during the mid-eighteenth century.
- British Online Archives: The Collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Partition of the Middle East, 1879-1919 is drawn from the personal papers of Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a politician and diplomatic advisor famous for his role in the partition of the Middle East around the period of the First World War.
- British Online Archives: British Women Trade Unionists on Strike at Bryant & May contains papers combining business records and press releases about the matchwomen who were employed by Bryant and May and went on strike over their working conditions in 1888. Their strike is historically significant due to the fact that it was led by working class women.
- British Online Archives: British Communism through Committee work contains the papers of numerous different Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) committees established to advise the Executive Committee on party policy and ongoing developments in their respective fields.
- British Online Archives: British Communism in campaigns and events contains documents relating to discrete campaigns and events organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) during the period 1947-1991.
- British Online Archives: Communisms and the Cold War, 1944-1986 contains reports and other records compiled by the Communist Party of Great Britain's (CPGB) International Department between 1944 and 1986.
- British Online Archives: Establishing the Post-War International Order, 1944-1961 provides an insight into the political, economic, and military foundations of the post-war international order. This collection is curated in association with the National Archives (UK), cover a wide range of subject matter, shedding light on the perspectives of various state and non-state actors during periods of both cooperation and conflict.