HIST 101: Modern Imperial Britain

• 19th Century British Newspapers
  Contains full runs of 49 papers selected by the British Library as representative. It contains regional and national papers in England as well as papers from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Content comes from penny papers read by the working class and papers advocating political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism and Home Rule.
  
• Historical Newspapers Online
  Indexes newspapers covering all aspects of British life and world affairs in the 19th and 20th centuries. Contains four major historical resources: Palmer's Index to the Times which covers The Times (London, 1790-1905); The Official Index to the Times (1906-1980); The Historical Index to the New York Times (1863- 1922); and Palmer's Full Text Online (1785-1870).
  

European Women's Periodicals.
Reading, England ; Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, 1991
MICROFILM.77991
Guide MICROFILM.77991.guide

Protest Movements, Civil Disorder and the Police in Inter-War Britain.
Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press Microform Pub., c1982.
MICROFILM.78267
MICROFILM.78267.guide

Metropolitan Police files concerning government surveillance of extremist groups and civil disorder during the 1930s

Women Advising Women.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1992
MICROFILM 71273

From the Hope Collection of Early Newspapers and Essayists at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Part 1: Early Women's Journals, 1700-1832,
Part 2: Advice Books, Manuals, Almanacs, and Journals, 1625- 1837
Part 3: Ladies' Magazine, 1770-1832
Part 4: Ladies' Magazine, 1801-1832
Part 5: Women's writing and advice, 1450-1720

Women and Victorian Values, 1837-1910.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, [1996]
MICROFILM 77769
MICROFILM 77769.guide

From the Bodleian Library, Oxford: Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women.
Parts I-VII

Women's Journals, 1919-1968, from Franchise to Feminism.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1997
MICROFILM 78499
MICROFILM 78499.guide

Part I: Eve, 1919-1922

Women's Periodicals : 18th century to the Great Depression.
Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, 1991-1992.
MICROFILM.77997

MICROFILM.77997.guide

• 19th Century British Pamphlets
  Full text images of several collections including: pamphlets from Bristol UniversityForeign and Commonwealth Collection, the Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, the Hume Tracts, and the Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection. Subjects range from colonial affairs to social reform to universal suffrage.
  
• Empire Online
  Includes 70,000 images of original manuscript and printed documents to support study and research in the field of colonial and empire studies. Five sections include: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969; Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire; The Visible Empire; Religion and Empire; and Race, Class, Imperialism and Colonialism, c. 1607-1969. In addition to original documents, this database contains scholarly essays and analysis.
  
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
  Contains over 180,000 items published in Great Britain and its colonies, including those in North America, during the 18th Century. This database complements the materials found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), which covers 1475-1700. The resource is thus a rich source of information about the American and French Revolutions and the Age of Reason, scientific and medical advances, literature, law, religion, industry, and all aspects of 18th Century life in Britain and its colonies.
  
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
  Primary source material from the nineteenth century and beyond. Particularly strong in British politics and society, European literature from 1790-1840 (via the Corvey collection), Asia and the West, and British popular culture.
  
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
  Provides full-text access to thousands of 18th, 19th and 20th Century Parliamentary Papers. Includes all the "sessional papers" of the British Parliament: bills, reports of committees, papers presented by Royal Commissions and government departments, treaties and international agreements, command papers, and statistics.
  
• Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmith's-Kress Library of Economic Literature
  A digital collection of more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. Focuses on economics but includes political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Combines the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale.
  
• Mass Observation Online
  The online archive of the Mass-Observation Project. This project, described as a "pioneering social research organization," documented everyday life or ordinary people in Britain from 1937 to 1972. The archive, which consists of diaries, personal writings, questionnaires, interview transcripts, empirical data, file reports, photographs, pamphlets and books, provides insights into British cultural and social history.
  
• 19th Century British Newspapers
  Contains full runs of 49 papers selected by the British Library as representative. It contains regional and national papers in England as well as papers from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Content comes from penny papers read by the working class and papers advocating political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism and Home Rule.
  

Before digital storage became easy and cheap, microfilm was a way for libraries to maintain large collections of newspapers, government documents, and historical documents while saving physical storage space. The UC Berkeley Libraries still have extensive microform (microfilm and microfiche) collections, containing valuable information for researchers.

Since each roll of microfilm contains thousands of tiny images of the original pages of a document, you'll need a microfilm reader to magnify the images enough to read them. The UC Berkeley Newspapers and Microforms Department (40 Doe Library) has machines that read, print, and scan images from microfilm and microfiche.

Microfilm and microfiche owned by the UC Berkeley Libraries can be found through OskiCat; use Advanced Keyword Search to limit your search to "All Microforms." In the News/Micro collection, microfilm rolls and microfiche cards are shelved with their own numbering system; click here for a PDF of the collection's floorplan.

Britain’s National Archives

British History Online

British Election Histories

Hansard

New Left Journals

Australian Newspapers

Church Building Archive

London Transport Films

Empire Marketing Board Films

Westminster Historical Database

Youth Culture

Old Bailey Online

Dictionary of National Biography

City and Trade Directories 1750-1919

War Diaries

Nineteenth Century Digital Index

British Cartoon Archive

Science and Society Picture Archive

The Women’s Library

Wellcome Library

LSE Pamphlet Collection

BBC