We now have access to several new primary source collections published recently by Adam Matthew:
- Children’s Literature and Culture
This database is a unique, robust, and visually stunning primary source collection that documents this literature and print culture. It spans the the decades between the 1810s and the 1920s, including bridging the didactic chapbook era of the long eighteenth century with the plot- and image-driven books of the early twentieth century, and covering many other document types in between. - Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
This database comprises collections from The National Archives at Kew, the British Library and Senate House Library navigates the complex social climate of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain between the introduction of the New Poor Law in 1834 and the eventual abolition of the workhouse system in 1930. - Early Modern England – Society, Culture & Everyday life, 1500-1700
This database contains documents and objects from seven different archives and libraries to offer insights into the lived experience in England from 1500-1700. The documentary evidence here can offer a range of perspectives from prominent families to ‘ordinary’ people in order to see how this pivotal epoch in English history was lived across societies and regions. - Foreign Office Files for South East Asia
This database contains material from The National Archives, UK which offers an insight into the significant changes that took place in Southeast Asia during 1963-1980, including the creation of Malaysia and the response to this from the wider region. - Mass Observation Project
This database preserves the papers of the original Mass Observation movement and current Mass Observation Project. It addresses a wide variety of topics relating to late-twentieth-century British social history.