New: primary source databases for Women’s, Slavery and Political & Security History

Each of these thematic databases contains digitized archival collections from archives located in the United States and the United Kingdom, while the collections themselves pertain to countries and regions all over the globe. With these databases and the five newspaper archives that became available last week, the Library now offers a rich and varied set of primary sources that is benefitting history as well as in interdisciplinary research and education at EUR.

The following databases are now available:

• Women’s Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
  Collection of primary sources on women’s experiences in and impact on society in the United Kingdom and the United States between 1820 and 2000, with the majority of the materials being created by women. The database is of particular importance because it contains materials concerning women from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Voice and Vision provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
• Slavery and Anti-Slavery Archive: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
  Charts the practice of slave trade on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, with particular focus on the involvement of England/UK, France, and the United States, but also with materials pertaining to Portugal/Brazil, Spain and Denmark’s role in it. This database features a wide range of digitized materials, from monographs and individual correspondence to ship logs, cargo manifests and company records, pamflets, periodicals, plus a variety of government documents.
• Declassified Documents Online: Twentieth-Century British Intelligence
  Brings together files from the UK National Archives covering British intelligence and security matters from the period 1905-2002, thereby allowing the study of the more hidden side of the British foreign policy, from World War I until the post-Cold War period. Material has been sourced from the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, the Colonial Office, MI5 and the Special Operations Executive (SOE), reflecting an intelligence network that spans the globe.
• U.S. Declassified Documents Online
  Database containing formerly classified records, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the highest level of American policy-making on the most sensitive issues of national security and foreign policy. Indexed materials cover the period from 1900 up to 2018.

Access to these four newspaper archives is guaranteed until March 30, 2022. After this date the Library will evaluate if access can be continued.